Bank Street

Residential Home on Bank St. in Portland, OR.

Two ghosts have visited this home since Sharon and her husband bought it, and one of them is her husband.

The first ghostly visitors would appear when Sharon was about to fall asleep.  She would open her eyes just as she fell asleep to discover three people wearing plaid standing at the foot of her bed.  She couldn't make out any distinctive feature other than their clothing, and never mentioned it to anyone until she asked her daughter about it.  The daughter's shocked response to her mother's "plaid people" was, "You saw them too!?"  The daughter then recounted a story from when she was young, and asked her father if there was someone running around the house in a kilt.  Her father questioned her very carefully, and the daughter took this as evidence that her father had seen the spirits as well, but chose to remain silent about them.

The father, Sharon's husband, died in 1975, and the daughter now owns the house where the "plaid people" came to visit.  However, the current spiritual resident is not any unknown kilt-wearer, but her father.  Sharon claims to feel her husband's presence in the home, which she believes keeps the "plaid people" away.  Sharon is not the only one who has experienced her late husband's presence, however.  Her grandson, born after her husband's death, seems to have grown accustomed to his grandfather's appearances.  When shown photos of his late grandfather, he says that he knowns him.  And once, when he was very young and unable to get onto his rocking horse without assistance, Sharon's daughter found him sitting happily atop it.  When asked how he got up there, he replied simply and innocently, "Grandpa did it."

Source:  Ghosts of North Portland - H.Michael Ball