McMenamin’s Grand Lodge
The Masonic Home and Children’s Lodge are a series of grand complexes that were planned and constructed starting in 1920 in Forest Grove, Oregon. Over the years, these complexes served as a poor house, elder care residence, and an orphanage for Master Mason’s and their families. It was then bought and renovated by the McMenamin’s in 1999. Since the renovations, stories of hauntings of the complex have started to surface.
Among the areas of hauntings in the complex include guest rooms, especially room 211, the second and third floor hallways, the Gift Shop, the Doctor’s Office Bar, the Equinox Meeting Room, and the Children’s Cottage. Paranormal experiences from the staff and visitors include odd smells, doors locking by themselves, cold spots, footsteps, objects that move from one area to the other by an unseen force, knocking, laughing, whispering, and the feeling of being watched. People have also reported seeing the apparition of an elderly woman on the 2nd floor and the apparition of an elderly man on the 3rd floor. In the Children’s Cottage, children’s shadows are seen going in and out of rooms.
(Source: Belanger, Jeff. Encyclopedia of Haunted Places. 2005.)
