If you take the drive from Portland, Oregon, to the coastal town of Cannon Beach, you’ll spend most of your time winding along Highway 26. A phantom form who has been blamed for murdering and eating dogs, appears on the road where Cannon Beach and Hwy 101 connect. Reports of the Bandage Man began almost immediately and have continued through today, though the biggest chunk of reports come from the 1950’s and 60’s. It’s infamous for being an amazingly gorgeous drive, but also extremely winding and curvy as it hugs the coastline, and among the many small seaside towns along the 101 sits Cannon Beach. Looking through newspapers dating from the 1930s to the 1960s I couldn’t find any reports of a man disappearing from a crashed ambulance.

She is a former book reviewer, and her novels for young readers include Harry Sue , Donutheart , and Donuthead . His imagination went wild with ideas that his fellow keepers might be escaped convicts, or even psychopathic murderers! Looking further into this ghostly tale, I realized that the spirit of a lady in white is internationally universal. At one point, around 2008 or so, I heard about a gnarly prank one group of north Oregon coast high schoolers played on a friend back in the ‘60s or so. The ambulance fell victim to a landslide, and supposedly when they came to rescue the vehicle – he was gone.Sue Stauffacher lives with her husband and sons in a 150+-year-old farmhouse in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. What creeps me out about Bandage Man is imagining being with that someone special, on a dark abandoned road, hearing something, and turning to see a monster staring back at you.

I first learned of him in a book of regional spook stuff back in the mid ‘80s, and even at age 23 and 24 it scared the hell outta me. This charming story from the 1950s was so popular that it’s now featured in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection.Locals seem to point to most of the tales popping up in the ‘50s and ‘60s of a bandaged and bloodied figure haunting the roads near Cannon Beach and its forests, even its bars.

In this paper, Gentling discusses the legend of the Bandage Man having been around and passed down since at least the 1950s but with no exact origin. The man in the truck freaked out and started doing donuts in the gravel to try to shake the “Bandage Man” off the bed of his truck. Some believe that Bandage Man is the ghost of a logger who died after horrific injuries sustained while working nearby.Nope, they might find my body floating in the creek or an alien might come out from behind a big rock. And, as I mentioned near the beginning of this article, Cannon Beach is a beautiful area full of great people and natural beauty. Moments after parking, the two heard rustling sounds coming from the nearby woods but assumed it was just the wind. One night, two of the local kids were up there doing just what teenaged boys and girls do when they are parked on dark lonely roads.