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 […]
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Nick Penney can swallow a flaming sword without burning his eyebrows off
AUGUSTA — The last guy who attempted Nick Penney’s world-record-setting feat of doing a cartwheel while swallowing a flaming sword burned his eyebrows off. Penney, 29, whose eyebrows are just fine, says he avoids that same fate by stapling a postcard to his forehead so it dangles down and shields his brows. Sitting at his […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Let there be dragons
AUGUSTA — Laura Foster needed money to get into a Society for Creative Anachronism event so she could assume the persona of an 11th-century, low-ranking Irish noblewoman named Gormlaith an Malagenteach. So she put out the call: Anyone want to buy a dragon? And they did. “Suddenly, I got 16 orders,” said Foster, 43. “So […]
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Weird Wicked Weird: Are we ending 2017 with a pic of Bigfoot found in Maine?
Another weird year is nearly in the books. As 2017 winds down, Weird Wicked Weird checks in with stories over the past 12 months for the latest news, twists and developments. One slippery snake. Chatty ghosts in the Old Port. And new photographic proof of Bigfoot in Maine? You decide. Wessie: The myth, the legend, […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Bates professor studies alien abductees, asks, 'What's Up?'
Bates College professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano sits in her office on the third floor of Pettigrew Hall on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — For an upcoming book, Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a Bates College associate professor of rhetoric, interviewed 300 Americans who believe they’ve been abducted by aliens, including a few […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Nope, they're not afraid of no ghosts.
Tom Lemieux, left, Brian Austin, center, and Michael Marshall stand next to Ecto-1 in Lemieux’s driveway in Oakland earlier this month. The three are members of the Maine Ghostbusters. Lemieux’s Ecto-1, modeled after the iconic vehicle in the latest “Ghostbusters,” is the only movie-accurate car — made from a vintage 1985 Cadillac hearse — in […]
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Meet Coral Ryder, 'spiritual fax machine'
Coral Ryder has drawn thousands of pictures over the past 12 years, yet doesn’t consider herself an artist. Instead, she jokingly refers to herself as a spiritual fax machine. “Marge is the one who draws through me,” said Ryder, 46. “She’s the artist, I just hold the pencil.” Marge is Marge Haimaii and Ryder’s not sure where […]
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Maine's first International Crypto Con. Dogmen? Check. Bigfoot? You bet.
PORTLAND — It starts bright and early with lake monsters and wraps up more than 12 hours later with the first New England screening of “The Mothman of Pleasant Point.” Up to 175 people are expected next weekend at the second annual International Cryptozoology Conference. The first, last year, was held in St. Augustine, Florida, […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: 'Sometimes things just need help'
Katie Webb gives tarot card readings to the dead. On camera. Webb, an Auburn native and one of four stars of the web series, “Haunt ME,” says it shows the ghost-hunting show’s softer side. “When a spirit doesn’t instantly want to come out and talk to us like we’re their therapist or something, which is […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: A lighthouse? In Durham? Ayuh.
DURHAM — Back in 1975, Bob Hackett wanted to live in a lighthouse, so he built one, 10 miles from sea. It went on the market June 14 looking for a new keeper. The Lighthouse, as it’s called, is generating plenty of interest — 7,981 clicks on the real estate listing just last week, the most-clicked house […]