Eliza's Spirit

BANGOR, MAINE
During the 18th century, a witch named Eliza lived is this home. Since her death in 1831, every family that has resided in the house was haunted by her spirit. In 1945, the house burned. Eliza’s spirit, however, continued to wreak havoc, often screeching during the night. Some brave souls have stayed at the site and have all met Eliza.

~Real Haunts.com

Maine Bigfoot Sightings

There is a website called "Bigfoot Encounters." It contains several sightings and legends from Maine.

Go to http://www.bigfootencounters.com/ and click either "sightings," "Stories, Sightings, Encounters, Letters," and legends and look for Maine.

Two men see huge hairy animal near Poland, Maine

YEAR: 1999

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: August
DATE: 15
STATE: Maine
COUNTY: Androscoggin County
LOCATION DETAILS: Up Rt. 11 from Mechanic falls to Poland, on the right side of 4 way intersection
NEAREST TOWN: Poland
NEAREST ROAD: Rt. 11
OBSERVED: August 1999
While returning from a trip at around 3 am at the corner of route 11 and north raymond road in Polan Me. androscoggin county. My brother-in-law was turning off rt. 11 onto the raymond road when he said "do you see that?" and I said what and he said "that big hairy thing in the bushes!" It was off to the left about 100 feet in the woods and big and hairy, I mean real big. We only caught a glimpse of t in the headlights. This is more comon than you may think, people up hear see this stuff often but the locals keep it quiet. I know of several other reports from this area.
OTHER WITNESSES: 2 Me, and my brother-in-law
OTHER STORIES: Yes 2 Class A and 2 Class B or more.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Dark, no moon
ENVIRONMENT: Low population, wooded area between 2 large lakes
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator John Perry:

This area has had a history of sitings dating back into at least the 1970's.
~BFRO

Wytopitlock, Maine Ghost Tales

I lived in wytopitlock me from 1974 till 1986. I had a friend there that lived out near the end of 171 near route 2. He and I many times saw an old civil war troop walk the feild behind his house. I lived in the big green house. We had a ghost in the house he wakled the stairs late at night you would hear his heavy footsteps comming up the stairs he never hurt anyone in the house just walked the stairs. My lil peice of pitlock history.


Submitted by Harry Carll to Ghosts of America

Not everything in Wytopitlock, Maine is as it seems; there are strange things going down in this settlement during the night. Ghosts are so average in this town; loads of local residents don’t even think about it any longer. People who have never stayed overnight in this municipality will say to you it's lies, but there really are scary things occurring here in Wytopitlock during the night.

These are some of the spooky things that have happened here recently.

The ghost of an engine driver is known to have been made out on frequent instances trying to deposit a body in Palmer Deadwater in the early morning hours before sunrise.

The ghost of a badly mangled hunter pulling a dead wolf may regularly be made out around midnight drifting along Angus Brook. Regardless of what, it's a chilling phantom that any sensible person wouldn't wish to meet.
~Ghosts of America

Millinocket Lake UFO report

FEB. 9, 2009 - Two brothers hauling firewood across a frozen Maine lake encountered a low-flying yellow light - 50 feet above the tree line - shining a light to the ground. The light soon turned to three red lights forming a triangle. The brothers moved to their camp, returning a few minutes later - only to encounter a single red light which appeared to follow them - while two more lights joined the first in the sky and seemed, at one point, to be surrounding them. When the brothers decided it was time to get out of there, their vehicle's engine shut down.

To read the full report:[Source]

Written by Michelle Souliere, Strange Maine

Ghost hunters haunt out of state

Haunted happenings: Ghost team arrives to examine Lynn home

By Robin Kaminski / The Daily Item

LYNN - In a seemingly normal looking home on Averill Street, spirits from another time are said to haunt its halls.

Unexplained noises, visions of a young boy dressed all in white and the sound of breaking glass have become an almost daily and eerie occurrence for the mother and two daughters who live in the home.
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Those ghostly premonitions prompted Bonnie to contact the Bangor Maine Ghost Hunters Association on a referral from her daughter in Maine, to finally get some answers and peace of mind.

A motley crew consisting of a former magician and three amateur ghost hunters - the Friday the 13th team was made up of Director Harold "Bubba" Murray, William Ammells, Cristal Murray and Michael Murray.

Established in 2000, Murray, a burly man originally from Lynn, said the investigations have taken the crew to numerous locations in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as Lynn and Haverhill.

Aside from the Maine chapter, there are also Lynn and Haverhill offices.

"They contacted me to see what was going on in their home, so we're here to see what we're dealing with," Murray said. "I don't usually come this far from Maine to investigate, but she really pushed for us to come. So, we're going to do a short term investigation (from Thursday night until Saturday) and then I'll analyze what we find."

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To read the full article:[Source]

Unrecognized wailing heard near Scituate, Mass

YEAR: 2000
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: November
DATE: 25
STATE: Massachusetts
COUNTY: Plymouth County
LOCATION DETAILS: Between 3A and Old Oaken Bucket Road in the woods that separates them.
NEAREST TOWN: Scituate
NEAREST ROAD: 3A (Chief Justice Cushing Highway)
OBSERVED: My dog was bothering me to go out ealry morning around 3 AM on November 25th 2000. It was very brisk out and I believe the weather was clear. Not sure about the lighting. As I was walking her, I could hear coyotes howling for a good few minutes from a distance and didn't think much of it. Then a few minutes later after it had stopped, I was about to walk inside and heard this loud wailing coming from the woods. It literally sent a chill down my spine. It definitely was not human and not anything else I would recognize. We don't have much wildlife bigger than deer and coyote. This went on till about 5:30 AM and kept me up. The wailing to me almost sounded depressing like it was upset or something. I told my friend's father a few weeks later and he told me that he was out walking his dog a few years earlier and said that he clearly saw something in the woods watching him. He never told anyone because he thought no one would be lieve him. This happened across the major road by the resevoir early evening.
ALSO NOTICED: Just the coyotes howling before.
OTHER WITNESSES: Nope
OTHER STORIES: Nope, but I also don't live there anymore.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 3AM to 5:30 AM
ENVIRONMENT: Forrest with a brook near by.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Nick Maione:

I spoke with the witness and believe him to be credible. He described hearing a loud, deep wailing/groaning noise every few minutes. It went on for about two hours. He said it sounded human but that it was too loud.

The Eastern Massachusetts region has shown Bigfoot activity in the past. Unfortunately, there has been heavy real estate development in this area.
~BFRO

Not THE Crystal Lake...

Written by Michelle Souliere, February 13, 2009

Happy Friday the 13th! With the release of the new Jason Voorhees movie this week, I wanted to celebrate the day with a little research (because I am just that weird). In this vein, I discovered that Maine not only has its own Crystal Lake, it in fact has TWO of them, one in Gray, and one in Harrison. One of them was formerly named "Anonymous Pond." Why does this make me laugh? I don't know, but there it is.


According to Maine's Lakes Environmental Organization, one Crystal Lake "is the only lake completely within the borders of Harrison. Mill Stream, which is the outlet of the lake, provided early village settlers with power to run both a grist and saw mill." [Source] The second Crystal Lake is has its own Crystal Lake Association, formed in 1970, whose website has some beautiful photos.

Back in 1963, the New Yorker, of all sources, reported on how Anonymous Pond (now Crystal Lake in Harrison) was about to lose its anonymity: "Incidental Intelligence: In Cumberland County, Maine, there is a body of water that has the arresting name of Anonymous Pond. Now some spoilsports are trying to have it officially called Crystal Lake, and it may become anonymous." [Source: John McCarten, Incidental Intelligence, The New Yorker, March 2, 1963, p. 24, read abstract here]

Anonymous Pond, though quiet in recent years, has a lively history, including one of Maine's first alligator captures. Yes, I said alligator! To quote Chris Dunham, over at All Things Maine, "The first [recorded alligator in Maine] was probably the one shot in Owlsley Cove, Anonymous Pond (Crystal Lake) in Harrison in November of 1895." You can read a full account here, but I will tantalize you with this tidbit: "The alligator was first seen by W. M. Shaw of South Paris. In company with other members of the Owlsley club he was returning from Harrison with a load of provisions when he noticed a large black object floating on the sunlit waters of the quiet little cove, near which the camp of the Owlsley club is situated. ... During Friday and Saturday the mysterious creature was occasionally seen by various persons, and shot at several times without apparent effect."

~Stange Maine

Tony Martin and his Bigfoot Fossil Footprints - May 5, 2007

Tony Martin found what he believes are Bigfoot fossil footprints in Maine in 1975. He was rock houding in Coos Canyon, near Byrun when he found rocks resembling 12″ long footprints, weighing about 5 pounds each. His first reaction was to think they were petrified Bigfoot tracks.


An article in the Lewiston Maine Sun Journal shows Tony Martin holding one of his two footprint-shaped rocks.

Apparently many people he’s shown them to don’t agree either because they are too skeptical to care about anything concerning Bigfoot, or because they have alternate expanations for the existence of these possible Bigfoot fossil footprints.

The article cites one expert, Tom Weddle of the Maine Geological Survey. Weddle says that the rocks are probably about 400 million years old and made metamorphically from mica crystals and staurolite. He believes Bigfoot is a modern creature, not something that would have been roaming this planet 400 million years ago.

I am not a professional geologist, but will give my opinion on that anyhow. From what I’ve learned from Michael Cremo, author of Forbidden Archeology, humans have existed on this planet for millions of years. For example, he knows of the discovery of a Precambrian-era metal vase dating from 600 million years ago, as well as many similarly ancient discoveries. So I don’t buy the idea that Bigfoot could not have been around to create fossilized footprints in ancient Maine.

The article, by Kathryn Skelton, includes a short interview with BFRO founder Matt Moneymaker, regarding how he makes money and what he believes makes his $300 Bigfoot expeditions worthwhile.
~Bigfoot Sightings

South Berwick, Maine Ghost Tales

There is an old farmhouse on Old South Road, So. Berick, ME that has many ghosts within its walls. I grew up there and had many personal encounters, not knowing the difference between ghosts and regular people as a child. There was a woman in a white dress with black polka dots that was always in the downstairs area between the bathroom and the living room. She couldn't walk through the door opening into the dining room because it wasn't there when she was alive. She had to walk to the end of the hallway and go through the doorway at the front of the house. When we played in the hay loft at the top of the barn as kids, there was hysterical (maniacal) laughter on the stairway so we would exit the loft thrugh one of the trap doors and climb down the ladder. Every morning every pan in the cabinets in the kitchen would clang, I would think my Mom was downstairs making breakfast so I'de go down and no one was there and the noise would stop upon my stepping on the threshold to the kitchen. There was a man with an undiscernable face that sat on the top of the car roof at night cross legged. He had on a red plaid shirt and jeans. He often came right up to the indos at night, I was face to face withhim in the window but still, I couldn't make out any details of is face. You could see a man walking around the bottom of the bed in the middle of the night just standing there looking at us kids sleeping.

Especially when it was lightening outside, you would get a brief ''good look'' at him, and it wasn't pleasant. I went back to visit the old farmhouse 5 years ago - and clearly, they all still remain in the house. It just seemed more ''sullen'' of an atmosphere without the 7 kids and parent who used to live there. They enjoyed us, and we, as kids, not knowing any different, spent time withthem. I used to be able to jump the whole length of the staircase from top to bottom, in slow motion, and land safely on the floor at the bottom. I was 5 or 6 years old and this was a long, semi-steep winding stairway. My little brother & sister used to try to copy me from a few steps up and would land much harder than I did from the top. All of this may seem strange - but it's true. Plus...there was much more.

~Ghosts of America