Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH
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Gilson Road Cemetery is one of the most unsettling and fascinating cemeteries in southern New Hampshire.
It features very old graves, flickering lights, paranormal energy fields at the back of the cemetery, and more-than-average anomalies in photographs, even under difficult conditions.
In other words, it’s an ideal location for paranormal research.
Although one book reported otherwise, Gilson Road Cemetery is still very haunted, day and night.
Hollow Hill was the first website to report ghosts at Gilson Road Cemetery. We’re very proud of our original research, and this has been one of our largest projects.
GILSON ROAD CEMETERY INVESTIGATIONS
- Odd hole in a headstone at Gilson Road Cemetery
- 5 Nov 1999, our earliest visits
PHOTOS
- Photo of purple-streaked anomaly
- 26 Nov 1999, experimental photos on a damp night
- Fiery color above cemetery leaves, with a few disturbing asides.
- Eerie, swirling mist…but is it an anomaly?
- Mist rising from a grave, just creepy enough.
- What IS this…? Baffling, swirling mist and…? One of our most popular photos online.
- It was too humid to claim that these two photos show ghost orbs at Gilson. Sorry.
- Orbs at Gilson, 21 May 2002.
- Orbs continue, 18 June 2002.
RELATED PHOTOS – NOT GHOSTS
- Flowers tied to Gilson, 20 Apr 2002 – Prank orsomething else?
- But these are natural wildflowers at Gilson in the springtime.
RESEARCH MAPS
- Scan of a sketched map of anomalies at Gilson (with one error in the name at a grave)
PODCASTS
Fiona has talked about Gilson Road Cemetery’s ghosts in two podcasts:
- Ghosts of Gilson Road, Nashua, NH – Part 1
- Ghosts of Gilson Road, Nashua, NH – Part 2
To read more offline:
See the Nashua Telegraph newspaper article about Hollow Hill, Gilson Road Cemetery, and local haunts, 27 Oct 2000.
Note: One section of Gilson Road–not part of Gilson cemetery, as erroneously stated in one ghost book–has been on the Federal hazardous waste Superfund list.
Another note: Gilson Road Cemetery is the usual name of this haunted site. However, we’ve seen several people calling it “Gilson cementery” or “Gilson cementry” or even “Gibson cemetery”.
For the best results, search at this website for “Gilson Road” or “Gilson cemetery” or “Gilson Road cemetery.”
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My friends and I recently went to gilson but we didn’t encounter anything of the paranormal, however we did find an old pair of childrens underwear sitting in front of what might be a tombstone. It’s not that significant but it was creepy.
Thanks for the update, Derek. That’s far creepier than any ghosts we’ve encountered there.
I used to go here very stoned with my friends at night. we’d would get all freaked out and leave after a few minutes. the further towards the back you go, the creepier (which is understandable, haunted or not) i went there by myself about a week ago, in the rain, in the middle of the night. i sat by the baby gilson’s for a few minutes. it felt really good. and then i left. i don’t really believe in lingering spirits, but I do find cemeteries to be fascinating. they’re good places to go and think about life or get freaked out.
If anyone wants to visit a haunted cemetery than this is the one. I use to do some ghost hunting (didnt have anything fancy,just camera and tape recorder) and this is the one with the sounds (children laughing in the woods at 11:30 at night in March,angry mob sounds,rocks smacking together),temperature change(like a tropical wind blown upon you in March),and the 2 strange photos of what looks like a mist type ghost looking into my camera in 2 different shots.Plus that feeling of being watched. Hollow Hill is right. There’s plenty going on here.
Sean, thanks for the review of Gilson! I love hearing others’ reports about that cemetery, and your encounters sound like the kinds of things we regularly encounter at Gilson. It’s one of my favorite places for research!
I just wanna say I was at a cemetery last night taking pictures. This “mist” looks exactly like the cigarette smoke that came up in my pictures. If you have email I can send you the pictures and you can compare this “mist”. I call bluff. Sorry. Im a huge believer in paranormal. Ive experienced many things in unusual places. But those pictures are easy to debunk.
Jenna,
You’ve commented at the general Gilson index page. I’m not sure which photo or photos you’re commenting about, and claiming are a “bluff.”
I’m in the process of completing a book, Ghost Photography 101, and it shows what people can expect from cigarette smoke — both cloves and regular cigarettes — as well as cigar smoke, incense, and many other factors that can result in false anomalies.
Until you’ve completed similar, lengthy tests, a one-time visit to a cemetery is probably not sufficient foundation to debunk a professional’s photos.
No one was smoking when I took any of my mist-related photos. I am very careful about that, and always have been; and, that’s not just because I’m allergic to smoke and highly sensitive to the slightest waft of it.
I also verify weather conditions, including humidity and dew point.
If you’re talking about my “what is this…?” picture: Just three of us were in the cemetery. No one was smoking. Further, we’d been in the cemetery for over two hours, so I would know if anyone had smoked in the area shortly before the pictures were taken.
Most of my Gilson photos were taken when Gilson Road Cemetery was surrounded by woods, years before the subdivision arrived. There were no nearby houses, and no wood fires.
When we’ve seen paranormal evidence of torches in the woods behind the cemetery, we do not see mist in our photos.
Smoke was not a possibility in my photos.
Ghost photographs are only as reliable as the expertise and integrity of those who took them. If you don’t trust my expertise or integrity, you’ll probably enjoy other websites more than this one.
Any ghost photo can be “debunked” by someone who wasn’t there to verify the conditions under which the relevant photos were taken.
Expertise and integrity are the bottom line in terms of ghost photography.
I have a arsenel of mist and orb photos from this cemetary. We also heard foot steps when we were out in the woods. The place is haunted no doubt about it! When we first entered the cemetary my camera kept turning on and off so i replaced the batteries. It contuned to do that the whole time we were there and the pictures I did get are filled with orbs, not just one or two but the Whole Screen! There is lights that move and this wierd mist thing that is creeping through the woods. Freaky enough for me to want to leave quickly