Sleeping with the Dead in Lewiston
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K 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. Yeah, it is. We're right next to Kennedy Park in the heart of downtown. 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. |
| 0:16.8 | That's a good idea. It's a long drive home, but should probably stay the night. Yeah. Hey, how about right here? |
| 0:22.8 | Well, that's church. Big high steeple church. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah. Well, it used to be a church. But today, the church is an event hall. |
| 0:29.7 | And the former rectory right next door to it is a bed and breakfast called the Inn at the Agora. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, that may be the perfect place for two recovering Catholic boys like us. |
| 0:38.8 | So inside the old rectory, down in the basement, they used to rent out a room that was once |
| 0:44.2 | a crypt. |
| 0:45.9 | Right, we've come to Lewiston, Maine, to sleep with the dead. |
| 0:58.7 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:59.4 | And I'm Ray Oger. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to episode 306 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Thanks for joining your towny buddies as we explore all the weirdness that makes New England like no other place. |
| 1:12.7 | From haunts to roadside oddities to UFOs and monsters and odd history, |
| 1:16.2 | we love exploring the strange and unusual throughout the region. |
| 1:18.7 | Most of our story leads come from you. |
| 1:21.3 | If you've got an odd tale, we simply must check out. |
| 1:23.7 | Please reach out to us anytime through our website. |
| 1:29.8 | Also, Ray, we hit a milestone with the podcast. Ooh, what milestone? Ray, we just passed five million downloads. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Though if you think about it, we didn't do all of |
| 1:35.9 | the download. No, we didn't. So thank everyone who's been joining us every week, whether this is your |
| 1:41.0 | first ride with us or your 306th ride. We appreciate having you here. |
| 1:45.9 | We do. Now, we'll go searching for this underground crypt in Maine right after this word |
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