Over the last week, the Bangor Daily News has shared our Maine Ghost Stories series. The concept was simple: Write about six ghostly stories from around Maine, illustrate them with creative videos and see what happens.
What happened next was the best surprise: You loved them. From our very first ghost story — the one about Catherine’s Hill — emails and messages flooded in. We’ve heard tales from around the state and are so excited that you loved this series.
In response to Catherine’s Hill, a few of you mentioned the Haynesville Woman.
As the legend goes, along that lonely, desolate stretch of Route 2A South in Haynesville that served as the inspiration for the song “A Tombstone Every Mile” by Dan Fulkerson, a newly married couple was driving when the groom lost control of the vehicle and crashed. He was killed instantly. She survived and got out, walking along the road in search of help, only to later die herself. That woman in a white dress is said to still wander those roads in the dark of night.
Or so I am told.
And yes, we considered telling that story too — but since we wanted to showcase a variety of tales (let’s face it: there are many ghostly women along roads stories here in Maine!), we had to choose one to go with. Next time, maybe?
I also heard an interesting story that the Maine State Police barracks on North Road in Houlton may be haunted, but I think that’s a tale for next Halloween.
And now I leave you with one final tale, this one submitted by a reader, Rodney Duplisea of Bangor. May you have a wonderfully frightful Halloween.
Encounter in Freeport
by Rodney Duplisea, Bangor
“My wife and I stayed three nights at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, Maine, a few years back. We stayed on the second floor in a room directly on the front of the inn. The room had a wood fireplace and was well-appointed with nice furnishings including a canopy bed.
“Our encounter began during the night when my wife was awakened by a wisp of air upon her face. Suddenly I woke up, in a slightly alarmed state and talking out loud. My wife stated from the feeling of the wisp of air on her face, “I think we had a visitor!” The presence that she felt more than verified what I had just experienced. Apparently a ghost had appeared to me while I was sleeping, or I was sleepwalking near the side window when I saw this image. I remember seeing the image of a man in uniform looking in the window. I spoke to the desk clerk the next morning telling her of my encounter. She replied that there had been ghost sightings in the hallway just outside our room. During the remaining two nights of our stay we had no visitors.
“Out of curiosity, when I returned home I Googled “ghost sightings in Maine,” and came up with several blogs telling of many encounters. Finally when Googling “ghosts in Freeport, Maine,” I found a blog that described a ghost sighting in Freeport. It described a man dressed in a Civil War uniform that had been seen looking in windows in the Freeport, Maine, area. The description in the blog was so unbelievably uncanny that I was amazed. After further research on the Internet I came upon a blog by author Caroline Shearer, who writes “Candidly Caroline.” In this particular blog she tells of her stay at the Harraseeket Inn and suspecting the Inn to be haunted. She further mentions discovering an orb on a photo that she took of her room at the Harraseeket. This only made our ghost encounter more credible.”