Tree
Once featured on “Unsolved Mysteries,” the tree is gutted and is cut off about nine feet from the base. The tree has faces that protrude from the wood. They appear to be upturned in agony with the mouths open. On this is island is also a pet cemetery. Phantom dogs and houses have been seen romping around the site.
Is there a picture of this that can be found on the internet?
Comment by alex | 01.24.2006 | 3:11 am
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Comment by allen | 01.29.2006 | 7:34 pm
I believe that these can be explained,when I was a kid,I had paneling on my walls.In this paneling were ghost fiqures,it was part of the design,but it sure did make me think.
Comment by Staci Naab | 02.9.2006 | 1:21 pm
I live in Falmouth & took a picture today actually. The description is not right… the faces don’t look like they’re in agony to me at all. I’ve been told they’re old Indian carvings. I’ve heard different stories about Mackworth Island, but honestly it’s just a beautiful & peaceful place. These pics are from my personal online photo album:
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Comment by ALE | 03.30.2006 | 10:16 pm
I also think the island is peaceful, ALE. I also think it has a magical quality, not necessarily sinister or “haunted”!
For those who have not visited, Mackworth Island is more known for its many, natural displays of hand-made “fairy houses”. People of all ages can explore the island, collect its natural materials, and then build special little “fairy houses” amongst the rocks and trees. Discovering the houses along the 1-1/4 mile, coastline trail is lots of fun for anyone with an imagination. F.Y.I., the trail is a (mostly) flat, dirt path and easy walking.
My family was there last year and visited the aforementioned “animal burial site”. There are dogs as well as a horse buried there within a rock-ring wall, which is surrounded by forest. I believe they were beloved pets of the island’s former owner. (Incidently, there is now a School For The Deaf on the island.) The burial site is a really unusual spot, shrouded in trees. However, as we are true animal lovers ourselves, we found it more peaceful and special than creepy.
When we visited, it happened to be quite foggy and cold, which made the perfect setting for the “supernatural”. However, we had no “encounters” ~aside from the fae:)~ and just enjoyed our picnic and building our own fairy house.
Anyone curious should visit! Parking is available.
P.S. To address other queries, I am sorry but I have no pictures of the aforementioned “haunted tree”.
Comment by Phoenix | 04.4.2006 | 5:47 pm
That is freaky, I live in a haunted house and many differ. thing have happened, it’s really weird!
Comment by Nikole | 06.11.2006 | 12:59 pm
If you knew what was going on in the 70’s and 80’s on the island you might have a diffrent point of view. There is nothing magical about the place a lot of lives were ruined there and no one did anything about it.
http://www.portlandphoenix.com/features/top/ts_multi/documents/03885662.asp
Comment by TJ Palmer | 08.4.2006 | 5:43 pm
If anyone looks at the pictures that Ale has provided you will see that the faces are not in any pain. The fence that is around it I helped build because the island wanted to try and save it as long as they could. The only thing that I was told was they had no idea why it was the way it was but, the people that couldn’t hear went to that tree and believed that the tree was talking to them and they could only hear the tree and they would talk to the tree they called it their listening tree.
Comment by Le-Ann | 10.8.2006 | 10:39 pm
the is very close to where i live….. it is kind of creepy but i would like to see it if there is a pic of send it to me…….please
Comment by Ian | 10.20.2006 | 9:58 am
I was there just after new years day and the tree is gone. I have a few pictures I took in 2005 of it. The faces looked carved to me, but it was fun to see.
Comment by skipper | 01.12.2007 | 12:03 am
I have walked on Mackworth Island many times and find it very peaceful and a spiritual place. The “pet cemetary” you talk about, is actually the pets of former Governor Baxter of Maine. He has two Irish setters and a horse buried there. The dogs were his dearest companions in life and he wanted them to have a special burial. This is the story I have read.
Comment by Jane | 02.16.2007 | 8:16 pm
boring!
Comment by bob | 03.10.2007 | 9:25 pm
what is tis all about i dnt undastand it very much, i like reading ghosts stories and i usully click on but i 4 sum reason i cnt on thus 1 if sum1 can explain it more clearly 4 me i would really apprciate that
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Comment by louise | 03.30.2007 | 8:01 am
This is an interesting story. No one knows the actual story behind it. I have heard Indian, Indian Wives who had been raped who had wanted their stories known, I have heard kids and men who had wanted their pets back after their pets had died. I guess we will never know.
Comment by jd | 09.16.2007 | 4:19 pm