Japanese show to televise live from Oregon hotel | Seattle Times Newspaper

Local News | Japanese show to televise live from Oregon hotel | Seattle Times Newspaper: "The ghosts at Oregon's Geiser Grand Hotel are going live.

A popular Japanese television show highlighting the supernatural will broadcast live on New Year's Eve from the restored 1889 hotel in the historic Old West town of Baker City, Ore.

That's live for Japan, that is: The broadcast begins Wednesday evening and concludes at 6 a.m. Thursday.

So will the ghosts that visitors have gossiped about for years, such as the Lady in Blue, make an appearance?

'I wish so,' Takayoshi Nakayama, director of the television show 'Unbelievable,' said through a translator. 'Other than news and sports, this type of live broadcasting is extremely rare in Japan.'

The broadcast is the first time the show is taping live at the Geiser Grand Hotel, but overall it is Nakayama's third visit. Twelve years ago, he was convinced he took a spirit home from the hotel in his suitcase after his toddler son spent days chatting with it."