Case file · Haunting
Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland
Portland's oldest large cemetery, begun in 1855, holds pioneers and a great many unmarked graves, including those of Chinese workers and patients of the Hawthorne asylum, whose burial ground was paved over.
1855 CE · 45.52, -122.64 · status: legend
The account
In 2004 remains were found under a county parking lot on a corner of the cemetery, and the site is being made into a memorial garden. Local ghost lore centres on the cemetery's founder and the forgotten dead.
The sceptical view
The real story is of neglected graves; the ghost reports are local folklore.