That chill creeping up your back — sure, it could be the unseasonably cold weather, the three hours less of daylight, the furnace refusing to kick in, the early-onset flu. But what if it’s not. In honor of Halloween, we asked Maine ghost-hunting groups to recount their creepiest, most intriguing encounters. Get ready to grab […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Crypto Con 2018
PORTLAND — Sisters Tara and Laura Parker made the five-and-a-half-hour trip from New York for the third annual International Cryptozoology Conference because sometimes driving around in their neck of the woods they wonder, just what’s out there? “We’re big into the fun stories,” Tara Parker said. “We live in a really rural area, so you […]
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Portland's international cryptozoology conference full of beasts, Bigfoot and Nessie
PORTLAND — For the third annual International Cryptozoology Conference, Loren Coleman has packed the schedule with all things Bigfoot, beast and unexplained — and plans to announce he’ll lead an expedition in search of the Loch Ness monster in 2019. The conference is being held Sept. 1-2 at the Brick South building on Portland’s Thompson’s […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: An academic career studying Sasquatch
Twenty-two years ago, after a chance visit to the foothills of the Blue Mountains outside Walla Walla, Washington, Jeff Meldrum found himself looking at a line of 35 to 45 clear, fresh footprints in the mud and realizing he was at a career crossroads. “You could see skin ridge detail, the dermatoglyphics, the fingerprints in […]
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The Mad Man of York has a warning about ‘devil wagons’
YORK BEACH — He arrived in a flurry of black robes, sandaled feet and bushy beard before darting up a hilly sidewalk with 40 what-did-I-just-sign-up-for stragglers trying to keep up on a recent Wednesday night. “This is getting too weird, too quick,” one little boy muttered to his dad. He of the bushy beard: The […]
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Is that a ghost caught on a game cam in a Durham front yard?
Tia Wilson said other creepy things happen around her old farmhouse. Doors opening, noises, footsteps, a shower curtain moving.
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Your life, written in the stars?
HARTFORD — Kati Magoon is sunny, blond, petite and says, with just a trace of wistfulness, that she’s on her next-to-last life. She’s seen it in the stars. “I’m just hoping I do this one really well,” Magoon said, “hoping I do what I’m supposed to do.” For several years, operating as Mirror Mirror Metaphysics & Mysticism, […]
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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: How a Mainer went down in infamy in New Zealand
Kimble Bent grew up restless in Eastport in the 1840s, running away to join the Navy at 17, then using his shipbuilder father’s money to adventure overseas. Oh, and he adventured, all right. He joined the British Army. Deserted the British Army. Then lived as a munitions maker with a New Zealand tribe under special […]
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Hartford filmmaker focuses documentary on shadow people
HARTFORD — Paul Taitt was 18 with a job at Scotland Yard photocopying court cases when he joined colleagues on an after-hours ghost tour. At a stop inside Chislehurst Caves in South East London, they carried lanterns and followed a guide telling spooky stories in the dark. Taitt, at the edge of the group, got a […]