Museum event features weird, haunted region

VANCOUVER — Weird and haunted Southwest Washington will be the topic of October’s First Thursday program at the Clark County Historical Museum.

The presentation by author Jeff Davis will be at 7 p.m. at the museum, 1511 Main St.

The historian will discuss his passion for researching and writing books on the paranormal. Over the past 15 years, Davis has written or contributed to a dozen books on ghosts and other odd and unusual happening in the Pacific Northwest.

Books he has written or co-written include “Weird Washington,” “Weird Oregon,” “Ghosts and Strange Critters of Washington and Oregon” and “A Haunted Tour Guide of the Pacific Northwest.”

Davis was born in Vancouver and grew up playing in and around Vancouver Barracks. He spent 32 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, which included deployments to southwest Asia as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and to Bosnia.

Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for children under 18, and free for museum members.

For information, go to www.cchmuseum.org, email info@cchmuseum.org or call 360-993-5679.