Mysteries of the Unknown: A Documentary About Our Commmunity

Can DescriptionsMysteries of the Unknown, narrated by students, discusses local lore and legend about Revolutionary War ships sunk in the Penobscot River near Bucksport as well as haunted roads, a witch's curse on Jonathan Buck and the underriver tunnel from Fort Knox to Bucksport. NHF cataloguer's notes, 11/94: (dated spring 1990) Title: 'A videotape documentary by our community.' Credit: 'Presented by Bucksport Junior High Eigth Grades.' Introduction: (rock music) scenes of harbor, town, cemetery, crumbling buildings, rusting old cars, railroad, cemetery again, streets. Discussion about the possibility of witchcraft, regarding the curse on Buck's grave. Title: 'Ships on the bottom of the Penobscot.' 1779, American patriot ships supposedly sank when attacked by British army; Washington sent fleet of privateers. General Dalton Saltonstall burned the ships in retreat, in the Penobscot River. Paul Revere was commander of artillery. Title: 'Prospect's Haunted Hollow.' A haunted area near Prospect, Maine. Title: 'The Witch's Curse.' 1795, Jonathan Buck dies. 1852, gravestone erected. Foot and leg shape appears and stories develop. Witch curses his gravestone when he orders her to be burned. Title: 'A Tunnel in the River.' Alleged tunnel between Fort Knox and Bucksport, probably a mine shaft. Title: 'Chilling Surprise at the Pollution Plant.' 1988, dug up a burial site when the town started construction on a new waste water management site. Title: 'The Sarah Ware Murder.' 1898, murder mystery when woman was found dead with a cracked skull. Suspect was acquitted.