The legends in this story from AroundtheO are drawn from the UO Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore, a repository of fieldwork collections and research materials on folklife in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. Folklore and Public Culture faculty folklorists Martha Bayless, Daniel Wojcik and Dorothee Ostmeier say they exemplify patterns rooted deep in various cultures—and mean more to us than simply a good scare.

View the full story in AroundtheO: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/ghost-stories-and-folklore-mac-court-and-pioneer-cemetery