PCMA I - Page 2

The Windfall Inlet

Located on the Oregon Coast, the Windfall Inlet (a.k.a. Ría de Rocas Dentadas) was infamous amongst early Colonial explorers (1500s to 1700s). Currents would often pull ships inland, dashing them on the rocks. Many of those shipwrecks are reportedly still down there, completely untouched by man. (The unpredictable undercurrents, paired with jagged rocks and crashing waves make things far too dangerous to send in divers or submersibles.)

The Inlet is also home to the “Weeping Hag’s Cliff” a.k.a. “Weeping Hag’s Bluff” or the more commonly used, but far less compelling title:  “the Windfall Lookout”. 

Explorers reported to have seen an old woman standing up on the stony cliff, weeping so loud her cries could be heard over the ocean’s thundering waves. They said seeing her often superseded violent storms. 

Some tellings have her wearing an olive green dress (or dark green, or yellow, or bright blue), while others have her wearing an olive green cloak (or dark green, or yellow, or bright blue). I also came across several instances describing her to be wearing an executioner’s hood black or dark gray in color.  Usually her clothes are tattered and/or streaked with mud. 

The vast majority of sightings took place at night or in the early, early morning. The distance and the dark likely accounts for the wildly varying detail in these sightings. Or perhaps there are multiple “apparitions”, or one “apparition” with multiple outfits.

I should note there hasn’t been a single credible sighting of the so-called “Weeping hag” since the 18th century. (Unless you consider George F. Marlow, a proven pathological liar, to be credible.)

The Windfall Inlet is of high interest to paranormal historians and Old House enthusiasts alike. 

Much like u17 many believe the area to be home to an Old House hatch due to the presence of non-native flora and fauna. (Though recordings of such discoveries have drastically reduced after the development of suburbs, public transit and the Brooksview Golf Course. More on the effect of urbanization on Old House ecosystems in later chapters.)

(I should also note the general disdain for Old House research within larger aspects of the paranormal communities. Old House enthusiasts are infamous for attempting to shoehorn ‘Old House’ as an explanation for just about every unexplained phenomenon. So much so that the phrase “Blame Old House” became something of an underground meme in the early 2010s. Many, especially those outside the Old House communities, believe Old House to either be complete “Horseshit” or simply a smaller piece of a much larger puzzle, and not an overarching theory that connects to every single paranormal phenomenon. 

Another source of this disdain likely stems from the admittedly small but ever-growing minority of OHA’s who insufferably claim that us skeptics “simply lack the intelligence” to comprehend the complexities of their hyperfixation. This is a classic cult indoctrination tactic I should add: make your lore pointlessly confusing and convoluted, then pretend those who don’t understand are either stupid, or willfully ignorant. But again, I digress.) 

Windfall Inlet draws particular interest due to the presence of competing Red Sun Monoliths and Guardian Sigils (I would be remiss to not mention those who refer to Red Sun Monoliths as Tri-Moon Sigils. Not to mention the misuse of the word Monolith. However most scholars in this field agree that the “House of Early Trespass” referred to any instance of their own sigil as “Red Sun Monolith” so I will be using that term throughout these texts. There are over a dozen alternate names for each one).