Maine town glories in its many spooks.
Bangor ,Dec 22.
Bowdoinham boasts of a ghost house where it is said the chairs refuse to stay quietly in their places, but in the middle of the night slide out and draw together in groups, just as if guided by invisible hands. Then there is a spirit cane that goes walking all by itself just at midnight, tapping its way along from room to room, and finally taking up its abode in the chamber where a member of the family sleeps. That this statement is true is affirmed by those who have seen the phenomena and who are not at all afraid of ghosts.
At another house in the village is a phantom light that shines each night, no matter whethe rit be moonlight or darkness, just above the closet door in an upper chamber. For years this light has disturbed the people who at different times have occupied the room, and some have been much afraid of the flickering gleam. From time to time different explanations have been offered, but none has proved satisfactory.
Down at Lazy O Camp is a spook woodchuck which every evening just at the sunset hour, comes out of an old family tomb half way between the camp and the home farm. There on the tomb he sits, quietly watching the sunset lights on the waters of Merrymeeting. As the sun sinks below the horizon he disappears – the tomb swallows him up, and he is seen no more again until the sunset hour comes round again.
Ottawa Free Press, 22nd December1909.