The Olde Blackwood Manor opened in 1938 in Biddeford, Maine and was the local Funeral Home where all of the deceased of the day were brought for their final preparations. Funeral services were performed for the grieving friends and family of the deceased, if they could afford to pay for one. Once the service was over and all the guests had left the Manor, the Undertaker would remove the body from the casket in the Parlor and take it to the basement to be added to the pile of the unclaimed deceased of the day. The Manor would then prepare the casket to be used for the next funeral.
Each night at the stroke of midnight the Groundskeeper, a retired Butcher, would take each body from the pile, one by one, chop them into pieces and place them into a horse drawn cart. He would then head into the Blackwoods to bury the remains.
Over the years strange things started happening in the Blackwoods and the locals believed the woods were haunted. The screams, moans and whispers were heard by many as were the occasional unexplained ghost sightings. The stories and reports began to raise an eyebrow with the local police so they started patrolling the area around the Blackwoods. In the early morning hours on October 30, 1960, a young Police Officer while on patrol noticed a small light moving through the Blackwoods. He parked his cruiser and grabbed his flashlight to investigate. As he followed the light in the woods, his flashlight caught the image of the Groundskeeper with a horse drawn cart, filled with body parts, a lantern and a shovel performing the sinister burial deed. The Groundskeeper was arrested, the Manor owner was sent to jail and the Olde Blackwood Manor was closed and condemned.
The locals still say late at night you can see and hear the ghosts roaming the haunted Blackwoods in search of their discarded limbs.....or so the story is told.