HISTORY:
Eglington Cemetery is the oldest (still in continuous operation) cemetery in the United States. Originally the land was set apart as a cemetery by John Eglington in his last will and testament in 1776.
CLAIMS of ACTIVITY:
Various phenomena such as visual apparitions to intense flashes of light have been reported.
INVESTIGATION:
Date: 04/17/2010
Time: 7pm to 1am
Moon Phase: New Moon
Weather: Clear skies and unseasonably cold
Location: Eglington Cemetery, East Greenwich, NJ
Investigators present: Claudia, Cathy, John, Lynn and Sean
We appreciate and thank the Eglington Cemetery staff for allowing us to come in and investigate.
We had an interesting night of motion sensors going off and equipment failure. As we investigated the reports of intense flashes of light that have been seen we found a variety of solar lights placed of grave sites throughout, that combined with passing car lights made it difficult to capture such phenomena.
We also set up motion sensors and video cameras to see if we could capture any apparitions moving about in the oldest section of the graveyard. To our amazement we witnessed the sensors going off several times with no one in the are. Upon closer investigation with a thermal camera we realized that neighboring cats were wondering in front of the sensors and setting them off.
We did have a brief experience of equipment failure after an investigator asked the if someone could mess around with his colleagues equipment. At that time one investigator experience an issue with their cell phone and had to soft reboot it while another investigator experienced an issue with their camera.
Interesting, but not Paranormal - One of our investigators did capture the following picture displaying a rainbow of light and one of the cats found at Eglington.
