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White Eagle Tavern
Portland, Oregon
The White Eagle Restaurant, also known as “The Bucket of Blood,” for the many brawls that took place inside and around it, was built in the waterfront neighbourhood of Albina by two Polish Immigrants, Barney Sobolski and William Hryszko, in 1905. It was opened to offer other polish immigrants a place to relax, drink and gamble. There was also a brothel upstairs and a brothel and opium den downstairs. White Female immigrants were forced to work in the brothel upstairs and the cheaper non white women downstairs. Many people died violent and untimely deaths at the White Eagle Tavern and some of them have never left. In the basement of the old building there have been reports of two female ghosts who are believed to have been prostitutes at the White Eagle, and also a very aggressive entity that likes to push. Strange noises and voices are also heard and freezer doors open and close on their own. Upstairs you can find Rose, the prostitute. She was murdered in 1926 by a customer or a jealous lover. You will also find Sam, polish immigrant who lived alone in the rooms until his death in 1950. He can be seen through the window of one of the rooms. “Brassy,” a prostitute named for her brassy-blonde hair is also wandering the upstairs floor. In the women’s bathroom downstairs you may find that something is throwing rolls of toilet paper at you, and piles of unrolled toilet paper can often be found on the floor. You may also find that something unlocks the bathroom door when you are in it. Utensils and kitchen equipment has been known to fly around, mops and brooms clean up on their own and people have been pushed at the top of the stairs leading to the kitchen.
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