In fact, one of our Hollow Hill investigators led us to this cemetery, to see it in the daylight. He had been there once before, late one Halloween night, and he’d seen the famous headstone.
His response in the daylight was amazement, because he’d believed that Abel’s finger always pointed downward.
This shows a simulation of
what happens at Abel Blood’s headstone.
(Illustration only. NOT a real photo.)
Note: The finger on the headstone was actually chipped off years ago. If you visit the cemetery, the outline of where the finger was–and part of the base–remains. However, this is old vandalism. You can tell by the lichen on the chipped-off area.
To see a color photo (13K) of Abel Blood’s headstone, click here.
A Hollow Hill photographer visited the cemetery twice on 11 Oct 1999, taking a few photos for this website, not to capture anomalies. She took 20 photos during the day and later at dusk, with a Kodak Advantix AF camera, using Fuji Advanced film, 200 ASA.
The photo below was taken at dusk. It has a clear anomaly in it: an orb towards the upper left corner of the photo. (click on the photo to see a larger, 16K version)
The photo was taken at 6:30 pm. It was dusk and the sun had just set, behind me, but it was still light enough not to need a flash camera.
The cemetery is surrounded by farmland, currently an almost fully-harvested field of pumpkins. There was nothing in the area to reflect the scant remaining light of the day, or to create a reflection or lens flare.
This photo shows the oldest gravestones in the cemetery, mostly from the late 18th century and early 19th. The photographer saw no orbs in real life, and only took the photos as an afterthought when something “felt odd” among those gravestones.
dude my ancestors don’t haunt people
To “a person”: Do you want sympathy or applause? Personally, I have traced my family tree back to the 1500s, and a few of them may be haunting (or revisiting) the sites that they enjoyed during their lives on earth. I rather like the idea that, in the next plane of existence, we can return to check on places and people we feel close to. If someone interprets that as a “haunting”… well, that’s one way to look at it.
I choose not to buy into the commercial representation of ghosts and hauntings. When I work outside those confines, it seems very comforting that people (as ghosts or spirits) can return for a visit, now and then.
Uhm… is there any proof of abel blood haunting Pine Hill Cemetery?
Brandy,
The bigger question, and one that most serious ghost hunters are working on is this: Is there any proof that any ghost haunts any place?
Until we can answer that with confidence, no, there’s no proof that Abel Blood haunts Pine Hill Cemetery.
There’s also no proof that The Myrtles Plantation or the White House or the Tower of London are haunted.
If you’re going for a “good scare,” Pine Hill Cemetery isn’t as consistently chilling as some sites, but it’s probably good enough.
If you’re talking about serious research, start with serious questions.
Sincerely,
Fiona Broome