Though Halloween is in our rearview mirror now, ghostly activities continue at Jay-Niles Memorial Library with ghost hunters on Saturday, Nov. 18.
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Ghost legends a persistent phenomenon around Oxford Hills
GREENWOOD — During the time when Halloween punctures the fall season it is common for tales of ghosts, witches and other supernatural legends to be dusted off and retold. Oxford Hills is no different and one community history Facebook page, Greenwood as it Was, offers them up, along with other stories, ephemera and photos from […]
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Haunted house: Ghostly legends born of tales of woe
A founding settler of Paris lived a tragic life that took on supernatural proportions within his crumbling mansion.
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Street Talk: Not a ghost of a chance of running into spirits
Good evening, living people. Since Halloween looms and everything in the cold October world seems dead or dying, I thought this would be a good time to tell you about my experiences with ghosts. We’d have fun, you and I, huddled in the orange gloom of dusk exchanging our tales of skin-crawling confrontations with the […]
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Haunted table for two: A New England foodie’s search for the region’s most haunted establishments
At Sea Glass Restaurant in Cape Elizabeth, Deb Wojcicki tried the Mediterranean Scramble and learned about the bride-to-be shipwrecked with her wedding dress, now seen walking the beach. At The Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, Vermont, it was eggs Benedict and tap-dances-on-the-roof ghost, Boots Berry. At Haymarket Cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts, a delicious plate of […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Are we ending 2017 with a pic of Bigfoot found in Maine?
Another weird year is nearly in the books. As 2017 winds down, Weird Wicked Weird checks in with stories over the past 12 months for the latest news, twists and developments. One slippery snake. Chatty ghosts in the Old Port. And new photographic proof of Bigfoot in Maine? You decide. Wessie: The myth, the legend, […]
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Things that go bump in the night: A look at local ghost stories
While Darcie Rowell wouldn’t call herself a full-on believer in ghosts, she does believe alleged paranormal activity associated with hauntings and spirits isn’t outside the realm of possibility. That is because she and her family had a number of experiences they can’t explain since moving to their home on Paris Hill in South Paris about […]
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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 […]