Kennebunk Inn

The Kennebunk Inn was built in 1799, served as a tavern, stagecoach stop and jail, and spent decades as a doctor's home office before becoming an inn. Its best-known ghost is Silas Perkins, a poet and night watchman who collapsed across the street in June 1952 and died in Room 17. In a 2014 Bangor Daily News story, co-owners Shanna Horner O'Hea and Brian O'Hea and front-desk worker Diane de Seversky described a menacing voice, doors opening, and a stereo blaring with every light on, along with two other spirits: a former desk clerk called Cyrus and a playful girl called Emily. Staff say activity began around the inn's 1978 renovation, with flying glasses and doors that swing open. The inn is a working business, and Perkins is described as a peaceful, polite presence.