I have heard various versions of this story. It is also I believe, aside the Saco, this is the most famous of all the ghosts/curses/orbs in Maine.

Yeah, im from central maine, very close to Old Town ME. The information here is wrong. The town that this story takes place in is Bucksport ME.

Maine sucks. End of story.

My mother is from Bucksport and I go to school in Castine which is very close to Bucksport. Yes it is true about the Buck story, I have always been told about another witch story with a boot mark on the grave in Old Town.

i am with stupid ^ witchcraft is not real???

This info IS NOT TRUE. Every tourist brochure and information book written about Bucksport has this story about the Mayor of BUCKSPORT, not Old Town.

I am glad to see the story corrected several times over. I saw the boot my self several years ago. It looks like a big water stain in the shape of a high boot.

ever think that some boob is just keeping the legend alive to draw tourism.

I live in Orono, ME which is like 5 seconds from Old Town and like an hour and 15 minutes away from Bucksport where the grave stone REALLY is. I have seen this mark with my own eyes several times, its always in the EXACT same place with the EXACT same shape. I am also an artist and I KNOW that no one is redrawing it over and over. it looks kind of like a water stain would, excpet i dont think granite or whatever stone it’s made of would stain like that.

exsuse me it is true i live in st.george mane and i’ve visited this place many time its frikken true fyi. so any no beleivers get ready cause your going to get a pretty big spell cast upon you. i know many people who know witchcraft and even know how to to make well you would know if you know witchcraft and fyi i am even studying it so danielle you dont need to be speaking. well i better stop speaking. ok well, i know you may not beleive but if you study it you would sooo change your frikken stupid head. alright.

i am totally on sadies side im one of those people who sadie mentioned. i study witchcraft very seriosley. so all you people who think you know… lets give a step forward… for who do not beleive in all this amazing belief…… your all retards. really think about it. danielle. do you elieve in god. or as i should say jesus christ. well, it is exactly like that except you can still beleive god but at the same time your just saying a different prayer. well thats enough o and daniell remember think about it

this is the story of bucks grave stone in BUCKSPORT MAINE check this uot and please update your site

The leg on Col Buck’s head stone is awesome. Yes there are many legends. One is that after the burning at the steak all remains was found except her leg. There is a headstone in Stonington on the grave of a chicken farmer. He was said to burn his farm for insurance money. On his stone is the outline of a chicken. Many who do not understand these mystic occurances pass it off as unbeleif or fairytail. When I was a small boy about 40 years ago I was told the story by a very elderly resident. What ever the true story……..it will be known in the end. It really does not matter what man thinks of it. Your mind will think as it will…..but the spirit knows differently. Blessed Be……

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I heard that the woman’s name was Ida Black, but was she really Jonathan Buck’s mistress? Maybe if she was his mistress he just wanted to get rid of her to save himself from scandal.Maybe she wasn’t even a witch at all. Most of the people from the Salem witch trials weren’t witches.

i live in dixmont maine and that story did not take place in old town but in bucksport the story is about this lady who was accused of witchcraft and was burned and her foot rooled out of the fire that is why there is a foot on the grave stone of jonathon buck.

I was told diffrently as far as the story goes. John Buck was a Doctor, the witch had hurt her foot and it turned gang green. She refused to let him cut off her leg. But he had any way and cursed him for it saying my foot will haunt you for enternity. Thus the foot keeps reappearing.

There is the same footprint on a gravestone in Old Town, so if this story belongs in Bucksport, then what’s the story for Old Town? I’ve seen it so I’m curious. Was Old Town a copy cat story?

serves him right! not only did she plead innocent but he killed her for being a witch.

Ok really, maybe someone just walked over the coffin before they buried him. Maine should have the most ghost/monster stories. According to Stephen King, a lot of $h1t goes down in Maine: evil clowns, evil dogs, cursed burial grounds behind pet cemeteries, evil antique stores whose owner turns out to be Satan. Don’t move to Maine. Don’t even visit it. DON’T GO TO F***ING MAINE!