Sleeping with the Dead in Lewiston

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 306 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a Bed and Breakfast in Lewiston, Maine, where you could rent a room that served as a crypt for a priest for over a century. This former Catholic church and rectory turned event hall and B&B looks every bit the part, but there was a time when the basement crypt room could be rented to watch horror movies and lie in a bed designed to look like a coffin within the former crypt. How did it get there? And where did it go?

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0:00.0	Oh, it's a great day to stroll in downtown Lewiston, Maine.
0:06.4	Yeah, it is. We're right next to Kennedy Park in the heart of downtown.
0:10.0	The late afternoon sun is starting to set there to the west and I'm thinking we should probably make some plans for overnight lodging
0:16.7	That's a good idea. It's a long drive home. I should probably stay the night. Yeah, hey
0:20.8	How about right here?
0:22.8	Well, that's church, big high steeple church.
0:25.5	Yeah, well it used to be a church.
0:27.5	But today the church is an event hall, and the former rectory right next door to it
0:31.9	is a bed and breakfast called the inn at the
0:34.4	Agora. But that may be the perfect place for two recovering Catholic boys like
0:38.1	us. So inside the old rectory down in the basement they used to rent out a room that was once a crypt.
0:46.0	Right, we've come to Lewiston, Maine to sleep with the dead. Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.
0:57.0	And I'm Ray Oje, and I'm Ray Oje, and welcome to episode 306 of the New England Legends Podcast.
1:03.4	Thanks for joining your towny buddies
1:05.0	as we explore all the weirdness
1:06.8	that makes New England like no other place.
1:09.1	From haunts to roadside oddities
1:10.8	to UFOs and monsters and odd history we love exploring the
1:14.4	strange and unusual throughout the region most of our story leads come from
1:18.2	you if you've got an odd tale we simply must check out please reach out to us
1:22.4	any time through our website. Also,
1:24.7	Ray, we hit a milestone with the podcast. Oh, what milestone?
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