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 […]
Kathryn Skelton
Kathryn Skelton is a business reporter at the Sun Journal covering local industries large and small. She writes features and deep-dive analysis, keeps up with local happenings, closings and rumors in a regular business Buzz column, and at least once a month, writes about Bigfoot, ghosts or something equally intriguing in the "Weird, Wicked Weird" series. She's a proud Maine native, grew up in the Gardiner area and also proudly graduated from the University of Maine's journalism program. She's been a reporter at the paper for 20 years. When not working, she enjoys traveling, reading, corgi-walking and adventuring with her husband and two boys.
Posted inAndroscoggin County
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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Posted inMaine
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 […]
Posted inMaine
Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine TV-monster-hunter-turned-UFO-filmmaker
Maine monster hunter Bill Brock has set his sights on UFOs. Brock, who four years ago starred in the Discovery Channel reality series “Monsters Underground,” is helming a new independent documentary about aliens. Working with him on “Abducted New England” is a Bangor author whose second book full of Maine alien abductions, sightings and encounters is […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine rental listings on Airbnb are taking off
For her boyfriend’s 26th birthday on Thursday, Molly Brown booked a night in a luxury tent on a private island on Annabessacook Lake in Monmouth. “We were sitting on the couch and I was secretly looking at Airbnb listings,” said Brown, 29, talking on the phone from Big Island. “I booked it at 10:30 and […]
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From 2017: B&M Baked Beans: 150 years later and still full of beans
PORTLAND — After they’ve been washed, washed again, sauced, cooked, sauced again, canned and sealed, B&M Baked Beans are dropped into massive pressure cookers with massive lids held on tight by six nuts that are each half the size of a grown man’s arm. Steam rushed off those countless lids in tidal waves during a […]
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This walking tour hits the haunts in Portland
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 […]
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Business
Working: Modern cider from ‘old forgotten apples’
POWNAL — David Buchanan is serious about his cider. On his picturesque farm, in a new tasting room — an old post and beam house found on Craigslist, rebuilt and restored here last year — he talks about collecting rare apples like people collect art. There’s doggedness in the search, the thrill of finding a gem, […]
Posted inFranklin, Maine, Maine Crime
Farmington couple featured on new ‘Love Kills’ series on Investigation Discovery Channel
Fourteen years after someone shot Janette Osborne in the chest on the family farm in Farmington, the new Investigation Discovery Channel series “Love Kills” talked with her son, Josh Osborne, and his then-girlfriend, Donna Enman, about that day — and leaves it up to viewers to figure out who pulled the trigger. Carl Schick, supervising […]
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
What happened to Wanda Mitchell?
A dog brings home a human head. Suspects include an alleged rapist, but the case quickly goes cold. Thirty-seven years after 15-year-old Wanda Mitchell’s body was found in the Poland woods, her mother is still looking for answers.