15 sourced records. Reports are attributed claims, not proof of supernatural activity.
A 1907 reported haunting led four men to investigate noises in a Central Street apartment building. New England Legends traces the dispute and subsequent trespassing charges to a Lewiston Sun Journal report. Even the podcast questions claims that guns were fired. The exact residential address is intentionally withheld.
New England Legends recounts sightings of a woman on the spiral staircase and in corridors of Captain Nathaniel Lord's mansion. Witnesses reportedly compare her with Phoebe Lord's portrait. The family history and later inn conversion provide context; identifying the apparition as Phoebe remains speculative.
In a 2017 interview, owner Sandra Frye said her granddaughter spoke to someone unseen and identified the presence with Abigail Chapman. Guests also reported female voices, footsteps and cold drafts. Claims of a ghostly cat passing through a wall add to the inn's reputation but remain witness accounts.
Fort Knox is a granite military fort beside the Penobscot River. Maine’s official visitor guide describes after-dark tours led by paranormal investigators as well as Halloween activities. Those are different experiences: an investigation program is not the same as a theatrical scare attraction. This record concerns the historic fort’s reported haunting reputation. Check the event description carefully and use authorized tours to compare the military history with contemporary accounts.
New England Legends examines an apparition tradition associated with Fort William Henry near Pemaquid Beach. Its episode connects the story with violence during King William's War, while questioning commonly repeated identifications of the alleged Indigenous ghost. The account documents a haunting tradition rather than confirming it.
Rockport's Pitcher Man tradition describes an apparition offering travelers ale at Goose River Bridge. New England Legends identifies the figure in the story as William Richardson and investigates the enduring local account. The claimed encounters are folklore, not verification that a deceased person appears there.
Phantom hitchhiker accounts surround this former logging route. New England Legends distinguishes unverified roadside legends from a 1993 newspaper account in which an injured motorist claimed his hitchhiking driver vanished after a crash; rescuers reportedly found no second person.
Abraham Cummings collected testimony from people who said a voice identified itself as Nelly Butler at the Blaisdel home around 1800. Mary Bragdon described knocking followed by conversation in the cellar. These historical witness statements survive in print; a modern documentary edition adds scholarly context to a case that also provoked accusations of deception.
Lillian Nordica performed here in 1911; the auditorium in Merrill Hall bears her name. Later accounts describe a woman's vocal warm-ups and piano notes when the room appears empty. The podcast explores this reported tradition. Its acted sound effects are storytelling devices, not recordings of an actual encounter.
A podcast revisits an April 1906 newspaper account of an alleged apparition at Blue Hill's old tavern. It describes a woman's earlier experience and a fruitless search of the cellar. The underlying report is historical testimony, while claims about a dead child and ghost remain uncorroborated.
The Old York Gaol is a surviving historic jail now interpreted as a museum. Maine’s tourism office connects the building with reports of voices said to belong to former prisoners. That is evidence of a haunting story, not verification of the voices’ origin. The most useful visit begins with the jail’s documented history and the conditions experienced by people imprisoned there, then examines how the reported haunting became part of its public identity.
New England Legends traces a former tavern and boarding house to a reported disappearance in 1880 and later haunting coverage in 1906. The surviving story concerns a missing woman and an ominous presence. A newspaper-era account establishes circulation of the claim, not the existence of a ghost.
In 1872, the Lewiston Journal investigated reports that tenants repeatedly abandoned a Springvale farmhouse. Its accounts traced the disturbances back roughly twelve years and described multiple witnesses. New England Legends revisits that newspaper investigation and the local witch explanation attached to it; the latter was a belief, not a finding.
Docent Larry Ryan described a visitor feeling something brush past her after remarking on Celia's portrait. The 1853 house belonged to the Nott family; Celia reportedly died there of diphtheria at ten. The encounter was collected in a 2017 interview about the museum's haunting reports.
On June 1, 1896, Howard Hobbs shot Fred Milliken and then died by suicide on Wood Island. Later accounts describe strange sounds inside the lighthouse keeper's quarters, a phantom dog and wispy figures near the shoreline. New England Legends examines the deaths and the subsequent reported haunting.
