Oregon's Ghosts and Monsters   In Wallowa County they talk about a monster "as long as a rowboat" with "a head like a hog's head" and "eyes about 14 inches apart" who lives in Wallowa Lake. Near Albany, a tall shaggy creature rises from a swamp and lopes down the road beside a mint truck. In the attic of a lovely old house on Heceta Head just above the pounding Pacific, an old lady in an old-fashioned dress, floats, legless, toward a terrified workman. There are ghosts and monsters in Oregon, and this is a collection of stories about them. Back

Local author and publisher Mike Helm offers in four books a diverse and rich compilation of Oregon history and folklore.
Conversationswith Pioneer Women and Conversations With Pioneer Men are the writings of Fred Lockley, while
Tracking Down Coyote and Oregon's Ghost and Monsters are two of Mike Helm's own writings.