PORTLAND — The woman was working late, alone in her third-floor office in the Old Port, when she looked out a window and saw a waterlogged woman just floating there. The woman bulldozed her way out of the office and bolted out of the building, according to Gordon Tweedie. That story came after Tweedie had […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Author chronicles 155 years of Maine Bigfoot sightings
Daniel Green isn’t out to prove Bigfoot exists — but he might have heard one once. The Maine native, originally from the town of Franklin, east of Ellsworth, took five years to pull together every historical Bigfoot sighting he could find, from 1855 to 2010, to write “Shadows in the Woods: A Chronicle of Bigfoot […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The home of 'Junk and Dead Things'
COOPERS MILLS — About 20 years ago, fully living up to its name, Elmer’s Barn of Junk and Dead Things sold a coffin with a body inside to a Pennsylvania man looking for a coffee table. Today, the shop is a little lighter on the dead, but just a little. The popular stop on Route […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: John Edward on Trump, 2017 and the weirdest message he’s ever delivered
Former TV psychic medium John Edward logged 75 tour stops giving group readings around the globe in 2016. In 2017, he’s coming back to Maine with appearances in Bangor on March 2 and Portland on March 3. The 47-year-old author of eight bestselling novels splits his time between New York and Los Angeles with his […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Take that, 2016
In Maine, Ghost Camp 2 is a go for next summer. We’re home to Chicks with staying power. And if Bigfoot is not here, might it be near? We catch up on and update some of the Weird, Wicked Weirds of the last year. More than a walk in the woods In January, Animal Planet […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The International Cryptozoology Museum fits more weird, more Wessie
PORTLAND — It’s the only place in the world to find the long, elegant dart gun Roger Patterson planned to use to drop Bigfoot in California after first famously catching it — allegedly — on tape. The only place with a little swatch displayed as a piece of the actual screen window the Fouke Monster poked its […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Table tipping 101
Kimberley Charest was leading a table-tipping session with a group of women in Mechanic Falls when the table suddenly started tap, tap, tapping. As if it were pecking. What the medium said she saw next in her mind’s eye didn’t make sense. “I said, ‘The rooster has boots on,’” Charest remembered. One of the women […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Roving gnome artist
Over the past three years, a Lewiston artist known only by the initials “RG” has placed 500 gnomes on roadsides from Portland to Sunday River. On the top of the city of Auburn parking garage. In the bushes at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. At the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, amid […]
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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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Weird, Wicked Weird: Craigslist, here we come.
Sam Grant is looking to compile Maine creature sightings. But not of moose. Not of surly bears. Think Bigfoot. Sea monsters. Really, any monster will do. Timothy Sheehan wants tens of thousands of sea lamprey for scientific research. (Spoiler alert: It’s not going to end well for the fish.) He’s paying $2 apiece, if you […]