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Let's welcome to this week's Fear the Week episode. The official term as I've decided will now be

a little history on this one. The building was built in 1893 by a bank tycoon by the name of Theodore Wilcox Jr.

It was 12,000 square feet and he spared no expense on this thing. It was absolutely beautiful inside and out. 11 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms,

Mahogany, paneling all the way through the whole place. Seven fireplaces around about Onyx and marble.

That sounds pretty dang amazing. This is up in Portland, Oregon by the way. So during World War II the building was leased by the Soviet government.

It was then purchased by the Russians or a Russian, not the Russians. It was a Russian by the name of Ariel Rubenstein.

Ariel, that's a man? Yes, it is a man. He was actually a concert pianist and he used to mention as a music school more or less.

So he had a lot of students coming in out. In 1959, Rod and Betty Johnson, they bought the building and they converted it into a radio station, KWJJ.

Here's the funny part. The building had been around at this point for about 65 years. There was absolutely no paranormal activity reported until it became a radio station.

That's pretty fancy radio station sound like. Yes, I don't know how fancy it was 65 years later. Originally it was a house built for his wife and all that stuff.

I think it was because it was a country radio station. That's my guess. Oh, stop it. That's what caused the haunting. Nope, that's the best.

That would aggravate me into a haunting if I was a ghost. I'd be like, oh, very I'm stuck here for eternity and now I gotta listen to this crap.

Whatever. Get over yourself. These paranormal experiences started happening within weeks of the radio station actually moving in.

Most of this activity was prankster type stuff. Like the large chandelier that they had would just start swinging on its own.

Doors would open or lock on their own. Paper would blow off of a desk that would know any kind of breeze or anything in there.

And pictures would get turned completely upside down. So they'd still be hanging up but they'd be upside down.

There were some occasions where some random mysterious objects would get left by the spirits. For example,

one specific object was a plastic statue at the Virgin Mary. Nobody know where it came from. It just showed up and there it was.

No, wow. I mean, it the statue just showed up. Oh, so there's one spirit that likes to run up and down the halls.

There's another that likes to play in the bathroom, slamming stall doors and throwing around rows of toilet paper.

Had you like to be alone in the bathroom and you're in the stall door next to you just slams shut as hard as it could be.

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