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daily capital journal (salem, oregon) 1903-1919 — haunted house

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1916-09-30
Location: salem, oregon, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: daily capital journal (salem, oregon) 1903-1919 · 1916-09-30 · page 14
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1916-09-30 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “haunted house”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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that strange eery thing a haunted house. nr. When my childhood had passed, and I had traveled about a good deal In foreign lands and learned what flue architecture really was, I realized that the Haunted House was of rare beauty and excellence, a gem of architecture such as one does not often chance upon in our good land, and so I.looked upon its imposing frontage with long iug, loving eyes. I spent several summers In Us vicin ity in my early thirties, and each day I nuila it the object of a pilgrimage. I walked about its choked and neg lected gardens, and examined Its poor, weather-worn door-carvlni'a with pity that would have penetrated ...

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