WHERE IT'S LOCATED:
Port Clyde is not a fictional town
in a soap opera. Port Clyde is a small fishing village on the Maine coast,
like something out of one of long time Maine resident, Stephen King's
novels. This is a private residence and tours are not given. Discreet
photography and videography may be possible but is not encouraged. Please
respect the privacy of the occupants, but corporal and spiritual.
DESCRIPTION:
This white, 1870 Port Clyde house
is described as a summer cottage with a cellar, and 2 stories. The first
floor has a rather large kitchen and a nice day room. The bedrooms are
upstairs, and the windows look out over the sea. It has the feeling of
being lived in by many different people from several eras. This1870 house
was built over the cellar of the original 18th century house, when the
original house burned down because of being struck by lightening in1870.
The original house was in the block style of architecture, common in the
18th century.
IN THE BEGINNING:
A sailor, Samuel Hatton, lived at
the Port Clyde house pre-1800s, and the John and Margaret Barter bought
the house from Samuel in the early 1800s. John Barter was second in command
on a whaling boat called the St. Catherine, a double-masted schooner.
The couple raised two sons. One died at 17 from disease and one went to
sea.
GHOSTLY OCCURRENCES AND INCIDENTS:
In 1972, Carol Olivieri had her ghostly
encounters. Her parents owned the Port Clyde summer cottage. One night
she saw a female figure of a young woman, in a very white nightgown, standing
beside her bed. The small-shouldered figure had long, flowing hair. This
female apparition wore a diamond wedding ring on her long slender fingers. Carol
could see through her. "Her whole body suggested she was in desperate
need of something," Carol related. Carol ducked under the covers.
Carol had a second encounter with
this female entity in a dream. In this dream the same young woman appeared
to her, floating in the air. Beside her was a young boy apparition, dressed
in a white gown. The young boy crawled onto Carol's bed, and sat with
her, while the female apparition hovered in the corner. Carol had the
feeling in the dream that the boy's mother had turned the boy over to
her for protection. After the female figure vanished, another not so nice
black-hooded, very old female entity, with bright green eyes, a crooked
large nose, and dark complexion, appeared, and floated menacingly toward
Carol and the little boy apparition, who was very frightened, and frantically
clutched Carol. Carol sensed that this hooded figure was connected to
a school of some sort. When this evil presence was right beside Carol
and the boy, Carol decided to fight her off by concentrating on the white
light in the room, which was a sign of psychic protection. The black-hooded
figure melted away, and the happy, relieved female figure returned and
took the boy back.
Carol's brother, Bob, also had an
encounter with a little presence years before when he stayed in his parent's
cottage. While sleeping in one of the bedrooms off the main hall, he was
awakened to the sound of little kid feet in pajamas going up and down
the hallway. He got up to look to see if it was his nephew. When he reached
a certain spot on the floor of his bedroom, the footsteps suddenly stopped,
and he found his nephew sound asleep. After getting back in bed, the foot
steps started up again. When he walked to the same spot on the floor,
the foot steps stopped. This went on for an hour. Tired of getting out
to investigate, Bob just laid there in bed when the foot steps started
up yet again and continued to the end of the hall and stopped. Then, Bob
felt a little kid presence climb up the end of his bed, felt the pressure
of a little unseen presence crawl up his body, and felt a little cold
hand pull his hair!
Psychic Investigation: May 13 -15th,
1976
Parapsychologist Hans Holzer, his
film crew, and a psychic, Ingrid Beckman examined the cottage, finding
the upstairs and the upstairs center front bedroom the most spiritually
active. She sensed the presence of a young boy in one of the upstairs
rooms from the 1920s era, and actually made contact with a young, remorseful
female ghost, Margaret Barter, who was waiting for her husband, to return
from the sea. She had lived in the former 18th century block house that
had stood where this present two-storied, 1870 cottage now stood. She
hadn't realized that she had passed on, and was very unhappy about the
amount of work on this farm, and her lack of help. She wanted the current
occupants to do the chores that she sees that needed to be done. She longed
to move to Kennebunk, and live in a town home. She desperately was waiting
for her husband to come back from the sea. According to town records,
her husband died at sea in 1820, and she died in 1882, an old woman.
Nothing was sensed about the third
hooded apparition.
Still haunted?
Perhaps.
The young woman presence, Margaret
Barter, is gone. Hans Holser through the psychic, Ingrid, was able to
help her leave this unhappy place, and reunite with her husband on the
other side. They assured her that the present occupants would do the chores
needed to be done, and she no longer was responsible for the upkeep of
the house that she never wanted to live in, in a place she didn't like.
However, the little boy from the 1920s
may still be at this cottage, as he wasn't helped to the other side. He
has been quiet in recent years, but his presence was still seen by the
psychic, Ingrid in 1976. The hooded apparition is probably
still lurking around the property. |
