"Of all the forlorn,
countless souls awash in time, none
reach out to us more than those of the
dead at Gettysburg . . . Their presence
on earth was silenced forever by death.
Or maybe not." -- Mark Nesbitt.
Terrifying visions
and horrible scenes of the atrocities
of a Civil War. Battlefields, houses,
lonely roads and shallow entrenchments
all still bear the tell-tale marks of
three days of gore and terror that seared
themselves into the collective memory
of America.
Gettysburg. This one
word can conjure up all these images
and more.
But the horrible days
of the Battle of Gettysburg are not
just distant memory in this Pennsylvania
town. It is as if the soldiers who fought
and died here, and the people whose
lives were touched by this great catastrophe,
cannot help but continue to remind us
of what sacrifices were made here, of
what was won and lost on the sprawling
hills of Gettysburg.
It is said that Gettysburg
is very likely the most haunted destination,
"acre for acre," in all of
America. The dead do not rest easy in
Gettysburg, and they are not hesitant
to remind the living that they refuse
to be forgotten.
Mark
Nesbitt is an award-winning author and
paranormal investigator who has spent
years researching and categorizing reports
of hauntings in and around the battlefield
and town of Gettysburg. Many of his
experiences are first-hand, and he has
made painstaking efforts to document
as many as possible in his series of
books called "Ghosts of Gettysburg."
Nesbitt has also presented his findings
in television documentaries and on radio
programs across America. He is considered
the expert on all things Haunted Gettysburg.
His
tour company, also called Ghosts of
Gettysburg, is available to travelers
seeking to experience the paranormal
side of historic Gettysburg. Ghosts
of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours®
Although most of the
paranormal activity is centered around
the battlefield, every street of Gettysburg
is filled with ghosts of the unquiet
dead.
Visit the home of
Jenny Wade, the only woman killed during
the Battle of Gettysburg, where ghostly
activity occurs on an almost daily basis.
Visit the apothecary shop in the heart
of Gettysburg where the ghost of a mournful
woman still holds vigil over the casket
of her dead father. Stay at a haunted
bed and breakfast that once served as
a hospital during the war. The odds
are great that you'll be sharing your
room with something "else."
Take an extended night
time walking tour of Haunted Gettysburg,
or opt for the convenience (and guaranteed
chills) of a Haunted Horse and Buggy
Ride. Visit the old Pennsylvania College
Campus where several buildings served
as makeshift morgues during the height
of the bloodshed. Reports are made regularly
of visitors who encounter ghostly apparitions
and hear horrible moanings of long departed
soldiers. The cries of spectral infants
from a long deserted orphanage, another
site used to shelter the Gettysburg
dead and dying, are said to mingle with
the suffering moans of the dying soldiers.
Visit the lonely battlefields
where reports by several eyewitnesses
tell of ghostly regiments still charging
each other in pitched battle, complete
with the sound of musket and cannon
fire. Visit the lonely paths and promontories
where soldiers from both sides held
out as long as fate would allow them,
sometimes dying and being buried where
they fell. Or visit the National Cemetary
where reports tell of the strains of
the Gettysburg Address still being uttered
by Abraham Lincoln 13 decades after
the event.
The gatehouse of the
National Cemetery is occupied by an
invisible sentry still on guard. The
apparition descends the stairs, footsteps
are heard and a chill of spitiual energy
proceeds it, but the apparition never
appears!
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