Wolf Creek Inn
Investigation 1
History
Southern Oregon's Rogue River Valley is home to Wolf Creek Inn, which is seventy-five miles from the California border, the oldest continuous use hotel in the state of Oregon. The inn was built in 1883 as a stage coach stop for passengers going between Portland and Sacramento, and going on to San Francisco. Wolf Creek Inn is furnished so that you feel as if you have stepped back in time, yet the fresh Oregon ingredients offered in the dining room daily, i.e. seafood, home-baked bread, and desserts, made fresh in the kitchen bring you back to the future. Any and all are welcome at the Wolf Creek Inn so stop by for a visit and stay for dinner, Mark and Margaret Quist your hosts will make you feel like family while they tell you the history of the hotel, Wolf Creek and the Rogue Valley.
The history of the Rogue Valley is so filled with legends that it may have inspired the legendary western novelist Zane Grey to write the “Rogue River Feud”, which is believed to be based on a true event. The Wolf Creek Inn and surrounding area may have inspired arthur Jack London’s novel “Valley of the Moon“. Jack London along with many other famous people such as Babe Ruth, Winston Churchill, Orson Wells, Rutherford B. Hayes, also such celebrities as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers have visited Wolf Creek Inn over the years. Countless others may have stayed there too while making a movie or a television series episode, because parts of “Rooster Cogburn” starring John Wayne was shot near Wolf Creek and an episode of Gunsmoke was shot at a ghost town called Golden which is about 3 miles from Wolf Creek.
On our way to Golden to investigate it a year ago as we traveled through Wolf Creek we noticed Wolf Creek Inn and it was the main topic as we sat around the break area we had set up at Golden. We decided that we were going to see if they would allow us to an investigation there. Our initial contact with Mark Quist in April 2011 was quite interesting. He told us some of the history, some of the hot spots, and some of the stories of sightings at Wolf Creek Inn. Also, he said that October would be a good month in which to do the investigation, because the inn does not get many guest in October. In August we finalized our schedule with Margaret to do our investigation in October.
After getting another history lesson, reaffirming where the hot spots are, and where the sightings were, the team starting setting up our DVR system, digital recorders, and camcorders. We covered Wolf Creek Inn with a network of audio and video. Then we set out in two person teams, one on the top floor and one on the bottom floor, while the third team watch the DVR monitor. Each team was armed with digital cameras, electromagnetic field meters, or K-2 meters. We collected hours of data, which we analyzed and found several good EVP’s.
Even if you do not want to investigate the Wolf Creek Inn remember the Rogue Valley has a lot of natural history just waiting to be experienced and the Wolf Creek Inn is a great place to come back to at night after a day of fishing, boating, rafting, exploring the many small frontier era towns, or hiking one of the many unspoiled trails. During the evening you can relax while looking at the many photographs hanging on the walls of the inn or maybe sit in the men’s parlor which use to have a bar. The bar has been removed but there are many other items of interest in the parlor still. Such as the table in the middle of the room which was brought to the inn in 1883. Also the miners picks that are above the fireplace were handmade by Chinese miners. The women’s parlor has a fireplace also and it has a bullet hole in it. Be sure to ask Mark about it, because there is a wonderful story about that bullet hole.
If you do not want to experience the great outdoors but you like to go outside. You might enjoy the heritage roses along with the 125 year old fruit trees. However, you might want to make sure that your back in by dark. Janie the daughter of John and Dinky Dougal the owners of the inn up to 1935 visited the inn a while back and said that people did not use the outhouses at night back when she was growing up at the inn because the wolves would start showing up when her mother was cooking the evening meal. Thank goodness for indoor plumbing called chamber pots. It has been reported that no wolves have been sighted since 1956.
For more In-depth information, such as dining, events & reservations visit: www.thewolfcreekinn.com
The history of the Rogue Valley is so filled with legends that it may have inspired the legendary western novelist Zane Grey to write the “Rogue River Feud”, which is believed to be based on a true event. The Wolf Creek Inn and surrounding area may have inspired arthur Jack London’s novel “Valley of the Moon“. Jack London along with many other famous people such as Babe Ruth, Winston Churchill, Orson Wells, Rutherford B. Hayes, also such celebrities as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers have visited Wolf Creek Inn over the years. Countless others may have stayed there too while making a movie or a television series episode, because parts of “Rooster Cogburn” starring John Wayne was shot near Wolf Creek and an episode of Gunsmoke was shot at a ghost town called Golden which is about 3 miles from Wolf Creek.
On our way to Golden to investigate it a year ago as we traveled through Wolf Creek we noticed Wolf Creek Inn and it was the main topic as we sat around the break area we had set up at Golden. We decided that we were going to see if they would allow us to an investigation there. Our initial contact with Mark Quist in April 2011 was quite interesting. He told us some of the history, some of the hot spots, and some of the stories of sightings at Wolf Creek Inn. Also, he said that October would be a good month in which to do the investigation, because the inn does not get many guest in October. In August we finalized our schedule with Margaret to do our investigation in October.
After getting another history lesson, reaffirming where the hot spots are, and where the sightings were, the team starting setting up our DVR system, digital recorders, and camcorders. We covered Wolf Creek Inn with a network of audio and video. Then we set out in two person teams, one on the top floor and one on the bottom floor, while the third team watch the DVR monitor. Each team was armed with digital cameras, electromagnetic field meters, or K-2 meters. We collected hours of data, which we analyzed and found several good EVP’s.
Even if you do not want to investigate the Wolf Creek Inn remember the Rogue Valley has a lot of natural history just waiting to be experienced and the Wolf Creek Inn is a great place to come back to at night after a day of fishing, boating, rafting, exploring the many small frontier era towns, or hiking one of the many unspoiled trails. During the evening you can relax while looking at the many photographs hanging on the walls of the inn or maybe sit in the men’s parlor which use to have a bar. The bar has been removed but there are many other items of interest in the parlor still. Such as the table in the middle of the room which was brought to the inn in 1883. Also the miners picks that are above the fireplace were handmade by Chinese miners. The women’s parlor has a fireplace also and it has a bullet hole in it. Be sure to ask Mark about it, because there is a wonderful story about that bullet hole.
If you do not want to experience the great outdoors but you like to go outside. You might enjoy the heritage roses along with the 125 year old fruit trees. However, you might want to make sure that your back in by dark. Janie the daughter of John and Dinky Dougal the owners of the inn up to 1935 visited the inn a while back and said that people did not use the outhouses at night back when she was growing up at the inn because the wolves would start showing up when her mother was cooking the evening meal. Thank goodness for indoor plumbing called chamber pots. It has been reported that no wolves have been sighted since 1956.
For more In-depth information, such as dining, events & reservations visit: www.thewolfcreekinn.com
Evidence
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Ghost Box
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