Bigfoot Sighted Near Maine

Now comes news from Cryptomundo of a "possible Bigfoot sighting a few miles east of the Maine-Canada border near Skiff Lake, NB."What is being seen in the area is a “Black Sasquatch.” Specifically, it is described as a “pitch-black, sleek, hairy, approximately 8-and-a-half foot [tall] Sasquatc...

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Horace Wilson, Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer

A man from Gorham is credited with bringing baseball to Japan.Horace Wilson, a Gorham farm boy who returned from the Civil War only to go west to California and eventually across the Pacific, is the man the Japanese say introduced baseball to their country. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.On a day in 1872 or a year later, depending on who's telling the story, Horace Wilson decided his students at the First Higher School of Tokyo needed to get away from their class lessons. A little physical exercise in the form of...

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No More Trash-Can Mail Delivery on Sutton Island

Residents of Sutton Island in Cranberry Isles can no longer have their mail delivered to a garbage can.Residents say that since at least the 1950s, and perhaps longer, mail has been delivered to the island by a private passenger ferry service, leaving packages, postcards, letters, bills, and whatever else had enough postage in a specially marked trash can on the float at the end of the island’s lone municipal dock.Though permitted by a succession of postmasters in Northeast Harbor, where the ferry service comes and goes from the island, the practice...

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