The Mission Mill Museum is made up of a small group of historic buildings that includes a church, several residences, and a mill. Apr 1, 2014 - Explore Kendra Bartelmez-Forster's board "Asylums- Oregon State Criminally Insane Asylum (Oregon State Hospital)", followed by 157 people on Pinterest. The creepy history of Oregon State Hospital. The setting and architectural style of the hospital made the site eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This could be due to the fact that the tower was built on top f the former prison graveyard! Oregon’s Top Haunted Places. It is also considered to be one of the most haunted houses in Salem, Oregon. E. support@hauntedrooms.com. Eva was a 36-year-old Marion County woman who probably wasn't even mentally ill. Some of the strange occurrences that have been reported include doors that slam by themselves, running footsteps in the women’s restroom when there is nobody there and the ghost of a lady in a white dress who is believed to be the wife of a former owner. There must have been hundreds if not thousands of tortured souls who died in this building over the years. This museum is on the grounds of the beautiful Oregon State Hospital campus and includes exhibits about the state mental hospital's history, even including equipment like straitjackets and electroshock machines. The entire asylum cemetery was exhumed in 1913-14 when the state decided it needed the land. From 2005: Until then, it's to Oregon's shame that these patients remain warehoused in a decrepit institution. Glendale, California. About 750 patients were living in the state hospital in that era. The sight prompted him to seek funding for a new state hospital, which eventually was built. The front entrance to Ward 40 -- the Oregon State Hospital's treatment unit for mentally ill children that opened in the 1970s. The 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed there. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oregon/portland/asylum-portland Built in the late 1800s, the hospital was originally intended to serve all patients, but due to overcrowding issues, it soon became a more specialized facility for the insane and the mentally handicapped. Ward 47B was an area which patients use, but don't live in. Housed in the former entrance to the old Oregon State Hospital, the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health consists of a handful of small rooms and displays a fraction of the more than 4,000 artifacts contained in its archive. In 2005, the attic of the "J" building at the Oregon State Hospital was falling apart, even though the parts of the building were still inhabited. Oregon State Asylum was created, and in that same year, the Oregon Board of Control was instigated, calling the Asylum as we know it today as OSH or the Oregon State Hospital. After all, it has none of the drama that the witch hunts caused in its namesake in Massachusetts during the 1760s. An image from the early days of the institution. The ball is chased by the apparition of a little girl and there is often a boy at the other side waving them to slow down, but when they look back he is never there. They are today's version of the forgotten patients whose canisters of unclaimed ashes are still stacked on shelves with no proper memorial in the hospital's grim "Cremains Room," where the standing photo for this series was taken. We’ve searched all over the state to bring you a list of the creepiest and scariest haunted places we could find, backed by all kinds of first-hand encounters with ghosts, creatures, and paranormal activity that will make that one movie look like a cute little fairy-tale. Haunted Rooms America Oregon State Hospital originally opened in. There were at least 4 executions carried out here, one in 1851, another in 1859 and two in 1865 and of the local tales are to be believed, not all of them were justified!