October 22, 2024 • 45 mins
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is known as the location of one of the largest, most expensive, and deadliest battles of the American Civil War. There were an estimated 50,000 casualties during the bloody days at Gettysburg, and the nightmare of that battle never ended for some of the poor souls killed there. Some believe that the souls of those who suffered there may still roam across the hallowed grounds of the battlefield and throughout the town.
SOURCES
Ghosts of Gettysburg: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield – January 1, 1991; by Mark Nesbitt
https://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/the-ghosts-of-gettysburg/
https://destinationgettysburg.com/trip-ideas/a-day-in-haunted-gettysburg/
https://gettysburgmuseumofhauntedobjects.com/
https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/history/articles/ghosts-of-gettysburg
https://usghostadventures.com/category/haunted-cities/gettysburgs-most-haunted/
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SOURCES
Ghosts of Gettysburg: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield – January 1, 1991; by Mark Nesbitt
https://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/the-ghosts-of-gettysburg/
https://destinationgettysburg.com/trip-ideas/a-day-in-haunted-gettysburg/
https://gettysburgmuseumofhauntedobjects.com/
https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/history/articles/ghosts-of-gettysburg
https://usghostadventures.com/category/haunted-cities/gettysburgs-most-haunted/
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Dark Cast Network. Welcome to the dark Side of podcasting. Hey, hey,
welcome back to Autumn's Oddities. I'm Autumn h you guys.
I'm so freaking excited to show you my Halloween costume.
My parents are taking the kids this coming weekend. It
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was kind of the last minute decision, so my husband
and I actually get to do something for Halloween. I
don't think we've got to go out in a couple
of years. And I had to scour the deepest recesses
of Amazon to piece together what I think will be
a very cryptid costumb I've got something like six pieces
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to make, Like I'm dying fabric and everything. I'm homemaking it,
even though like I purchased items, I'm making every part
of it. I think it's gonna come together pretty nicely.
I'll make sure to share on social media, although you
all know how much I suck at posting. That said,
let's get into today's case, which has absolutely nothing to
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do with social media. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is known as the
location of one of the largest, most expensive, and deadliest
battles of the American Civil War, with over fifty thousand
estimated casualties and sidebar. Casualties don't mean deaths. It means
injuries and deaths, not just deaths. The famous Battle of
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Gettysburg in eighteen sixty three is widely believed to mark
the war's turning point. Over one hundred and sixty years
have passed since those three bloody days at Gettysburg, but
some believe the nightmare of the battle never ended for
some of the poor souls killed there. Some believe that
the haunted souls of those who suffered there may still
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roam across the hallowed grounds of the battlefield and throughout
the town. The Battle of Gettysburg at the beginning of
July eighteen sixty three, and you're gonna hear me repeat,
largest costliest in turning point like a whole bunch of times,
was the largest and costliest battle of the American Civil War,
and is often regarded as the turning point. Confederate General
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Robert E. Lee sought to capitalize in his victories earlier
in the year, such as the Battle of Chancellorsville, by
launching his second invasion of the Northern States. He did
this to alleviate the pressure on the Virginia farmland, which
the preceding campaigns had ravaged, and all so in an
attempt to force the Union into negotiations to end the war.
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In June, General Lice forces marched through Virginia into Pennsylvania
and were pursued by Union forces led by Major General
Joseph Hooker. Major Hooker and later Major General George G. Meade.
The armies met near the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on
the morning of July first. On the first day of fighting,
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the Confederates won control of much of the area surrounding
the town, while the Union held the lands to the south.
On the second day, reinforcements arrived on both sides, and
while the Confederate forces tried flanking the entrenched and heavily
defended Union forces, they had very limited success. At one
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pm on the third day of battle, Generally launched what
was probably the largest artillery bombardment of the entire war,
and two hours later he ordered Pickett's Charge, which saw
roughly twelve thousand, five hundred Confederate troops charged the Union
forces entrenched on Cemetery Ridge. The bombardment had little effect
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on the Union defenses, and the oncoming soldiers suffered heavy
casualties before being forced to retreat, marking an end to
the battle and a victory for the Union. Gettysburg has
been described as the bloodiest battle of the war, as
not only were the casualties higher than in any other battle,
but the depletion of ammunition stocks led to a much
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more close quarters hand to hand combat on the final day.
All in all, the Battle of Gettysburg claimed the lives
of more than seven thousand, five hundred soldiers, more than
any major Civil War battle between eighteen sixty one and
eighteen sixty five. Of the ten deadliest battles of the
American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was by far
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the most devastating, like I said, claiming over fifty one
thousand casualties, of which seven thousand were battle death. So
think about that, like seventy five hundred men died on
one field during one battle. The battles of Shiloh, Bull
Run and Teetum Stones River and Chancellorsville have very similar
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casualty counts, between twenty two point five and twenty four
thousand casualties each. And it should be noted that the
Battle of Antietam took place in a single day, just
one and with twenty two thousand, seven hundred and seventeen casualties.
It is the bloodiest single day in US history. The
battles of Chickamauga, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania all had approximately
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thirty to thirty five thousand casualties each, whereas the Siege
of Vicksburg is the only entry on the list with
less than twenty thousand casualties. And I bet you didn't
think you were getting it hissed in American history lesson today,
But it's important to know what happened and why. I
think anyway, there are actually a lot of ghosts in Gettysburg.
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Over one hundred and sixty five thousand men took part
in the Battle of Gettysburg, with roughly one third becoming casualties.
The battle also saw the deaths of six Confederate and
five Union generals, which was more than any other battle
in the war. Although the war would not end for
another two years, this battle is seen by many, as
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you guessed it, the turning point and also the closest
the Confederacy came to accomplishing their goal of complete cessation
from the Union. Before this, the Confederacy had won more
decisive battles than the Union, but after Gettysburg this shifted
in favor of the Union, who would go on to
win the war. In eighteen sixty five, four months after
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the battle, President Abraham Lincoln gave his very famous Gettysburg
Address starts out four score and seven years ago, which
paid tribute to the men who fell in battle and
has gone on to become one of the most famous
speeches in American history. More than seventy five hundred soldiers
died at the Battle of Gettysburg and were buried quickly
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without proper rights, many to be forgotten, just in a
hole somewhere mass graves dug and them thrown in with
no marker. So it's no wonder that spirits are said
to roam throughout the town and of course the battle
field of Gettysburg. Reports of phantom apparitions, bone tingling cries
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of wounded soldiers, ghostly Civil War music, and even the
eerie sound of horse hooves in places where horses fell victim.
And apparently ghosts can also be horses, or horses can
be ghosts. That's apparently pretty common to hear horse hoofs,
just disembodied sounds of horse hoofs. So there are scores
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of ghostly stories and supernatural incidents reported by past visitors
to the historic Gettysburg Battlefield Throughout the last century. Countless
ghost hunters who pilgrimage to the legendary site have shared
tales of strange and often inexplicable experiences and encounters in
the area. I myself have never been. That's probably a
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bucket list trip for me. Maybe just drive up north
and hit everything on the East coast like Salem, etc. Etc.
It sounds super fun. Numerous reports exist from various parts
of the park that the battlefield is in of apparitions
of phantom soldiers marching in formation or mounted on horseback
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as if still fighting in battle. And what a horrible
way to spend your afterlife, truly, These ghosts are said
to haunt the fields where pickets Charge took place, the
slopes of Little Round Top, the Peach Orchard, the Wheat Field,
and numerous other famous battlefield sites in the aptly name
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Valley of Death. Apparitions of soldiers have been more frequently
reported in the nearby adjacent area known as the Triangular Field.
There have been dozens of anecdotal reports from fairly reliable
witnesses who claimed unexplained malfunctions of cameras, recorders, and electronic
equipment specific to that area. One especially high concentration of
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ghostly sightings and strange experiences seems to center on the
area called the Devil's Den, and of course the area
surrounding it. The ghosts of Gettysburg seem especially drawn to
this place this famous rock formation, the Devil's Den. It's
an elevated outcropping of large, kind of haphazard boulders, and
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it served as a Confederate sniper's nest for much of
the battle and was the site of some particularly vicious fighting.
Initial ghost sightings began in the area shortly after the
battle and have been a regular occurrence ever since. Dim
spectral soldiers have been spotted among the rocks by many
visitors at varying times of day and night, and witnesses
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have reported here unexplained battle sounds echoing among the forbidding
jumble of rocks in otherwise totally quiet moments. Several photographers
have reportedly captured fleeting images of one ghost soldier. He's
described as an unkempt, long haired figure, shoeless in ragged
clothing wearing a floppy brimmed hat. In some cases, it's
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been reported that the spirit actually spoke aloud to a
witness before suddenly vanishing without a trace. There are also
reports of a ghostly cavalryman on horseback who appears in
the area only to vanish soon after, as well as
numerous reports of phantom sounds like I said, gunfire, shouting voices,
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and cries of anguish again, all completely unexplained. Dozens of
photographs exist today in private collections they're on the Internet
that are alleged evidence of supernatural activity in the area.
One of the most famous and enigmatic ghostly manifestations in
Gettysburg has become known as the Phantom Regiment, the ghostly
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remnants of a Confederate unit that still haunts the battlefield today,
their ghostly drums and footsteps echoing through the night. Visitors
and of course ghost hunters, have reported seeing the ghostly
procession of soldiers in tattered but strangely unidentifiable uniforms still
marching information on the battlefield at odd hours of the night.
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Some witnesses have heard phantom drums and the distant sound
of musket fire on the battlefield. Others claim to have
seen these ghostly apparitions standing among the gravestones in the
Gettysburg National Cemetery. These spectral sightings have become an integral
part of Gettysburg's haunted landscape. The Lady in White is
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another famous Gettysburg specter, known for her ethereal presence and
sorrowful demeanor. Legend has it that the Lady in White
roams the battlefield and the historic town, her figure draped
in a flowing white dress that seems to glow in
the moonlight. Witnesses describe her as seeming lost and forlorn,
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her face etched with sadness. Some believe she is the
ghost of a woman who lost her beloved during the
Civil War, forever searching for him among the countless graves
and battle sites. Again, We're a horrible, horrible way to
spend your afterlife. The Tilly Pierce House is known for
its supernatural occurrences as well, particularly the presence of a
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young girl's ghost. Often referred to as the Tilly Pierce Housegirl,
this specter is said to haunt the historic building with
her laughter and footsteps. Tilly Pierce was a real historical figure.
She was a young girl who lived in Gettysburg during
the Civil War, and some believe that the ghostly laughter
and footsteps heard in the Tilly Pierce House are connected
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to her, as if her spirit where she once lived
the Jenny Wade House. And if you haven't guessed by
an hour or picked up on it, I am telling
you the most haunted place is in Gettysburg. So if
you want to visit, you know where to go. And
there's a lot. This is a pretty good long list.
The Jenny Wade House has been featured on the television
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programs Ghost Labs and Ghost Adventures and is widely reputed
to be an extremely haunted place. It's the location where
Mary Virginia Jenny Wade, the only civilian casualty of the
Battle of Gettysburg, was shot and killed. And this is
such a sad story. Jenny was just twenty years of
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age when her life came to a sudden and tragic end.
A stray bullet from the battlefield outside pierced a wooden door,
continuing into the kitchen where she stood, striking Jenny in
the heart and ending her young life. In the years since,
visitors have reported hearing strange and unexplained movements, unanswered voices
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and the fearful moaning of disembodied spirits at various places
in the house. The area around the modern Double Day Inn,
known as Iverson's Pits, is widely linked to local paranormal activity,
since it is directly located just adjacent to the former
site of the Forny Farmhouse. Notoriously, the location of a
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mass grave site known as Iverson's Pit yikes, warrying God's name,
would they put a freaking hotel there? An entire brigade
of North Carolinian soldiers was needlessly slaughtered near there and
buried in mass where they fell. Even after the remains
were exhumed and relocated, the former location of the mass
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grave has given rise to numerous reports of floating orbs
and hovering lights, strange mists, and shadowy figures said to
wander the adjoining fields at dusk and Yeah, if I
got slaughtered and thrown into a frickin' hole with a
bunch of other bodies, you best believe I'm gonna haunt
the shit out of that place. I don't care if
you move my body. I'll stay forever in perpetuity. Those
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mean the same thing. The sex covered bridge on Waterworks
Road is reputed to be one of the most haunted
spots of no all of Gettysburg. And I know I
keep saying that, Oh, they're all the most haunted. The
wandering spirit, They're haunted. The wandering spirits of three hanged
Confederate deserters are believed to haunt the vicinity of the
picturesque bridge at various times of the day and night,
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and reported paranormal experiences on the bridge include the spectral
smell of phantom cigar smoke, the sound of disembodied cannons
firing in the distance, or the sensation of suddenly feeling
a tap on the shoulder, only to turn around and
find no one there. I'm not about a ghost touching me. Ever,
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If I feel like a physical like touch from something
and there's nothing there, I'm out. I'm done. I'll burn
that bridge to the ground. And that's how it goes.
Next is Gettysburg College, known as Pennsylvania College at the
time of the eighteen sixty three battle. The campus was
located amid the fighting, its structures providing shelter for the
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wounded and dying. And that's how it went during battles
of the Civil War. You know, they'd come to a town,
they'd fight, and they'd the soldiers would just kind of
take over the houses, which you're allowed to do. That's
actually something you're allowed to do in American law. They
would kind of commandeer houses with people still living in
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them and turn them into hospitals, shelters, so on and
so forth. So you would have people dying in just
somebody's random house, like a bunch of soldiers be you know,
with their arms being amputated and so on and so forth. Nightmare,
nightmare stuff. Really, there's a town like that here in
Kentucky that is supposed to be extremely haunted, but it's
not too far from me. I would like to take
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a day trip if I could ever find the time
or like focus long enough to do that. So its
main building, Pennsylvania Hall, constructed in eighteen thirty seven and
nicknamed Old Dorm, served as a Confederate field hospital during
the battle. Since then, there has been much paranormal activity
at what some call the Haunted College. Students and staff
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members report seeing ghostly figures of soldiers pacing back and
forth in the kupola of the building, and the shadowy
figure of a Confederate century has been spotted in the tower,
sometimes gesturing wildly to the watchers below. Two college administrators
leaving the building one night reported that the elevator doors
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opened onto the gruesome scene of a Civil War era
operating room packed with the wounded and dying, yet completely
eerily silent. When the elevator door closed and reopened, the
scene vanished again. My solution, I'm gonna burn that building
to the ground. Don't take me seriously, like, don't report
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me as a possible arsonist. I've never burned down a building.
But if I saw that, if the elevator doors opened
and I saw a completely silent, just gory scene of
men missing limbs and bleeding and dying and there's no
freaking sound, I'm out. I'm out, and I'm gonna burn it.
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I'm gonna burn it down to the ground. And that's it. See,
I'm not an arsonist because I haven't seen that? Is
it arson? If it's completely justifiable, like you know, like that,
like what the hell is that? Nobody wants to see that.
I understand it happened, but good sweet god, why would
you like show that to just some poor administrator trying
to leave at night? Then there's the Children's Orphanage. It
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was originally a private home. During the famous battle, it
was converted into yet again a makeshift hospital for the
wounded soldiers. It's cellar filled with the bodies of the
dead and dying. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the facility
was converted into the National Soldier's Orphanage Homestead, which was
an orphanage two house children who had lost their parents
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in the battle. Just incredibly said. After Rosa J. Carmichael
assumed the post of headmistress, it was rumored that she
tortured and chained orphaned children in a dungeon she secretly
created in the cellar there. So she's like a Madame
La Lorrie, but with children. I hope she is just
burning in hell. Supernatural manifestations that occur at the site
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since are often attributed to Carmichael and the lost souls
of her tormented victims. I hope they're tormenting her truly.
The Grove is an area that lies a few hundred
yards from the base of East Cemetery Hill. This area
was the site of a brutal exchange between two regiments
of Ohio Regulars versus the Louisiana Tigers a Confederate unit
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primarily made up of New Orleans prison inmates. The casualties
on both sides were terrible, resulting in the creation of
again unmarked mass graves throughout the area. Fantastic a road
was laid through the grove in nineteen sixty three, accidentally
unearthing the remains of several soldiers. There have been sightings
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here of the ghost of a young girl believed to
be a disturbed victim of post battle mental stress, who
did commit suicide not long after the battle. With a
large record of photo evidence depicting orbs, mist and other
odd phenomena, the grove is considered to buy a lot
of paranormal investigators to be a very active area for
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ghosts of Gettysburg. The historic Dobbin House is an old
inn that existed during the Civil War. The ghost of
a Confederate soldier is said to stare forlornly out of
one of the second floor windows. This old stone house
was also an important stopping point on the underground railroad.
Enslaved people who hid here en route to freedom further
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north were forced to conceal themselves for lengthy periods of
time in tiny, secret hiding places usually located beneath the
floor or in the walls. In particular, in this inn,
they were in the floor in the walls. Those hiding
places still exist and can be seen by modern visitors.
It's believed that the ghost of the inn's owner and founder,
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Alexander Dobbin, still appears at various places throughout the inn,
always smoking a cigar. Some believe that many of the
enslaved people who came to this house in search of
freedom and safety may have returned here from beyond the
grave or else. The spirits of some who never survived
their flight to reach this place may have eventually arrived
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anyway and stayed. Spectral manifestations of the ghosts of Gettysburg,
including the spirits of enslaved people and lost soldiers, have
both been seen haunting the building, and I hate this.
Unexplained blood stains are said to manifest on the floorboards,
only to disappear in the light of day. I hate that.
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I don't again if blood just shows up and then
disappears in my wooden floors, probably good brain floors. I
love that. That's my solution to everything. I don't love it,
but you know that is my solution to everything, And
I'm really really glad that. Uh, I've never had blood
peer randomly on my floorboards and then disappear, because I
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would honestly probably take an axe and just start like chopping.
You're like, nope, nu, huh, nope. Oh, you're gonna do
it everywhere, all right, We'll have no floors. Then we'll
just have no floors. I'll make straw floors. We'll see
what happens. We'll just construct a barn and live in it.
Next is the farnsworthin It's believed by some that the
house is presently haunted by no less than sixteen distinct spirits,
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including that of an eight year old boy, several Civil
War soldiers, and a former midwife you guessed it. Disembodied
breathing grunts, voices, and the musical strains of a jaw harp,
along with the strong scent of cigars, have been experienced
by guests who visit the home throughout the years. Multiple
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photographs of a spiritual manifestation have been taken through the
window of one of the exterior guest rooms seen from
the street below. The Hoffman Mansion, once known as Hoffman Farm,
was a one hundred and twenty three acre dairy farm
owned by the Hoffman family. Like other homes in the
Gettysburg area, the Hoffman mansion was reportedly used again as
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a field hospital for Union troops during and after Picket's charge.
During battle, many wounded soldiers brought to such makeshift field
hospitals perished, and some believe their spirits still linger there.
It's also said that one of the Hoffman's daughters supposedly
hung herself inside the home in response to her suit
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in fidelity. Some say that her spirit still haunts the
upstairs attic. Photographs routinely capture images of orbs and other
phenomena inside the house. It's also believed that the doctor
in charge of the Hoffman field hospital still haunts the site.
A shadowy black shape is rumored to appear in corners
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of the home, often as an omen of bad luck.
And that's why you sage the corners when you saved
your house, sage the corners. Evil lives in corners. Doors
open and close on their own volition or of their
own volition throughout the building, and disembodied voices, strange sounds,
and actual physical contact with entities have been reported. No
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no has someone invented like spectral pepper spray because we
need to get on it. Oh, it's probably Sage, same thing,
I guess. Next is the George George House. Uh huh,
that's what I said. The George House. Hervant's old time
photos with an e on old and a t y
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me for time is the current business occupying what many
call the Reynolds Death House. The building was owned by
Gettysburg local George George. You heard that right. He's got
hateful parents or he had hateful parents at the time
of the battle, and it served as a temporary resting
place for famous Union Major General John F. Reynolds. Mortally
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wounded on the morning of the first day of the battle,
Reynolds's body was brought back to this building, where legend
has it his blood seeped into the floorboards and stains
are said to reappear now and then. No, absolutely not.
The house is believed to be haunted by at least
four different ghosts, including the General, his fiance Catherine Hewitt,
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the spirit of a teenage boy, and a mischievous fourth
ghost known only as the Liar. I don't think that's
a ghost. I think you got a little poltergeist on
your hands. There are several once private residences scattered across
the battlefield where supernatural activity is alleged to have occurred
over the past, you know, nearly two hundred years. Many
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of these homes are now property of the National Park Service,
and most were used during the battle as take a guest,
makeshift field hospitals, and shelters for the wounded and dying.
Some say they continue to host visitations by the ghosts
of Gettysburg. Next is the George Weikert House. This small
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house has experienced several unexplained occurrences throughout the years, including
a door on the second floor that refuses to stay
closed even when nailed shut. I don't like that at all.
Past tenants have also reported the sound of unexplained footsteps
pacing back and forth in the empty attic overhead, even
though the attic is deserted, there's nothing in it. I
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hate that. Next we have the hummelbaw House. Confederate Brigadier
General William Barksdale was wounded while leading a charge on
Seminary Ridge and was brought to the Humbleball House. For
whatever reason. Barksdale was last seen lying in front of
the house while a young boy was giving him water
with a spoon. Barksdale called over and over for water
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as his life slipped away in the years. Sense legend
has it that on some nights, the general's spectral voice
is still heard crying out and calling for water, and
that's very sad. Another story related to Barksdale's death involves
the spirit of his favorite hunting hound, who lay down
atop his grave and refused to eat or to drink,
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howling incessantly for his lost master. The dog finally died
on the spot where his owner had lain, and it
said that each year, on the anniversary of Barksdale's death,
the howls of the ghostly hound can still be heard.
And that's a good boy. He's a good boy, a
good good boy. The Rose farm, which during the battle
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was used again as a field hospital, oh in this
time a burial ground, is another very very haunted place.
I wonder why hundreds of Confederate and Federal soldiers were
buried in rows all around the house and the property,
and I'd be like, can you freaking not, dude, I
live here, Please don't. They would later be exhumed in
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November eighteen sixty three, although the reclamation process would take
years because honestly, I don't know how they were identifying
bodies back then. I don't know if they did dog tags,
if they had any sort of identification on them, I
honestly don't know. A local doctor reported that one of
the daughters on the Rose Farm went insane during the exhumations.
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I might too, if I had to see all around
my house just mutilated, rotting corpses coming up out of
the ground, I might too. She apparently had lived through
both the battle and its aftermath, and it was just
too much. Allegedly, she claimed to have seen blood flowing
from the walls of the house, and I believe that, truly,
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there can't be that many people that died violently, just
thrown into holes all around your friggin house, and something
not happen. During the nineteen thirties, the Civilian Conservation Corps
recorded the story of a farm worker at the Rose
Farm shortly after the battle, who reportedly saw a strange,
glowing shape that appeared near the graves of the slain soldiers.
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Then there's the Baladari Inn. Built in eighteen twelve as
a farmhouse, The Baladeri Inn served as a field hospital
during the Civil War, with many This is horrible unanestetized
amputations being carried out in the great room. No, I
cannot imagine. I don't think I would ever go to
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this place. As well as the ghosts of Confederate soldiers,
the inn also plays host to the ghost of a
woman and an amorous gentle. And I don't like this ghost.
I'm gonna tell you about it in a minute. Like
many other inns in Gettysburg, the Baladeri, like I said,
served as a field hospital, and the current owners have
a binder packed full of stories from guests and staff
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relating to the ghosts at the balladery end. The source
of the hauntings is believed to be, or are believed
to be, seven Confederate soldiers who are buried beneath tennis
courts nearby. Why are they buried beneath the tennis courts?
If you knew they were there, why the hell did
you put a tennis court over top of them? I
would haunt your fucking into One of the most prominent
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photos that guests of the inn have captured includes some
Confederate soldiers in uniform. The photo appears to show two
seated near the French style double doors and two standing
just outside. One of them appears to be wearing a
black armband which was worn by Confederates for a time
after the death of the famous General Stonewall Jackson. I
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guess it's like some sort of mourning thing. There's also
the presence of an amorous, rapey ghost who goes by
the name of Jeffrey. He is especially fond of women
with blonde hair. I'm glad I dyed my hair red,
and can often be felt in the Primrose Room due
to his amorous I don't know why. Like he's described
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as amorous, he's really gross. He's known to staff as
lover Boy. Women have reported feeling him rubbing their feet no,
and hearing the sound of a male voice singing in
their ears. I'd be like, those are my feet, I
don't know you, and then ghost Pepper spram. On occasion.
There have also been reports of an invisible entity getting
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into bed with the guests. No no, sir, No means no.
I know you're from a long time ago, probably Jeffrey,
but no means no. The apparition of a woman has
been seen standing at the foot of the bed in
the Marigold room. See I'm even telling you what rooms
to stand. Another report comes from Marie, an actor who
was staying here during the annual festivities of the Eddysburg
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a Dress. She was wearing traditional clothing and jewelry of
the period, but she also brought with her a box
of contemporary and vintage jewelry. The antique jewelry was kept
in a separate bag, and the box was placed on
the side of the bed during the day while she
was out. Upon her return, she discovered the vintage jewelry
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laid out neatly on top of the bag, which she
remembers specifically putting them in. Could this be the woman
who's seen stanting at the foot of the bed in
the mirrorgold room. Maybe maybe she's like, your jewelry is
like put away sloppily. Let me fix it for you.
Because if I was a ghost, that's what I would do.
So do the ghosts of Gettysburg still wander the fields
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and streets and houses and inns and farms and graveyards
of this tiny Pennsylvania town. I don't know, but there
sure are a lot of accounts of people seeing things,
So be sure to put it on your must see
list of haunted travel spots. You'll gain a deeper appreciation
for the past while possibly creating your own unforgettable memories.
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And that's the echoes of the Civil War. So do
you think this town is haunted? What say you? Well, personally,
I don't think that thousands of people can die violently
in the same place over the course of a couple
of days and it not be haunted by something. There's
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just way too many violent deaths for there to not be,
you know, some sort of residual energy left behind, you know,
and the disrespect of their bodies just being thrown into
mass graves, unmarked graves a lot of the time buried
under somebody's tennis court. Apparently, it's like, how do you
know they're there? How do you know they're there? But
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it's under your tennis court. If you dug and found bodies,
why would you not exhume them? Did you exhume them?
Is the question? And then put a tennis court over them?
Like do people have no respect or decorum anymore? That's
a rhetorical question. I don't think a lot of people do.
But if you know that a bunch of people were
killed and thrown into a mass grave and their bodies exhumed.
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Would you bury something or I'm sorry, would you build
something on top of it? Because I certainly would not.
I feel like you're kind of asking for it. And
then you're like, oh my god, there's so many hauntings.
I'm seeing blood run down the wall and soak my
floorboards and then disappear. It's like, well, I don't know
what you expected. You heard that people were killed violently.
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They weren't you know, if they were religious, given their
last rites or whatever you know, they believed in. They
weren't buried properly. They were killed traumatically, and we're just
gonna build something on it. Cool, And I like, I know,
like there's no way to know really if there are
bodies buried in your yard or your house or you know,
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whatever building you're in, which is disturbing to think about
because I live in a house that's I think it's
over one hundred years old. Who knows. I got a
okay sized backyard for living in the city. There could
be bodies back there. You know. I don't have a
ground penetrating radar handy to go check. I also don't
want to, like if there's a body back there, it
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can just stay back there. I'd rather not disturb its
resting place. You know, I feel like exhooming something or
exhuming a human body. I don't feel like it is
good ever, I you know, unless it's absolutely necessary, like
for the purposes of solving a murder, which is why
you know, legally getting the clearance to ezoom a body
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is not easy. It's something really nobody wants to do.
And sidebar, if you're looking for a good horror movie
to watch and you're willing to read subtitles, there's a
I cannot remember if it's Korean or Japanese. I think
it's Japanese horror movie called Ezuma. I think it's on
shutter Slash AMC. It is so good. It's about exooming
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a body. If you want other horror movie recommendations for
the season, last night we watched If you've never seen
any of the hell House movies, they are all found
footage movies. They're phenomenal. They're campy and silly and honestly
really friggin scary. We watched the third installment last night.
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We've seen all of them, but this one is actually
really good. It was well acted. It was genuinely scary.
I was yelling at the movie the entire time, because
that's what I do when I'm at home. I do
yell at the movie. I'm like, bitch, no, don't open
that door. I'm like that clown statue because there's clowns
to If you don't like clowns, don't watch the Hell
House movies because there's clowns in all of them. These
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clown statues that like move, but they like don't move,
like they're just statues, but they move all over the house.
It's not great. I was watching that last night. It
scared the holy shit out of me. But every time
like there was a clown statue somewhere, these idiots would
like walk up to it. I'm like, don't walk up
to it. Go out the front door, go to sleep
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in your car. They're like, oh, this house is so haunted.
We keep seeing actual ghosts. And they can get out
of the house, like they can open the front door
and get out, and they just didn't. Like they went
to the car and the car didn't start, of course,
and they try to walk. I'm gonna give away the
whole plot of the movie. They try to walk and
it doesn't work. You know, they see some shit out there,
they got to go back, and I'm like, just sit
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in your car. Sit in your car, lock the door,
sleep in your car. That's it, like done and done.
That's why I would not die in a horror movie. Uh.
Also again, if I saw a clown just standing like
a clown statue, just like standing in a darkened hallway
where it wasn't at like thirty seconds before, I'm not
going anywhere near it. Uh that one. Burn burn it,
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burn it with fire, because you know what else are
you gonna burn it with? Well, chemicals? Burn? But yeah,
let's burn it with fire, Burn the whole house down,
purify Getty's burn. Even though this movie didn't take place
in Gettysburg. I'm not saying to burn down Gettysburg. But
I do think it's haunted, and from what I've read
since I haven't not actually been there, there's a lot
of credible hauntings that are ongoing and very active, and like,
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I don't know why anybody would make up seeing anything
like that. I kind of discount orbs. I'm not like
a big believer in orbs being anything other than you know,
dust or whatever the hell some sort of an artifact
on film or in photography. I'm not like a huge
believer in those unless there's like a very distinct shape
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to it or something, because a lot of the time
it's like a speck, and I'm like, come on, you guys,
like we can't just like I've seen stuff, you know,
I want to believe, But these specs, It's like, come on,
what is this evidence of It's evidence of dust, It's
evidence of you being in a dusty ass house, and
probably not much else, but the disembodied voices that one.
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I'm like, well, that just makes total sense. Again, you
were living in a town where the whole town was
being used as a as a battleground. You know, the
homes and the and the various buildings were used as
makeshift field hospitals. The soldiers were staying in them and
dying in them, being buried around them in big, old
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friggin unmarked pits. I don't know if I'm sure some
were marked, but a lot of them weren't, Like Old
Iverson's pit. Why are we naming the pit? Why the
fuck are we giving the pit of bodies a name?
I feel like we shouldn't do that. I don't know,
we just like be respectful about it and just be like, yes,
this is where a tragedy took place where people were
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buried and exhumed. So not only did you just jump
their corpses in a fucking mass grave, then you dug
them up like ah, Like I understand, maybe it's more
respectful to actually it is more respectful to actually bury
them in an individual grave. But what if you don't
know who they are? So you just disturbed all of
these bodies in their final resting place, even if it
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wasn't an ideal final resting place. Again, I thought spiritualism
was at the time, Like they should have consulted somebody,
like some sort of a spiritualist, even though I'm sure
like you know, army people weren't, or you know, government
people weren't, Like, yes, we should consult a psychic medium
or whatever about these burials. But I feel like they
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I don't know. I feel like even if they were
just religious, like I feel like they should know, like
proper burials are supposed to be required and order for
spirits to cross over and not be restless. And I
don't know how you wouldn't be restless though, if you
were killed in battle, and well, I mean no, I
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just feel like that whole ass town has to be haunted.
If you've ever been, I would love to know if
you saw anything. I have a couple of friends that
I went to law school with that were from Pennsylvania
close to Gettysburg, and they said that they heard stuff.
That didn't see anything, but they did hear things. They
said they heard like people yelling. They said they heard gunfire.
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They didn't see any of the blood. Which again, if
I go somewhere and blood just appears on the floor
and then like disappears in like a couple seconds, I'm done.
I hope your place is insured because I'm gonna chop
up the floor with an axe. Hide your sharp things,
and you know, maybe maybe the moral of the story
is I just don't go. I just don't go to
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these hotels. I would do the battlefield. I don't like
really want to go somewhere like the bridge where the
soldiers the I guess the runaway soldiers were hanged. I
don't want to go there because like that's one of
my biggest fears. Like in the Conjuring, where vera farmiga
Lorraine Warren's character backs up in the original Conjuring where
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she's near the tree and the friggin' like the decrepit
feet are hanging and swinging back and forth in the
frame like right behind her. No, I hate it. I
absolutely hated it. M yeah, I'm like getting chills. That
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was the first horror movie that scared me in a
long time. I know it's a it was released a
long time ago, like ten years ago or more, but
that was the first horror movie that scared me in
a really long time because it's like, that's a very
plausible haunting, which I know it was based on a
real case which I've covered before, and it wasn't really
anything like that the parent family haunting as depicted in
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the Conjuring movie. It wasn't not anything like that. And
the Warrens were like hardly even there. They actually got
thrown out by mister paren because apparently they said he
said they were making things worse and he didn't think
they were helping at all. All of that to say,
Happy Halloween almost because God, I'm excited. I'm really excited
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to show you my costume. I'm just really excited for
the season. I'm not happy for it to be almost over.
We're already rolling right into Christmas and the holidays. Like
I went to Costco the other day and they had
all their Christmas shit out, and I thought I'd be mad,
but I wasn't because it was just really cool stuff,
like a five hundred dollars giant like bear sculpture made
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of lights and shiny tinsil and the thing was like
ten feet tall. It was incredible, So I wasn't mad.
You know, like the wonder of the holidays. I feel
like I lost it for a while. It's starting to
come back. I hope you're you have kept your child
like wonder and you can maybe enjoy the holidays and
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when all the craziness of the world, enjoy Halloween first
and then like roll into Christmas as most do, because
in the United States, you know, there's Thanksgiving, which is
just like a holiday to eat, which is it's nice
and everything, but you know, eh, it's a holiday about
white people coming and stealing from indigenous people and then
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killing them with their European diseases and general greed and assholery.
All right, Well, you like what you hear. You can
hear more episodes every Tuesday and Friday released on all
podcast platforms. I will be in Brandenburg, Kentucky, this coming Saturday,
October twenty sixth for the Battle Town Which Festival. I'll
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be doing a panel in a live podcast recording. I
think if I can get an episode, an extra episode
written by Saturday, that's gonna be a little bit of
a challenge. But the Friday episode may not get recorded.
I might just be releasing the recording from Saturday because
of time constraints. Because if y'all didn't know, I'm in
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school again, I'm a serial school person. I can't stay
out of it. I'm taking extremely hard classes right now,
look really really really hard, and I'll let you you
know where I land. Like I had an exam yesterday
that was f and rough, really rough, really really rough.
So we'll see where I land. But I am in
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school yet again. All that said, find me on social media.
You know where I'm at. I'm on Patreon at Autumn's Oddities,
and as always, I appreciate you listening. And remember, if
it's creepy and weird, you'll find it here.
Dark Cast Network. Welcome to the dark Side of podcasting. Hey, hey,
welcome back to Autumn's Oddities. I'm Autumn h you guys.
I'm so freaking excited to show you my Halloween costume.
My parents are taking the kids this coming weekend. It
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was kind of the last minute decision, so my husband
and I actually get to do something for Halloween. I
don't think we've got to go out in a couple
of years. And I had to scour the deepest recesses
of Amazon to piece together what I think will be
a very cryptid costumb I've got something like six pieces
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to make, Like I'm dying fabric and everything. I'm homemaking it,
even though like I purchased items, I'm making every part
of it. I think it's gonna come together pretty nicely.
I'll make sure to share on social media, although you
all know how much I suck at posting. That said,
let's get into today's case, which has absolutely nothing to
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do with social media. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is known as the
location of one of the largest, most expensive, and deadliest
battles of the American Civil War, with over fifty thousand
estimated casualties and sidebar. Casualties don't mean deaths. It means
injuries and deaths, not just deaths. The famous Battle of
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Gettysburg in eighteen sixty three is widely believed to mark
the war's turning point. Over one hundred and sixty years
have passed since those three bloody days at Gettysburg, but
some believe the nightmare of the battle never ended for
some of the poor souls killed there. Some believe that
the haunted souls of those who suffered there may still
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roam across the hallowed grounds of the battlefield and throughout
the town. The Battle of Gettysburg at the beginning of
July eighteen sixty three, and you're gonna hear me repeat,
largest costliest in turning point like a whole bunch of times,
was the largest and costliest battle of the American Civil War,
and is often regarded as the turning point. Confederate General
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Robert E. Lee sought to capitalize in his victories earlier
in the year, such as the Battle of Chancellorsville, by
launching his second invasion of the Northern States. He did
this to alleviate the pressure on the Virginia farmland, which
the preceding campaigns had ravaged, and all so in an
attempt to force the Union into negotiations to end the war.
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In June, General Lice forces marched through Virginia into Pennsylvania
and were pursued by Union forces led by Major General
Joseph Hooker. Major Hooker and later Major General George G. Meade.
The armies met near the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on
the morning of July first. On the first day of fighting,
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the Confederates won control of much of the area surrounding
the town, while the Union held the lands to the south.
On the second day, reinforcements arrived on both sides, and
while the Confederate forces tried flanking the entrenched and heavily
defended Union forces, they had very limited success. At one
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pm on the third day of battle, Generally launched what
was probably the largest artillery bombardment of the entire war,
and two hours later he ordered Pickett's Charge, which saw
roughly twelve thousand, five hundred Confederate troops charged the Union
forces entrenched on Cemetery Ridge. The bombardment had little effect
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on the Union defenses, and the oncoming soldiers suffered heavy
casualties before being forced to retreat, marking an end to
the battle and a victory for the Union. Gettysburg has
been described as the bloodiest battle of the war, as
not only were the casualties higher than in any other battle,
but the depletion of ammunition stocks led to a much
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more close quarters hand to hand combat on the final day.
All in all, the Battle of Gettysburg claimed the lives
of more than seven thousand, five hundred soldiers, more than
any major Civil War battle between eighteen sixty one and
eighteen sixty five. Of the ten deadliest battles of the
American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was by far
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the most devastating, like I said, claiming over fifty one
thousand casualties, of which seven thousand were battle death. So
think about that, like seventy five hundred men died on
one field during one battle. The battles of Shiloh, Bull
Run and Teetum Stones River and Chancellorsville have very similar
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casualty counts, between twenty two point five and twenty four
thousand casualties each. And it should be noted that the
Battle of Antietam took place in a single day, just
one and with twenty two thousand, seven hundred and seventeen casualties.
It is the bloodiest single day in US history. The
battles of Chickamauga, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania all had approximately
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thirty to thirty five thousand casualties each, whereas the Siege
of Vicksburg is the only entry on the list with
less than twenty thousand casualties. And I bet you didn't
think you were getting it hissed in American history lesson today,
But it's important to know what happened and why. I
think anyway, there are actually a lot of ghosts in Gettysburg.
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Over one hundred and sixty five thousand men took part
in the Battle of Gettysburg, with roughly one third becoming casualties.
The battle also saw the deaths of six Confederate and
five Union generals, which was more than any other battle
in the war. Although the war would not end for
another two years, this battle is seen by many, as
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you guessed it, the turning point and also the closest
the Confederacy came to accomplishing their goal of complete cessation
from the Union. Before this, the Confederacy had won more
decisive battles than the Union, but after Gettysburg this shifted
in favor of the Union, who would go on to
win the war. In eighteen sixty five, four months after
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the battle, President Abraham Lincoln gave his very famous Gettysburg
Address starts out four score and seven years ago, which
paid tribute to the men who fell in battle and
has gone on to become one of the most famous
speeches in American history. More than seventy five hundred soldiers
died at the Battle of Gettysburg and were buried quickly
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without proper rights, many to be forgotten, just in a
hole somewhere mass graves dug and them thrown in with
no marker. So it's no wonder that spirits are said
to roam throughout the town and of course the battle
field of Gettysburg. Reports of phantom apparitions, bone tingling cries
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of wounded soldiers, ghostly Civil War music, and even the
eerie sound of horse hooves in places where horses fell victim.
And apparently ghosts can also be horses, or horses can
be ghosts. That's apparently pretty common to hear horse hoofs,
just disembodied sounds of horse hoofs. So there are scores
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of ghostly stories and supernatural incidents reported by past visitors
to the historic Gettysburg Battlefield Throughout the last century. Countless
ghost hunters who pilgrimage to the legendary site have shared
tales of strange and often inexplicable experiences and encounters in
the area. I myself have never been. That's probably a
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bucket list trip for me. Maybe just drive up north
and hit everything on the East coast like Salem, etc. Etc.
It sounds super fun. Numerous reports exist from various parts
of the park that the battlefield is in of apparitions
of phantom soldiers marching in formation or mounted on horseback
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as if still fighting in battle. And what a horrible
way to spend your afterlife, truly, These ghosts are said
to haunt the fields where pickets Charge took place, the
slopes of Little Round Top, the Peach Orchard, the Wheat Field,
and numerous other famous battlefield sites in the aptly name
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Valley of Death. Apparitions of soldiers have been more frequently
reported in the nearby adjacent area known as the Triangular Field.
There have been dozens of anecdotal reports from fairly reliable
witnesses who claimed unexplained malfunctions of cameras, recorders, and electronic
equipment specific to that area. One especially high concentration of
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ghostly sightings and strange experiences seems to center on the
area called the Devil's Den, and of course the area
surrounding it. The ghosts of Gettysburg seem especially drawn to
this place this famous rock formation, the Devil's Den. It's
an elevated outcropping of large, kind of haphazard boulders, and
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it served as a Confederate sniper's nest for much of
the battle and was the site of some particularly vicious fighting.
Initial ghost sightings began in the area shortly after the
battle and have been a regular occurrence ever since. Dim
spectral soldiers have been spotted among the rocks by many
visitors at varying times of day and night, and witnesses
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have reported here unexplained battle sounds echoing among the forbidding
jumble of rocks in otherwise totally quiet moments. Several photographers
have reportedly captured fleeting images of one ghost soldier. He's
described as an unkempt, long haired figure, shoeless in ragged
clothing wearing a floppy brimmed hat. In some cases, it's
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been reported that the spirit actually spoke aloud to a
witness before suddenly vanishing without a trace. There are also
reports of a ghostly cavalryman on horseback who appears in
the area only to vanish soon after, as well as
numerous reports of phantom sounds like I said, gunfire, shouting voices,
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and cries of anguish again, all completely unexplained. Dozens of
photographs exist today in private collections they're on the Internet
that are alleged evidence of supernatural activity in the area.
One of the most famous and enigmatic ghostly manifestations in
Gettysburg has become known as the Phantom Regiment, the ghostly
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remnants of a Confederate unit that still haunts the battlefield today,
their ghostly drums and footsteps echoing through the night. Visitors
and of course ghost hunters, have reported seeing the ghostly
procession of soldiers in tattered but strangely unidentifiable uniforms still
marching information on the battlefield at odd hours of the night.
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Some witnesses have heard phantom drums and the distant sound
of musket fire on the battlefield. Others claim to have
seen these ghostly apparitions standing among the gravestones in the
Gettysburg National Cemetery. These spectral sightings have become an integral
part of Gettysburg's haunted landscape. The Lady in White is
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another famous Gettysburg specter, known for her ethereal presence and
sorrowful demeanor. Legend has it that the Lady in White
roams the battlefield and the historic town, her figure draped
in a flowing white dress that seems to glow in
the moonlight. Witnesses describe her as seeming lost and forlorn,
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her face etched with sadness. Some believe she is the
ghost of a woman who lost her beloved during the
Civil War, forever searching for him among the countless graves
and battle sites. Again, We're a horrible, horrible way to
spend your afterlife. The Tilly Pierce House is known for
its supernatural occurrences as well, particularly the presence of a
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young girl's ghost. Often referred to as the Tilly Pierce Housegirl,
this specter is said to haunt the historic building with
her laughter and footsteps. Tilly Pierce was a real historical figure.
She was a young girl who lived in Gettysburg during
the Civil War, and some believe that the ghostly laughter
and footsteps heard in the Tilly Pierce House are connected
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to her, as if her spirit where she once lived
the Jenny Wade House. And if you haven't guessed by
an hour or picked up on it, I am telling
you the most haunted place is in Gettysburg. So if
you want to visit, you know where to go. And
there's a lot. This is a pretty good long list.
The Jenny Wade House has been featured on the television
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programs Ghost Labs and Ghost Adventures and is widely reputed
to be an extremely haunted place. It's the location where
Mary Virginia Jenny Wade, the only civilian casualty of the
Battle of Gettysburg, was shot and killed. And this is
such a sad story. Jenny was just twenty years of
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age when her life came to a sudden and tragic end.
A stray bullet from the battlefield outside pierced a wooden door,
continuing into the kitchen where she stood, striking Jenny in
the heart and ending her young life. In the years since,
visitors have reported hearing strange and unexplained movements, unanswered voices
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and the fearful moaning of disembodied spirits at various places
in the house. The area around the modern Double Day Inn,
known as Iverson's Pits, is widely linked to local paranormal activity,
since it is directly located just adjacent to the former
site of the Forny Farmhouse. Notoriously, the location of a
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mass grave site known as Iverson's Pit yikes, warrying God's name,
would they put a freaking hotel there? An entire brigade
of North Carolinian soldiers was needlessly slaughtered near there and
buried in mass where they fell. Even after the remains
were exhumed and relocated, the former location of the mass
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grave has given rise to numerous reports of floating orbs
and hovering lights, strange mists, and shadowy figures said to
wander the adjoining fields at dusk and Yeah, if I
got slaughtered and thrown into a frickin' hole with a
bunch of other bodies, you best believe I'm gonna haunt
the shit out of that place. I don't care if
you move my body. I'll stay forever in perpetuity. Those
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mean the same thing. The sex covered bridge on Waterworks
Road is reputed to be one of the most haunted
spots of no all of Gettysburg. And I know I
keep saying that, Oh, they're all the most haunted. The
wandering spirit, They're haunted. The wandering spirits of three hanged
Confederate deserters are believed to haunt the vicinity of the
picturesque bridge at various times of the day and night,
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and reported paranormal experiences on the bridge include the spectral
smell of phantom cigar smoke, the sound of disembodied cannons
firing in the distance, or the sensation of suddenly feeling
a tap on the shoulder, only to turn around and
find no one there. I'm not about a ghost touching me. Ever,
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If I feel like a physical like touch from something
and there's nothing there, I'm out. I'm done. I'll burn
that bridge to the ground. And that's how it goes.
Next is Gettysburg College, known as Pennsylvania College at the
time of the eighteen sixty three battle. The campus was
located amid the fighting, its structures providing shelter for the
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wounded and dying. And that's how it went during battles
of the Civil War. You know, they'd come to a town,
they'd fight, and they'd the soldiers would just kind of
take over the houses, which you're allowed to do. That's
actually something you're allowed to do in American law. They
would kind of commandeer houses with people still living in
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them and turn them into hospitals, shelters, so on and
so forth. So you would have people dying in just
somebody's random house, like a bunch of soldiers be you know,
with their arms being amputated and so on and so forth. Nightmare,
nightmare stuff. Really, there's a town like that here in
Kentucky that is supposed to be extremely haunted, but it's
not too far from me. I would like to take
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a day trip if I could ever find the time
or like focus long enough to do that. So its
main building, Pennsylvania Hall, constructed in eighteen thirty seven and
nicknamed Old Dorm, served as a Confederate field hospital during
the battle. Since then, there has been much paranormal activity
at what some call the Haunted College. Students and staff
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members report seeing ghostly figures of soldiers pacing back and
forth in the kupola of the building, and the shadowy
figure of a Confederate century has been spotted in the tower,
sometimes gesturing wildly to the watchers below. Two college administrators
leaving the building one night reported that the elevator doors
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opened onto the gruesome scene of a Civil War era
operating room packed with the wounded and dying, yet completely
eerily silent. When the elevator door closed and reopened, the
scene vanished again. My solution, I'm gonna burn that building
to the ground. Don't take me seriously, like, don't report
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me as a possible arsonist. I've never burned down a building.
But if I saw that, if the elevator doors opened
and I saw a completely silent, just gory scene of
men missing limbs and bleeding and dying and there's no
freaking sound, I'm out. I'm out, and I'm gonna burn it.
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I'm gonna burn it down to the ground. And that's it. See,
I'm not an arsonist because I haven't seen that? Is
it arson? If it's completely justifiable, like you know, like that,
like what the hell is that? Nobody wants to see that.
I understand it happened, but good sweet god, why would
you like show that to just some poor administrator trying
to leave at night? Then there's the Children's Orphanage. It
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was originally a private home. During the famous battle, it
was converted into yet again a makeshift hospital for the
wounded soldiers. It's cellar filled with the bodies of the
dead and dying. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the facility
was converted into the National Soldier's Orphanage Homestead, which was
an orphanage two house children who had lost their parents
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in the battle. Just incredibly said. After Rosa J. Carmichael
assumed the post of headmistress, it was rumored that she
tortured and chained orphaned children in a dungeon she secretly
created in the cellar there. So she's like a Madame
La Lorrie, but with children. I hope she is just
burning in hell. Supernatural manifestations that occur at the site
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since are often attributed to Carmichael and the lost souls
of her tormented victims. I hope they're tormenting her truly.
The Grove is an area that lies a few hundred
yards from the base of East Cemetery Hill. This area
was the site of a brutal exchange between two regiments
of Ohio Regulars versus the Louisiana Tigers a Confederate unit
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primarily made up of New Orleans prison inmates. The casualties
on both sides were terrible, resulting in the creation of
again unmarked mass graves throughout the area. Fantastic a road
was laid through the grove in nineteen sixty three, accidentally
unearthing the remains of several soldiers. There have been sightings
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here of the ghost of a young girl believed to
be a disturbed victim of post battle mental stress, who
did commit suicide not long after the battle. With a
large record of photo evidence depicting orbs, mist and other
odd phenomena, the grove is considered to buy a lot
of paranormal investigators to be a very active area for
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ghosts of Gettysburg. The historic Dobbin House is an old
inn that existed during the Civil War. The ghost of
a Confederate soldier is said to stare forlornly out of
one of the second floor windows. This old stone house
was also an important stopping point on the underground railroad.
Enslaved people who hid here en route to freedom further
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north were forced to conceal themselves for lengthy periods of
time in tiny, secret hiding places usually located beneath the
floor or in the walls. In particular, in this inn,
they were in the floor in the walls. Those hiding
places still exist and can be seen by modern visitors.
It's believed that the ghost of the inn's owner and founder,
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Alexander Dobbin, still appears at various places throughout the inn,
always smoking a cigar. Some believe that many of the
enslaved people who came to this house in search of
freedom and safety may have returned here from beyond the
grave or else. The spirits of some who never survived
their flight to reach this place may have eventually arrived
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anyway and stayed. Spectral manifestations of the ghosts of Gettysburg,
including the spirits of enslaved people and lost soldiers, have
both been seen haunting the building, and I hate this.
Unexplained blood stains are said to manifest on the floorboards,
only to disappear in the light of day. I hate that.
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I don't again if blood just shows up and then
disappears in my wooden floors, probably good brain floors. I
love that. That's my solution to everything. I don't love it,
but you know that is my solution to everything, And
I'm really really glad that. Uh, I've never had blood
peer randomly on my floorboards and then disappear, because I
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would honestly probably take an axe and just start like chopping.
You're like, nope, nu, huh, nope. Oh, you're gonna do
it everywhere, all right, We'll have no floors. Then we'll
just have no floors. I'll make straw floors. We'll see
what happens. We'll just construct a barn and live in it.
Next is the farnsworthin It's believed by some that the
house is presently haunted by no less than sixteen distinct spirits,
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including that of an eight year old boy, several Civil
War soldiers, and a former midwife you guessed it. Disembodied
breathing grunts, voices, and the musical strains of a jaw harp,
along with the strong scent of cigars, have been experienced
by guests who visit the home throughout the years. Multiple
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photographs of a spiritual manifestation have been taken through the
window of one of the exterior guest rooms seen from
the street below. The Hoffman Mansion, once known as Hoffman Farm,
was a one hundred and twenty three acre dairy farm
owned by the Hoffman family. Like other homes in the
Gettysburg area, the Hoffman mansion was reportedly used again as
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a field hospital for Union troops during and after Picket's charge.
During battle, many wounded soldiers brought to such makeshift field
hospitals perished, and some believe their spirits still linger there.
It's also said that one of the Hoffman's daughters supposedly
hung herself inside the home in response to her suit
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in fidelity. Some say that her spirit still haunts the
upstairs attic. Photographs routinely capture images of orbs and other
phenomena inside the house. It's also believed that the doctor
in charge of the Hoffman field hospital still haunts the site.
A shadowy black shape is rumored to appear in corners
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of the home, often as an omen of bad luck.
And that's why you sage the corners when you saved
your house, sage the corners. Evil lives in corners. Doors
open and close on their own volition or of their
own volition throughout the building, and disembodied voices, strange sounds,
and actual physical contact with entities have been reported. No
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no has someone invented like spectral pepper spray because we
need to get on it. Oh, it's probably Sage, same thing,
I guess. Next is the George George House. Uh huh,
that's what I said. The George House. Hervant's old time
photos with an e on old and a t y
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me for time is the current business occupying what many
call the Reynolds Death House. The building was owned by
Gettysburg local George George. You heard that right. He's got
hateful parents or he had hateful parents at the time
of the battle, and it served as a temporary resting
place for famous Union Major General John F. Reynolds. Mortally
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wounded on the morning of the first day of the battle,
Reynolds's body was brought back to this building, where legend
has it his blood seeped into the floorboards and stains
are said to reappear now and then. No, absolutely not.
The house is believed to be haunted by at least
four different ghosts, including the General, his fiance Catherine Hewitt,
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the spirit of a teenage boy, and a mischievous fourth
ghost known only as the Liar. I don't think that's
a ghost. I think you got a little poltergeist on
your hands. There are several once private residences scattered across
the battlefield where supernatural activity is alleged to have occurred
over the past, you know, nearly two hundred years. Many
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of these homes are now property of the National Park Service,
and most were used during the battle as take a guest,
makeshift field hospitals, and shelters for the wounded and dying.
Some say they continue to host visitations by the ghosts
of Gettysburg. Next is the George Weikert House. This small
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house has experienced several unexplained occurrences throughout the years, including
a door on the second floor that refuses to stay
closed even when nailed shut. I don't like that at all.
Past tenants have also reported the sound of unexplained footsteps
pacing back and forth in the empty attic overhead, even
though the attic is deserted, there's nothing in it. I
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hate that. Next we have the hummelbaw House. Confederate Brigadier
General William Barksdale was wounded while leading a charge on
Seminary Ridge and was brought to the Humbleball House. For
whatever reason. Barksdale was last seen lying in front of
the house while a young boy was giving him water
with a spoon. Barksdale called over and over for water
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as his life slipped away in the years. Sense legend
has it that on some nights, the general's spectral voice
is still heard crying out and calling for water, and
that's very sad. Another story related to Barksdale's death involves
the spirit of his favorite hunting hound, who lay down
atop his grave and refused to eat or to drink,
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howling incessantly for his lost master. The dog finally died
on the spot where his owner had lain, and it
said that each year, on the anniversary of Barksdale's death,
the howls of the ghostly hound can still be heard.
And that's a good boy. He's a good boy, a
good good boy. The Rose farm, which during the battle
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was used again as a field hospital, oh in this
time a burial ground, is another very very haunted place.
I wonder why hundreds of Confederate and Federal soldiers were
buried in rows all around the house and the property,
and I'd be like, can you freaking not, dude, I
live here, Please don't. They would later be exhumed in
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November eighteen sixty three, although the reclamation process would take
years because honestly, I don't know how they were identifying
bodies back then. I don't know if they did dog tags,
if they had any sort of identification on them, I
honestly don't know. A local doctor reported that one of
the daughters on the Rose Farm went insane during the exhumations.
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I might too, if I had to see all around
my house just mutilated, rotting corpses coming up out of
the ground, I might too. She apparently had lived through
both the battle and its aftermath, and it was just
too much. Allegedly, she claimed to have seen blood flowing
from the walls of the house, and I believe that, truly,
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there can't be that many people that died violently, just
thrown into holes all around your friggin house, and something
not happen. During the nineteen thirties, the Civilian Conservation Corps
recorded the story of a farm worker at the Rose
Farm shortly after the battle, who reportedly saw a strange,
glowing shape that appeared near the graves of the slain soldiers.
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Then there's the Baladari Inn. Built in eighteen twelve as
a farmhouse, The Baladeri Inn served as a field hospital
during the Civil War, with many This is horrible unanestetized
amputations being carried out in the great room. No, I
cannot imagine. I don't think I would ever go to
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this place. As well as the ghosts of Confederate soldiers,
the inn also plays host to the ghost of a
woman and an amorous gentle. And I don't like this ghost.
I'm gonna tell you about it in a minute. Like
many other inns in Gettysburg, the Baladeri, like I said,
served as a field hospital, and the current owners have
a binder packed full of stories from guests and staff
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relating to the ghosts at the balladery end. The source
of the hauntings is believed to be, or are believed
to be, seven Confederate soldiers who are buried beneath tennis
courts nearby. Why are they buried beneath the tennis courts?
If you knew they were there, why the hell did
you put a tennis court over top of them? I
would haunt your fucking into One of the most prominent
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photos that guests of the inn have captured includes some
Confederate soldiers in uniform. The photo appears to show two
seated near the French style double doors and two standing
just outside. One of them appears to be wearing a
black armband which was worn by Confederates for a time
after the death of the famous General Stonewall Jackson. I
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guess it's like some sort of mourning thing. There's also
the presence of an amorous, rapey ghost who goes by
the name of Jeffrey. He is especially fond of women
with blonde hair. I'm glad I dyed my hair red,
and can often be felt in the Primrose Room due
to his amorous I don't know why. Like he's described
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as amorous, he's really gross. He's known to staff as
lover Boy. Women have reported feeling him rubbing their feet no,
and hearing the sound of a male voice singing in
their ears. I'd be like, those are my feet, I
don't know you, and then ghost Pepper spram. On occasion.
There have also been reports of an invisible entity getting
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into bed with the guests. No no, sir, No means no.
I know you're from a long time ago, probably Jeffrey,
but no means no. The apparition of a woman has
been seen standing at the foot of the bed in
the Marigold room. See I'm even telling you what rooms
to stand. Another report comes from Marie, an actor who
was staying here during the annual festivities of the Eddysburg
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a Dress. She was wearing traditional clothing and jewelry of
the period, but she also brought with her a box
of contemporary and vintage jewelry. The antique jewelry was kept
in a separate bag, and the box was placed on
the side of the bed during the day while she
was out. Upon her return, she discovered the vintage jewelry
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laid out neatly on top of the bag, which she
remembers specifically putting them in. Could this be the woman
who's seen stanting at the foot of the bed in
the mirrorgold room. Maybe maybe she's like, your jewelry is
like put away sloppily. Let me fix it for you.
Because if I was a ghost, that's what I would do.
So do the ghosts of Gettysburg still wander the fields
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and streets and houses and inns and farms and graveyards
of this tiny Pennsylvania town. I don't know, but there
sure are a lot of accounts of people seeing things,
So be sure to put it on your must see
list of haunted travel spots. You'll gain a deeper appreciation
for the past while possibly creating your own unforgettable memories.
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And that's the echoes of the Civil War. So do
you think this town is haunted? What say you? Well, personally,
I don't think that thousands of people can die violently
in the same place over the course of a couple
of days and it not be haunted by something. There's
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just way too many violent deaths for there to not be,
you know, some sort of residual energy left behind, you know,
and the disrespect of their bodies just being thrown into
mass graves, unmarked graves a lot of the time buried
under somebody's tennis court. Apparently, it's like, how do you
know they're there? How do you know they're there? But
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it's under your tennis court. If you dug and found bodies,
why would you not exhume them? Did you exhume them?
Is the question? And then put a tennis court over them?
Like do people have no respect or decorum anymore? That's
a rhetorical question. I don't think a lot of people do.
But if you know that a bunch of people were
killed and thrown into a mass grave and their bodies exhumed.
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Would you bury something or I'm sorry, would you build
something on top of it? Because I certainly would not.
I feel like you're kind of asking for it. And
then you're like, oh my god, there's so many hauntings.
I'm seeing blood run down the wall and soak my
floorboards and then disappear. It's like, well, I don't know
what you expected. You heard that people were killed violently.
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They weren't you know, if they were religious, given their
last rites or whatever you know, they believed in. They
weren't buried properly. They were killed traumatically, and we're just
gonna build something on it. Cool, And I like, I know,
like there's no way to know really if there are
bodies buried in your yard or your house or you know,
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whatever building you're in, which is disturbing to think about
because I live in a house that's I think it's
over one hundred years old. Who knows. I got a
okay sized backyard for living in the city. There could
be bodies back there. You know. I don't have a
ground penetrating radar handy to go check. I also don't
want to, like if there's a body back there, it
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can just stay back there. I'd rather not disturb its
resting place. You know, I feel like exhooming something or
exhuming a human body. I don't feel like it is
good ever, I you know, unless it's absolutely necessary, like
for the purposes of solving a murder, which is why
you know, legally getting the clearance to ezoom a body
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is not easy. It's something really nobody wants to do.
And sidebar, if you're looking for a good horror movie
to watch and you're willing to read subtitles, there's a
I cannot remember if it's Korean or Japanese. I think
it's Japanese horror movie called Ezuma. I think it's on
shutter Slash AMC. It is so good. It's about exooming
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a body. If you want other horror movie recommendations for
the season, last night we watched If you've never seen
any of the hell House movies, they are all found
footage movies. They're phenomenal. They're campy and silly and honestly
really friggin scary. We watched the third installment last night.
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We've seen all of them, but this one is actually
really good. It was well acted. It was genuinely scary.
I was yelling at the movie the entire time, because
that's what I do when I'm at home. I do
yell at the movie. I'm like, bitch, no, don't open
that door. I'm like that clown statue because there's clowns
to If you don't like clowns, don't watch the Hell
House movies because there's clowns in all of them. These
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clown statues that like move, but they like don't move,
like they're just statues, but they move all over the house.
It's not great. I was watching that last night. It
scared the holy shit out of me. But every time
like there was a clown statue somewhere, these idiots would
like walk up to it. I'm like, don't walk up
to it. Go out the front door, go to sleep
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in your car. They're like, oh, this house is so haunted.
We keep seeing actual ghosts. And they can get out
of the house, like they can open the front door
and get out, and they just didn't. Like they went
to the car and the car didn't start, of course,
and they try to walk. I'm gonna give away the
whole plot of the movie. They try to walk and
it doesn't work. You know, they see some shit out there,
they got to go back, and I'm like, just sit
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in your car. Sit in your car, lock the door,
sleep in your car. That's it, like done and done.
That's why I would not die in a horror movie. Uh.
Also again, if I saw a clown just standing like
a clown statue, just like standing in a darkened hallway
where it wasn't at like thirty seconds before, I'm not
going anywhere near it. Uh that one. Burn burn it,
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burn it with fire, because you know what else are
you gonna burn it with? Well, chemicals? Burn? But yeah,
let's burn it with fire, Burn the whole house down,
purify Getty's burn. Even though this movie didn't take place
in Gettysburg. I'm not saying to burn down Gettysburg. But
I do think it's haunted, and from what I've read
since I haven't not actually been there, there's a lot
of credible hauntings that are ongoing and very active, and like,
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I don't know why anybody would make up seeing anything
like that. I kind of discount orbs. I'm not like
a big believer in orbs being anything other than you know,
dust or whatever the hell some sort of an artifact
on film or in photography. I'm not like a huge
believer in those unless there's like a very distinct shape
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to it or something, because a lot of the time
it's like a speck, and I'm like, come on, you guys,
like we can't just like I've seen stuff, you know,
I want to believe, But these specs, It's like, come on,
what is this evidence of It's evidence of dust, It's
evidence of you being in a dusty ass house, and
probably not much else, but the disembodied voices that one.
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I'm like, well, that just makes total sense. Again, you
were living in a town where the whole town was
being used as a as a battleground. You know, the
homes and the and the various buildings were used as
makeshift field hospitals. The soldiers were staying in them and
dying in them, being buried around them in big, old
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friggin unmarked pits. I don't know if I'm sure some
were marked, but a lot of them weren't, Like Old
Iverson's pit. Why are we naming the pit? Why the
fuck are we giving the pit of bodies a name?
I feel like we shouldn't do that. I don't know,
we just like be respectful about it and just be like, yes,
this is where a tragedy took place where people were
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buried and exhumed. So not only did you just jump
their corpses in a fucking mass grave, then you dug
them up like ah, Like I understand, maybe it's more
respectful to actually it is more respectful to actually bury
them in an individual grave. But what if you don't
know who they are? So you just disturbed all of
these bodies in their final resting place, even if it
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wasn't an ideal final resting place. Again, I thought spiritualism
was at the time, Like they should have consulted somebody,
like some sort of a spiritualist, even though I'm sure
like you know, army people weren't, or you know, government
people weren't, Like, yes, we should consult a psychic medium
or whatever about these burials. But I feel like they
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I don't know. I feel like even if they were
just religious, like I feel like they should know, like
proper burials are supposed to be required and order for
spirits to cross over and not be restless. And I
don't know how you wouldn't be restless though, if you
were killed in battle, and well, I mean no, I
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just feel like that whole ass town has to be haunted.
If you've ever been, I would love to know if
you saw anything. I have a couple of friends that
I went to law school with that were from Pennsylvania
close to Gettysburg, and they said that they heard stuff.
That didn't see anything, but they did hear things. They
said they heard like people yelling. They said they heard gunfire.
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They didn't see any of the blood. Which again, if
I go somewhere and blood just appears on the floor
and then like disappears in like a couple seconds, I'm done.
I hope your place is insured because I'm gonna chop
up the floor with an axe. Hide your sharp things,
and you know, maybe maybe the moral of the story
is I just don't go. I just don't go to
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these hotels. I would do the battlefield. I don't like
really want to go somewhere like the bridge where the
soldiers the I guess the runaway soldiers were hanged. I
don't want to go there because like that's one of
my biggest fears. Like in the Conjuring, where vera farmiga
Lorraine Warren's character backs up in the original Conjuring where
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she's near the tree and the friggin' like the decrepit
feet are hanging and swinging back and forth in the
frame like right behind her. No, I hate it. I
absolutely hated it. M yeah, I'm like getting chills. That
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was the first horror movie that scared me in a
long time. I know it's a it was released a
long time ago, like ten years ago or more, but
that was the first horror movie that scared me in
a really long time because it's like, that's a very
plausible haunting, which I know it was based on a
real case which I've covered before, and it wasn't really
anything like that the parent family haunting as depicted in
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the Conjuring movie. It wasn't not anything like that. And
the Warrens were like hardly even there. They actually got
thrown out by mister paren because apparently they said he
said they were making things worse and he didn't think
they were helping at all. All of that to say,
Happy Halloween almost because God, I'm excited. I'm really excited
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to show you my costume. I'm just really excited for
the season. I'm not happy for it to be almost over.
We're already rolling right into Christmas and the holidays. Like
I went to Costco the other day and they had
all their Christmas shit out, and I thought I'd be mad,
but I wasn't because it was just really cool stuff,
like a five hundred dollars giant like bear sculpture made
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of lights and shiny tinsil and the thing was like
ten feet tall. It was incredible, So I wasn't mad.
You know, like the wonder of the holidays. I feel
like I lost it for a while. It's starting to
come back. I hope you're you have kept your child
like wonder and you can maybe enjoy the holidays and
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when all the craziness of the world, enjoy Halloween first
and then like roll into Christmas as most do, because
in the United States, you know, there's Thanksgiving, which is
just like a holiday to eat, which is it's nice
and everything, but you know, eh, it's a holiday about
white people coming and stealing from indigenous people and then
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killing them with their European diseases and general greed and assholery.
All right, Well, you like what you hear. You can
hear more episodes every Tuesday and Friday released on all
podcast platforms. I will be in Brandenburg, Kentucky, this coming Saturday,
October twenty sixth for the Battle Town Which Festival. I'll
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be doing a panel in a live podcast recording. I
think if I can get an episode, an extra episode
written by Saturday, that's gonna be a little bit of
a challenge. But the Friday episode may not get recorded.
I might just be releasing the recording from Saturday because
of time constraints. Because if y'all didn't know, I'm in
(44:49):
school again, I'm a serial school person. I can't stay
out of it. I'm taking extremely hard classes right now,
look really really really hard, and I'll let you you
know where I land. Like I had an exam yesterday
that was f and rough, really rough, really really rough.
So we'll see where I land. But I am in
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school yet again. All that said, find me on social media.
You know where I'm at. I'm on Patreon at Autumn's Oddities,
and as always, I appreciate you listening. And remember, if
it's creepy and weird, you'll find it here.
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