Haunted Inns of Coastal Maine: Three You Can Reach and Two You Can't
Maine's haunted inns checked at source — including two Kennebunkport properties whose websites no longer exist, and one that isn't on the coast at all.
Updated August 3, 2026
Maine's haunted lodging list is short, and it gets shorter the moment you check it.
We went after the properties that appear on every "haunted inns of Maine" roundup. Three have working websites we could verify. Two have no website at all — not a broken page, no DNS record whatsoever. And one of the three isn't on the coast.
The three we could verify
| Property | Where | The room | October rate | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Kennebunk Inn | Kennebunk, Maine | Room 17, by repute | Not published | Check dates |
| LimeRock Inn | Rockland, Maine | Not designated by the inn | Not published | Check dates |
| The Lucerne Inn | Dedham, Maine | Room 8, by repute | Not published | Check dates |
The Kennebunk Inn, Kennebunk
45 Main St, Kennebunk. 207-985-3351.
The best-known of Maine's haunted stays and the one with the most-told story. Silas — said to have been a night clerk — gets blamed for glassware leaving the shelf on its own, and specifically for singling out staff he doesn't care for. Room 17 is the room usually named.
The name given in the accounts is normally Silas Perkins, which was also the name of a locally known Kennebunk poet who died in 1952. The ghost-tour versions rarely pause on that coincidence, and we can't resolve it either — but it's worth knowing that the two Silases may not be the same man, or the same claim.
The inn says nothing about any of it on its own website.
LimeRock Inn, Rockland
96 Limerock Street, Rockland. 207-594-2257.
A Victorian house in a working harbour town, and the stories attach to the physician who used it as both residence and medical practice — the reported activity being his former patients.
Here's what's notable: the inn publishes a detailed history of the house on its own site, with pages on the building and the man who built it. It does not mention ghosts once. That's a property that has clearly done the archival work and simply didn't find a haunting worth advertising, which tells you something.
Rockland itself is the more interesting half: granite, lime-burning, and a harbour that made and lost fortunes. It's also home to the Farnsworth and a very good stretch of the midcoast.
The Lucerne Inn — and a geography correction
2517 Main Rd, Dedham. 207-843-5123.
An early-1800s stagecoach inn where the accounts centre on Room 8.
It is not on the coast. Dedham sits inland, east of Bangor, roughly forty minutes from the water. It appears on "coastal Maine" haunted lists constantly, and it shouldn't — the same category of error as Concord's Colonial Inn being filed under New Hampshire when it's in Massachusetts.
We've kept it here because you'll find it on every other list and you deserve to know where it actually is before you plan a drive around it.
Its own site makes no ghost claims. The only use of the word "spirit" is a marketing line about New England hospitality.
The two that have vanished from the web
Two Kennebunkport properties turn up on essentially every haunted-Maine roundup: a Federal-era mansion associated with a Victorian apparition, and a nearby captain's house.
Both of the domains those listings point to have no DNS record. Not a 404, not a redirect — nothing resolves.
That does not mean the inns have closed. Small properties change hands, rebrand, move to a booking platform, or let a domain lapse while trading perfectly well. What it does mean is that we could not verify anything about them at source, so we haven't listed them, and the listings still linking to those domains are pointing at nothing.
This is now the fifth dead domain we've hit on this project — after Barrett's Haunted Mansion, the Friends of Fort Knox, and Rhode Island's Field of Screams, whose old address now serves a plant nursery. The pattern is consistent enough to be a finding in itself: the listings outlive the businesses they point at.
Practical notes
Maine's peak is summer, not Halloween. This is the opposite of Salem, where October is the whole year. Coastal Maine in late October is quieter and often cheaper — genuinely the better time to go if you want the place to yourself.
Nothing here publishes rates. All three are dynamic. Check your dates.
Things close. After foliage season, midcoast restaurants and services thin out fast. Confirm dining directly if you're travelling in November.
If you're heading up the coast, Bar Harbor's ghost tours are further north — including the only Indigenous-owned tour company in Maine — and Fort Knox in Prospect has four confirmed 2026 events, which is more than the rest of the state combined.