New Hope cemetery’s history includes not only being a cemetery from the pre-Civil War era, but it is also the site of the battle of New Hope in the Civil War. This cemetery has been used to bury the dead before the war, during the war, and after the war, and is still used to this day. History has tales of the battle of New Hope where the Confederate soldiers used the tomb stones to shield themselves from the gun fire of the North. The soldiers that died were buried on site at the cemetery. Their grave markers are stones from around the area, which are still in the cemetery to this day. The battle of New Hope was a victory for the South, as the cemetery and the land around was a death trap for the North. There are many ghost stories about the cemetery from seeing Civil War soldiers, smelling and seeing gun smoke to hearing gun shots and cannon fire.

One witness, an employee of New Hope Church, tells of seeing people in the cemetery at sunset mourning over graves then disappearing.

On another note one witness of the Southern Airways flight 242 plane crash of 1977 was standing in this cemetery and recalls seeing the plane going over head and hearing the crash. A memorial plaque for the 72 deaths of the plane crash is also in the cemetery.

On our investigation we were able to catch several EVPs, ghost box recordings, a picture of a man in dated clothes that was not present at the time, and the sound of cannon fire at sunset.  There were several EMF spikes at the cemetery, where there are no power sources, cold spots in the summer time, and the sounds of someone walking on the gravel behind you where no one present. The wildest thing about the whole night was when it got dark, about 15 minutes after the cannon fire sound, we started smelling gun smoke and the cameras couldn’t pick up any video through the darkness with flash lights or IR lighting. It was almost like being on a battle field how strong the smell of burnt gun power was.