“I was awakened from a sound sleep and saw this figure of a Quaker lady surrounded by a gray haze. She glided by the foot of the bed and went out the door,” recalled musical star Jane Morgan’s good friend Muriel Pierce to a reporter in the mid-1960s. The newspaper man and his photographer had agreed to spend a misty moonless night in the farmhouse next to the foundering Kennebunkport Playhouse.

Photogenic believer Jane Morgan conducted a guided tour of the most haunted corners of the old house, stopping briefly to let the photographer capture her stunning silhouette in a dimly lit doorway that led to the attic. “You go to bed with this door securely latched,” the star whispered, “and the next morning its wide open.” Some of the ensemble actors at the playhouse slept in an adjoining room one summer and were spooked by the door that mysteriously unlatched itself.

Jane’s older brother Robert Currier, founder of the Kennebunkport Playhouse, purchased the farm when she was just a little girl known as Flossie. That’s when she became aware of his two uninvited guests: a serene woman clothed in a long gray dress with a broad white collar and a restless uniformed soldier with a menacing countenance. “I grew up with them in this house, but I don’t think I could spend a night alone here.” The reporter was not graced with a ghostly encounter, but the newspaper printed a full-page story anyway, about his memorable night with Jane Morgan.

Robert Currier, a gifted publicity instigator, recalled in a later interview that Mrs. Kenneth Roberts had been the first to bring the ghosts to his attention. She had seen the costumed apparitions in an attic window when nobody was home. Amused, he invited a psychic to the house who saw the same spirits the author’s wife had described. With the help of a Ouija board, Quaker Nellie communicated to Currier’s cook that she was fond of Robert but that she would never rest until those dreadful actors vacated the premises.

Happy Halloween from the Kennebunkport Historical Society!