{"id":1941,"slug":"gulleys-butcher-shop-astoria-oregon","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The butcher shop opened in downtown Astoria in 2016, and according to Travel Oregon's account, owner Diana Gulley began using the basement as an office — then began reporting what she described as moving shadows and doors closing when no one else was down there. She called in paranormal investigators, and by the teller's account the volume of reported activity was enough that a public ghost tour grew out of the shop.","The most-quoted incident involves a tour guide who, in Gulley's telling, saw a figure materialize in the downstairs space she calls the ghost room and left the building mid-shift — 'didn't come back, call or even text.' Tours run through the basement and a stretch of Astoria's underground, the passageways left beneath a downtown largely rebuilt on fill after the 1922 fire that leveled the business district."]},{"heading":"How the file reads it","paragraphs":["The archive files this as a reported experience — the owner's account, retold by the state tourism office — not a verified cause. The research note sets the boundary precisely: the dossier documents what was reported, not what produced it, and this named basement should not be folded into the broader lore of Astoria's underground as though all of it shared one claim."]}],"name":"Gulley’s Butcher Shop","aliases":[],"type":"SHOP_BASEMENT","type_label":"Shop Basement","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Butcher-shop basement associated with owner-reported unusual experiences.","full_desc":"A shop basement in Astoria, Oregon, Gulley’s Butcher Shop is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Butcher-shop basement associated with owner-reported unusual experiences. The archive files it under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Astoria","county":null,"state":"Oregon","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":46.187375,"lon":-123.815073,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Part of broader Astoria underground but distinct named premises; do not merge all underground tours. Exact address and current shop use pending; owner’s account documents experience, not cause.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":48.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":993,"type":"SHADOW_FIGURE","description":"Travel Oregon recounts owner Diana Gulley reported moving shadows and doors closing while working downstairs. Basement is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. Gulley’s Butcher Shop in Astoria, Oregon carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. 'Hauntingly Cool Ghost Tours in Oregon' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":"Basement","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hauntingly Cool Ghost Tours in Oregon","url":"https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/hauntingly-cool-ghost-tours-in-oregon/","publisher":"Travel Oregon","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Hauntingly Cool Ghost Tours in Oregon","url":"https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/hauntingly-cool-ghost-tours-in-oregon/","publisher":"Travel Oregon","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Astoria Ghost Tour Underground","url":"https://www.astoriaghosttour.com/","publisher":"Astoria Ghost Tour","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}