Now known as the Lower Naugatuck River Valley, from 1638 to 1655 this area was known as The New Haven Coloney. Its Northern most border, stretched from the modern-day towns of Naugatuck to Meriden. Its eastern border went from Meriden to New Haven, and it’s western from Naugatuck to Bridgeport. To the south of course was Long Island Sound. Although not connected the New Haven colony also held a small area of land in the area of Stamford and Greenwich. One interesting find is that its western border going to Bridgeport goes along what is now Route 8. Perhaps this is how Route 8 found its way. At any rate, being the fact that this was the New Haven colony, this does explain why these towns look a lot older than a lot of other town’s in Connecticut.

Who are the Gunn’s? The history of the Gunn family is not hard to find. Going way back even before the colony of Connecticut. The first to arrive to Connecticut was Scottish born Jasper Gunn (1606-1670). His first journey was from London to Boston on October 8, 1635. He and his wife then made their way to Roxbury CT. Looking to start his own small colony, Jasper with several other families from Roxbury and Dorchester purchased even more land from the local Indians. Then on November 24, 1640 this area was named the town of Milford. Being considered one of the founders of Milford, Jasper Gunn was also considered to be Milford first physician. After living in Milford for awhile, he and his family moved around Connecticut a few times, in 1647 they moved to Harford. Along with being a Doctor Jasper Gunn did many other things. He was also a deacon at the church in Milford, a lawyer (For a few cases), and sealer of weights and measures. With all his life experience, he was made the main operator at Hartford’s Mill from 1649 to 1658. At his death in 1670 he and his wife Christian had seven Children. His decedents have since spread threw out Connecticut, including Naugatuck.

The area what was once called Guntown is an 800 acre area located just off of Naugatuck’s Rubber Ave Ext. The Gunn family was said to have lived and operated a sawmill in this area sometime around the 1740’s. The Guntown cemetery lies somewhat in the middle of what this land area was, with many people buried their bearing the same name. Obviously this was the spot to where the Gunn family started burring their deceased family members, while other family soon followed suit.

Guntown cemetery is a small cemetery with a huge reputation. Even though it’s a very well known haunted area, its past really has no story to tell. Almost all haunted spots have a story to them. There is almost always a story of murder, illness, or some other misfortune attached to a spot as notorious as this place, but that is not the case with Guntown. Even if a story cannot be found in its history, someone, somewhere down the line will usually conger one up to make such a place more interesting. Most people will agree however, no such stories; real or fabricated does exist, despite the presence of ghosts. In short, no one really knows why Guntown would be haunted, or why it has the reputation that it does. I did learn one thing though, in my talks with many other paranormal groups, Guntown is a place where even the most skeptical ghost hunter could potentially change their mind. If you want to find evidence of a ghost, this is a great place to look; it almost never lets you down.

My field investigation took place on July 31, 2009, a very nice summer night. The weather warm with clear skies. I arrived there shortly before midnight, minutes before we switched to the month of August. When we parked the car on Guntown Rd. and got out, I couldn’t help but notice how dark and quite it was, and I didn’t realize on how big of an open area surrounded the cemetery, this drove my curiosity more. As always, we proceeded as we normally do with a field investigation, by taking pictures, and recording audio for possible EVP.

While we were conducting our investigation, I didn’t really get any overall negative feelings, such as getting scarred or freaked out. I didn’t feel like I was being watched like in as in other investigations, what I did feel was a very intense curiosity toward the place, as if I had something to learn from Guntown, or Guntown had something to say. While the other group members were taking pictures, I did the job of asking questions and recording with two different digital recorders. The questioned I asked were the same type of questions that I usually ask during any paranormal investigation. Questions I refer to as my “Standard Questions” examples of these questions would be something like “What is your name?” “How long have you been here?” “Do you like us being here?” “Do you have a message for someone?” etc…….

Our investigation was short, maybe 30 minutes total. None of us really though much out of the ordinary when we left. We didn’t experience paranormal while we were there at the graveyard. During the ride home however, we couldn’t help but notice that the pictures we took did have some abnormalities. These types of abnormalities are what some ghost hunters call orbs and mists. I don’t usually get over excited about pictures like these, In my personal opinion, it doesn’t provide proof of anything due to the fact that so many envormental factors can play a role in pictures like these, factors such as dust, water droplets, smoke, bugs, etc… However, go online to any paranormal website and I can guarantee you that the webpage has some sort of picture with an orb or mist. So I uploaded these pictures to my webpage, not really because I wanted to be like everyone else making a big deal about a couple of Orbs, but because some people do regard these type pictures as evidence. None of these are faked, but before I say “IT’S A GHOST!” I would most likely say “DUST!” or “WATER DROP!”   

I do however, put a good deal of emphasis into audio EVP’s depending on what comes out. It seems, for some reason, I have better luck at capturing potential EVP’s for some reason. I’ve gotten pretty good at listening to and evaluating audio. Ruling out normal background noise and picking up on unexplained phenomena. The audio I gathered at Guntown provides some of the most unexplained audio yet. This is what keeps ghosthunters going out. Now maybe someone can explain this audio to me, maybe it has a rational explanation to it, but it’s truly amazing stuff that have me the chills when I first heard it.

My first Audio Clip was of what sounding like a woman’s voice, in an English accent say the words “That’s not an Escape” or possibly “Let’s not Escape” Very clear quality. I have to say that I know without a shadow of a doubt, that no one was talking during this time the audio was taken...

This next clip is probably the most chilling one I’ve even gotten. Many people while listening to this would probably not believe that this one is real. To tell you the truth, if I were listening to someone else’s EVP recording on another site with an EVP like this, I probably wouldn’t believe it either, but all I can tell you is, I don’t have the time or the desperation to fake something like this. This EVP came when I asked the question “Why is this called Gunstown” Now I know why it’s called Guntown and I know during the recording I called it “Gunstown” I mis-spoke when I asked the question, and I asked the question in general to see what kind of response I would get. What I got was two different responses. Now, when recording during an investigation, I always use at least two different recording devices. The reason for this is so I can rule out naturally occurring things in the background. Sometimes when you hear something on one recorder, you can explain it better by listening to the other one, then you may say “It’s a car” or “It’s someone in the group” etc…. But when I listened to the same clip on the two different recording devices, I got two different responses! I never until now ever heard of this, but here they are...

The response on the first recorder started maybe 5 seconds after I asked “Why is this called Gunstown?” You can clearly hear what sounds like someone taking a gun out of a holster cocking the hammer, then “BANG!” then you hear more clicking as if the gun as then re-holstered. Very Strange

The response on the second recorder on the same question I got was totally different. Instead of hearing “BANG!” like the sound of a life like gun, you hear what sounds like a man’s voice go “KA-BANG” just as spoken words. While listening two the second recording you can tell that it was recorded by a different digital recorder because my voice sounds a little clearer.