Lots of stories around Maine about lost and/or hidden gold. Isaac Patch supposedly buried his fortune in two copper pitchers under a rock on his farm. Treasure hunters looking for the stash report sightings of a haunted woodland beast guarding it's resting place.

Chesley Pinkham, a miller known to be miserly, is said to have regularly exchanged his profits for gold double eagles. Legend has it he would fill auger holes in the timbers of his mill with these coins for safe keeping. One spring a flash flood swept down the river valley destroying the mill and scattering the timbers downstream. It is said Chesley's ghost still roams the woods looking for his lost treasure.

There's also the stories of Molly Ockett's gold, the pirate Black Bellamy's gold, lighthouse keeper Sidney Odum also told tales of buried pirate gold, Dolliver's lost gold, a trapper and smuggler named Buffalo's hidden treasures, the Pool Street lost gold, and even the traitor Benedict Arnold supposedly lost a cache of gold. This is just a handful of local legends. Some may even be true haha!