“For the Moon Shone Bright” – The Purington Murders of 1806
[Please note – some of the descriptions in this article/episode are graphic. Use discretion with younger readers/listeners] You are lying in your bed on this hot July night. It has…
The Murder of Sarah Ware
It is night. Darkness has fallen over the September night as the half moon rises and the stars begin to fill the sky over Penobscot Bay. Sometimes the night falls…
The Abiding Spirit of Father Moriarty
I know you don’t tell other people that you’ve had that experience, that one singular time when you were alone in your house and it happened: something inexplicable. Maybe it…
The Eternal Mourner of Cuttingsville
He has waited for entrance into the mausoleum for well over a hundred years – learn the real story behind the enternal mourner of Cuttingsville, Vermont.
The Last Flights
Ten thousand warplanes flew from or over Maine during World War II. Over the course of the war, a total of 48 aircraft crashed in the state accounting for 143…
To Step Off the Map
If you live in New England, sooner or later you’ll have this experience: you’ll find yourself driving down a road you’ve driven a hundred times before and you’ll notice something…
The Ghost of Catherine’s Hill
The cold wind blows across the empty fields. The trees have shed their rusted leaves and the moon plays hide and go seek with the thin and wispy clouds. It’s…
Men in Black in Maine – The 1976 Herbert Hopkins Case
It is September 11, 1976. You are sitting quietly in a living room near Maine’s Old Orchard Beach. The sea air is strangely balmy as you settle down for a…