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Maine is spookier than many people realize. That’s why Sun Journal editors scared up a collection of their favorite spooky stories from years gone by.
Otisfield is a small town with some big haunts
The town boasts a rich history of headless horsemen, witches and apparitions. Dennis Creaser also recounts his experience with a ghostly girl, making for some scary Halloween reading.
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.
Spectral lady hitches ride one night on Route 26, then vanishes
One moment the hitchhiker was making small talk with her teen driver, then she disappeared.
Just Spooky
It’s the time of year for horror and weird tales. Here are some favorites.
The October Country. The season of mists and melancholy. That time of year when graveyards yawn and things go bump in the night and we break out worn copies of Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser’s “Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural” or the collected ghost stories of Vernon Lee and M.R. James. In 2023,…
Mark LaFlamme: Latest findings: Lewiston and Auburn crawling with ghosts. Maybe
Street Talk: No matter where in the Twin Cities you live, chances are good, apparently, that you’re uncomfortably close to a bona fine haunted house.
Community Little Theatre a haunted hotbed? Some in Auburn seem to think so
City staff asked residents to name places in town with a haunted reputation. The overwhelming response turned some heads.
Was the ghost of Lady Nordica playing piano in Merrill Hall at UMF?
Claims of a ghost add another chapter in a hauntingly stubborn UMF mystery.
Mark LaFlamme: The unvarnished truth about the haunted well of Sabattus
Street Talk: The boy never spoke a coherent word again in his lifetime, as the story goes. When he spoke at all, he spoke in terrified gibberish of things no sane human mind could comprehend.
He asked the demon to scare his girlfriend. It backfired.
Central Maine Ghost Hunters’ first exorcism was nothing like the movies.
As she calmed her daughter, she felt a hand on each shoulder that pinned her to the bed
A mother tells the story of an evening of something that visited her and her daughters in a 300-year old house in Kittery.
Some ghost don’t wait until dark to communicate
Two ghost hunters tested a new piece of equipment in a Freeport cemetery. And heard a message.
Maine Ghost Hunters visit Bates Mill to search for paranormal activity
Maine Ghost Hunters, a nonprofit organization founded in 2008, visited the Bates Mill in September to search for paranormal activity at the request of Museum L-A. On Saturday, the investigative team revealed the results of their search at the museum’s “Mysteries at the Mill” event.
Ghosts are running wild among the books at the Auburn library, says local ghost hunter
AUBURN — If Howard Labbe’s observations are correct, our community is crawling with ghosts. They teem in vacant houses. They run rampant in downtown apartments and pretty much rule attics everywhere. Ghosts are all over the place, according to Labbe’s research, and the Auburn Public Library is no exception. The operator of Restless Spirits Investigations…
Green pants. ‘The Blob.’ The basement sump pump. A look into the shadows behind your childhood fears
On this All Hallows Eve, readers tell us about the everyday things and truly scary visions that haunted their childhoods.