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Grave of Sarah Ware

Bucksport, ME

Sarah Ware was murdered in 1898 in a case that remains one of Bucksport’s enduring unsolved crimes. Her severed head was reportedly retained as evidence for decades before eventually being returned for burial near her cemetery marker.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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