MEMBERSHIP: David Collins (founder), William Collins (team leader), Matthew Oh, Andrea Welch, Henry Desmond, Matt Burton, Steve Barnette, Lizzie Spellman, Nick Sidle, Craig Underhill, Ed Brannion, Dawn Rochner, Andrew Luttrell, Michael Hoskins, Athena Odinson, Frank Manning, Liz Stride, Joel Hudgins, Michael Willows, Danielle Burnside, Joe Scarbury, et al.

PURPOSE: Exploration, Documentation and possible Debunking of ghosts and haunted houses within the movie and television universe

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Collinsport, Maine (Located forty miles from Bangor, Maine on the coast of Frenchman’s Bay).

HISTORY: The Collinsport Ghost Society was founded by David Andrew Collins, the son of Roger and Laura Murdoch-Collins. Connected by reputation to most of New England’s famous first families, the Collins family calls the Estate of Collinwood home. Located on Widow’s Hill, the estate consists of numerous structures consisting of old shacks and barns and the ancestral house known as The Old House and including two hundred year old Collinwood itself. David explored every inch of this vast estate as a young man becoming familiar with every facet and story of the house’s alleged reputation as a local haunted house. As an adult, he became part owner in a few Collinsport businesses, but his life is dedicated to the Collinsport Ghost Society, which he established in the space of the long abandoned Trask Mortuary.

David recruited a few locals to get his non-profit agency off the ground, but most of the investigations are carried out through his nephew, William Benjamin Collins, the son of Barnabas and Angelique Collins. Raised on the stories passed down through the family through his Uncle Quentin, William amassed a threshold of books on the paranormal and a staggering collection of haunted houses largely from the United States and later from abroad. Much of his obsession into the afterlife came to the distaste of his father, who had raised William on old-fashioned Eighteenth Century ideals, and his mother, who lived on the beliefs of her Wiccan ancestors. As William’s research became too large for him to keep updating by himself, it became inevitable he would make it public by joining his uncle’s ghost-hunting agency. The organization eventually began growing as members who joined just to earn money began going on investigations. Among other members are Henry Desmond, a writer from New York City, Matthew Oh, a computer programmer of Korean ancestry, and Andrea Welch, a self-proclaimed vampire hunter who came to Collinsport researching supposed vampire attacks in the town history.

COMMENTS: This site is dedicated to the actors, actresses and creators of the Dark Shadows TV Series (1965-1972). It has been created to bring to life the haunted houses from television and the movies by comparing, creating and matching parallels with true accounts of the paranormal. As such, some descriptions may only partially resemble those “cases,” especially in times where those accounts very vaguely resembled true supernatural accounts. Often, extremely fantastic plot lines have been re-written as to how they might likely have in the real world. Some locations, additionally, have been created for the sole purpose of this site because of popularity, accountability or likelihood of being haunted.

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