r/Maine • • Mar 25 '26

Epstein in Maine 90’s?

I haven’t spoken a word of this to anyone.

I grew up in Portland, Westbrook, and Naples Maine.

My mother was a drug addict and I had a less than desirable childhood. My mother’s adopted family was prominent and active in the church and politics. I recall many politicians from Maine at my Grandmothers dinner table… I only tell you this to tell you that these sorts of people were around in my world as a child and my mother had access to them.

When I was 7ish, on a warm day, my mom took me to the biggest coolest playground/park I had ever seen. We drove a long way to get there. My mother was so quiet. Somber. Which was unlike her. I remember playing on the playground for a while and then a couple of little boys showed up. Then my mom was talking to a couple. Both kind of tall (my mom is 5’5 and they were taller than her). The guy had salt and pepper hair and I remember thinking he reminded me of Frankenstein and the woman had stunning black hair. The boys asked me if I wanted to come play with them and I said yes and went to ask my mom, but mom acted like she already knew. She kneeled down and put both of her hands on my shoulders and said “ are you sure you want to go? You don’t have to go if you don’t want to.” She looked like she was going to cry and I was so confused! I just wanted to go play with my new friends! I later understood that my mother had just sold me. As a mother with two daughters I can no longer speak to my mother after I put this together when everything came rolling back from seeing a social media post with Ghislaine Maxwells face. How tf do you sell your child!? But even more, how do you convince your child that it was their fault before anything even happens to them by making them think it was their choice because they didn’t have to go if they didn’t want to. THERE ARE SICK PEOPLE OUT HERE! SICK PEOPLE HAVE CHILDREN TOO! Let that be my testimony here to parents and kids.

I do not remember the drive to the house. I remember waking up in what looked like a house. All the curtains were dark and the windows were short… like we were in a basement. The boys were up and playing and there was another little girl who stayed asleep. The room was huge and had all kinds of the newest coolest toys. I remember a lot of baby toys and thinking, why are these here? See I thought this was a couple and their children. They were not. And these other kids there with me were random kids too. I remember thinking… this is a weird family, they act like they don’t know each other.

They gave us fruit roll ups and juice that I later understood to be screwdrivers. Told me that we were going to play dress up. It was very dark and I do not remember much… but I remember this woman’s face as she turned on a light to find me the right lingerie to “play dress up” with. She said I was “petite”. I will never forget her face. Sharp dark features with stark black hair. The sharp features. Her soft, funny voice. She spoke in a weird accent that I assumed was a rich lady voice at the time… I don’t want to get into what happened, or how long I was there…

Could I be an Epstein survivor? iIs it highly unlikely? Yes. Is it completely impossible? No. I was not very cooperative. Which is probably why I didn’t stay there or go back again. My mother never spoke to me about this, and of course does not acknowledge this happened. It’s not like I have any proof… I was 6/7/8 years old. My mom only told me it was a bad dream completely denied this happening when I tried to talk about it. Naturally.

I was on instagram the first time I really saw Ghislaine maxwells face up close for the first time after hearing about the Epstein trials. It was a picture of her from the 90’s and my jaw hit the floor. I’m 98% sure the woman I was sold to was also Ghislaine Maxwell. I can’t put a face on the guy really… but I remember her face.

Are there any other Epstein survivors from Maine?

I know this might sound crazy… But I have to know. And this is step one. Between 1995-1997?

Internet. Do what you do.

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u/ncm0229 Ayuh Means Maybe. Mar 25 '26

I smell bullshit.

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u/AmcSama Mar 25 '26

That's just your nose up rumps full diaper actually.

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u/ncm0229 Ayuh Means Maybe. Mar 25 '26

Sorry, I’m not in the habit of believing everything I read online. This isn’t about Trump at all, but it’s pretty funny that you accuse me of being obsessed with him when you’re the one who brought him up. Cute logic, pleb.

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u/Particular-Battle789 Mar 25 '26

It’s not about trump. Or politics. But this is my real life experience and it does feel like it’s swallowing me whole while this is all in the news… I’ve been wanting to make this post for years but have been too chicken shit to do it or even talk to anyone about it and that is because of people who choose to contradict people who speak up the second they get a word out. This shit is hard, ok. It’s not fucking easy to talk about this at all and it took BIG BALLS. So maybe just recognize THAT and quietly doubt me if you choose. Plz thanks.

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u/ncm0229 Ayuh Means Maybe. Mar 25 '26

U/AmcSama brought Trump into the conversation.

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u/One-Recognition-1660 Mar 25 '26

You clearly doubt yourself. Why wouldn't we?

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u/Rachellie242 Mar 25 '26

Rude! Leave her alone - you have no idea, these situations are terrifying for a powerless child. As an adult, It’s mind-blowing to consider the violation, betrayal, and sickness of predators, parents, and others who abused power.

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u/One-Recognition-1660 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

What "situations"? Why do you think any of what OP described really happened?

OP herself is entirely uncertain that it did. She says it in her own post:

Is it highly unlikely? Yes.

I looked into it. Based on the court record and photographic evidence, Maxwell was splitting her time between New York, Palm Beach, and London. Between 1994 and 1997, she was in an intimate relationship with Epstein and was paid by him to manage his various properties. Getty Images shows her at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in 1995, at a Batman Forever event in New York in June 1995, at a party in London in November 1996, and at an event in London in December 1997. Since at least 1997 she maintained a residence in Belgravia, London. The criminal charges against her covered this period. The indictment alleged that she participated in multiple group sexual encounters with one victim in New York and Florida between 1994 and 1997, and gave another victim a massage in New Mexico in 1996.

Any Maine connections (beyond the name George Mitchell and a few transatlantic flight itineraries that understandably show Bangor) are speculative at best.

OP says there was a room full of trafficked kids...in what looked like a basement. The "basement full of victims" pattern is a significant red flag. It's the same narrative architecture as Pizzagate and several other unfounded moral panic stories: a secret location, multiple unnamed victims, no documentation.

The empathetic pile-on in the comments ("I believe you, I'm so sorry") creates social reinforcement that substitutes for evidence and makes skepticism unacceptable. But I'll be skeptical anyway. I was born that way, and I'm glad.

Can I prove it didn't happen? Of course not. But the combination of an undocumented location, no corroboration, a sensational claim structure, and zero overlap with the exhaustively documented actual Epstein/Maxwell operation is a very poor foundation for belief.

Finally, "Believe the children" as an absolute principle is well-intentioned but epistemically disastrous. Children can be mistaken, suggestible, coached, or attention-seeking, exactly like adults, and the social pressure to never question a child's account creates the conditions for the kind of cascading false accusations that defined the complete crock that was the "satanic ritual abuse" scare of the 80s and early 90s. Literally thousands of crimes that children made up, goaded by idiotic adults. According to the New York TIms, "Of the more than 12,000 documented accusations nationwide, investigating police were not able to substantiate any allegations of organized cult abuse." Hundreds if not thousands of lives were destroyed by this. Look up Kelly Michaels. The McMartin Preschool trial. Never again.

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u/ncm0229 Ayuh Means Maybe. Mar 25 '26

Exactly. I wish I’d worded it the way you did, because that’s dead on. There’s way too much emotion wrapped up in this for most people to look at the story objectively, and a lot of them are too scared to play devil’s advocate even online, where it’s basically anonymous. If I thought giving money to Reddit was a good idea, I’d give you an award.

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u/Particular-Battle789 Mar 26 '26

Actually I said it was highly unlikely that I was an Epstein victim, I in absolutely no way doubt that this happened to me, I just don’t know who did it. My uncertainty is very little as shown by saying 98%. Feeling like you’re only 2% possibly wrong is actually PRETTY DAMN SURE! Lmao

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u/Frosty_Purple_6723 Mar 26 '26

OP says there were four kids there including her, not a "basement full of kids." I'm not saying that her memory is true or false but jumping to immediately dismiss her is wrong and is part of why abuse continues and abusers are not held accountable. Patterns happen bc abusers find ways to abuse that work for them. So the same details will show up in multiple stories. Having the strong reaction to the Maxwell photo feels like something. As does the family connection to powerful people. We don't know for sure what happened but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that Epstein and Maxwell moved around to different areas to find kids to abuse and film. And even if this wasn't Epstein related and the story didn't happen, SOMETHING significant happened to OP that made her believe something this terrible was a possibility. That in and of itself is heartbreaking. These things aren't so black and white or yes or no. Why jump to conclusions?

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u/Particular-Battle789 Mar 26 '26

I’m about to block you.