The manager of the McMenamins White Eagle Saloon & Hotel knows that her historic North Russell Street bar is haunted. In the hotel upstairs, Kyrsten Bronson knocks before entering Room 3 even when it’s vacant, so as not to surprise the spirits. She’s heard ghosts sneak into the men’s restroom and a juicer turn on by itself in the kitchen. But the back of the basement is the scariest part of the bar Bronson has managed for three years, she says, because it feels like somebody is watching her.

“I started feeling this masculine energy, but it was more of a womanizer kind of energy, a little bit misogynistic,” Bronson says.

Bronson shared her stories on the McMenamins Ghost Tour of White Eagle while standing in the haunted basement, in between hustling from the kitchen to her basement office

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