Weird Places

[KQ]

Head meet hammer. Bad water up there.

Really? On pinot wobbles through the Willamette Valley, I've wondered about staying there.

Worth a stay - I'm a big McMenamins fan it's just that late at night.... walking in the halls I had the sense that I wasn't alone IYKWIM. Place is over 100 years old. Lot of lives have passed through there.

Along those lines, I've been in some 100+yo apartment buildings on Capitol Hill that gave me the same feeling. Plus they have that smell of 100 years of living (and dying).


Most McMenamins are spooky but that's not necessarily bad:

Spooked at McMenamins


Re: Hotel Oregon (from link above):


Another McMenamins with a rich history of spirits is Hotel Oregon in McMinnville. In fact, it houses a “regular” named John, seen wandering the rooftop bar and hallways.

An anonymous guest posted this unsettling missive on an online forum:

“The entire time I was there, I felt like someone was watching me,” he described. “I was lying in bed and rolled over to see this picture on the wall of Ollie. I was staying in her bedroom. I’m a grown man and don’t scare that easily. But this was different. I felt like I was just being pushed out.”

[babybear]

the gym at my office when I'm alone, like now.
I keep thinking I see thing moving on the mirrored wall

[KQ]

the gym at my office when I'm alone, like now.
I keep thinking I see thing moving on the mirrored wall

Psst... that's your reflection

[Buster Highmen]

Worth a stay - I'm a big McMenamins fan it's just that late at night.... walking in the halls I had the sense that I wasn't alone IYKWIM. Place is over 100 years old. Lot of lives have passed through there.

Along those lines, I've been in some 100+yo apartment buildings on Capitol Hill that gave me the same feeling. Plus they have that smell of 100 years of living (and dying).


Most McMenamins are spooky but that's not necessarily bad:

Spooked at McMenamins


Re: Hotel Oregon (from link above):


Another McMenamins with a rich history of spirits is Hotel Oregon in McMinnville. In fact, it houses a “regular” named John, seen wandering the rooftop bar and hallways.

An anonymous guest posted this unsettling missive on an online forum:

“The entire time I was there, I felt like someone was watching me,” he described. “I was lying in bed and rolled over to see this picture on the wall of Ollie. I was staying in her bedroom. I’m a grown man and don’t scare that easily. But this was different. I felt like I was just being pushed out.”

Thanks for the OHotel rec. A nap is sometimes appreciated
I used to live in one of the old SE Portland funkhouses, papered with calligraphy and collection notices.
The house was around 100 years old in 1975 and it was a creaky spookhouse.
Didn't ever feel explicitly watched. But the place had a character.

[babybear]

Psst... that's your reflection

either that or the maltreated ghost children of the indian burial ground we're built over :P

[Buster Highmen]

For that house, it was probably the hinky timber in mud foundation.
No central heat, but a blaster gas wall heater in the kitchen.

[MakersTeleMark]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_...rd?wprov=sfla1

[fatnslow]

Thanks for the OHotel rec. A nap is sometimes appreciated
I used to live in one of the old SE Portland funkhouses, papered with calligraphy and collection notices.
The house was around 100 years old in 1975 and it was a creaky spookhouse.
Didn't ever feel explicitly watched. But the place had a character.

Now that falling down POS house is worth $750k !

[Viva]

Lots of weird places in the Midwest, Buster!

Last spring / summer, I rode through Shawnee, Ohio (Ahiya!) a few times, The place was a veritable ghost town, full of decay and dust-encrusted shit-fuck. But by some miracle, God directed me to this place, where I beheld "armless, beat-up, (likely) ass-raped Jesus behind broken window" whilst perusing the boarded-up store fronts The Powa-of-God swept over me! And I heard the voice of the Lord telling me "Get thee the fucketh outta Ahiya, dumbass!" And I did.

[Conundrum]

Kmarts.

[muted]

Being sober at a packed bar at 2am is a trip. Not sure how bartenders do it.

[riser4]

Hole in the wall diner in Price, Utah, 1992. I ate and GTFO. Whole town gave me the creeps.

[mtngirl79]

I like Metaline Falls.

Lots of weird places in eastern oregon.

Shaniko. Silver lake. Paisley

[PNWbrit]

The Ecuadorian embassy.

[redacted user]

Assange went full on garden gnome.

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Costco creeps me out

[riser4]

Costco creeps me out

See, just the opposite for me. Ya, it is penultimate consumerism. However, it is Milfco for a reason.

[TWINS]

How the fuck do they remember where I went on vacation last year? Did I even tell them? Did I tell them yet where I'm going this year? Will they know anyway?

This happened yesterday.
My dentist asked me how my vacation was?
I'm like what vacation?
He tells me I was going to Mammoth to ski.
I don't remember telling him that and how would he remember something so unimportant.
Crazy memory those dentists have.

[PNWbrit]

Assange went full on garden gnome.

He brought to mind a David Lynch Santa Claus.

[Meadow Skipper]

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...r-Brutal-Story

[GiBo]

At my dentist the hygienist measures my gums or something. An assistant sits off to the side with a tablet and the hygienist calls out 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3... but I can feel the hygienist's tool barely even touching half the teeth and she's going way too fast to actually measure anything. I think they do it just to sound like they're really doing something. In the 20 years I've been going there, no one has ever said, "You know, your numbers are going up. We need to..."

But I do think they have something similar to a Customer Relationship Management software and they take notes when you leave. No way she remembers the shit she does.

[PNWbrit]

At my dentist the hygienist measures my gums or something. An assistant sits off to the side with a tablet and the hygienist calls out 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3... but I can feel the hygienist's tool barely even touching half the teeth and she's going way too fast to actually measure anything. I think they do it just to sound like they're really doing something. In the 20 years I've been going there, no one has ever said, "You know, your numbers are going up. We need to..."

But I do think they have something similar to a Customer Relationship Management software and they take notes when you leave. No way she remembers the shit she does.

I went in last week. They had purchased a shiny new receptionist who I had not met before. After greeting me like a long lost friend she inquired how my wife was by her first name and made oozing pleasantries including say "hello to her from me"

I mentioned to my wife later that Brenda or what ever recepbot's name was had asked after her.. apparently she hasn't ever met Brenda.

They must have Brenda's niceness algorithm set to nauseating?

So, we are all going to let Brit slide on pretending he's been to a dentist?

Art - https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...22#post4098622

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they take notes

learn that in dentistry school
it's what makes Wed golf day possible

[mtnjam]

Hole in the wall diner in Price, Utah, 1992. I ate and GTFO. Whole town gave me the creeps.

Those two towns, Price and Helper give me the creeps, I try to spend as little amount of time as possible in those two places driving to and from SE Utah/Colorado.

It's almost like Appalacia transplanted to the desert.

[wooley12]

Not really weird to me. First house we bought had a spirit living in it. We called him "Old Bill". Only children could see him. My two kids and the two kids who lived there after we sold it.