The story
The Wolf Creek Inn was built in the 1880s beside the stage road linking Portland and Sacramento, a two-storey classical revival tavern that fed and slept travellers through the coaching and early motoring eras; Jack London famously stayed and wrote here, and Hollywood figures paused on the drive north. Preserved today as Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site, owned by Oregon's state parks and run as a working inn and restaurant, it is called the state's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its ghost lore is gentle and well-loved: guests and staff describe figures in period travelling dress in the corridors and parlour, footsteps on the stairs, a woman by the upstairs windows, and a presence in the room kept as Jack London's, where the author is affectionately said to linger; small unexplained happenings — doors, lights, moved objects — round out the telling. Nothing dark anchors the stories and the inn treats them warmly. They should be presented as guest and staff reports at a heritage site, unverified and fond. Current opening, room and dining details should be confirmed from state parks pages before publishing.