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Tuck Woodstock
Tuck Woodstock has been writing and editing content for Travel Portland since 2014. Read More
Haunted Portland
Explore Portland's paranormal side with these spooky spots and spirited tours.
Tuck Woodstock
Tuck Woodstock has been writing and editing content for Travel Portland since 2014. Read More
The Pacific Northwest is rife with spooky lore and tales of things that go bump in the night. The Halloween season is the prime time to check out Portland’s many mysterious spots, paranormal activity and spirited walking tours. Goosebumps are all but guaranteed.
White Eagle Saloon
McMenamin’s White Eagle Saloon claims to play host to several apparitions, from a prostitute named Rose to the souls of unwitting residents kidnapped via Portland’s infamous Shanghai Tunnels. But despite this eerie history, the bar’s most notorious spirit is that of Sam Warrick, a bartender and cook from the saloon’s pre-prohibition days. Warrick, who can be spotted in the hotel’s trove of historical photos, has been known to fling condiments across the kitchen.
Lone Fir Cemetery serves as the final resting place for 25,000 souls.
Old Town Pizza
Arguably Portland’s most famous — and persistent — phantom, “Nina” has bedeviled the same spot for more than a century. Nina worked at Old Town’s Merchant Hotel, where she met her untimely end at the bottom of a dark elevator shaft. When Old Town Pizza replaced the Merchant Hotel in 1974, Nina’s spirit refused to leave — diners still report a woman in a black dress keeping watch over their tables.
Lone Fir Cemetery
One of the city’s largest and best-kept pioneer-era graveyards, Lone Fir Cemetery serves as the final resting place for 25,000 souls — believer or not, that’s pretty good odds for spirit-spotting and ghost stories. Take a tour, offered by the Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery, and learn about asylum patients, shanghai captains and ‘fancy ladies’, just a few of the cemetery’s permanent residents with creep factor.
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Haunted Pub Crawl
Looking for safety in numbers? The Haunted Pub Crawl from BeerQuest unites fun-loving specter-seekers on a tour of Old Town Portland. With its cobblestone streets and beautiful 19th-century buildings, this district is steeped in history and is purportedly home to a sizable ghost population. Imbibe up to seven drink samples, including award-winning brews from Old Town Brewing, while experts deliver nonstop doses of goosebumps.
Haunted Events
BeerQuest Haunted Pub Tour
Uncover Portland’s dark side on this spine-tingling walking tour and hear firsthand accounts of paranormal encounters – all while sampling six local beers. The Old Town District in downtown Portland, Oregon is lined with beautiful historic buildings and cobblestone streets. Lively with restaurants and nightlife today, 100 years ago Old Town was home to many…
Spirit of Halloweentown
The historic town of St. Helens, located 45 minutes from Portland, celebrates Halloween all month long with haunted tours, costume contests and more.
The Corn Maize at the Pumpkin Patch
The Corn Maize, located on Sauvie Island north of Portland, offers visitors eight acres of physical and mental challenges in a cornfield.
Mike Bennett's Crypto-Zoo: Museum of Mystery
Walk through Portland artist Mike Bennett’s immersive Crypto-Zoo: Museum of Mystery, filled with 26 life-size Cryptids, Monsters and Mythical Beasts. Play games, win prizes and look out for surprise guests.
Clackamas County Scare Fair
The Willamette River Valley has a long and dark history that many know of but few speak about. Old fishermen have seen strange sightings along the rivers: Eldritch-robed figures seen at dusk skulking and gibbering. Large monstrous shapes with a sinuous elongated neck striking like lightning while thick miasmic clouds burble in the area near-drownings….
Haunted Corn Maze at Bella Organic
Get lost in acres of corn, in the dark, on Friday and Saturday nights in October. Terrifying creatures stalk you as you make your way through our Haunted Corn Maze. This year our Sauvie Island Haunted Corn Maze will be inspired by Halloween, the movie. Be prepared to be haunted by Michael Myers throughout the…
Oaks Park Scaregrounds
Portland Oregon’s ONLY Scream Park returns this fall to one of the oldest amusement parks in the country, the historic Oaks Amusement Park. The Event features three horrifying haunted walkthrough attractions, House of Horrors Scarezone, Graveyard Pumpkin Patch, Last ‘Scream’ Photo Op, as well as Oaks Park Thrill Rides, Games, Concessions. Alcoholic beverages are available…
The Fear PDX Haunted House
PORTLAND’S LARGEST HALLOWEEN EVENT Four haunted houses, one location, one ticket. Factory 13: This abandoned factory has many secrets. People who enter easily get lost in its labyrinth of multiple underground tunnels. This structure has fallen into a terrible state of disrepair. The smell of rotting decay is strong. Something terrible is happening here. The…
Underhill Haunted House
Four haunted house experiences under one gigantic roof: Fear’s Gate – Something suspicious is happening at Nufear’s Antingen, Inc. There are rumors of employees gone missing, or worse…..changed by a chemical spill. Nufear’s Antigen Inc. is now hiring. Will you make it through employee orientation? Night Terrors – Dare to enter a twisted collection of…
Bluebeard
Bluebeard a piece by Kailey Rhodes and Samson Syharath You are cordially invited to Bluebeard’s Country Estate, alongside his intended fiancée. A response is requested. Your presence is your present.* Bluebeard is an interactive outdoor experience, beginning seated in your car and leading to an invitation to explore an open-ended environment. Dress for the journey…
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Feature film with Oregon Symphony Tim Burton’s fantastical tale of the Pumpkin King, the Oogie Boogie and Sandy Claws comes to life on our big screen, complete with Danny Elfman’s film score performed live to picture by the entire Oregon Symphony orchestra. Costumes encouraged. It’s the perfect outing to get you ready for Halloween.
A Nightmare on Elm Street – The Play
From the makers of Road House: The Play, The Lost Boys- Live and Poltergeist Live comes the return of A Nightmare on Elm Street- The Play Try not to fall asleep. Bad Reputation Productions and The Siren Theater are thrilled to be a part of your Halloween season and to bring you the staged parody…
Howloween
Bring your costumed kids to Howloween for treats and safe fun. The zoo provides a fun and safe setting for this Halloween tradition, where costumed kids learn about healthy habitats for wildlife in a fun scavenger hunt throughout the zoo. Treat bags are available at the end of the scavenger hunt for an additional fee…
BLOODYVOX
BodyVox, Portland’s world-renowned artistic performance company, is bringing its electric and frightful Halloween tradition ‘BloodyVox’ to live audiences next month. In its first live production to return to the stage since before the pandemic, ‘BloodyVox’ is a comical treat made for the season, bloody full of entertaining tricks for all ages. Running Oct. 28-31, 2021…
Run Like Hell Marathon
Weeeeeeeee’re baaaaaack! That’s right folks. This signature event is back to live-action after a hiatus last year from you know what. Join for this fun, family-friendly Halloween-themed event on Saturday, October 30th. Dress in costume and come along for a 10k or 5k run or walk. The event is in Milwaukie this year, starting and…
Pic or Treat
Photo Contest and Spooky Tunnel from 3-6pm in the parking lot of Mathnasium/Wild Hearts Wellness.
HallowQUEEN Drag Show
Come join us for a spooktacular night of drag performances at The Pharmacy. Halloween will never be the same once Devlin Lynn Phoenixx and her cast of talented queens take over our stage for a night of thrilling tricks and treats.
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