http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october252006/klyc_ghost_102506.php

Spirits that disturb the former radio station seem to have only become more troublesome with time.

Hah! So at the end of the story, where the clairvoyant uses the term "filtering," is she trying to say that the radio frequency energy from the tower tends to spooks ghosts away, or is she saying that it somehow interferes with her psychic abilities? Either way, I find the story to be pretty amusing.

I worked for the prior station, KCYX at 2163 Lafayette Ave. studios for 5 years. As Music Director and on air 7 to Midnight, it was my job to shut down the station. There were many nights I would work on production and music all night, seeing the P.D. & Morning Man (Mike Kolb) at 5:30 before I left. There were also a few occasions I slept over night in the attic when weather got nasty. I was living in Portland and commuting.

In all that time I never experienced anything supernatural. Could this be the ghost of Dean Norton, KCYX News Director in 1983 who later died in 1984?

Ditto here... in all my years at the station on Lafayette Ave, I've never noticed anything out of the ordinary.

Even so, if there ever WAS anything that was "out-of-this-world", it's been thoroughly exorcised by now, since that building is a church these days!

You may want to talk with Rick Taylor who works with KUPL. During the days when KWJJ was located in a mansion at 931 S.W. King, the building was said to be haunted. Mr. Taylor claims to have seen the ghost, if I remember correctly, playing one of the two pianos in the building. I think the ghost was not fond of country music.

Hmmmm, I worked at 'JJ for five and a half years when it was in the old Wilcox mansion and never heard a thing about any ghost.

For those who care….there is an engineering typo in the article above.

One did not turn on the plates to warm up a tube transmitter……..you turned on the filaments. Like the article said, it was a good idea to allow 15 minutes or so to allow things to warm up.

The term “turning on the plates” is making a reference to turning on the high voltage power supply that fed the “plates” inside of the final tubes of the transmitter (and the modulators too if it was an AM transmitter), and this was the step that actually put the transmitter on the air (if all went well). This step was done after the filaments had been turned on for a period of time to allow the lower stages of the transmitter to warm up and start operating, and to allow the filaments in the finals and modulators to warm up to operating temperature. Not that any of this matters, but the ghosts would probably appreciate a little attention to detail.

I too worked at the mansion at 931 SW King for six years. The ghosts were pretty tame during that period of time, so the pianos did not play themselves or anything like that. It would have been nice if they would have made their presence known as we could have used the help, as we were always understaffed.

>>>"One did not turn on the plates to warm up a tube transmitter……..you turned on the filaments."

>>>"FM Radio in McMinnville"

This story tends to lose a bit of credibility when the author shows a considerable lack of knowledge.

I'd heard stories of a sporadic haunting, but in my eight years at the Wilcox Mansion, the only casualty I'm aware of is when Leo Erickson lost his voice during his evening shift...It seems a bat had been sleeping in the mansion's 3rd floor attic during the day, but came down to the second floor to swoop through the studio area. Leo went nuts trying to scare the thing out a window. Can't say that I'd blame him!

One thing the mansion lent itself to was WONDERFUL decor for a Halloween party that KWJJ used to put on for agency folk for several years. The invitations had the mansion logo altered with broken windows, spider webs and cracked shutters. That's about as spooky as it got...aside from the understaffing!

Stations I have worked that I have experienced wierd ,and spooky stuff:

KFIR
KXPC
KGAL ( THAT PLACE IS FREAKY!)

Onetimeradioguy, I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. I also worked at JJ for around 5 years (1985-90). People often joked about the ghost. I never saw anything, but Bubba Taylor was pretty certain he experienced something.

I worked at JJ in the late 70s/early 80s. Maybe the ghost hadn't moved in yet.