The Execution of Ruth Blay
In the deep darkness of the early morning, a young woman lies on the floor of the house near her schoolroom, her brow is beaded with sweat and her body is with…
Maine’s Only Lynching and the Skull of Big Jim Cullen
Though I lived most of my life in Caribou, I never heard the story of the hanging of big Jim Cullen that took place in Mapleton, a small town twenty-two…
Meet Gluskabe: New England’s Original Big Friendly Giant
So far on this blog, mysterious monsters, misplaced artifacts and many more goings-on have been mentioned and described. While some are strange events, others from a wilder time would speak…
The Maine Penny – The Only Pre-Columbian Norse Artifact?
In the smallest of things, great stories abide. In 1957 near Blue Hill, Maine, a local man named Guy Mellgren unearthed an artifact that either proves beyond the shadow of…
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
A cure for the common cold and cancer, the power to bring rain down from the clouds, arguably the worst case of U.S. government censorship and book-burning, UFOs and a…
Madahodo-The Headhunter of Aroostook County
Anyone who researches Maine history closely enough will learn that Maine has been inhabited by people for 10,000 years. This makes many of the Native American stories told about this…
UFOs Over Northern Maine – The 1975 Loring UFO Incident
On October 27 and 28, 1975, events occurred in the northern part of the State of Maine that remain as inexplicable today as they did at the time. The media…
The Phantom Hitchhiker of the Haynesville Woods
“There’s a stretch of road up north in Maine that’s never, ever, ever seen a smile.” -Dick Curless “Tombstone Every Mile” You find yourself alone on a journey, feeling somewhat…