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The Underground Railroad

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Brunswick, VT    More Info

Haunted Places

 

Boothbay Harbor - Boothbay Opera House - a room on the 2nd floor is haunted by an unknown spirit.

Kennebunkport - Captain Fairfield Inn - The ghost of Captain Fairfield has been seen here.

Newfield - Old Straw House - haunted by Hannah Straw who is buried under the kitchen floor.

Rockport - Goose River Bridge - haunted by "the pitcher man", he offers passersby a pitcher of beer before he disappears before them.  The man was killed there in 1783.

Ogunquit - Ogunquit Playhouse - Revolutionary War  soldiers seen here at times.

Vassalboro - Oak Grove Academy -   Kids murdered, hung from meathooks. Killer never found. Lights flicker although there is no electricity, ghosts seen on roof and tower, film appears on vehicle and will not come off until you are within a couple miles of the building. Voices call out names of murdered children, etc, etc.

Manchester - Devil's Footprint - Contruction people working on road, rock would not move, Man climbed onto rock and said "I will give my soul to the devil if only this rock will move." Next day, Rock was moved, guy was gone. Imprint of Devil's Footprint and Man's footprints. Try to chisel it away but it returns.

Windham - The Chute Road Cemetery - In the early morning hours sometimes the locals claim to see two young girls playing in front of the old chute road cemetery.  Legend has it that there are two sisters who have tomb stones there but are not buried there because their bodies were never found. They believe the girls might have died in an old well or mine shaft.

Brunswick - The old Brunswick High School -  a ghost by name of Mimi, given to her by janitors, walking the halls, slamming doors, moving objects. No one knows who she really is or why she haunting the building.

Bucksport - Bucksport Cemetary - The grave of John Bucksport has  a footprint cracked into the tombstone.  The tombstone has been  replaced many times but the foot always reappears a short time   later. John Bucksport ordered the death of his mistress, claiming  she was a witch. She promised to return and dance on his grave. It is believed to be her foot(and leg)that continues to appear on the tombstone.

Skowhegan - Skowhegan Cinema -   Handprints found frequently on movie screen. This haunting has been recorded by experts and published in books. Regarded as one of the  fifty most haunted sites in the US.

Brunswick - The Old Brunswick High School - There have been three people that have died on BHS  grounds.    Doors slamming, and moving objects.

Lucerne-Lucerne Inn
Shadows on the wall, footsteps, a woman and a child talking outside of the door when there is no one there,   some one always watching over you.

Farmington-The University of Maine at Farmington-
It is said that the Ghost of Lilian Nortica ( a famous singer of opera) roams the auditorium that was given to the university in her name. Some evenings you are able to still hear her sing in the stage area. As well the Mallet hall dorm is said to be haunted by a dorm mother who hung herself. To this day, people have not been able to stay in the room that once was hers.

Brunswick-Pickard Theater Bowdoin College-
One theater technician reported feeling cold and seeing a swinging lamp in a room with no outside ventilation (the scenery construction shop at the top of the theater).

Portland-Portland School of Art-
There have been reports made by students and instructors of hearing a young woman crying.   While trying to seek out the source of the woman's anguished crying, a faint outline of a young lady in a long dress is seen briefly as she scurries away.

Windham-Anderson Rd.-
Chief Poulin and his tribe massacred settlers going to tend fields- locals hear the Indian cries and women crying sometimes in the night Chief Poulin was killed and his men buried him in the roots of a tree on Sebago Lake so the white men would not find him

Kennebunkport-Actress Jane Morgan’s home-
Former home of Actress Jane Morgan. Lights flicker on and off.  Windows open and close.

Millis-Glen Ellen Country Club-
In the kitchen, an ice scoop has been known to fly off the ice machine by itself. This usually happens during a busy dinner party. The outside tennis courts are haunted. The sounds of people playing a game of ball have been heard when no one was out there. In the Bay State, people talking have been heard even though no one is up there. Supposedly, a girl witnessed someone standing behind her while she was looking in the bathroom mirror.

Orono -University of Maine-
Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Built in 1879, there have been occasional sightings of a woman in a white dress, believed to be an old housemother who died there in the early 1900's. There are strange noises as well. Members say her name was Evelyn.

South Berwick-
Legend has it that people riding on their horses at night right up until cars were around would be terrorized by an old hag who would jump out in front of them.  Believing that they had run her over, in a panic they would turn around only to find her gone.

More Info

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, lived in this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, to a notable Congregational minister and his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Cincinnati, OH, in 1832, where she taught at the Western Female Institute. While living in Cincinnati, she met numerous fugitive slaves and traveled to Kentucky where she experienced the brutality of slavery first-hand. It was also in Cincinnati that Harriet Beecher met her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, a teacher at the Western Female Institute. In 1850, Calvin Stowe accepted a teaching position at Bowdoin College and the couple moved to Brunswick. Harriet Beecher Stowe was encouraged to write by her husband and was a published author before moving to Maine. Based upon her experiences while visiting Kentucky and her interviews with fugitive slaves, Stowe started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin upon her arrival in Brunswick. Many of the characters in her book mirrored real-life individuals such as Josiah Henson, a fugitive slave who escaped from Kentucky to Canada along the Underground Railroad with his wife and two children.

Published as a serial in the abolitionist newspaper, National Era, in 1851 and in book form the following year, Uncle Tom's Cabin is considered to be the most famous example of antislavery literature. The book became an overnight sensation in the United States and Europe and has been translated into 23 languages. Harriet Beecher Stowe introduced the horrors of slavery to large numbers of Americans and became the object of violent hatred throughout the South. Her reply to southern criticism came in 1853 when she published A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, a collection of factual material on slavery intended to justify the charges implied in the novel. The impact that Uncle Tom's Cabin had on the American public was so great that President Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe, is reported to have said, "You're the little lady who started this great war." Though not directly linked to the activities of the Underground Railroad, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, a National Historic Landmark, is the place where this influential writer penned her monumental novel, forever changing America's attitude toward slavery.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine. The house currently operates as a restaurant and hotel and is open to the public.

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