Blood Cemetery by James Paradie - Hollis, New Hampshire

Blood Cemetery
Pine Hill Cemetery-Hollis, New Hampshire
Written by James Paradie

Published in the White Mountain Shopper on June 11th, 2010

Behold my friends as you pass by
As you are now, as once was I
As I am now, you will be
Prepare for death and follow me

This is just one of the eerie descriptions you will see chiseled on tombstones if you are passing through Pine Hill Cemetery. This cemetery is possibly New Hampshire’s most haunted with good reason and the legend is because of Abe Blood himself. His tombstone has a finger on it, when it’s day time, the finger is pointing up towards the heavens. At night, however, the finger is pointing down possibly to depths of Hell.

Local legend suggest that Abel Blood was an occultists, big on the supernatural, and demons, but no books or other references on his story suggest this, so this could be just legend. According to town’s history, it says that Abe Blood was a good, law abiding citizen, a Christian man who would never even hurt a fly. But, maybe this is just a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde theory, and at night, Abe turned into something a little more sinister. In 1867, Abe passed away and was buried with his wife Betsy, but his gravesite is mostly visited by not just family, or kids looking at the finger, or even paranormal investigators, but other condemned spirits of the cemetery.

The reason why it’s called Blood Cemetery is not because of the locals(the locals actually despise the name), and not because of some huge blood bath that happened there one night. No. It’s called Blood Cemetery, because of how huge of a family Abe Blood had. The Blood family has many roots leading from New Hampshire to Massachusetts, so it will not be very hard to find a Blood descendant in a lot of the cemetery’s around both states. Sadly though, if you wanted to see the finger, you’re out of luck. According to a local the headstone was switched with another person’s tombstone in 2002. It has since been replaced with a new one.

According to some locals, there is a tree next to a blocked headstone, believed to belong to a female. At night, this local and a few friends of this person were at the cemetery when a weird mist started to come from behind the headstone. Some locals even say that when you step inside the cemetery there is a severe temperature drop to about 10 degrees. Your chest will get tight and you will get an instant headache(this has also happened to me when me and the NEPI team were going passed a church). Other instances include, while passing the cemetery: car horns have gone off on their own, cars have started to drift off the road despite the drivers trying to correct it, and interior lights will go on their own will. This all happens until you pass the cemetery and everything goes back to normal.

Strangely enough, Abe Blood’s spirit has never made his presence known, even after the tombstone swap. Who is haunting the cemetery then?

Some paranormal investigators who have gone in there have caught orbs in their photos and EVPs as well.

One warning that most paranormal investigators will give everyone is that don’t go in without any permission as Blood Cemetery is heavily patrolled from dusk to dawn and especially on Halloween. Is there something much worse in there then we think?

Most people have said that Pine Hill Cemetery does not have that haunted appeal to it and it is said to be quite pretty actually, but as they say, looks are deceiving and Pine Hill Cemetery fits that category.

Resources: Fiona Broome of Hollow Hill and http://www.bloodcemetery.com/

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