WINDHAM — For one client, it was tension in the ground a mile under the house. For another, an oppressive, overgrown pine grove. For another: old, cold energy in the walls. Surrounded by candles in the meditation room of their farmhouse, David Dobson and Kristine Schares claim they can home in on properties hundreds and […]
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Yeti seen in Litchfield?
LITCHFIELD — A Litchfield man claims to have seen a yeti, or Abominable Snowman, while out walking his dog last month during a brutal ice storm that left the town without power. He reported the sighting to the website Cryptozoology News: “It stopped right in front of us, looked at us, growled at my dog […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Chasing Bigfoot and a $10 million reward
Hampden biologist Michael Merchant and Bowdoinham ghost hunter Kat McKechnie trekked out to the Pacific Northwest last summer to hunt for Bigfoot and try to win $10 million. They combed remote mountain woods with eight other two-person teams — photographers, skilled hunters, a man who claims to have killed a Bigfoot, twice — competing in […]
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Life’s a circus in these tarot cards
WATERVILLE — First came the space-traveling clown, then the fictional fortuneteller. Then, the real-life tarot cards. It’s been a yearlong journey for Doug Thornsjo. Not too long after the graphic artist and author started his latest novel, about a clown kicked off his home planet who settles into an Earth circus, Thornsjo came up with […]
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TV’s ‘Dead Files’ comes to Maine
Steve Di Schiavi doesn’t want to hear about your mild-mannered ghost. A happy haunting isn’t a problem. Someone getting pushed, taunted or scared — that’s someone who needs Di Schiavi’s help. So panicky, worried homeowners only, please. Like the ones he met in Maine. Di Schiavi, one half of the team on Travel Channel’s hit […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: 2013 Weird in review
Fish were kissed. Cheese was chased. Ghosts in Room 318 didn’t disappoint. You will be missed, 2013, but first, quick year-ending updates on some of our favorite Weird, Wicked Weirds. Mark your calendars to get in on some of next year’s unusual goodness. Things that bump, bark in the night Since the story ran last […]
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‘It is haunted. It really is’
It was around 8 at night, pitch black but for our headlights, on a desolate dirt road in Dresden about 20 years ago. When my now-husband put his car in reverse and those headlights caught what appeared to be a major oil leak coming from our car, he got out of the old Cavalier to […]
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Local twins run national alien-abduction support group
Audrey Hewins saw him across the club, running the sound board for her brother’s band, and knew. She walked over, sat on his lap and asked, “You remember, right?” The man gave a stunned, “Yeah.” “We had been introduced to each other 10 years before during an abduction, on a craft,” Hewins said. As her […]
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Charles Hilton — the man who tightrope-walked Great Falls
Charles Hilton was a 28-year-old shoe-shop worker, and a Civil War veteran shot twice in the legs, with a dream, guts and, most certainly, flair. Nearly 150 years ago, he walked a 1,200-foot tightrope over the Great Falls between Lewiston and Auburn — dangled upside-down by his toes, cooked on a wood stove and navigated […]