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Bailey Cemetery in Portland, Maine has all the ingredients of a good, haunted cemetery. It has Colonial history, unmarked graves, and some neglected plots.
The location is great for Portland ghost enthusiasts who prefer sites that can be reached on foot or via Metro. (That’s local public transportation.)
Unfortunately, the cemetery’s location also makes it [...]
On the northeast side of Portsmouth, at New Castle, a grand Victorian hotel overlooks sailboats, fishing boats and yachts.
For generations, the Wentworth Hotel, also called Wentworth-by-the-Sea, was a summer destination for wealthy families.
Built in 1874, this hotel was synonymous with ‘opulence’ through the 1960s. However, times changed and — by the late 1970s [...]
[Part two of a true story that began at Portsmouth, NH - real ghosts, private home]
Often after this, I heard louder footsteps on the stairs to the second floor
and upstairs, usually at dusk and for about thirty seconds at a time. I ignored them.
Old houses make funny noises, I [...]
Ghost hunting becomes routine after years of research in eerie cemeteries. It takes a lot to startle us, but this tall, strange headstone did. And, every time we’ve visited it since then, we’ve felt that something isn’t right about that grave.
The skull is surrounded by a banner [...]
the haunted house in portsmouth, nh
(Additional notes from a story that started on Portsmouth, NH – real ghosts, private home.)
Author’s comment: My husband wrote this before reading my notes about what happened.
“One night, at about 3AM I clearly heard someone coming up the stairs to the bedrooms. [...]
This concludes a true story that began at
Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home
OUR LAST NIGHT IN THIS HAUNTED HOUSE
Our last night in the house, the footsteps returned, louder than ever. It was late in June, and about three o’clock in the morning. I remember hearing the footsteps, pounding up [...]
(Continued from Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home, part two)
A TRUE GHOST STORY – PART THREE
There were a few more incidents of things casually flying through the kitchen. The faucets turned themselves on more frequently, and with more force. Other odd little things happened, but nothing particularly destructive or frightening. In [...]
Schoolhouse Cemetery, Nashua, NH
31 October 1999, about 8 p.m.
(full-size photo below)
Photographer’s comments: After my camera refused to work on Halloween night at Blood Cemetery in Hollis, I visited Schoolhouse Cemetery in Nashua, NH, to prove [...]
A TRUE GHOST STORY
It was too easy. In the early 1990′s, I placed a notice on a bulletin board, looking for a “nothing down” house to buy near Portsmouth, NH. Several people called within the week, but one house seemed almost perfect: a house within walking distance of downtown Portsmouth.
The owner was [...]
Portsmouth house, Portsmouth, NH
October 1999, about 11 a.m.
This photo was taken outside a Portsmouth private residence. While living in that house, I saw two ghosts and experienced considerable poltergeist phenomena. I took several photos of the house in late October 1999, to illustrate my pages about this very [...]
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