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If you grew up in Maine in the ’90s, you definitely:✅ Shopped at Ames✅ Hung out in parking lots✅ Made the perfect casset...
10/31/2025

If you grew up in Maine in the ’90s, you definitely:
✅ Shopped at Ames
✅ Hung out in parking lots
✅ Made the perfect cassette mixtape
What else belongs on the list? 👇

10/30/2025
Anyone else miss recess?
10/29/2025

Anyone else miss recess?

🛤 Opened in 1916, this train station now stands abandoned in Rhode Island - an eerie monument to times before. Now, its ...
10/29/2025

🛤 Opened in 1916, this train station now stands abandoned in Rhode Island - an eerie monument to times before. Now, its walls blend the art and architecture of its history with graffiti and murals built over the years.

Do you think it serves as a station for the crossing into the afterlife, now? 👻

Check out pictures and video of this quietly forgotten place, linked in the comments below.

Off the quiet shores of Maine and New Hampshire sits Smuttynose Island — a place with a past as chilling as the sea air ...
10/28/2025

Off the quiet shores of Maine and New Hampshire sits Smuttynose Island — a place with a past as chilling as the sea air that surrounds it. In 1873, terror struck the small isle, leaving two women brutally slain in what would become one of New England’s darkest crimes.

Survivors’ testimony, a desperate escape, and the murder weapon still on display today. Story in comments. ⬇

Now you want one. 🧀🥪🍅
10/27/2025

Now you want one. 🧀🥪🍅

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10/25/2025

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The city of Lewiston, Maine, was forever changed by a horrific mass shooting on October 25, 2023, that claimed the lives of 18 people and wounded 13 others. We remember the victims.

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