This photo is one of seven taken after dark at Gilson Road Cemetery on Oct 13th, 2001, at about 7:30 p.m. It is one of four with this color streak across them.

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This photo is one of seven taken after dark at Gilson Road Cemetery on Oct 13th, 2001, at about 7:30 p.m. It is one of four with this color streak across them.

What makes this a credible anomaly is examining the film.  The sweep of color does not extend beyond the frame on the negative. There is no evidence of tampering with the film, and nothing splashed across it.

 

Details:
Olympus AF-Twin camera, taken with flash
Shaw’s 35 mm film, ISO 200
Developed at Target’s one-hour service

If you’re looking for a real, scary ghost photo, this may be it. When you’re studying ghosts and hauntings, and have taken thousands of cemetery pictures, orbs become routine.

So, when we see something like the eerie mist in this photograph, we get very excited about it.

Fiona says: Forget [...]]]>

So, when we see something like the eerie mist in this photograph, we get very excited about it.

Fiona says: Forget about the bell-shaped orbs; they’re just the fog when we took this photo.

That’s one reason we like this Canon camera. Its internal lenses refract light bouncing off moist air in a bell-shape that can be used to distinguish “fake anomalies” from the real ones.

However, the mist coming up from this grave fascinates me. It reminds me of vampire movies.

I like the contrast between the rising mist–whatever it is–and the larger water droplets in the air, which photographed as “bells.”

I’m not claiming that this mist is an anomaly. I don’t know what it is, but it’s definitely rising up from a haunted grave where we get our strangest “ghost photos.”

This was taken at Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH, on 26 Nov 1999, at about 6 p.m. The grave belongs to Rufus Lawrence.

When we charted the non-orb anomalies we’ve captured on film at this cemetery, his grave is Ground Zero for many of them. For example, the purple-streaked photo featured elsewhere at this site, was take just to the right of Mr. Lawrence’s headstone.

Camera: Canon Snappy LXII, point-and-shoot
Film: Kodak Max 800 ASA

(Yes, this is a color photo. No, we didn’t edit it with PhotoShop or any other program.)

Fiona’s notes: These are two photos taken 26 Nov 1999 at Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH. We took them with a Fuji disposable Quicksnap camera, with 800 ASA film in it. I took these photographs about five seconds apart.

Ignore the apparent “orbs.” It was already becoming a foggy night [...]]]>

Ignore the apparent “orbs.” It was already becoming a foggy night when these pictures were taken. If they were “ghost orbs,” we have no way of knowing.

As the evening progressed, the orbs in the photos became thicker and more numerous. I think they’re just reflections off the saturated air. Except for slight color differences which pique my interest, the orbs in these photos look almost like the actual orbs taken on very dry evenings.

However, the thick mist swirling around the stones in the second photo… that’s something else. Lovely image, and nicely eerie.

Does mist really come up this quickly on a still night? I mean, in five seconds or less? I have no idea. Is this an anomaly? Again, I can’t say.

Nothing surprises me during my visits to this very haunted cemetery.

Okay, let me rephrase that: The ghostly images I perceive of an Indian massacre in the woods behind this  cemetery distress me, but don’t surprise me.

I did not see anything like this magenta streak when I was taking the photos. I [...]]]> 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.