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 see sparkles during most of my photos, similar to the remnants of a firework display, after an enduring firework has exploded.

I also remember feeling as if something had rushed past me, and I said aloud, “What was that?” But, so many odd things happened that night, I didn’t think much of it.

The photo shown above was one of the last that I took, the first night I visited Gilson Road Cemetery. I was one of six people who went there, on an informal “ghost hunt.”

Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH
5 November 1999, about 10 p.m.

This cemetery is well-known for being “haunted.” Local legend claims that an Indian battle was fought here in early Colonial times. There are also tales of a murder that took place in a home that was once within the cemetery’s stone walls, and the house was later burned to the ground. After that, the property was turned into a cemetery.

This cemetery is incredibly haunted, with massive residual energy hauntings. It has enough activity to be a portal cemetery. 18 out of my first 56 photos show orb/ghost/energy anomalies. Click here to read about our experiences at Gilson Road Cemetery.

Technical info:
This was photo #21 on a 36-photo roll of Kodak Max 800 ASA. It was taken with an Olympus point-and-shoot camera, the AF-1. Photo #20 is nearly identical.

(I usually take two photos in close succession, so that I can use one as a “control” in case of a lens flare or other reflection. The two magenta-streaked photos were taken about five seconds apart.)

Every other photo–before and after–on this roll is normal, with no streaks. You can view the photos before and after, to compare.

The photo with the headstones, frame #19, was taken about two minutes before the two streaked photos. The photo with the man (“Alan” in my story about that night) is frame #22, was taken about five minutes after the streak photos. He was not nearby when I took the streaked photos.

These streaks in frames #20 and #21 are on the negative too; this was not a printing error. The streaks do not extend outside the frame. There are no splashes of chemicals or other distortions on the negatives.

Also, it is impossible to take double exposures with this camera.

The film was developed and printed at a grocery-store photo service: Shaw’s, Nashua, NH.

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