Does the ghost of a Heceta Head Lighthouse keeper's wife haunt the Oregon Coast?

FLORENCE, Ore. - The Heceta Head Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast is nestled on a cliff above the ocean.

For decades, it served as a house for lighthouse keepers and their families.

But over the years, the 125-year-old building has become known for its spooky past as many believe the spirit of a lighthouse keeper's wife is still there.

"She lived here with her husband and two children," general manager Misty Anderson said, "and supposedly one of her children drowned. We don't know if that's the ocean or in the cistern."

Anderson said the woman's spirit hangs around the house in search of her child.

There's even an unmarked grave out in the forest, only adding to the mystery.

"We make the beds, and then someone sits on it and there's an indentation like she's sitting there looking out the window," Anderson said.

They call her Rue, ever since a group of Lane Community College students pulled out a Ouija board and asked if anyone was there.

"The Ouija board spelled out, 'Rue'," Anderson said.

But there's no way to verify it, as the lives of women were not well documented back in those days.

So the unexplained remains inexplicable.

"There was one lady that sat here in the middle of the day, and I was here, and said she watched the woman just float down this hall way like she was going to go out the front door," Anderson said, "but there was not really anyone there."

Anderson said the spirit is never evil, although things will fly off the shelves.

And sometimes staff will hear footsteps and conversations - even when the house is closed.

It's the new paranormal that gives the night caretaker a fright.

"At 55 years old," Gary Manos said, "I'm still pulling the covers up over."