Gilson Road Cemetery, NH – Odd Flowers

This isn’t a ghost story, but it’s odd.

Are people drawn to sites like Gilson, and feel an impulse to add to it’s weirdness…? (Rhetorical question. Clearly, they are.)

Here’s the story:

A photographer contacted me on 20 Apr 2002 to report three daffodils tied to a sagging tree branch towards the back of Gilson Road Cemetery, Nashua, NH.

I visited, and he was right about the flowers, and they were still fresh. They’re shown in the photo, below.  (The branches and rocks aren’t really purple.  It’s just the color of the light, the day I took this picture.)

Why would someone do this?

There are several possibilities.

One is for sentimental reasons; there are many unmarked graves at the back of Gilson Road Cemetery.  Someone might know who’s in one of those graves, or feel a connection with one of the rumored ghosts back there.

Maybe the date – April 20th – has some connection with a grave in that cemetery?

Or perhaps this was just a nice thing to do in remembrance of the many people in marked and unmarked graves at this rural cemetery.

Then again, maybe someone found some flowers and just wanted to do something quirky, or to use them in a photograph.

(I’m pleased with my own photos of the flowers.)

But, for all I know, perhaps some prankster thought this would be something strange and noteworthy. (I’m not sure this post will provide their sought-after 15-minutes of fame, if that was the purpose.)

We’ve seen a lot of odd items pop up at haunted sites, and – while noting them – generally ignore the efforts.

It’s not ghostly. It’s just weird.

Please don’t leave anything at cemeteries, unless its a bouquet on Memorial Day, or something like that.