Ghosts of Acadia by Marcus LiBrizzi

Author:Marcus LiBrizzi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2011-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

The back side is an island term referring to the western part of Mount Desert Island, a place steeped in the supernatural. Far removed from bustle and glamour of Somes Sound and Frenchman Bay, the back side remains a place of sheer natural beauty and overpowering mystery. Private coves, beaches of crushed shells, and the islands of Blue Hill Bay enchant the eye, but do not be deceived. The back side is a place crowded with the dead. An extraordinary number of ghosts stalk the back side. For some unknown reason, spirits never leave, and they sometimes gather in spectacles of horror as well as mystic wonder.

Our first stop is Spirit Cove, located off the Cape Road in Tremont. Spirit Cove is the original name for the place now called Sawyers Cove. It contains some lovely coastline, with a small beach overlooking the white sands of Merman Ledge, named for the master of a ship once wrecked there. Spirit Cove is accessible by water, not land, since the roads to the shore are private drives. This whole cove earned its name as a place that contains the souls of drowned sailors. Whenever the sea has claimed a local man or woman, people have seen a ghost ship depart from Spirit Cove to collect the soul.

The fully rigged phantom ship leaves from the eastern arm of the cove, still called Galley Point. The ghost ship sails until it finds the soul of the drowned person and then it brings that spirit back to the cove. Days later, the ghost appears alone on the shoreline or grouped with other phantoms among the dark spruce trees on the western end of the cove, known as Stewart Head. One wonders if these spirits have any choice in their passage to this place and their confinement here through the centuries.

Moving on, we pass the swamp graves. Anyone who has traveled through the back side cannot help noticing the remarkable number of graveyards, cemeteries, and family burial plots that dot the landscape. What many do not know is that the back side is filled with many more unmarked graves, some dating back to ancient Native American settlements. There is one such place of unmarked graves that stands out from the rest in terms of burial practices and paranormal encounters.

The location is Murphy Swamp, in Seal Cove. Here, around the perimeter of the marsh, are a number of unmarked burial sites. It was very unusual for Native Americans to bury their dead in low, wet ground, and the practice suggests a time of crisis, like plague or warfare, in which a large number of people needed quick burials. Other possibilities point to the burial of people who were shunned, outcasts of the community, or victims of murder. Whatever the case in Seal Cove, the unmarked graves in Murphy Swamp tell a disturbing tale.

On the Kellytown Road, already infamous for the brutal murder of a man found stuffed into a well, some of the homes and byways suffer disturbances by the ancient spirits from the swamp graves.

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