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NH Seacoast

Ghosts of Portsmouth, NH – South Street cemetery

Sep 15th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

Many ghost hunters know a few haunted locations that consistently provide ghostly phenomena.
One of the largest and most haunted cemeteries in Portsmouth, NH fits that description.
South Street cemetery isn’t the official name of the location, but it’s what most people call it.  This lovely, slightly eerie cemetery is at the intersection of South Street and [...]



Wentworth by the Sea – ghosts revisited

Apr 5th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

On the northeast side of Portsmouth, at New Castle, a grand Victorian hotel overlooks sailboats, fishing boats and yachts.
For generations, the Wentworth Hotel, also called Wentworth-by-the-Sea, was a summer destination for wealthy families.
Built in 1874, this hotel was synonymous with ‘opulence’ through the 1960s. However, times changed and — by the late 1970s — [...]



Portsmouth, NH – real ghosts, private home – pt 2

Apr 4th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

[Part two of a true story that began at Portsmouth, NH - real ghosts, private home]
Often after this, I heard louder footsteps on the stairs to the second floor
and upstairs, usually at dusk and for about thirty seconds at a time. I ignored them.
Old houses make funny noises, I reminded myself.
It’s important to understand [...]



Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home – other notes

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

the haunted house in portsmouth, nh
(Additional notes from a story that started on Portsmouth, NH – real ghosts, private home.)
Author’s comment: My husband wrote this before reading my notes about what happened.
“One night, at about 3AM I clearly heard someone coming up the stairs to the bedrooms. We lived [...]



Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home – pt 4

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

This concludes a true story that began at
Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home
OUR LAST NIGHT IN THIS HAUNTED HOUSE
Our last night in the house, the footsteps returned, louder than ever. It was late in June, and about three o’clock in the morning. I remember hearing the footsteps, pounding up the varnished [...]



Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home – pt 3

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

(Continued from Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home, part two)
A TRUE GHOST STORY – PART THREE
There were a few more incidents of things casually flying through the kitchen. The faucets turned themselves on more frequently, and with more force. Other odd little things happened, but nothing particularly destructive or frightening. In [...]



Portsmouth – real ghosts, private home

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

A TRUE GHOST STORY
It was too easy. In the early 1990’s, I placed a notice on a bulletin board, looking for a “nothing down” house to buy near Portsmouth, NH. Several people called within the week, but one house seemed almost perfect: a house within walking distance of downtown Portsmouth.
The [...]



Portsmouth – portrait of a real ghost

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: Ghost photos & eerie images, NH Seacoast

Portsmouth house, Portsmouth, NH
October 1999, about 11 a.m.
This photo was taken outside a Portsmouth private residence. While living in that house, I saw two ghosts and experienced considerable poltergeist phenomena. I took several photos of the house in late October 1999, to illustrate my pages about this very haunted house.
When I had this [...]



Ghosts – New Hampshire Seacoast

Mar 17th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

New Hampshire’s Seacoast features a mix of ghosts and hauntings. There are Colonial ghosts, and ghosts from more recent times. As you’d expect, many have a connection with the sea.
Haunted NH’s “Seacoast” region includes cities and towns that are on the coast, such as Portsmouth, [...]



Witch Goody Cole, part 2 – Hampton, NH ghost

Mar 17th, 2008 | By Fiona Broome | Category: NH Seacoast

This is the second part of a two-part article about her life, her death, and why she has haunted the town of Hampton. (Read the first part of this article at The Ghost of Goody Cole of Hampton, NH.)
FREE AGAIN… AND THEN CHARGED [...]