Published today! New Book "Haunting of Hunt Memorial Library"

 It's Here!!! My 14th true paranormal book published today!!  Please order a copy and help it go to #1! Thanks, Rob

RELEASE: 25-07                                                                         January 1, 2026

New Book "Haunting of Hunt Memorial Library” Uncovers Ghostly Secrets

NASHUA, NH – The #1 selling authors of "Haunting of Emery Estate" announce their follow-up true-paranormal book, “Haunting of Hunt Memorial Library,” publishing on January 1, 2026. Together with other paranormal professionals and members of the public they uncovered a haunted secret love, illicit trysts, a ghostly teenage accident victim and haunted paintings. When reading this, you’ll feel like you’re on the paranormal investigation!

Rob Gutro, author, renowned pet medium and paranormal investigator joined Monique Toosoon, New England’s paranormal drag queen and para-technology wizard with a sensitivity to earthbound ghosts conducted a 3-hour public paranormal investigation that uncovered secrets of three ghosts in an historic building in Nashua, New Hampshire.

The team encountered three ghosts who chose the building as their residence: a century old rebellious teenager, a lost lover and another who wanted to keep his past indiscretions secret. After the initial investigation, Monique and Rob had to return to uncover the secret of the third-floor ghost with a secret past.

“Monique is one of the most talented investigators and a technical wizard,” Gutro said. “She knows how to operate countless pieces of equipment from a Phasma Box to EMF trip wire. Various pieces of equipment were used to confirm medium impressions and provide answers that unlocked the secret past of the ghosts!”

The Hunt Memorial Building was a former library location for the City of Nashua, New Hampshire. Today, the building is used for events.

The book walks you through the investigation from the beginning to the end, as the investigators and members of the public try to piece together the identities, stories, and reasons why the ghosts remained behind. There were also several emotional imprint hauntings in the building, too.

“One surprise happened when I connected with one of the public investigator’s friends in spirit who passed in a recent accident,” Gutro said.

“Haunting of Hunt Memorial Library” is Gutro’s fourteenth true paranormal book. He has four series of true paranormal best-selling books: "Pets and the Afterlife," "Ghosts on a Medium’s Vacation,” “Ghosts versus Spirits,” and the “Haunting Of” series of which this new book is a part. He is the first in the paranormal field to make the distinction between earthbound ghosts and spirits who have crossed over. Rob has encountered ghosts everywhere he has traveled. He has crossed many ghosts over and is known for sketching them.

Monique Toosoon is a captivating force in the world of drag and paranormal exploration. With a career spanning 2 decades and named New Hampshire's “Ghostess with the Mostest,” she was crowned Best Local Entertainer for four years. Monique's ascent knows no bounds, from sold-out extravaganzas across New England to riveting appearances on esteemed paranormal showcases like Dark Echoes Paranormal Show and Ghost Finders. Monique also graced the grand finale of Ghost Finders in the Fall of 2024. She is also the host of a YouTube and podcast program, “Ghosts and Glitter,”and the host of Scared Toosoon Tours.

TO ORDER - CLICK HERE- for paperback or Kindle

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Rob Gutro Contact Information:

www.robgutro.com or www.petspirits.com

Email: Rob@robgutro.com

Monique Toosoon Contact Information:

www.moniquetoosoon.com

Email: moniquetoosoon@gmail.com

The ME/NH Salmon Falls River Dam, Hydroelectric Plant & Fish!

The Salmon Falls River is the line between the states of New Hampshire to the west and Maine to the east. Recently, we drove south from where we are in Maine and followed the river into South Berwick, Maine, at the state line with Dover, New Hampshire. There was an amazing waterfall and an historic building. Today's blog provides a look at the river and the hydroelectric dam! 

(Photo: The waterfall near the Counting House, So. Berwick, Maine 6/30/24. Credit: J.C)

ABOUT SALMON FALLS RIVER - The Salmon Falls River is a tributary of the Piscataqua River in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire. It rises at Great East Lake,   and flows south-southeast for approximately 38 miles, to its confluence with the Cocheco River, forming the border between York County, Maine, and Strafford County, New Hampshire.    There are 15 dams on the river. 

Click for short video panning around the dam

(Photo: Jordan took some amazing pics of the falls -that are in this blog. Credit: R.G.) 

THE HYDROELECTRIC DAM - The hydroelectric dam borders the Town of Rollinsford, NH on one side of the river and South Berwick, Maine on the other side. It generates electricity today and is operated by Green Mountain Power Corporation. 

Most of the Project’s infrastructure including the intake, penstocks (a  floodgate for regulating the flow of a body of water or a channel for conveying water to a waterwheel or turbine). ) and a powerhouse, all on the New Hampshire side. On the Maine side is the left abutment of the dam located in South Berwick, ME. The project dam was constructed in 1910 with the addition of the penstock in 1928. The hydropower components of the project were installed in 1983.

For More info about the dam and hydroelectric plant, visit: https://lowimpacthydro.org/rollinsford-project-new-hampshire-maine/ 

(Photo: Tom (seated), Rob and Tracey enjoying the falls. Credit: R.G.)

ABOUT THE POWER BUILDING - The Powerhouse, the building that houses the turbines and generate the energy from the falls, is a 38-foot-long by 60-foot-wide brick masonry structure. You can look in the windows of the Powerhouse and see 2 identical vertical 750-kilowatt (kW) Siemens Allis synchronous generators each with an output voltage of 4,160 volts and two identical vertical James Leffel Co. Type “Z” Francis turbines, each having a rated output of 1,000 horsepower (hp) and operating at 360 revolutions per minute (rpm) at a rated flow of 228 cubic feet per second (cfs). (If you're an hydro electric engineer, you get this. If not, just work with me here)  

A HAVEN FOR FISH - There are fish that migrate and those who do not. The migrating Diadromous fish (those who live part of their lives in Fresh water and part in salt water) who live in the Salmon Falls River include American shad, American eel, and river herring (blueback herring and alewife). Atlantic salmon were also present up until around 1750 as upstream dams, overfishing, and sawdust pollution disrupted these runs until salmon no longer returned to the river. 

OTHER FISH SPECIES THERE - If you're into fishing you'll want to know that yellow perch, largemouth bass, bluegill, golden shiner, brown bullhead, redfin pickerel, white sucker, black crappie, bluegill, several species of bass and fallfish also dwell there.     

AN UPSTREAM FISH PROJECT IN THE WORKS - 

American shad have not been recorded in the reach between the South Berwick and Rollinsford projects. Passage facilities at the South Berwick project have been utilized by river herring thus upstream fish passage is currently in development at the Rollinsford project. Passage will be completed on site by 2026 or via trap and truck operations by 2025. There are 3 partners working together:   US Fish and Wildlife Service, Maine Department of Marine Resources, and NH Fish and Game. 

 

OTHER DAMS ON THE RIVER - Upstream of the Rollinsford Project, there were historically 24 dams, but some have been removed, breached, or are in ruins. Today, there are 15 dams on the Salmon Falls River, seven of which are used for hydropower generation. The other dams are used for flood control, water supply, and recreation.

(Photo: Map that shows the Salmon Falls Riverway at the small park  Taken April 30, 2024. Credit: R.G.) 

A SPOT WE LIKE - Counting House Park is located adjacent to the historic Counting House (which I'll explain shortly), and has a parking lot for about 15 cars. There's a small riverside walk (you can walk it in 5 minutes) with a beautiful view of a large waterfall, the sound of which is very soothing. The sun also sets behind the falls, painting the sky and giving a nice image. Sometimes we take the dogs there in the truck and listen to the waterfall as the sun sets.

(Photo: Sunset over nearby Somersworth, NH, April 2024. Credit: R.G.) 

Idiot of the Week: How 1 reaction to a mural tore a New Hampshire town apart

 It's astounding that a small town in New Hampshire who listened to one right-wing bigoted idiot who wanted to incite hatred, division and intolerance. She succeeded by splitting the town. This week's idiot, Carrie Gendreau, an evangelical Christian, said that a building mural of birch trees and flowers were spreading the "gay agenda."  It's amazing how 1 psycho can use religion to destroy personal relationships in a small town. This is a lesson to all people- Don't listen to these "evangelical" wackos. They're out to destroy people's lives. Here's the story.

(Photo: Idiot of the week Carrie Gendreau, one of the select board members in Littleton, NH) 

How 1 reaction to a mural tore a New Hampshire town apart

The 6,000 residents of Littleton had found a way to coexist despite their differences — until a town official’s words set off a conflagration.

John Tully /Jenna Russell The New York Times April 29, 2024

LITTLETON, N.H. — Few were present at the select board meeting in Littleton, New Hampshire, in August when Carrie Gendreau, one of its members, began to talk about a mural that had recently been painted on the side of a building downtown.

Until that moment, it had not attracted much attention. Its subject matter — a blooming iris, dandelions, birch trees — did not seem controversial.

But for Gendreau, 62, who was also a state senator representing northern New Hampshire, the mural had set off alarms. She was certain there were subversive messages in its imagery, planted there by the nonprofit group that had planned and paid for it.

(Photo: the painting of 2 Birch trees that Gendreau apparently thinks is offensive. ) 

The group was North Country Pride, founded four years ago to build more visible support for LGBTQ+ people in the rural region.

“We need to be very careful,” Gendreau said at the meeting. She urged residents to “research” what the mural “really means,” and called for closer oversight of other public art. “I don’t want that to be in our town,” she said.

Long before Gendreau raised her concerns, igniting an uprising against her, people in Littleton knew they did not all think alike. Half had voted for Joe Biden in 2020; half supported President Donald Trump. Still, they thought they had an understanding: that they would do their best to get along, often by keeping their politics or religious beliefs to themselves. This was New Hampshire, after all, where the state motto is “live free or die.”

(Photo; Painting of a flower that this week's idiot also thinks is "offensive.") 

As word spread about Gendreau’s comments, many in the town of 6,000 saw them as a jarring break in protocol.

“I was friends with Carrie,” said Kerri Harrington, an acupuncturist who had followed local government and respected Gendreau’s diligent work on the board. “I knew our politics were different, I knew she was religious, but there are a lot of religious people here.”

“This was the first time I realized she had that agenda,” Harrington said.

Gendreau, an evangelical Christian who said she got calls from as far away as Australia denouncing her in profane language after news outlets reported on her comments, clung to her convictions.

“I told them, ‘I hope God opens your vision,’” she said of her detractors. “I told them, ‘I love you, and I don’t want to fight back.’”

Harrington, 52, had helped start North Country Pride and served as one of its leaders. The group had built on the area’s long-standing reputation as a welcoming destination for gay travelers, at a moment when the pandemic had infused Littleton with a diverse influx of newcomers.

Her first instinct was to reach out to Gendreau. When they met to talk about the mural, she said, Gendreau urged her to read a book, “The Return of the Gods,” by doomsday evangelist and bestselling author Jonathan Cahn. It warns of America’s descent into evil, citing gay rights as an example of moral decay destroying the country.

The book helped her see why Gendreau was upset, Harrington said. And it left her deeply worried about what might come next.

As in other small towns across the country, the people of Littleton had found a way to coexist despite their differences — at times by avoiding topics likely to divide them. Now, the divide was front and center. And as the anger rose, and the split grew wider, many wondered how it would ever mend.

Before she made the comments that plunged Littleton into tumult, Gendreau had occasionally injected her religious faith into municipal business. When the board hired Jim Gleason as town manager in 2021, he was startled by the words she used to offer him the job.

“God wants you in Littleton,” he recalled her saying. Not long after that, Gendreau began starting select board meetings with a prayer.

It had not been easy for Gleason to leave his home in Florida. His wife of 44 years, a teacher nearing retirement, had stayed behind. They were still grieving the loss of their oldest son, Patrick, who died of pancreatitis at age 35 in 2016.

Gleason had embraced his son when he came out as gay at 16. He had never expected open homophobia from elected leaders in New Hampshire.

Soon after Gendreau’s remarks about the mural, residents began flooding the local paper with angry letters. A local bank asked her to resign from its board of directors, she said, pointing to the “hurt” she had caused; she complied. Encouraged by North Country Pride to raise their voices, hundreds of people showed up to condemn Gendreau’s views at select board meetings in September and October.

Many hoped she might apologize, or step down from the select board — or that the other two board members would publicly reject her views. Instead, they said little, and Gendreau doubled down. (Editor's note; Look what this hateful bitch said - yes, I said bitch) In October, in an interview with The Boston Globe, Gendreau called homosexuality an “abomination” and warned of “twisted preferences” she saw “creeping into our community.” She also spoke out against a well-known musical about a gay couple, “La Cage Aux Folles,” that was being staged at the Littleton Opera House by a local theater group that had made the town-owned building its home for a decade.

Fun at the Granite State Comic Con!

 One of the advantages of moving north to New England is a bunch of comic conventions in the 6 New England states, and several are close enough to drive to. One of them is the Granite State Comic Con in Manchester, New Hampshire which I recently attended. Today's blog has some of the pictures from the event.

(Photo: Rob and Princess Leia and Han Solo of Star Wars Fame at comic con)

(Photo Right: Star Wars Storm Troopers at Comic Con) 

As an avid comic book reader and collector, I love going to comic cons to buy older comics from the 1970s and 1980s. I used to have many of them but when I graduated from college and moved out of the house, I couldn't take them with me, and I was forced to give half of them away to a local comics shop (I decision I have always regretted). Now, I'm buying them back at higher prices. Oh, well. 

(Photo right: Pokemon and other characters at the Granite State Comic Con) 

(Photo right: The Ghost Busters and their inflatable, giant Stay Puff Marshmallow Man from the movie - at the Comic con.) 

One thing I usually do at Comic Cons is dress up as a superhero, but having just moved north the previous month, I wasn't prepared to go hunting for my costumes, so I went as "a civilian." :) But there were some cool costumes there, that included the mysterious 1940s DC comics hero - Dr. Fate; Star Wars' Han Solo and Princess Leia, Ghost Busters, and even Pokemon characters. 

Next year, I'll go in costume. This year, I did have fun seeing the costumes and comic book shopping. Hope you enjoy the pictures!- Rob 

WHO IS DR. FATE? - Since you're reading this, you may as well learn something about a famous comic book superhero. So, here's the background on Dr. Fate! 

(Photo: This comic con attendee had an amazing costume likeness of Dr. Fate!) 

Doctor Fate, also known as Fate is the name of several superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first version was originally created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Sherman, debuting in More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940). His alter ego was Kent Nelson whose wife, Inga, lived with him in a castle tower in Salem, Massachusetts. Fate got his mystic powers from Nabu, a cosmic entity linked to the Lords of Order and Mesopotamian deities.

   Over the decades, several other people have taken up the mantle of Dr. Fate, but  I'll always see him as Kent Nelson from the 1940s.  

Can't wait to go back NEXT YEAR: https://www.granitecon.com/