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7. Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon has developed a reputation as the most haunted city of the Pacific Northwest thanks to its bizarre history and high number of ghost sightings. One of the city’s most famous haunted houses is Pittock Mansion, an ornate house that was built in 1914 by a wealthy businessman and his wife, both of whom died shortly thereafter. Visitors have claimed to have seen apparitions and heard footsteps coming from empty rooms, and doors and windows will sometimes open by themselves. Weirdest of all, a portrait of Mr. Pittock, the man who built the house, will inexplicably be found in different parts of the house, as though it can move itself from room to room. In addition to the Pittock house, other Portland haunted places include the Bagdad theater, a movie theater built during the roaring 20s that supposedly houses a number of spirits, and the Willamette river, where in recent years a phantom rowboat has been spotted by several people.
七、波特蘭，俄勒岡州
俄勒岡州的波特蘭市因它怪誕的歷史和許多鬼怪景點而獲得了太平洋西北部最恐怖城市的美譽。匹塔克莊園是這里最鬧鬼的地方之一，這是一座由一位富商和他妻子于1914年建造的華麗莊園，這對夫妻在莊園落成之后不久就雙雙去世。游客稱看見了幽靈，聽到空房間里傳來腳步聲，以及門和窗戶有時自動打開。其中最詭異的是莊園主匹塔克先生的肖像，會難以理解地出現在房子的不同地方，好像它可以自己在房間之間移動一樣。除了匹塔克莊園，波特蘭的著名鬧鬼之地還有巴格達劇院，一座建于興盛的20年代游蕩著許多魂靈的電影院，以及威拉米特河【注1】，這條河近幾年被許多人見到有幽靈船駛過。
Most Haunted Place: Shanghai Tunnels
Portland’s coastal location established it as a shipping hub and port of call for sailors during the 1800s. This eventually led to the rise of a practice known as shanghaiing, wherein unsuspecting men and women were kidnapped from bars or hotels, shipped to the Orient, and impressed into slave labor or prostitution. Portland was notorious for this practice thanks to a series of labyrinthine underground tunnels that run beneath the city streets, which were used by the Shanghaiiers as a safe way to capture and transfer victims to the harbor without being seen. Today, the tunnels are said to be haunted by the ghosts of the people who were kidnapped, many of whom were never seen or heard from again.
最恐怖之地：上海隧道
十九世紀，波特蘭的沿海地理位置【注2】奠定了它作為需要大批水手的航運中心及港口的地位。這最終導致了被稱為‘上海劫掠船工’運動的興起，它指在酒吧和旅館里綁架毫無戒心的男女，并船運至東方，強制其變成苦役或者娼妓。波特蘭因這項活動而臭名昭著，這座城市地下有一系列迷宮般復雜的隧道，劫掠者用這些隧道作為捕獲和運輸受害者到港口而不被看見的安全通道。今日，那些被綁架并從此銷聲匿跡的人的鬼魂，據說常在這些隧道里游蕩。
