Tour of Judge Gray’s House
A look into last Friday’s Haunted Sip & Spook hosted by Villa Vino with stories by Historic Oroville Walking Tours (Danny Ballard).
A look into last Friday’s Haunted Sip & Spook hosted by Villa Vino with stories by Historic Oroville Walking Tours (Danny Ballard).
Suspended in time and space, the old Hotel Sutherland is an eerie labyrinth of lost souls looming above the center of Downtown Oroville. It made for the perfect setting for one of Oroville‘s oldest traditions, ghost stories. Our little town has certainly had its fair share of encounters with creatures, phantoms, extraterrestrials and the unexplained. We told about sightings of Bigfoot in 1969 on table mountain when Charles Jackson and his son, Kevin were working in the backyard of their home on Cherokee Rd. A huge ape like creature loped out of the woods stopping to stare at them. In 1953 two men named John Q black, and John Van Allen witnessed a a flying saucer, land at the junction of marble Creek and Jordan Creek, where a small gray man hopped out and collected water from the feather River. They reported what they saw to Ms. Belcher operator of the Brush Creek store, and from there the story took off. The Mercury Register said “ if it’s a quiet bucket of water you want Brush Creek is going to be a turbulent place to get it from there’s going to be an Earth style reception with radio broadcasters, newspaper, men, magazine, writers, and crowds.” The national radio Network was even in attendance on July 20th, 1953 but unfortunately for them and many of the professional and amateur photographers the flying saucer never arrive. We invited tour attendees to take a walk through the haunted Hotel Sutherland where locals have reported the lingering spirit of a sheriff that would watch over the ladies of the night from the hotel is rowdy years. However, from the 1950s to the 1970s the hotel was ran by a Lorraine McClendon Ms. McClendon didn’t stand for mischief in her hotel and went to bank robbers stayed at the hotel. Lorraine was on to them one of them fell dead at the scene of the holdup next door and the other was caught a
Honoring Alberta Tracy the Lady of Butte County by playing her song to start our tour of the Thompson’s Flat and Pioneer Cemeteries.❤️
A short story from tours of the Ehmann Home “The House That Olives Built” today during the 12th Annual Butte County Historical Society Olive Festival.
Green Bridge History Walk Friday, April 21st at 4pm and 6pm meeting at the Veterans Memorial Wall.
We will walk the bridge as well as the surrounding grounds. Hear the story of the bridge and the vision for its future.
Be sure to bring water for this one! Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Red Carpet showing for Oroville’s own Movie Star at the State Theatre!
Saturday August 27th. Doors open at 7pm. Admission $5. Tickets available at the door or by searching Marilyn Nash Night on Eventbrite.com.
