Those who claim to know about such things say that most of the islands in Casco Bay are haunted to one degree or another. Today we were out to one which certainly seemed spooky. Fittingly enough no-one lives on Little Chebeague today, but it's had a long history.
The Abenakis left shell middens here dating back thousands of years. More recently there was a large hotel and small community lasting from the mid 1800s until it was taken over by the Navy for use as an R&R facility and firefighting training. Once the Navy left in the 1940s, no one else came. Now the once proud "clamshell walk" is getting taken over by the bittersweet, the structures are uninhabitable and the only footfalls are made by the deer.
