Mysterious Maine
Have you ever felt a presence watching you, even when you’re alone? In the remote corners of Maine, where the wind whispers secrets through ancient pines and the crashing waves echo with untold stories, such experiences are not uncommon. Keeping watch from its lonely perch on Burnt Island, Maine’s oldest lighthouse stands as a sentinel against the crashing waves. But some say it’s more than just a beacon. Locals whisper of it being a “thin place,” where the veil between this world and the next grows eerily thin. On foggy nights, the mournful cry of a seagull can take on a chilling tone, and the wind carries the faint echo of footsteps where no one walks. Legend has it that the lighthouse keeper’s wife, known as the Lady in White, perished here in 1877. Her mournful spirit is said to still roam the island. Experiences like these have fueled the imaginations of countless storytellers, including Maine’s own Stephen King, the master of horror whose chilling tales often draw inspiration from the state’s eerie landscapes and whispered legends.
Maine isn’t just about stunning landscapes and charming coastal towns. It’s also a place steeped in tales of the supernatural. From the White Lady of the Burnt Island Lighthouse to the chilling stories of alien abduction in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine has a long history of unexplained phenomena. Here, we’ll delve into some of the creepiest stories guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.
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File a Paranormal Report
Do you have a spooky story? Maybe you grew up in a haunted house or saw a UFO? Perhaps you’ve encountered a Bigfoot on a lonely trail? File a paranormal report online or in our Pedego Boothbay Harbor store.
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Haunted Burnt Island Lighthouse
Lighthouses and ghosts go together like peanut butter and jelly. Boothbay Harbor’s Burnt Island Lighthouse is Maine’s oldest original lighthouse and boasts at least two ghosts sharing space.
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Allagash Abductions
The abduction of four men fishing on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in 1973 is one of the most well-researched and documented alien abduction cases you probably never heard of.
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Straight Outta X-Files
Molder and Scully left their fingerprints all over this strange case of a lonely Maine road lined with black SUVs and high-powered flood lights. Oh, and a dead Bigfoot.
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Palmyra Werewolves
Werewolves in Maine? Yes and, technically, we should probably refer to them as Dogmen. And it wasn’t only a Dogman pack troubling this family’s rural property.
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Damariscove’s Ghosts
Damariscove Island is the birthplace of America, and the home to many ghosts first chronicled in colonial records, including a headless sea captain and his faithful dog.
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Ghost Onboard
Sailors are notoriously superstitious. And the long-dead seaman still hard at work on Wiscasset’s decaying schooner Sally J. is also notoriously supernatural.
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Historic Maine Bigfoot Reports
Who doesn’t love a good Bigfoot story? The Hairy Ones have long made Maine their stomping grounds as evidenced by these old newspaper reports from the 1800s.
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Boothbay Harbor Sea Serpent
Tales of sea serpents are as old as the sea and come from mariners sailing all of the world’s oceans. But the Great New England Sea Serpent really does take the cake (or the mackerel).