An open record of things people cannot explain

Strange accounts from Maine

342 people here wrote down something they could not explain, between 1940s to 2020s.


What people here tend to describe

hovering 28a triangle shape 27an orange orb 16moving in formation 10pulsing light 8red lights 8a bright white light 6knocking 6

The accounts

2020-11-12

Background: I have spent a large part of my life in the woods between Eddington where I grew up and Deblois where my Grandfather built a hunting / fishing camp in the 1920s – everywhere in between hun…

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(#1) Mrs. Huntington reported (after her own sighting - #3 - the following day) that her daughters have seen the animal three or four times. The first sighting consisted of four youngsters on bicycles…

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Well, I feel queasy even writing this. I went on a camping trip alone for two nights this summer, from July 10th to the 12th, near Lower Richardson Lake (by South Arm, ME). I expected the moose, deer,…

2020-10-19

I was not in any way aware that these creatures existed in Maine, firstly. I am from Connecticut however I have spent years in desolate oilfields across the U.S. including places like West Texas, the…

1970-11-15

I am a Ph.D. environmental physiologist working for Natick Labs in Massachusetts. In the fall of 1970, I was hunting on the east side of the lake [Long Pond] in Baxter State Forest with Danny Wolfe, a…

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My boyfriend and two sons (age 5 & 10) were camping in Upton, Maine. On July 3rd, 1998 we took a ride into Parmachenee Lake. The road to get there is off Rt. 16 in Wilsons Mills, ME. We drove around m…

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In the spring of 1974 my girlfriend and I were returning from a motorcycle rally at Laconia NH.It was late at night and we decided to camp out.I found a small gravel road and we found a remote place t…

2022-08-01

During the Spring/Summer of 2022 I discovered a new favorite remote trout pond not far from my camp. This pond is roughly a 1-mile hike to access. Hiking trails are present however in the roughly 20+…

2017-02-14

I was hiking in the woods, doing occasional whoops and wood knocks to try to illicit a response. It felt so squatchy from the moment I got there, but I got no response to anything. I was about an hour…

2019-03-13

Low, constant, almost pulsing hum├»┬┐┬╜like that of the background engine noise of the Enterprise on Star Trek: TNG or the 'glowing' hum of the nuclear reactor on the Simpson's; a little rapid flicker…

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