If you’re looking for a real, scary ghost photo, this may be it. When you’re studying ghosts and hauntings, and have taken thousands of cemetery pictures, orbs become routine.
So, when we see something like the eerie mist in this [...]

Fiona’s notes: These are two photos taken 26 Nov 1999 at Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH. We took them with a Fuji disposable Quicksnap camera, with 800 ASA film in it. I took these photographs about five seconds apart.
Ignore the apparent [...]

We have no idea what this is. It’s not exposed film or a light leak; the colored area does not extend outside the frame of the picture. The negative shows no damage, either, so it’s not a splash of chemicals or water, or some [...]

Gilson Road Research Map
Click on the map or the link below it to see a hand-sketched map of the cemetery and the areas with the strongest paranormal activity.
For our articles about the cemetery’s ghosts, see Ghosts at Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH.

This is the famous “purple streak” photo taken at Gilson Road Cemetery at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, 5 November 1999. The picture has not been enhanced or altered in any way, except slight compression to reduce load time.
I did not see anything like this magenta streak when I was taking the photos. I did [...]

The road to Gilson Road Cemetery winds through residential and rural sections of southern Nashua, New Hampshire. It seemed familiar and straightforward that night, since Alan, Jane and I had been there earlier in the day.
We parked our cars off the road, at the north end of the cemetery. I [...]

Alan looked a little dazed, but I didn’t plan to be at the cemetery much longer. I left him and continued taking photos.
SPARKLES
Then the sparkles started. I’d heard from other ghost photographers that, when the flash goes off, haunted cemeteries often manifest something like an array of twinkling lights. [...]

GILSON ROAD, NASHUA, NH - PART FOUR
At that back wall of Gilson Road Cemetery, I was overwhelmed with visual images.
Here’s what I mean when I say that I “see” things like this: When I’m reading a wonderful book, and often when I’m writing, it’s as if there’s a movie in [...]

GILSON ROAD CEMETERY, NASHUA, NH - PART FIVE OF FIVE

I climbed back over the wall and tossed another roll of film into my camera. I didn’t want Nancy to feel as if we were waiting for her, so I started taking more pictures. About a dozen photos later, Nancy was also [...]

26 Nov 99 (2)
Who: Six of us When: About 8:30 p.m., for about a half hour
Purpose: To use disposable cameras (one for each person) and random photos. Goal was to estimate how many “ghost photos” a beginner can expect, using the cheapest disposable camera available, with almost no [...]