Haunted addresses on record in Oregon
What Oregon requires
Oregon law says a death on the property — by natural causes, suicide, or violent crime — along with a reputation for being haunted or the site of a crime, isn't something a seller or agent has to volunteer; the statute explicitly labels it a non-material fact. But if you ask directly, they're required to answer honestly rather than lie or actively conceal.
Oregon Revised Statutes § 93.275 spells this out by name: the fact or suspicion that a property (or a neighboring one) was the site of a death by violent crime, suicide, or any other manner is defined as not material to the transaction. The same section extends the protection further than most states' versions — it also covers the fact or suspicion that a property was the site of a crime, or of political or religious activity, as long as none of it affects the physical condition of or title to the property.
There is no death-disclosure window in Oregon comparable to California's three-year rule. The statute doesn't create a lookback period at all — it runs the opposite direction, affirmatively stating these facts are immaterial regardless of how recent the death was or how it occurred.
The 'ask rule' is confirmed for Oregon in secondary legal commentary: sellers and agents aren't required to bring up a death or stigma unprompted, but if a buyer asks a direct question, they can't lie about it or actively conceal the answer. That expectation is described consistently across the sources reviewed, though it functions more as an anti-misrepresentation norm than a standalone clause spelled out word-for-word in § 93.275 itself.
No Oregon-specific haunted-house court case (an Oregon counterpart to New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley) turned up in this research. The notable feature here is really the statute's own breadth — by naming political and religious activity alongside deaths and crimes as non-material, Oregon's law reaches further than the more narrowly worded death/crime statutes found in many other states.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Oregon.
The Oregon record is waiting
No entries filed from Oregon yet. If something happened at an address you know, write it down — you may be the reason the next resident feels less alone at 3 AM.