Maine – Colonel Bucks’s Grave
Bucksport’s founder, Colonel Jonathan Buck, fell in lust with a woman, and as happens, she became pregnant. He sent her away and for a few years thought nothing of her, until she returned, asking for support to help raise his son.
Being the decent man he was, Buck declared her a witch and had her burned. Afterward, their son stole her leg and buried it, so his mom would have a somewhat proper burial. There’s a stain on good ol’ Colonel Buck’s tomb in the shape of a leg. They’ve replaced the stone, and the leg reappears, just to remind everyone, years after his death, what an awful person he was.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)