Shooting Up a Millinocket Haunt
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 406 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate an old Central Street house in Millinocket, Maine, which was the seen of a literal ghost hunt back in 1907, complete with locals allegedly shooting up the room while searching for ghosts. What followed made the newspapers and started quite the paranormal buzz in town.
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa, Jeff, we usually don't bring firearms on our adventures. Are we heading someplace more dangerous than usual? Damn right we are, Ray. So we're in Millenock, Bain, right in the central part of the state. The town doesn't look that dangerous. Seems like a nice small town. What are we looking for? So, Ray, we're looking for a haunted house. Okay. On Central Street. Which is also Route 157, right where we are now. The heart of downtown. |
| 0:01.2 | Got it. All right. I feel like most of the haunted places we've explored aren't really dangerous. What makes this one different? I'm not sure yet. And that's why we're here to investigate. But I can tell you this. Some ghost hunters in the past have been brought up on charges of trespassing and firing |
| 0:41.1 | their guns at the ghosts. |
| 0:46.4 | Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to episode 406 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 0:51.8 | Thank you for joining us on our mission of Chronicle Every Legend in New England one story at a time, from ghosts to monsters to UFOs, |
| 0:58.5 | roadside oddities, and all the other wicked strange things that make New England like no other place. |
| 1:04.1 | We explore it all. And most of our story leads come from you. So please reach out to us any time |
| 1:08.7 | through our website with your ideas. We'll go hunting for the ghosts on Central Street of Milanoch at Maine, right after this word from our |
| 1:15.1 | sponsor. |
| 1:18.6 | Okay, as we said, Milanacut looks a lot like many small towns in New England. The population is just |
| 1:24.5 | over 4,000 people, and there isn't much else going on in this region. |
| 1:29.2 | This region was home to the Pinobscot people for more than 10,000 years. |
| 1:33.5 | The name Milanochit is Algonquin for land of many islands. |
| 1:37.3 | It was settled in 1829 by the Fowler family. |
| 1:41.0 | They cleared the land for their farm near Shad Pond. |
| 1:43.2 | In 1899, the great northern paper |
| 1:45.9 | company mill was built creating a lot of jobs for the community. Sadly, the mills closed in 2008, |
| 1:51.9 | which was a heavy blow to the town. Today, they're more of a service economy. People come here |
| 1:57.1 | all four seasons looking to get away to the wilds of Maine. We're only about 30 miles away |
| 2:02.4 | from Mount Katata. Got it. So a mill town that lost its mill, but still working to redefine itself |
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