“Blood Cemetery” is the local name for Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, near Nashua, NH. That nickname refers to the ghost of Abel Blood, who supposedly haunts the graveyard.

Urban legends claim occult connections to Abel Blood. However, history portrays him as a solid, very Christian and philanthropic member of the [...]

In an earlier post about Blood Cemetery, we displayed an unusual daytime photo with a ‘ghost orb’ in it.
On that same day, at least one of the other photos was odd.

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Sometimes, people ask about the sensations we experience when capturing anomalies on film. These are one investigator’s notes from Pine Hill Cemetery (aka Blood cemetery) in October 2001:

“On this evening, I felt far more confident that I would capture something, if only because I was using more sensitive film than previously. However, I [...]

Headstones at Pine Hill/Blood Cemetery, Hollis, NHHere are just a few of the very Gothic inscriptions on headstones at the Blood Cemetery (aka Pine Hill Cemetery) on Nartoff Road in Hollis, NH:

From the headstone of Mrs. Rebecca Alexanders, died 24 Nov 1799:

Behold my friends as you pass by
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This is silly. It’s embarrassing even to tell this story, because there are probably very logical reasons for what happened. But, it’s an odd story, so I’m sharing it… if only for a laugh.

On Thursday, 14 Oct 1999, my kids and I brought a friend to visit haunted “Blood Cemetery” (aka Pine Hill [...]

On November 1, 1999, I returned to Blood Cemetery in Hollis. I planned to take a few more photos, although I hadn’t captured any anomalies since my earliest visits to the cemetery.

While I was at the cemetery, I checked the name on the short headstone that the ghost had vanished into, on my [...]

“Blood Cemetery” is the local name for Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, NH, referring to the ghost of Abel Blood, which supposedly haunts that graveyard. Abel Blood was buried there in 1867; his wife Betsy is with him. We’ve researched his personal history and found no obvious reason for him to haunt the cemetery. In [...]

Other eerie events at Blood Cemetery in Hollis, NH, reported by readers:

Trees moving when there is no breeze. Several have noticed this. It’s easy to compare the trees’ movement at Blood Cemetery with nearby wooded areas. In each story, the trees were still (not moving) elsewhere, but the trees [...]

Reported by Fiona Broome, Halloween 1999

After years of researching ghosts in the northeast, I enjoy visiting Blood Cemetery (aka Pine Hill Cemetery) in Hollis, NH. It’s an isolated spot with more than its share of ghost stories, but I like it there. Well, I used to like it there…

The evening before [...]

Reported by Fiona Broome, Halloween 1999

The weather turned unusually warm on Halloween night. In the northeast, Halloween can be sultry or freezing cold. This year, the weather in southern New Hampshire was perfect.

After dropping my son at a church youth social, I decided to return Blood Cemetery (aka Pine Hill Cemetery) [...]