Tia Marie Nadeau has fallen through a grave in Lewiston, photographed an abandoned nudist camp in Durham and run, terrified, from a New Gloucester cemetery that she’s vowed never to go back to again — and that’s coming from someone who will go just about anywhere. She has more than 20,000 followers on her Facebook […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Note to your aura: Say cheese
At the risk of sharing too much about myself, it turns out my insides are violet. Apparently I’m calm, and very open-minded. (I write about ghosts, Bigfoot and sea serpents, so that sounds about right.) Mike Grant claims to know all that from photographing my aura, which doesn’t involve any actual photography. Grant, who’s green […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Cheep shots.
Julie Persons has at most four days to shoot 3,000 to 5,000 photos, enough to last her a year. It’s an incredibly tight timeline that’s entirely at the mercy of a chicken’s willingness to wear a hat. Among the tricks she’s picked up over five years: Shoot them right after they hatch. “They’re most amenable […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The Year in weird
Maine’s weirdest museum keeps making headlines, a psychic documentary is diverted, an art project reaches out to strangers and the search for Maine’s Bigfoot is coming to a TV near you. Maybe. Someday. It’s a year-end weird update. ‘It’s about heart’ Back in May, psychic medium Angelina Diana gave an evening of readings at Monmouth’s […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Bottling irreverence and making it big
Four years ago, after a friend complained about there not being enough unicorn merchandise in the world, Amanda Nelson tossed a bottle of handmade perfume into her Etsy store and named the spearmint-meets-cotton candy scent Unicorn Farts as a joke. An irreverent pop culture news site spotted it and wrote it up. “Star Trek”‘s George Takei […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: ‘Dead wrong’ about ghosts? Find out at upcoming conference
The South Thomaston family reported hearing growling noises. Something was pushing the 2-year-old out of bed. And the little girl talked about playing peekaboo with her dead grandfather. The family had already had three paranormal investigation teams come into their home when Eddita Felt and her team arrived last year. “We were going, ‘What, you’re […]
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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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Weird, Wicked Weird: High-end slug art
Over the course of two years, Deanna Witman went out into the woods — or, sometimes, scouted a restaurant compost heap — then took her finds back to her darkroom, let them slink around overnight and checked back in the morning to see the results. She made art — with slugs. And it’s beautiful. Once […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The all-beaver, Maine-authored cookbook
For Maine Apple Beaver Meatloaf, think warmed-up beaver, sliced, in a sandwich. No appeal? No problem. Kate Krukowski Gooding has 48 more recipes to chew on. The Maine author’s fourth cookbook is all beaver recipes. In “50 Ways to Eat a Beaver,” there’s a recipe for beaver tail as well as the dish she served […]
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Animal Planet’s ‘Finding Bigfoot’ coming to Maine
Serious Bigfoot sightings only, please. Loren Coleman announced Thursday that the Animal Planet reality TV show “Finding Bigfoot” is coming to Maine to shoot an episode in April. He has put out a call for people who have had sightings to come to the show’s town hall meeting. Coleman is hosting it at his International […]