The Haunted Cellar of Great Chebeague Island
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 413 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the woods of Great Chebeague Island in Casco Bay, Maine, searching for an old cellar hole that's said to be haunted by the ghost of a slain pirate who still guards hidden pirate treasure. Multiple witnesses over generations reported strange happening in and around this spot.
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| 0:00.0 | We're in the final minutes of summer, Jeff. Yeah. Still not a bad day to be out here on Great Shabeeh Island, off the coast of Maine. No, not bad at all, but yeah, you can feel there's just that slightest chill in the air. We know autumn's just around the corner. The tourists are going to thin out until it's just a few hundred people who call this island home year round. Now there is a bit of a chill today. And it's going to get chillier, Ray. We're going to head a little inland. All right. Well, what are we looking for? We've come to Great Shabeeh Island searching for pirate treasure, a ghost, and a haunted seller. |
| 0:38.7 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome to episode 413 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. |
| 0:48.3 | We're always on the hunt for ghosts, monsters, |
| 0:50.9 | aliens, roadside oddities, eccentrics, |
| 0:53.3 | and all the other weirdness that makes this such a |
| 0:56.3 | great place. Most of our story leads come from you, so please reach out to us anytime through our website. |
| 1:02.0 | And thank you to everyone who's already purchased my brand new book, Wicked Strange New England, |
| 1:05.4 | featuring the photography of Frank Grace. The feedback so far has been amazing. It's on sale now, |
| 1:09.9 | wherever books are sold, |
| 1:16.0 | and our 26 Haunted New England calendar is also out now. Ray got a copy. I did. |
| 1:20.3 | You can find a link on our website, and we'll go searching for the pirate treasure and ghost right after this word from our sponsor. Pirate treasure and ghosts. It doesn't get much better |
| 1:27.3 | than that, does it? No, it doesn't. So let's set the |
| 1:30.7 | stage here. Right. All right. Great Chebeegh Island is one of hundreds of islands in Maine's Casco |
| 1:35.8 | Bay. It's also the largest. That would be the great part of the name. Exactly. The name is from |
| 1:41.2 | a Wabanaki word that roughly translates to islands of many springs. |
| 1:46.0 | During the summer months, the native people would come here to fish and gather shellfish, |
| 1:50.1 | and they would leave in the colder months. |
| 1:52.6 | The island was first settled by colonists in 1746, and from there it grew as mostly a fishing |
| 1:58.6 | and farming community. |
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