Kathryn Skelton

Sun Journal

Kathryn Skelton is a business reporter at the Sun Journal covering local industries large and small. She writes features and deep-dive analysis, keeps up with local happenings, closings and rumors in a regular business Buzz column, and at least once a month, writes about Bigfoot, ghosts or something equally intriguing in the "Weird, Wicked Weird" series. She's a proud Maine native, grew up in the Gardiner area and also proudly graduated from the University of Maine's journalism program. She's been a reporter at the paper for 20 years. When not working, she enjoys traveling, reading, corgi-walking and adventuring with her husband and two boys.

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Published
August 3, 2018

The Mad Man of York has a warning about ‘devil wagons’

YORK BEACH — He arrived in a flurry of black robes, sandaled feet and bushy beard before darting up a hilly sidewalk with 40 what-did-I-just-sign-up-for stragglers trying to keep up on a recent Wednesday night. “This is getting too weird, too quick,” one little boy muttered to his dad. He of the bushy beard: The […]
Published
July 11, 2018

Is that a ghost caught on a game cam in a Durham front yard?

DURHAM — Before leaving on a camping trip with friends, Tia Wilson set up a game camera in her yard Friday, hoping to catch the fox that’s killed a dozen chickens this year. Scrolling through pictures Monday, over the course of several frames she saw a fox, cats, kids, cars and something much more curious: […]
Published
June 17, 2018

Haunted table for two: A New England foodie’s search for the region’s most haunted establishments

At Sea Glass Restaurant in Cape Elizabeth, Deb Wojcicki tried the Mediterranean Scramble and learned about the bride-to-be shipwrecked with her wedding dress, now seen walking the beach. At The Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, Vermont, it was eggs Benedict and tap-dances-on-the-roof ghost, Boots Berry. At Haymarket Cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts, a delicious plate of […]
Published
February 24, 2018

Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine TV-monster-hunter-turned-UFO-filmmaker

Maine monster hunter Bill Brock has set his sights on UFOs. Brock, who four years ago starred in the Discovery Channel reality series “Monsters Underground,” is helming a new independent documentary about aliens. Working with him on “Abducted New England” is a Bangor author whose second book full of Maine alien abductions, sightings and encounters is […]
Published
October 1, 2017

Maine rental listings on Airbnb are taking off

For her boyfriend’s 26th birthday on Thursday, Molly Brown booked a night in a luxury tent on a private island on Annabessacook Lake in Monmouth. “We were sitting on the couch and I was secretly looking at Airbnb listings,” said Brown, 29, talking on the phone from Big Island. “I booked it at 10:30 and […]
Published
August 13, 2017

From 2017: B&M Baked Beans: 150 years later and still full of beans

PORTLAND — After they’ve been washed, washed again, sauced, cooked, sauced again, canned and sealed, B&M Baked Beans are dropped into massive pressure cookers with massive lids held on tight by six nuts that are each half the size of a grown man’s arm. Steam rushed off those countless lids in tidal waves during a […]
Published
June 10, 2017

This walking tour hits the haunts in Portland

PORTLAND — The woman was working late, alone in her third-floor office in the Old Port, when she looked out a window and saw a waterlogged woman just floating there. The woman bulldozed her way out of the office and bolted out of the building, according to Gordon Tweedie. That story came after Tweedie had […]
Published
May 21, 2017

Working: Modern cider from ‘old forgotten apples’

POWNAL — David Buchanan is serious about his cider. On his picturesque farm, in a new tasting room — an old post and beam house found on Craigslist, rebuilt and restored here last year — he talks about collecting rare apples like people collect art. There’s doggedness in the search, the thrill of finding a gem, […]
Published
February 12, 2017

What happened to Wanda Mitchell?

A dog brings home a human head. Suspects include an alleged rapist, but the case quickly goes cold. Thirty-seven years after 15-year-old Wanda Mitchell’s body was found in the Poland woods, her mother is still looking for answers.
Published
January 17, 2017

Lewiston’s former Marcotte Furniture building gets a facelift

DaVinci’s Eatery owner Jules Patry bought the property two weeks ago from Normand Rousseau with plans to turn it into high-end, loft-style apartments. The property had been on the market for several years. Patry, who also lives downtown, said he had been looking at the building for a while. A number of factors will determine […]