I am intrigued with what I have heard about Guernsey Hollow Cemetery. My wife, son, his girlfriend, and myself took a day trip there today to check it out. What we experienced there was amazing. When we were at the upper right hand corner I experienced the strangest feeling. The only way I can describe it is like the feeling of vertigo you get when looking off the top of a tall building. Later on, my wife returned to that corner, alone, and experienced a voice in her subconscious stating,”I need to tell you that there are slaves here, beyond the fence, and no one knows. We are unmarked and forgotten.”, or something to that extent. She also felt a tugging on her arm begging, “Please come”. We are both sensitive to paranormal phenomena. When we returned home, I did some research on the Internet and found your website. To my shock and astonishment, I read the account of the September 27, 2001 trip. It was eerie to see that others felt something in that corner of the cemetery…and…the burials beyond the fence! Can you direct us to any information on the history of that area and the burial ground/foundation.
Please let me know what happened there.

I am the owner of the previous Chase Family property where Mr. Spears brought the community. The community — by my family and other records — were forcibly removed by local residents in 1857. They then established a community now known as Lilydale.

Best,

Elsie Spry
Spry Tree Farm, Inc.

Referring to the Chadakoin monster:My dad was alone on his boat and saw what at first he thought was a log but after stoping the boat and getting closer he saw what he believes to be a monster in the water similar in appearance to the loch ness monster.

I would just like to tell you what I have heard about the house of seven secrets. Although I have never seen the house myself (I was never sure where it was), I have been told that at times the house will be burnt to the ground, but if you return to it later, it will be standing again. I know this seems too strange to be true, but so the story goes. Also sometimes you can see the house from the top of some nearby hill, but when you drive past it, the house is gone again.. I have heard stories about footprints in the snow that just stop with no trees overhead or any other explanation for where someone could have left them. Also something about a refrigerator fully stocked, or a rocking chair rocking on its own, and a telephone in the house that is not hooked up, but if you lift the receiver, a voice says over and over get out of the house. I also have heard everything that you had listed in your story as well. I was always interested in this story. I just thought I would pass on what I have heard in the past.

Growing up close enough to gurnsey hollow you would always here stories of it being haunted and experiences friends had said they had there. A lot of stories involved the large cross at the back of the cemetery, or the iron gates surrounding.

it and ghosts beyond the back gates of the cemetery, and also the old school house that is supposedly beyond those gates back some ways in the woods (which I’ve never gone beyond the gates so I wouldn’t know if it still exists). So me being the adventurous person I am, I have always been intrigued with things like this and am always looking for new experiences and will do anything once.

I didn’t experience a whole lot but what I did was enough for me. The first time I had went was with a group of my friends, 5 of us girls left right before dark, hoping to get there with some daylight left, by the time we got there it was pitch black out, not expecting that we did not bring flashlights so when we pulled up to the big boulders off the side of the road, a few of us got out and walked up toward the entrance, but with no light decided to turn around and go back to the car. We were a lil freaked out just being there, just girls, so we kinda ran to the car hopped in n were ready to leave, until we tried starting the car and it wouldn’t start, then we got it to start twice and both time we put it in gear to leave and it stalled out! This car was a pretty new car and had never had any problems, no dead battery, nothing, whatever or whoever did not want us leaving! We finally got it started and got outa there, and never had a problem with the car after that.
Later that night me and my friend and our boyfriends went back with flashlights, nothing really weird happened this time but we also weren’t there for more than prob ten fifteen min. But another time a year or so later me and a couple friends went there again, we didn’t stay long because as soon as we walked through the cemetery and were checking things out we seen a deer that looked like it had tried to jump over the steel fencing surrounding the cemetery, and was dead on the fence with the posts up through the deer as if it didn’t make the jump, or as if someone had put it up there! Also one other thing was that it was still kinda cold toward end of winter and frost on the ground yet there was one little patch of these pretty red flowers as if it was summer and they had bloomed. Maybe none of this means anything but it was enough to make me get outa there n not wanna go back anytime soon!

I have and will never go past the back gates out toward the woods where the school house supposedly is it’s said that’s the scariest place at gurnsey!

My friends and i went to gurnsey hollow one night. I had been there multiple times and had had some type of experience every time. My friends didn’t believe it was haunted my friend Scotty had said that if there was a spirit in the grave or around it then too either show itself or prove it was there. after about an hour we decided to head home. My friend cassie is sensitive to this stuff as we were walking out she could feel something. Myself, cassie, and jessica were ahead of the guys when we got to my car my car door was open. and we had made sure everything was shut before we went up to the cemetery. There was no one around besides us and we all stayed together, and no wind so it couldn’t blow open and my doors dont bounce back open. this was just one experience that I’ve had at gurnsey. when im there i just get this odd feeling that im being watched

My wife and I checked out Hollenbeck cemetery this afternoon. (In the effort of full disclosure, I knew nothing of this site, or the myths surrounding this cemetery. I went to test out a newly purchased film camera.) My wife was using a digital camera, I was using 35mm film. In one picture my wife took while I was taking a snap of one of the few remaining headstones, my head is obscured by a white fore-ground, in that fore-ground the number 16 is clearly visible. In a shot seconds prior to this one, I show up clear as day. Subsequent shots of the area show no white area.

Tonight we are going back, so we can eliminate the possibility that it just a matter of contrast, or reflection. I plan to bring our digital recorder, and place it on the memorial stone that the town put up after the headstones were stolen. We saw many strange things in her digital pics, but the only one I cannot discount as sunlight/shadow, or contrast issues is the number 16. (disclaimer, I am not a ghost hunter, and can explain most things as shadows, or imagination,) I am intrigued, and have marked the calendar for 16 days, and 16 weeks, so we’ll see if there is any meaning.I’ll let you know if we see or hear anything tonight.

My son Dana , my dil Brittany and I went out to Guernsey Hollow cemetery in Nov. 2010 around 10:30 pm. It was bitter cold that night so we decided not to stay long. I took shots with my camera and only got an occasional orb. Orbs do not thrill me because I for one think they are just dirt or moisture floating through the air. Dana was cold so he went and stood by the fence where you come into the cemetery. Brittany and I were coming down the hill towards Dana when she stopped and said she heard leaves rustling behind us. I told her it was probably a squirrel or chipmunk running through the leaves. We got to where Dana waited and Brittany asked him if we were leaving and he said I guess so. The whole time we were there I had the digital recorder running, our stay was only 13 minutes due to the cold bitter weather. When i got home I transfered the audio from my recorder to the computer and listened to see if we caught anything. I was shocked that we got three EVPS in the 13 minutes that we were there. The first EVP was right after Brittany stated that she heard leaves rustling behind us and we got what sounded like ” Ahh ” , which we did not hear at the time or we would of tagged it. The second EVP was the clearest one I have ever caught. When Brittany asked Dana if we were leaving and he responded with I guess so, you can clearly hear ” Please don’t leave me ! ” it was either a young child or an adult female, it was hard to tell. As we were walking down the trail back to the car we caught another ” Ahh “. We did not hear any of these 3 EVPS at the time we were there or we would have tagged them.