PROSPECT (AP) — Organizers of a Stephen King-themed horror event at a historic fort in Maine say about 4,800 people attended, close to 2,000 more than expected. The Fright at the Fort event in Prospect also tied up traffic for a while. The Bangor Daily News reports Friends of Fort Knox Executive Director Dean Martin […]
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PROSPECT – Looking for something to do with the kids during spring vacation? Come on over to Fort Knox. Fort Knox and the Penobscot Narrows Observatory will be open Monday, April 17 through Sunday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Both sites will reopen for the entire season May 1. Explore the massive cannons […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine Ghost Camp
Imagine a playful little phantom girl, a handsy ghost named Michael and you — all together under the stars. Grab your sleeping bag and flashlight and steel your courage — it’s Maine’s first Ghost Camp. East Coast Ghost Trackers, a group that has led guided ghost tours at Fort Knox for years, will hold its […]
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Yvonne Lois Church
1936 – 2015 WEST PARIS — Yvonne Lois Church, born July 26, 1936, in Hillsdale, Mich., died Friday, Sept. 18, in West Paris. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Don Sr.; her four children, Don Leslie Church Jr. and his husband, Steve Myers, Yvette Diane Inman and her husband, Thayne, Benjamin Church, […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: True tales of lost pirate booty
Maine author Patricia Hughes has collected hundreds of tales over the decades of daring pirates, amazing bounty, jilted witches and buried loot, but the stories of lost treasure only make it into her books if they meet two criteria. The story has to be true. And the treasure has to be haunted. “Somebody (was) murdered […]
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Linda J. Gaskill
1960 – 2015 RUMFORD — Linda Jane Bulger Gaskill, age 55, of Franklin Street passed away on Sunday June 7th, 2015 at Rumford Hospital with her family and close friends by her side, following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Fort Knox, Ky., on March 23, 1960, to Richard H and Vivian […]
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‘She’s around’: Believers found at Fort Knox Psychic and Paranormal Faire
PROSPECT — When Canaan resident Kate Schuyler lost her grandmother recently at the age of 95, she discussed contacting a psychic with her mom because they both still felt their loved one’s presence. “We want to know if she’s around,” she said Saturday while waiting outside the Fort Knox officer’s quarters for a psychic to […]
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UFO lovers, ghost hunters, psychics at Fort Knox State Historic Site
PROSPECT — The Fort Knox State Historic Site will play host to psychics, UFO enthusiasts and self-proclaimed ghost hunters at a two-day Psychic/Paranormal Faire. The Prospect site is set to host the event on Saturday and Sunday. It will include a lecture from cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who has written 17 books, including “The Field Guide […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Nick Patterson, psychic artist
BANGOR — Nick Patterson paints and sculpts deja vu. It started as a teenager with sporadic visions in his dreams. Things about to happen — but only to him. And pretty simple things at that. His uncle pulling up in a new Ford Thunderbird. The copier breaking down at work. Now 44, he’s incorporating those […]
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Maine officials preparing to sign agreement to erect 1,800-foot steel fence at historic Fort Knox
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Maine Historic Preservation Commission are expected sign by the end of this week a memorandum of agreement to add fencing at Fort Knox State Historic Site, Skip Varney, the director of engineering and real property for the bureau, said Wednesday. The memorandum will detail the state’s understanding […]