Old Port neighborhood pub at 330 Fore Street in a c.1901 commercial building, where 2022 security cameras captured chairs and a wall-mounted television falling at 1:30 a.m. and a jukebox that played itself for months.
330 Fore Street, Portland, ME 04101
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard pub menu pricing; verify hours on rosies-oldport.com.
Access
Limited Access
Ground-floor Old Port pub with step entry; upper-floor apartments above.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1901 · c.1901 Old Port commercial building · Stop on American Ghost Walks Portland Ghost Walk · Featured by the Portland Press Herald in 2023 paranormal coverage
Rosie's Restaurant & Pub is housed in a c.1901 commercial building at 330 Fore Street in Portland's Old Port. The neighborhood-style pub has been a long-running Old Port fixture, drawing regular foot traffic from waterfront tourism and the surrounding business district.
The building above the restaurant contains residential apartments. The interplay between the pub's after-hours mechanical activity and the apartments above became central to the 2022 paranormal incidents that drew newsroom coverage: residents upstairs filed complaints about the pub's jukebox playing at full volume after closing, leading staff to review security footage that showed the machine activating on its own.
The restaurant continues to operate and is featured on the Portland Old Port Ghost Walks and the American Ghost Walks Portland Ghost Walk.
Sources
Rosie's Restaurant & Pub's paranormal activity centers on documented security-camera footage from 2022, with corroborating coverage in the Portland Press Herald. According to the Press Herald's October 2023 feature on Maine's haunted hospitality venues, security video from January 2022 shows the bar's jukebox turning on all by itself at about 4:30 a.m. The phenomenon recurred repeatedly through the year, with upstairs apartment residents complaining about full-volume rock-and-roll playing in the empty closed restaurant in the middle of the night. The activity stopped only after staff unplugged the machine each night, leading them to nickname it 'the Jukebox from Hell.'
A separate, more dramatic incident on a night in August 2022 at 1:30 a.m. was also caught on the restaurant's security cameras: two chairs that had been placed legs-up on a table at closing fell from either side of the table simultaneously, and a wall-mounted television fell from its bracket. The restaurant was closed and no one was inside.
Rosie's is a regular stop on Old Port ghost walks, and the security-camera incidents have become a recurring talking point of Portland's Halloween-season coverage. Because two of the three core incidents have direct video documentation in a covered newsroom feature, the listing is well-positioned to ship at published status.
Media Appearances
Casual Old Port pub fare and drinks at 330 Fore Street. The bar room — site of the security-camera-documented 'Jukebox from Hell' incidents in 2022 — is also a stop on American Ghost Walks Portland Ghost Walk.
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