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 [...]

During November and December 1999, we returned to Gilson Road Cemetery many times after our first formal investigation at Gilson. These are our notes from some of those 1999 follow-up visits.
8 Nov 99
Who: Two of us
When: Early afternoon
Purpose: To check for daytime phenomena, also for things that may [...]

unexplained light in photograph at Gilson Road Cemetery
Since our last report, we’ve continued to visit Gilson Road Cemetery regularly, sometimes several times a week during good weather. Though the site is more active sometimes than others, it’s still a consistently good place for us to train new investigators, and to test EMF meters and [...]