Laconia, NH Ghostly Places – Podcast

Laconia, New Hampshire is a gold mine of haunted locations.  This is Part 2 (of 2) about haunted places around Tilton, Franklin, and Laconia, New Hampshire.

In the previous ghost podcast, Fiona Broome discussed these locations:

1. Hall Memorial Library, Northfield-Tilton, NH.

2. Tilton Mystery Tunnels, Tilton, NH.

3. Two buildings and a cemetery at Webster Place, Franklin, NH.

4. Daniel Webster birthplace, Franklin, NH.

In this 27-minute podcast, Fiona describes several creepy and haunted locations in northern Laconia, NH.

Click here to listen to this Laconia, NH ghosts podcast (MP3)

Notes

Fiona talks about visiting Laconia, NH with a neighbor.  He remembered a house from his childhood; the house had “ghost stories” and a legend about a hidden, Underground Railroad room.

Fiona describes what happened when they visited the house, including evidence of its Colonial history, the Underground RR room, and hash marks on the attic staircase walls and the inside of the attic door.

However, the owners of the home assured Fiona and her neighbor that there were no ghosts there.

The next day, Fiona returned to that area and found several other sites worth investigating:

Tavern 27 at the Mystic Meadows, 2075 Parade Road, Laconia, NH, and the gift shop behind it.

The former site of the Anti-Pedo Baptist Church of Meredith, NH, which was burned to the ground on behalf of a neighbor, Mrs. Morgan.

Mead Cemetery (433427N / 0712936W) and Round Bay Cemetery, Laconia, NH.

She also recommends looking for the Folsom graves at Laconia’s Union Cemetery (between Garfield St. and Academy St.), where the petrified bodies were reburied.

How to find similar haunted locations where you are

1. Ask people if they know any local, haunted places.

2. Follow your instincts.  Drive around, look at maps, and — psychic or not — pay attention to your “gut feelings.”

3. Research history! Look for patterns — geographical or historical — that connect the locations.

4. Ask more questions.  Collect more stories and look for “odd” comments and history.

5. Investigate, then ask more questions, and conduct more historical research.

Photos from the haunted house

(Fiona’s notes: These photos were taken for my reports to the TV producers.  So, in the Underground RR room photos, I’ve covered the street address.)

The first photo is from the hidden room below the kitchen.  It was not tall enough to stand in, but it also wasn’t equipped as a root cellar.

Room as it was found, hidden beneath the floor in a Laconia, NH house.

The next photo was taken in the basement of the home.  Three of us were standing together, at one end of the basement.  No one else was down there.  however, the photo shows a shadow that’s the height and shape of a male figure.

I can't explain the shadow of a male figure in the basement of this Laconia, NH house.

This is the inside of the door in the Laconia house’s attic.  Notice the hash marks, particularly the very even ones on the right half of the door.  There’s also a date with the larger, chalk-like hash marks on the left side of the door: 1892.

If each attic resident used different kinds of marks, it looks like two or three people were kept in the attic at various times. Laconia, NH.

From “Old Meredith and Vicinity,” a book by the D.A.R.:

In this old yard were buried Nicholas, son of “Priest” Folsom, with Hannah his wife, their son Joseph G., and his wife Deborah.  About 1894 these bodies were taken up and moved to Union Cemetery.  When the graves were opened it was found that they had become almost wholly petrified…

Podcast music: Zombie, by Devin Anderson