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11 The Hauntings At Ghost Cottage 11 The Hauntings At Ghost Cottage A window to the past: there and I suddenly got very overwhelmed. I the front windows of the house, something she A window to the past: "One day, I was walking my dogs up liked to do while living. Property's strained thought a cougar or something was about to "You can see a black figure kind of lean Property's strained history behind some of pounce on me," said Ryan. "Suddenly, I felt out of the kitchen area and look towards the history behind some of window," said Ryan. something touch my shoulder and a voice tell the hauntings at Ghost me, ‘Honey, it will be alright.'" The Myrtlewood grove the hauntings at Ghost "I immediately thought, ‘I need to get Cottage off this hill now,'" added Ryan. "I came back Ryan believes how the property was Cottage later and asked him his name, and he just said created has something to do with all the Starkey, which I mistook for Star Key. Later on paranormal activity. "I have heard from people By Matthew Smith during a conversation with another person, I that were around while the property was being learned that this was his last name only." developed that a big grove of Myrtlewood trees It looks like any other house as you were destroyed, then a huge slice of hill was drive down Mateer Drive in the Hunter Creek Bill Wells taken out to flatten the property," stated Ryan. "I area, but owner Kelli Ryan says there's nothing The most active ghost in the house is a know the forest guardians are not happy that usual about her two-story home. She has owned former pharmacist named Bill Wells, who died occurred. Those are sacred trees." the property, 28315 Mateer Dr., for around three in a car wreck in 1978. He has been known to years now. bang pots in the kitchen and can be seen Water intensifying activity Ryan, who says she has always had walking around the house, especially near the There is a belief that water intensifies psychic abilities since she can remember, didn't laundry room and hallway. He is one of the past paranormal activity, and Ryan thinks that intentionally purchase a haunted dwelling. owners that haunt the property. "He treats the between the Pacific Ocean, the Rogue River and "I wouldn't have bought this place if I house like it's his. We don't mind, though. He is other numerous waterways in and around Gold had known," said Ryan. "Once things began fine with us being here," said Ryan. "You can Beach, we are more prone to have such activity. happening, I befriended the spirits to make sure really see him around 10:30 at night." "The Chinese never build their homes facing a we could get along." river; they believe that the river will carry more She now embraces her psychic abilities, Lilly the witch spirits towards their home," said Ryan. but it made for a troubling childhood. Prior to the home's construction, "When I was only two to three years old, purportedly there was a witch named Lilly that Educating the public I would say something was going to happen and lived in a trailer in the exact spot where the The Ghost Cottage is also home of the it would," stated Ryan. "When my parents house would later be built. According to local Southern Oregon Paranormal Research would be making plans for the following week, lore, she suffered a mysterious death after Association, which Ryan runs. She helps other I would tell them not to schedule anything for making someone's wife sick. "I don't really researchers by allowing them to use her home that day, because so-and-so's funeral was that take action against the nicer spirits; they are no and property as a learning environment. She day. That person hadn't passed away yet, and threat to anyone," said Ryan. "I do take action to also teaches classes on improving people's they would pass away shortly after." keep the mean ones, like Lilly, away." psychic and intuition abilities. "I believe Ryan says that when someone was going Lilly's mean streak was a threat to the everyone is psychic; I just help them hone and to pass away, she would see heat waves around Ryans. She would turn appliances on and off; refine that ability," said Ryan. "A lot of them the person, similar to those rising off an make them dizzy and sick; lock Kelli in the say, ‘I don't want to be a fortune teller or extremely hot roadway. These experiences bathroom; move objects and even assaulted something.' It isn't about that; it is about using it occurred until she was a teenager. them. "We would go to Brookings and she to enhance their everyday life." The house and property surrounding the would turn on the stove or coffee pot," said house has become a popular site for paranormal Ryan. "She was doing some extremely Her other passion researchers. Many of their experiences on the dangerous things. She could have burned down It doesn't take long to see Ryan's other property have even been uploaded as You Tube the house. She drew so much energy from us to passion in life – art. Paintings hang from the videos. do these things, we would get sick." "Bill gets wall as if you're in an art gallery. Antiques are "Many researchers say this is the most along with most of the others, but he doesn't on every shelf, which both Ryan and her active place they have visited," said Ryan. want her in his house. He protects us from her. husband Riley love to collect. She works as a Among some the evidence that She likes to hang out around the doors and manuscript illuminator, textile restorer and researchers commonly see and collect are sneak in at night when we go outside," added general art restorer, working on Medieval and pictures and video white masses, shadows, orbs Ryan. Renaissance pieces to modern works. She spent and recordings of disembodied voices. around three years in Florence, Italy helping re- Dan Kuykendall pigment frescos at the Vatican, restoring the The property A previous owner of the house died after images and making them pop once again. She Several ghosts inhabit the property and crashing his plane into a mountain, and hopes the Oregon Coast will become a haven house. The hills above her house is reportedly reportedly walks the property. He rarely visits for fresco painters. home to Valkeryies, also sometimes referred to the actual house itself, spending most of his "Gold Beach is a perfect place for as forest guardians or fairies, and have been time outside. He even has an additional frescos, since a true fresco is painted while the seen by many people as a traveling mist that connection to another person haunting the plaster is still wet; the cool and moist air is moves throughout the forest. Ryan even has a house; Kuykendall married Wells' widow and perfect for having more time to finish," said collection of gifts from them. She says they give moved into the house after his death. Ryan. "I have been illuminating since I was 12 her many sculptures and special rocks, many years old. I love the idea of making transcripts contain heart-shaped rocks – which Ryan Jean Hawkins the same way monks did." Ryan also is very believes it is a sign they like her. "I used to sing Ryan was in need of a bed to finish one interested in Pentimento, which is where Irish songs to them and nothing ever appeared," of the bedrooms, so she traded her piano for one finished paintings are utilized by the painter as said Ryan. "Once I learned some Celtic songs, she really liked. She knew the bed had once a canvas for a new painting. The under image is they started leaving me stuff. I wanted one of belonged to Jean Hawkins, who had passed completely hidden by the new painting, but over those rocks with a [cone-shaped] hole in it, after away. What she didn't know was she was getting time the top layer gives way and a "ghost" of the watching ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles'. The more than a bed; apparently it was one of under image is visible. Black lights and x-rays next day, there was one outside." Hawkins' most prized possessions. The can be used to pull the under image out even bedroom in which the bed is placed has become further. Art supplies were expensive; so many Bill Starkey known as the Rose Room. People who knew painters utilized this technique to save money. Another ghost that roams the property is Hawkins are amazed at how much it looks like "In a way, this is a lot like a haunting. that of Bill Starkey, who once owned the house something Jean would have done. You see what's on the surface; but with some above hers. Ryan stated that Hawkins likes to look at work you begin to see the history," said Ryan. []