I took King Vanity to listen to an author locally who has written books on Hauntings in the PNW and this book on local hauntings in our area on the Central Oregon Coast.
We told him about our ghost my son named Charlie.
Charlie my son said was an Asian man and when we first moved in our home on occassion we could smell breakfest cooking in my sons bedroom. Also we have on recessed cam in the kitchen that blinks off and on. We have lived here 15yrs.
Well I did some investigating and seems back in the days when the RR was being built over the cascades the Asians had there camps at the top of the hill where we live one fellow, we did some research at the historical society, was not part of the Chinese RR workers but was a cook on a tourist ship in and out of the Yaquina bay.
THe ship sunk and all the passengers were safely taken off to shore when this Asian "Charlie" cook looked around to make sure all were gone he found a little toddler had been left behind and he swam ashore and saved the little tyke.
Days later he was found up at his camp that had a little veggie garden hung in the shack he lived in when not on the boat. It was deemed suspicious as his feet where touching the floor.
Rumor has it some locals murdered him in connection with saving the toddler.
To this day he has a tombstone up at the top of the hill. We got copies of the official papers sent to his country to let his relatives know of his death.
My son and I today call Charlie a friendly ghost.
We yearly pray that God will surround our house with an army of Angels to protect us.
I have an illness that leads to waking up to halucinations when I am really in bad shape. The night after seeing the local Ghost author I think we may have brought home a cling on or I was having a bad dream while awake.
The door to our room, we share due to my sons 24hr. care needs, flew open and I sat up to see WHO was coming in and got up to close it, then went back to sleep and shortly was startled awake to see a little girl with dark hair standing at towards the end of my sons bed between our beds facing away from me but looking at my son. I was so exhausted from pain that I just went back to sleep and wrote it off as a bad vision not beig fully awake. It was freaky. But I wrote it off as being in my mind as I have woken up before and seen long black hair growing all over my four poster bed and I was ill then too. So as real as the aparitions seem I just blame it on my mind.
Then I pray for God to cleanse our home and put the Angels up just in case.
Oceanperch, you must write this story of the Asian cook and your ghost and submit it to a local newspaper, or a magazine or something. This is fascinating and a good read, regardless of whether someone believes in ghosts or not.