Homies! We've got another recommendation and we're heading to the scenic Midcoast for an upsetting mystery. B takes us to the fall of 1972 when the remains of an unidentified young woman were found on Lane Island, which would lead to a complex web of questions with few answers.

Sources:

Rockland man making film based on mysterious Vinalhaven drowning case by Heather Steeves for BDN

Drowning case from ’72 getting new look by Abigail Curtis for BDN

r/UnresolvedMysteries post by ashley_cordova on Reddit

10 Deceased Victims Who Were Discovered In Strange Places by Robin Warder

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What do you get when you have a 200 year old college mixed with Maine's first medical school? You got the spices for a ghost stew. We talked about a couple known haunts around Bowdoin College. We got bodies, we have deaths in the building, and we got.... fraternity BDSM dungeons? It doesn't all make sense, but bear with us.

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The hauntings of Bowdoin: ghosts and beyond by Sela Kay. October 19th, 2019. The Bowdoin Orient.

The Haunted Bowdoin Tour by David R. Francis. https://tildesites.bowdoin.edu/~dfrancis/haunted-tour/index.html

Maine Mysteries: Haunting history on Bowdoin College campus. October 25th, 2016. New Center Maine.

Hubbard Hall. sah-archipedia.org

Adams Hall. bowdoin.edu.

hauntedplaces.org

We watched 2022's Cryptid! When a series of animal attacks begins hitting his county, down on his luck journalist, Max, hits pavement and drags his friends along with him. Will Max, get the scoop that he so desperately needs to pay off CMP's rate hikes? Or is he going to biff it and let his actions throw him into a sequel? Grab your dad's hunting rifle, we're going on a cryptid hunt!

Welcome back to our coverage of the Augusta Mental Health Institute! If you thought last week was fun - well - get ready to be bummed! B digs in to the controversial (read: horrifying) history of AMHI, which started off terrible and never really got any better. Additional reading is not required, but highly encouraged - check out the sources, they go on for miles!

Sources:

From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America by Barbara Floyd

Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House by Issac H. Hunt

Maine’s forgotten dead by Kelley Bouchard for the Portland Press Herald

Interviews from ⁠History of Augusta Mental Health Institute⁠ via maine.gov

⁠1881 Report of the Legislative Committee on Insane Hospital⁠ via the Digital Maine Repository

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Happy 100th episode everyone! We are so happy you can join us on this wonderful journey of friendship and terrible awful stories. On this episode we are doing part one of a two parter centered on the Augusta Mental Health Institute. In operation from 1840 to 2004, we discuss the acquisition of the Kennebec Arsenal and the ghosties that may still wander the abandoned corridors.

Sources:

Watch: Is the Most Haunted Maine Building in Augusta? wblm.com

The Haunted Kennebec Arsenal by Denver Michaels. July 25, 2019. denvermichaels.net

The Arsenal on Maine's Kennebec River by David Fiske. hikeghosttowns.com

Here's the Most Haunted Place in Every State by Jordi Lippe-McGraw. Spetember 25, 2017. Cosmopolitan

Kennebec Arsenal, meandermaine.com

The forgotten dead by Kelley Bouchard. May 27, 2012. Portland Press Herald.

Fifteen years after AMHI's closure, mental health system still fractured by Eric Russell. June 16, 2019. Portland Press Herald.

Homies and hobgoblins, ghouls and guys, freaks and fiends! Come 'round as B, HGH's resident witch, outlines her most recent dissertation about how her magically inclined siblings got the short end of the stick in the history books. Apologies to the entire town of York, but you gotta update the outlines for your yearly graveyard tours - we're talking about Mary Nasson (not Jason) and her (most likely) very normal™ gravestone!

Further Reading:

Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman

Sources:

Witch Graves and Cemetery Lore - Cemetery Insights and Beyond

York in American History: The Witch's Grave, Myth and History by James Kences for The York Weekly, accessed via seacoastonline.com

Haunted Maine: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Pine Tree State by Charles A. Stansfield Jr.

The Witch's Grave of York Maine: Is the Story True - New England Folklore

Grave-tober 18 - Mary Nasson, the "Witch" of York, Maine - Sentinel Hill Press

The Unquiet Grave of Mary Nasson - Theresa's Haunted History of the Tristate

Old York's "witches" by Thomas D'Agostino for The Yankee Express

The grave of Mary Nasson, the Witch of York by Leo S. for random-times.com

findagrave.com

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We watched Black Rock, so you don't have to. Where three "friends" join together to go on a camping trip on an ol' familiar island to overcome their conflicts. But of course things turn for the worse when a couple dudes start hunting them.

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The stories we are going to discuss today cannot be separated as they all revolve around one jackass. We talk about the tragic death of Cheryl Murdoch and the unsolved mystery surrounding Shirley Moon-Atwood, while the second case is unsolved we already have a feeling on what happened.

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Man gets 55 years for murder, by Sharon Kiley Mack. Bangor Daily News, February 25, 2009.

State Police continue search for Canaan woman 13 years after she goes missing, by Bob Evans. News Center Maine, July 16, 2019.

STATE OF MAINE V. SHANNON R. ATWOOD. Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Death treated as homicide. Portsmouth Herald. August 15, 2006.

Cheryl Murdoch Obituary. Legacy.com

Canaan man found guilty of murder by Sharon Kiley Mack. Bangor Daily News. July 3, 2008.

Shirley Theresa Moon Atwood. charleyproject.org

The end of August is upon us which can only mean one thing: FALL! Spooky season brings us so many fun things to do:  apple picking, corn mazes, hiking through the mountains as the trees change colors, visiting pumpkin patches, haunted houses and, of course, hayrides. This week, B’s got a tragic story of a fun night of agritainment gone wrong. Come with us as we get deep into the accident that took the life of 17-year-old Cassidy Charette and changed the lives of so many people. 

Sources:

Mechanical problem blamed in deadly hayride crash by Patrick Whittle for the Associated Press

Settlement reached in lawsuit over deadly Halloween hayride in Maine by the Associated Press

Maine, most other states don't regulate hayrides by Patrick Whittle and Alanna Durkin for the Associated Press

Criminal charge against Harvest Hill Farms mechanic dropped by Staff & Wire Reports for the Associated Press

Harvest Hill Farm fined $7,500 in fatal hayride by Christopher Williams for the Sun Journal

Harvest Hill Farm pleads guilty to aggravated driving to endanger in hayride death by Judy Harrison

Family of Maine teenager killed in hayride crash sues farm owner, two others by Matt Byrne for the Portland Press Herald

Two creditors buy Maine farm where teen died on hayride by J. Craig Anderson for the Portland Press Herald

Rider on Mechanic Falls hayride recalls accident that killed teenager by Eric Russell for the Portland Press Herald

Teen girl killed, 22 injured in Maine hayride accident by Laurel J. Sweet for the Boston Herald

1 dead, 22 injured when Maine hayride flips by WCSH-TV

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