Mystery Location No. 256: June 6, 2021

www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/wiscassets-famous-haunted-house/4824

I think this sounds like the Smith House at 22 High Street in Wiscasset, Maine (also referred to as the Governor Smith House or the Lee Payson Smith House). It was built in 1792 by Judge Silas Lee and later sold to Samuel Emerson Smith who served as the Governor of Maine from 1831-1834. It appears that the house is still owned by a Smith descendant.

The current owner’s mother wrote a book (Ghosts That Still Walk, by Marion Smith Lowndes) in 1941 that described the strange occurrences in the house. She wrote that the house has three ghosts: an elderly lady, a Penobscot Indian and a dog. The old lady can be seen on the second floor, waving from a bedroom window.

High Street in Wiscasset leads to Castle Tucker, a historic mansion that is open for tours in the summer months.

The Wiscasset schooners (Hesper and Luther Little) were two four-masted schooners that were laid up in Wiscasset in the 1930s where they served as a tourist attraction but were allowed to slowly rot away for over 60 years until they were demolished in 1998. This site had some interesting information on the schooners: www.hazegray.org/features/schooners/ There are also a few songs about these schooners by Lois Lyman who grew up in Wiscasset.