Hillside

Maine · United States · School

A funeral home, then a brothel, then a nursing home, now student housing. Maintenance keep setting traps in the attic and the traps keep going off empty.

This building at South Portland, Maine has had a career. It was a funeral home, then a brothel, then a nursing home, and it is now a college residence hall.

An unidentified man walks about in the attic.

There is also what everyone calls the critter. Maintenance have tried repeatedly to trap it. The traps go off with nothing in them.

That is the best detail in this entry and it belongs to a category of its own. It is not a ghost story, it is a maintenance problem that has been going on long enough to acquire a name, and the people dealing with it are tradesmen rather than students.

A sprung trap with nothing in it usually means an animal too light, too quick or too clever for it, which describes a good deal of Maine wildlife.

The hall is student housing and is not open to visitors.

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Where is Hillside located?

Hillside is in Maine, United States.