Bucksport
Pioneer Jonathan Buck, known for mapping the Penobscot River, was laid to rest in a cemetery in the town that bears his name, Bucksport. His tombstone is notable for one feature--it is marked by what some think is a representation of a woman's leg. There are two stories that purport to explain this strange feature. One is that Buck was having an affair with a village woman and his wife found out. Mrs. Buck threatened to expose the affair to the town, so Buck, afraid of potential damage to his reputation, accused her of witchcraft. She was tried and hung, and supposedly cursed him as the very noose was being put around her neck. The second story claims that it was Buck's lover who was executed by being burned at the stake. And the leg? This story says that Buck and his mistress had a child who tore the leg from the woman's body as she was being burned alive. Buck is now reported to haunt the area around his tomb, and a woman whose identity is unknown has been seen nearby.

Bangor Historical Society
The former home of Bangor mayor Samuel Dale now houses the town's Historical Society, but word has it that Dale never really left the building. During 1871, Mayor Dale attempted to raise money for Chicago, which was recovering from a great fire. Before long, however, it was discovered that ten thousand dollars of the donated money was missing, and the public became convinced that Dale had stolen it, perhaps to fund a party that featured President Ulysses Grant as a guest. On December 24, 1871, Dale was found dead, and most think the death was by his own hand. The building that was once his home is now the site of eerie sounds, doors that move--or choose not to move--by themselves, and lights that turn on and off without human assistance. In addition, a computer in the Society's office--and, to quote one of Stephen King's friends, I am not making this up--likes to log onto the internet on its own.

Sarah Ware
In 1898, a "rough" woman named Sarah Ware was murdered, some think after rebuffing the advances of the men she was playing cards with on that ill-fated night. Her body was moved to a field, and by the time it was found, the harsh Maine weather had taken its toll; not much of the corpse remained. What was left was buried in a pauper's cemetery, which was later moved, the land in which it had resided converted into a reservoir. Nearly a century later, a woman and her daughter began having dreams of an unknown woman, underwater, who was looking for something. With the assistance of author Carol Schulte, the mother and daughter came to the conclusion that the woman in their dreams was Sarah Ware--and that perhaps her body hadn't been moved when the cemetery was. Some visitors to the reservoir may agree, as they have reported seeing a woman in that area, looking for something--which may be her skull, kept in police evidence for much of the twentieth century.

Seguin Lighthouse
Commissioned by President Washington in 1795, remote Seguin Lighthouse was operated manually for nearly two hundred years, until it was automated in 1985. Though it is relatively near Portland, it is hard to access in the autumn and winter months due to rough seas, and it is that inaccessibility that augmented the monotonous, tedious life that accompanies the caretaking of a lighthouse. In the mid-1800s, a new caretaker of Seguin Lighthouse brought his bride to live on the island, but the tedium soon began to cause strain on the woman. Concerned, her husband had a piano brought in from the mainland, not knowing that his wife only new how to play if she had sheet music in front of her--and there was only one piece of music with the piano. The woman played that one piece, over and over again, refusing to stop, until her maddened husband murdered her--reportedly in mid-song--and then committed suicide. Those near Seguin report seeing the ghostly forms of a woman walking around the lighthousen and a man working in the tower--and some claim that if you listen hard enough, you can still hear that piano, repeating in the distance.

Bangor: Mount Hope Cemetery & Main Street
Bangor, Maine was the site of a Columbus Day 1937 shootout that claimed the lives of two mobsters, including killer and robber Al Brady. Brady and his two cronies were in town to buy guns, but they didn't know the FBI was waiting for them. Brady was gunned down on Main Street and his body buried in an unmarked grave in Mount Hope Cemetery. People claim he still haunts both spots, and some think you can hear a ghostly echo of the gunfire that claimed his life.