Kelly and Michelle Kaliher, owners of Sinister Coffee and Creamery
Kelly and Michelle are the co-creators of Sinister Coffee and Creamery. Michelle’s experience in the paranormal and her passion for coffee were the beginnings of Sinister Coffee and Creamery. Kelly’s experience in the culinary industry and desire to make crave-able flavor combinations began the development of their ice cream line. Founded in 2018, Sinister Coffee and Creamery has been mobile, currently featuring at the PSU Portland Farmers Market, The Oregon Ghost Conference, The Lakewood Center for the Arts and now Magick Attic!
Watercolor image created by Rachel Cox
value alliances
Who we contract with is a part of the reason we do what we do. We believe in supporting a local ecosystem, the female work force, and quality products that you can taste the difference in.
Our coffee beans come from an international cooperative known as Cafe Femenino. Our green beans are organic, single origin and grown by women farmers who are vastly underrepresented in the global farming community. At Sinister Coffee and Creamery, what we start with is 100% at the forefront of what we do. We offer Peru, Guatemalan and now Colombian beans and bean blends with a Paranormal focus. Interested in the Paranormal? Great News! SO are we! Keep reading to learn more about the groups we investigate with or follow the link here to read our ghost blogs!
ICE CREAM
Our ice cream evolution has always started with the quality ingredients we use. Our ice cream base, whether we are rolling ice cream on a cold plate or pre-packaging freshly made Sicilian style ice cream, is made with milk and cream from local dairies in Oregon. Lady Lane and Schoch Dairy farms use sustainability methods and practices to tend to their cattle. We think using fresh dairy is so important that our base ice cream is sweet cream, which highlights the flavors and nuances that fresh milk provides. You can pre-order our sweet cream ice cream here for pickup at the Saturday Portland Farmers Market, and check out our rotating seasonal flavors some of which are pictured above.
Where to Find Us
We sell our products at the Portland Farmers Market at PSU. The goal of both of this unique organization is to address growing food needs of local communities. You will find hyper-local growers and food producers native to Oregon with the highest quality products available. We are honored and excited to be sellers from April-September. Look for Sinister at the Portland Pride Waterfront Festival, Spirit of Halloween Town Festival and a new pop-up location in Director’s Park July-August! We are excited about these events and more as the year progresses-Check back with us as new events are added all the time!
Picture includes Michelle Kaliher and Dwayne Johnson co-founders of Sinister Hunts and Adam Knoedler of S.I.U
Women Ghost Hunters
Michelle has had experiences with the paranormal since she was a child and has always been drawn to the unexplained. Kelly has always been open to the possibilities and received a crash course when the two moved into a haunted house in the Fall of 2008. The blog called Part One & Part Two retells their stories. Since then, the two have gone on to investigate several, less intimate, locations. In the Summer of 2019, they joined up with three other paranormal groups to form Pacific Northwest Paranormal Collaborative (PNWPC).
Paranormal Travels
Notable investigations include; The Queen Mary, The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Old Town San Diego, San Francisco Chinatown, Alcatraz, Powell Grove Cemetery, The Klondike Hotel, The Washoe Club, Wolf Creek Inn, and Lafayette Cemetery.
Pacific NorthWest Paranormal Collaborative
Pacific Northwest Paranormal Collaborative Crew
The Pacific Northwest Paranormal Collaborative, or PNWPC, was established in 2019. Together the team goes to haunted locations to investigate, document, and explore the world of the paranormal. If you have a location you would like us to investigate, contact us.
To watch footage of our investigations go to YouTube SupernaturalProductions.
Kelly and Michelle of Sinister Coffee and Creamery @sinistercandc, Dwayne Johnson @huntsandhauntsparanormal, Adam Knoedler and Pam Pazmino of @supernaturalinvestigationunit, Wendy Stanton-Phillips and Heather Hubbard of Haunted Yeehew @ladibugladibugg & @lasagnawteeth
What once was always shall be….or may not be anymore for the Klondike.