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SHANGHAI TUNNEL GHOST TOURS
HALLOWEEN SEASON
$17/adults, $12/children between five and eleven/no children under five years old allowed. These tours are at least an hour and a half, starting at Hobo's Restaurant. Pre-purchase tickets through the link at the bottom of this page. Once sold out, we cannot add on or take last-minute walk-ins for these tours; there's a finite amount of space underground. Tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable, so be sure of your date and time prior to purchase.
The Shanghaiing Trade began in Portland in 1850 and steadily grew to make the City of Roses the most infamous port in the world by 1870. This shocking abuse where men were kidnapped, taken through secret tunnels that ran beneath the city, and then sold to sea captains where they were forced to work for free the remainder of the voyage, was a notoriety that this seemingly quaint Victorian Village along the Willamette River would never be able to forget, even to this very day. Unfortunately, this practice continued until 1941, when World War II began.
For the 91 years that shanghaiing existed in Portland, reports of ghosts or ‘forlorn spirits’ surfaced from the Portland Underground. Some believe that these are lost souls who died during the course of being shanghaied, either being knocked on the head too hard, given too heavy of a dose of knock-out drops, or suffocated to death in the small holding cells where the victims were held before being taken through the tunnels.
Today, these unique tales and folklore have continued to linger into the twenty-first century, with new stories of hauntings being reported regularly. And, always, the focal point is the Shanghai Tunnels.
According to Michael P. Jones of the Cascade Geographic Society who leads many of the tours, many of the stories and incidents told date back to the Victorian times, and there are also those that pertain to more recent sightings and unexplained accounts of hauntings. As a historian, he said that he doesn't believe in what people commonly refer to as ghosts, but he does believe in oral history.
“I am constantly amazed that what may be considered folklore is actually fact," explained Jones. "This has been proven to me repeatedly, through the years, over and over again. So, I do believe in oral history." As for the ghosts? “All I can say is that some things have happened that cannot be explained. And, if you talk to the people who have experienced these incidents, they really believe what they have seen or heard."
These tours are offered from mid-October through the first weekend of November.
For tours on October 14-17, 2019: https://shanghaitunneltours.ticketleap.com/halloween-season-ghost-tourportland-undergroundshanghai-tunnels/
For tours on October 18-November 2, 2019: https://shanghaitunneltours.ticketleap.com/admin/events/halloween-season-ghost-tours
SHANGHAI TUNNEL GHOST TOURS
HALLOWEEN SEASON
$17/adults, $12/children between five and eleven/no children under five years old allowed. These tours are at least an hour and a half, starting at Hobo's Restaurant. Pre-purchase tickets through the link at the bottom of this page. Once sold out, we cannot add on or take last-minute walk-ins for these tours; there's a finite amount of space underground. Tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable, so be sure of your date and time prior to purchase.
The Shanghaiing Trade began in Portland in 1850 and steadily grew to make the City of Roses the most infamous port in the world by 1870. This shocking abuse where men were kidnapped, taken through secret tunnels that ran beneath the city, and then sold to sea captains where they were forced to work for free the remainder of the voyage, was a notoriety that this seemingly quaint Victorian Village along the Willamette River would never be able to forget, even to this very day. Unfortunately, this practice continued until 1941, when World War II began.
For the 91 years that shanghaiing existed in Portland, reports of ghosts or ‘forlorn spirits’ surfaced from the Portland Underground. Some believe that these are lost souls who died during the course of being shanghaied, either being knocked on the head too hard, given too heavy of a dose of knock-out drops, or suffocated to death in the small holding cells where the victims were held before being taken through the tunnels.
Today, these unique tales and folklore have continued to linger into the twenty-first century, with new stories of hauntings being reported regularly. And, always, the focal point is the Shanghai Tunnels.
According to Michael P. Jones of the Cascade Geographic Society who leads many of the tours, many of the stories and incidents told date back to the Victorian times, and there are also those that pertain to more recent sightings and unexplained accounts of hauntings. As a historian, he said that he doesn't believe in what people commonly refer to as ghosts, but he does believe in oral history.
“I am constantly amazed that what may be considered folklore is actually fact," explained Jones. "This has been proven to me repeatedly, through the years, over and over again. So, I do believe in oral history." As for the ghosts? “All I can say is that some things have happened that cannot be explained. And, if you talk to the people who have experienced these incidents, they really believe what they have seen or heard."
These tours are offered from mid-October through the first weekend of November.
For tours on October 14-17, 2019: https://shanghaitunneltours.ticketleap.com/halloween-season-ghost-tourportland-undergroundshanghai-tunnels/
For tours on October 18-November 2, 2019: https://shanghaitunneltours.ticketleap.com/admin/events/halloween-season-ghost-tours