This is an odd gravestone. It’s unique because I can’t find a reasonable explanation for it. Gilson Road Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire is eerie enough. However, this early 19th-century headstone has a hole in it. The marker is very old slate and the hole is like something drilled, not a bullet hole. Does anyone…
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Hollis, NH – Blood cemetery’s Gothic inscriptions
The following 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 As you are now so once was I As I…
Ghosts Tampered with My Gas Gauge – Twice?
This is silly. It’s embarrassing even to tell this story, because there are probably logical reasons for what happened. But, it’s an odd story, so I’m sharing it… if only for a laugh. It started at Blood Cemetery On Thursday, 14 Oct 1999, my kids and I brought a friend to visit haunted “Blood Cemetery” (real…
Hollis, NH – Blood cemetery – what the ghost wanted?
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 earlier…
Gilson Road Cemetery, NH – First Ghost Investigations (1999)
From the moment I first heard local legends about Gilson Road Cemetery, I was intrigued. That’s when it was still an isolated cemetery, far from streetlights and surrounded by dense trees on both sides of the road. The nearest house was at least 1/4 mile away. Despite its isolation – and partly because of…
Hollis, NH – Abel Blood’s Mysterious Ghost
Abel Blood is one of the many ghosts haunting Hollis, New Hampshire’s “Blood Cemetery” (actually Pine Hill Road Cemetery), near Nashua, NH. According to legend and first-person stories, Abel Blood is the eerie, solitary figure that people see at the top of the cemetery… but then he vanishes as they approach. His gravestone is also…