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‘I have a ghost that follows me around,’ said Linda Todd,
a Grab ’N Go employee. Her ghost’s name is Sara.
Ghost
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pastry tubes would disappear for two or three
days at a time before reappearing. She added
that many food service workers can tell the
same stories of unusual disappearances.
Sitting in her cramped office, Carson
kitchen manager Cindy Lund counterbal
anced these tales. Lund, who has worked at the
cafeteria for seven years, said workers in such a
hectic environment need something to light
en the situation.
“So when things don’t get done or aren’t in
the right place, instead of blaming it on a
coworker, people blame it on a ghost,” she
said. “Everybody enjoys it.”
While some Carson workers and other Uni
versity employees only hypothesize about
such mysteries, Todd offered an explanation.
“I have a ghost that follows me around,”
she said.
Todd, now a food service worker at Grab *N Go,
said she first met this ghost called “Sara” while
she was at the state penitentiary for women in
Salem for a year. Todd said she woke up one
morning in 1989to find herbunkmate wrestling,
laughing, playing and talking with an entity.
Since the first encounter, Todd said, she contin
ued to notice strange activitiesatthe penitentiary.
“My locker door would swing open and shut
by itself when no one else was there,” Todd said.
Explaining the ghost’s playful personality,
Todd said the ghost would take her padlock.
“I would panic because I had to go, and then
there (the padlock) would be, swinging on the
door,” she said.
Todd did research to find the ghost’s name.
She said Sara was a newlywed whose hus
band had brain surgery and died. According
to Todd, “Sara” allegedly hung herself outside
of an Oregon state hospital called Fairview.
This mental institution, which is now closed,
was used in the 1975 film “One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Fairview was located next to the Oregon
State Penitentiary.
After leaving the penitentiary, Todd settled
in Florence, but Sara followed her, playing the
same tricks. Todd guessed that Sara might have
followed her because after leaving the peniten
tiary, she straightened out her fife and fell in
love for the first time. Todd connected her love
and new life with the possibility that this ghost
is her spiritual advisor.
Pulling out a Polaroid from her memory
book, Todd said she had physical evidence of
Sara’s presence.
Referring to a picture taken on Halloween
in 1991, Todd said an “entity of someone” is
sitting on the shoulder of her then-love interest
Jim Gillialand. A white haze is evident in the
photo’s right-hand comer.
“I believe it is Sara,” she said.
Todd said she believes this ghost still inhabits
Carson because the ghost hasn’t discovered
Todd’s new place of employment yet at Grab ’N
Go. Although she does not work at Carson any
more, Todd said she still feels Sara’s presence.
She said sometimes when she is at home, she
will put an item down, and it will disappear.
“I know I am not drunk — I am not on
drugs,” she said.
After searching her whole residence, Todd
said she would find the item in its original lo
cation and feel a “cold rush.”
Todd said that this “rush” is Sara’s laugh.
She said Sara’s presence might also explain the
drafts in the central kitchen of Carson. Hop
ing to have more direct contact with Sara, Todd
said she is considering returning to the Salem
location where she first encountered the ghost.
“I believe without a doubt that this entity is
with me,’’she said.
Anne Le Chevallier is afeatures reporterforthe
Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached at
annelechevallier@dailyemerald.com.
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