No. 1:
Catacombs,
Paris, France.
Is this a real Paris Catacomb
Ghost Photo asks Harold Grant Ghost Picture
from his recent trip to Paris 2008.
Long ago, as the city of Paris grew, it
became necessary to provide more space
for the living. To do so, engineers and
planners decided to move the mass of humanity
least likely to protest: in this case,
the dead. Millions of Parisian dead were
quietly disinterred in one of the largest
engineering feats in history and their
remains were deposited along the walls
of the chilly, dank passageways lying
beneath the City of Light. They lie there
to this day, in the eternal darkness,
an Empire of the Dead.
The Paris Catacombs are infamous and much
has been written about their history and
purpose. A million visitors a year are
said to walk the dank corridors and to
stare at the bones and gaze fixedly into
the empty eye-sockets of the long dead.
Many of these same visitors, and some
of their guides, have encountered more
than just the silence in the catacombs:
they have had encounters with ghostly
inhabitants that roam the empty passageways
and mutely follow the tour groups around.
Ghost Photos and erie feelings or often
reported through out the iinternet from
the many visitors to the locations. Ghots
are often said to be felt more the wittnessed
eye to eye. Many have reported to us that
they have been grabed or have felt ghost
touching them even grabing their hands
and clothes.
A Real Paris Catacomb
Ghost Photo sent to us by Brian Lundsguard
Several report seeing a group of shadows
in one area of the catacombs; as the living
walk along, the dead follow in complete
silence. To some the experience is completely
overwhelming and tours have been cut short
by the growing sense of unease. Photos
have revealed orbs and ghostly apparitions,
and EVPs have been recorded throughout
the vaults. And many, many ghost photos
happen all the time.
The catacombs were first cleared in Roman
times, with succeeding generations of
Gauls and Frenchmen perfecting the Roman
engineering. Now the catacombs are a veritable
rabbit’s warren, and though many
boldly enter without a guide, to do so
puts one at risk of being lost there forever.
There have been many reports of rash individuals
who wandered into the catacombs for a
laugh and who have never been seen again.
Ghost Photo of Paris Catacombs
sent to us by Linda Graham
This, and many chilling tales of experiences
in this Empire of the Dead, put the Paris
Catacombs on our list of most haunted
places.
No.
2: Haunted New Orleans, Louisiana
Haunted
New Orleans is by far considered
by locals, visitors and paranormal
investigators world wide as actually
the most haunted and No. # 1 Haunted
City in all the United States.
With all the past and present
spiritual activity taking place
in this central plot The haunted
French Quarter - transcendent,
dark, and in between two worlds
- most who witness this City for
all it's worth of supernatural
origins.
With 200 years of ghostly legends
involving Voodoo curses, Spanish
moss draped oak encircled duels,
cold-blooded murders, Stories of
Revolutionary War Pirates and Civil
War soldiers, and Jazz. New Orleans
has earned a serious reputation
as one of Haunted New Orleans Tours
most haunted cities. Locals say
that the concentration of extremes
leaves the city open to ghosts within
the homes and businesses of Central
New Orleans.
"
The most popular tourist site
to have your possible brush
with the supernatural. But
there is more to Haunted New
Orleans then just the supernatural
Locales. It's an experience
you will never forget!"
Haunted
New Orleans Voted Haunted
New Orleans the best Haunted
City in the United States
for 2004 - 2005 - 2006. www.hauntedamericatours.com
South
Louisiana possesses the Crown
Jewel of all Haunted Cities
- New Orleans.
Long
before the docks of haunted
New York City became crowded
with European refugees, the
port of New Orleans was already
melting everything in its
wondrous Creole pot. Among
the earliest settled cities
of the New World, New Orleans'
place at the bend of the mighty
Mississippi River more than
guaranteed it a unique and
interesting life. Held by
French and Spanish, threatened
by the British, and governed
by Abraham Lincoln's Army
of the Republic during the
Civil War, this venerable
"Old Lady" has seen
generations come and go with
grace and quiet charm.
One
could spend an entire lifetime
in the Crescent City - so-called
because of its auspicious
placement at the river's turn
- and still not know all there
is to know of her, nor ever,
it has been said, get enough
of her. Characterized as an
almost living being, the City
itself has been suspected
of casting a spell over all
who come to her, assuring
that all who visit will eventually
come back.
This
magic translates into the
architecture and, indeed,
the very air of this infamous
city; like a chameleon, she
can change in a moment and
become anything desired. In
Congo Square one-time slaves
beat the rhythm of the Old
Lady's heart to an African
frenzy under the watchful
tutelage of Marie Laveau,
the greatest Voodoo Queen
to ever live; the well-to-do
built mansions Uptown, while
the immigrants and natives
packed into the ramshackle
row houses of the burgeoning
French Quarter, where the
true soul of this old city
is really to be found. Jean
Lafitte and his pirates plotted
in a blacksmith shop that
is still preserved amid the
neon and decadence of Bourbon
Street; blocks away the memories
of the great priest Pere Antoine
seem to resonant still from
the walls of the St. Louis
Cathedral; and all around
the seething, humid air seems
filled with memory and thoughts
of days gone by.
In
Haunted New Orleans the theorem
works opposites and the supernatural
easily becomes the natural.
It is a city to be savored,
like fine wine or a choice
cut of meat, slowly, with
relish and delight, and so
strong is its hold that even
the dead have a hard time
leaving it behind.
With
New Orleans graveyard, Haunted
Houses, Buildings and battlefields.
New Orleans is said to be
haunted by the ghost of the
world famous Voodoo Queen
of New Orleans, Marie Laveau.
Her spirit has been reported
inside of the St. Louis Cemetery
No. 1, walking between the
tombs wearing a red and white
seven knotted turban , and
mumbling a New Orleans Santeria
Voodoo curse to trespassers.
Her Voodoo curse is loud and
even heard by passerby's on
nearby Rampart Street. Locals
say this has started in recent
years for she is alarmed by
the many vandals and state
of the cemetery. Voudon Believers
and Tourist and locals still
come to her tomb every day
and leave many, many Voodoo
offerings (candles, flowers,
the
monkey and the cock
statue, Mardi Gras beads,
Gris Gris bags, Voodoo dolls
and food in hopes of being
blessed by her supernatural
powers from beyond the grave.
Many make a wish at her tomb
marking three X's. while others
say they have her Ghost on
film emerging undead from
her tomb. They say her soul
appears here as a shiny black
Voodoo cat with read eyes.
If you see it run!
Other
well known ghost haunt New
Orleans, as do haunted legends
like that of the Laularie
House. Delphine LaLaurie and
her third husband, Leonard
LaLaurie, took up residence
in the house at 1140 Royal
Street sometime in the 1830's.
There
are reported incidents of people
seeing, feeling and hearing the
ghosts of tormented slaves in
the LaLaurie home, and there are
even reports of the Madame herself
being seen there. The docile house
servants who entreated the assistance
of outsiders when the house was
about to burn to the ground are
said to often return to their
task - running and slamming doors
and shouts are heard repeatedly.
Nor are the spirits of the restless
dead quiet: the reports of moans
and weeping outnumber all others,
and there are several who have
seen the ghostly faces of the
dead peering from the upper windows
and the chamber of horrors that
became the crucible of their miserable
lives. New Orleans is one of the
oldest and most multi-faceted
cities in the United States, and
there are other tales, similar
to those of the LaLaurie home
that, sadly, have made their way
into our history. But the gruesome
horror of this particular event
was so ghastly that it stains
the city's memory to this very
day.
Ghost
cats and dogs are said to prowl
the New Orleans Haunted cemeteries
daily. Very near the great walls
of oven tombs. None of these ghost
animals have ever shown signs
of meanness. Several Tour guides
say these are the animals of an
1800's cemetery keepers guard
dogs and pets. Orbs, ghost photos,
EVP"S, strange phenomena,
Voodoo rituals, witchcraft, and
Haunted Mardi Gras Parades. Haunted
hotels abound Footsteps are heard
stomping up and down halls and
stairways at night. Doorknobs
to your hotel room turn, Closet
doors open and close, and a rush
of air follows as if someone is
walking through. Haunting's to
many to mention here, all happen
in this New Orleans, the number
one most Haunted City in America.
Whether you come for Haunted New
Orleans haunted history, enchanting
shops, night life or just a getaway,,
let your next destination be Haunted
New Orleans, Louisiana!
The
history of modern day Haunted New Orleans
would not be complete without
mention of the most traumatic event
in the city's history -- the Great Storm
of 2005. Devastated by hurricane
Katrina August 29th, 2005 the worst
hurricane this century to hit the Gulf
coast. New Orleans remains the most
haunted city of all times. Making a
tremendous comeback for 2007 Mardi Gras
Season this is what New Orleans is all
about... and the many, many ghosts are
waiting for you !
No. 3:
Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice
Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel,
located beneath the Cemetery Church of
All Saints (Czech: Hrbitovní kostel
Všech Svatých) in Sedlec,
a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech
Republic. The ossuary contains approximately
40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have
been artistically arranged to form decorations
and furnishings for the chapel.
Sedlec Ossuary Ghost Picture
sent to us by Tyler Nash
Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery
in Sedlec, was sent to the Holy Land by
King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278. When
he returned, he brought with him a small
amount of earth he had removed from Golgotha
and sprinkled it over the abbey cemetery.
The word of this pious act soon spread
and the cemetery in Sedlec became a desirable
burial site throughout Central Europe.
During the Black Death in the mid 14th
century, and after the Hussite Wars in
the early 15th century, many thousands
of people were buried there and the cemetery
had to be greatly enlarged.
Around 1400 a Gothic church was built
in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted
upper level and a lower chapel to be used
as an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed
during construction, or simply slated
for abolition to make room for new burials.
After 1511 the task of exhuming skeletons
and stacking their bones in the chapel
was, according to legend, given to a half-blind
monk of the order.
The Sedlec Ossuary Haunted
Human Bone Chandelier Ghost Photo sent
to us by Mark Henley
Between 1703 and 1710 a new entrance
was constructed to support the front wall,
which was leaning outward, and the upper
chapel was rebuilt. This work, in the
Czech Baroque style, was designed by Jan
Santini Aichel.
The Schwarzenberg coat-of-armsIn 1870,
František Rint, a woodcarver, was
employed by the Schwarzenberg family to
put the bone heaps into order. The macabre
result of his effort speaks for itself.
Four enormous bell-shaped mounds occupy
the corners of the chapel. An enormous
chandelier of bones, which contains at
least one of every bone in the human body,
hangs from the center of the nave with
garlands of skulls draping the vaults.
Other works include piers and monstrances
flanking the altar, a large Schwarzenberg
coat-of-arms, and the signature of Master
Rint, also executed in bone, on the wall
near the entrance
In 1970 the centenary of Rint's contributions,
Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, was
commissioned to document the ossuary.
The result was a 10 minute long frantic-cut
nightmare of skeletal images overdubbed
with an actual tour-guide's neutral voice
narration. This version was initially
banned by the Czech Communist authorities
for alleged subversion, and the soundtrack
was replaced by a brief spoken introduction
and a jazz arrangement by Zdenek Liška
of the poem "Comment dessiner le
portrait d'un oiseau" ("How
to draw the portrait of a bird")
by Jacques Prévert. Since the Velvet
Revolution, the original tour guide soundtrack
has been made available.
Official
website www.kostnice.cz
No. 4: Underground
Vaults, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Far below the busy streets of modern Edinburgh
lies a dark, forgotten corner of history.
Discovered in the mid-1980’s, the
Edinburgh Vaults had been abandoned for
nearly two hundred years. Lying beneath
the South Bridge, a major Edinburgh passage,
the rooms were used as cellars, workshops
and even as residences by the businesses
that plied their trade on the busy bridge
above. Abandoned soon after they were
built due to excessive water and moisture,
the vaults remain, unaltered, never illuminated
by the light of day.
This location is said to be very haunted.
Many visitors have been attacked by the
unseen and left with bruises, cuts, and
scratches. Others have been knocked unconscious
and overcome by debilitating nausea and
vomiting.
A reported as real UnderGround
Edinburgh ghost Photo Sent to us by Shana
Chrystal Ferino
The South Bridge has stood since 1785
and it was around this time that the huge
supporting arches were first divided for
use by nearby businesses. The vaults were
once bustling with life, the vast overflow
of an ever-growing city.
When the vaults became mostly abandoned
because of the unwholesome atmosphere
they were still used sporadically by the
poor and homeless of Edinburgh society.
As with any great concentration of unhealthy
people, there were outbreaks of plague
and other devastating illnesses; many
of the people who took refuge in the vaults
ultimately died there. There is evidence
that at least some of these people may
have met untimely ends because it was
here in the Edinburgh Vaults that the
nefarious pair, Burke and Hare, plied
their trade of providing cadavers to the
nearby teaching hospitals of Infirmary
Street.
Underground Scotland Ghost
Photo Sent to us by Gaylen Tamber
Paranormal investigations have been conducted
in the vaults practically since their
discovery and to date the location has
not failed to provide a wealth of disturbing
and unexplainable activity. Recently visited
by the crew from England’s “Most
Haunted,” the vaults maintained
their reputation as the spookiest place
in Edinburgh – no member of the
team would voluntarily return there.
No. 5: Coliseum, Rome,
Italy.
At the height of Rome’s power the
Coliseum represented everything that was
Imperial to the citizens of Rome. Gladiators
would fight to the death here for the
amusement of Caesar and the mobs; thousands
of prisoners of war and victims of religious
persecution met their end in the jaws
of lions and tigers in the sandy arena
of the Coliseum; and even those animals
were decimated, for in its time the Coliseum
consumed tens of thousands of animals,
some reportedly driven into extinction
by the Roman lust for blood and gore.
The workings of the Coliseum, the place
where the real grit of life took place,
were in the vaults beneath the sandy floor.
Now long ago exposed by the ravages of
time, there is still a pervasive feeling
of awe associated with the lingering presence
of a power so mighty it once encompassed
the entire known world.
In the pits beneath the Coliseum, gladiators
waited to fight, prisoners waited to die,
and average Romans placed bets on the
outcomes of myriad competitions. Such
a fabric of life can’t help but
wrap itself around the pillars and posts
that make up the foundation of this ancient
charnel house, and it is no surprise that
many reports of ghostly activity have
been associated with the Coliseum over
the years.
Tour guides and visitors alike have reported
cold spots, being touched or pushed, hearing
indiscernible words whispered into their
ears; security guards with the unenviable
task of securing the ancient edifice have
reported hearing the sounds of swords
clashing, of weeping in the more remote
areas, and, oddly enough most disconcerting,
the sound of ghostly animal noises such
as the roars of lions and elephants. Ghostly
citizens have been seen among the seats
of the Coliseum, and the sight of a Roman
soldier standing guard, silhouetted against
the night sky, is a common one.
With such ancient history and such a legacy
of death and bloodshed, there is little
wonder why the Roman Coliseum is one of
the most haunted places in the world.
No. 6: Walachia, Transylvania, Land of
Dracul, Romania.
“Beyond the green swelling hills
of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes
of forest up to the lofty steeps of the
Carpathians themselves. Right and left
of us they towered, with the afternoon
sun falling full upon them and bringing
out all the glorious colours of this beautiful
range, deep blue and purple in the shadows
of the peaks, green and brown where grass
and rock mingled, and an endless perspective
of jagged rock and pointed crags, till
these were themselves lost in the distance,
where the snowy peaks rose grandly . .
.
“Just then a heavy cloud passed
across the face of the moon, so that we
were again in darkness . . . This was
all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful
fear came upon me, and I was afraid to
speak or move. The time seemed interminable,
as we swept on our way, now in almost
complete darkness, for the rolling clouds
obscured the moon.
“We kept on ascending, with occasional
periods of quick descent, but in the main
always ascending. Suddenly, I became conscious
of the fact that the driver was in the
act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard
of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall
black windows came no ray of light, and
whose broken battlements showed a jagged
line against the sky.”
-- “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.
“Perhaps the only place I felt Dracula’s
presence was on a long, curving road that
twists over the Transylvanian Alps. The
area is so remote and impenetrable that
no major road crossed this often stormy
mountain pass until 1974. As my car climbed
into the mist, traffic disappeared, and
the radio stopped working. The road passes
a dam and a hydroelectric plant guarded
by a handful of soldiers standing alone
in the gloom. And at the bottom of the
road are the ruins of a castle.
Dracula’s castle.
Really.
Dracula created this fortress as a refuge.
When the Turkish army surrounded him,
he is said to have escaped through a tunnel
and disappeared into the mountains.
His young son was strapped to the side
of his horse but slipped off and was left
for dead. His wife didn’t even try
to flee. She threw herself to death from
a tower window.
I stepped out of the car to take a look.
But it was night now, and the climb to
the castle would be difficult. I looked
up at the dark mountains and started to
shiver, glad to have a car to spirit me
away.”
--Larry Bleiburg, The Dallas Morning News,
January 2, 2005
We think that’s enough said!
No. 7:
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp,
Oswiecim, Poland.
Auschwitz death camp was in operation
from May 1940 until its liberation by
Soviet forces in January 1945. It is estimated
that 2.1 to 2.5 million people were killed
in the gas chambers during that time,
of whom 2 million were Jews and the remainder
were Poles, Gypsies and Soviet POWs. But
this estimate is considered by historians
to be strictly a minimum, because the
total number of deaths at Auschwitz and
its sister camp Birkenau can never really
be known.
It is clear that Auschwitz-Birkenau was
considered by the Germans to be one of
their most efficient extermination centers
as early as 1941 when the mortuary crematorium
at the Auschwitz main camp was adapted
as a gas chamber. Additional huts, called
“bunkers,” were added around
January 1942 and were especially active
in the autumn of 1944 when extra capacity
was needed for the systematic murder of
Hungarian Jews and the liquidation of
the ghettos. Between January 1942 and
March 1943 over 175,000 Jews were gassed
to death here, their bodies burned in
open pits nearby.
By early 1943 it was clear that Hitler’s
SS were using Auschwitz as a mass-murder
factory. Twin pairs of state of the art
gas chambers using Zyklon-B gas were opened
in March and April 1943. The capacity
of these crematoria was 4,420 persons.
Once inside the chambers it took about
20 minutes for the gas to kill this number
of people. The killings took place in
the underground chambers and the bodies
were carried to five crematoria ovens
on an electrically operated lift. Before
cremation, gold teeth, jewelry, and other
valuables were removed from the corpses.
Captured Jews, known as “sonderkommandos”
were forced to work the crematoria under
SS supervision.
Anyone who has visited Auschwitz-Birkenau
is struck by the overwhelming sense of
melancholy and foreboding; visitors have
been known to break down in tears for
no apparent reason and many have to abandon
their tour groups without ever completing
the tour. Visitors are struck not only
by the horrific memory of the place, but
also by the effect it has on the present
day: birds still refuse to sing in the
trees surrounding the death camps and
there is little evidence of a thriving
natural environment anywhere nearby. The
silence, as they saw, is deafening, even
after all these years.
People have reported cold spots and areas
of intense emotional concentration. Recent
reports have come in that while touring
the camp some have been touched or even
grabbed by unseen hands. One visitor report
that someone or something tugged on her
clothes and she heard a voice whispering
to her but could not make out anything
but one or two words. " Please and
leave"!
As of date no paranormal group or investigator
has released their findings of the most
haunted place on earth to the public.
But often tales of this the Most Haunted
Hot Spot in the world has many haunted
secrets yet to reveal.
Photographs over the years have revealed
the presence of spirit manifestations
in the form of misty apparitions, shadows,
light anomalies and orbs. Given its history
and the imprint of horror it leaves on
the modern mind, Auschwitz-Birkenau is
the most haunted place on earth.
No. 8:
Whitechapel/Spittalfields, London East
End, London, England.
The Whitechapel / Spittalfields area of
East London has been actively settled
since Roman times. Many of the historic
buildings are built on the remains of
old Roman settlements. Throughout the
Dark and Middle Ages, the East End was
a burgeoning commerce area, mostly inhabited
by Anglos and Jewish moneylenders. In
Elizabethan times the East End looked
and smelled like something right out of
one of Shakespeare’s history plays,
and, in fact, the character of Falstaff
(Henry V) is said to have been based on
an innkeeper from the notorious East End.
It was a place of soldiers and prostitutes,
brawls and bawdy houses.
The coming of high Victorian morals did
nothing to dull this seedy reputation
and the Whitechapel / Spittalfields area,
while known to humanitarians for its extreme
poverty, was also known to all as the
home of thieves, prostitutes, and the
most derelict of English society.
In 1888 the Whitechapel area of London
was the scene of some of the most brutal
murders ever recorded: the famous Jack
the Ripper crimes. Yet the murders –
and the identity of Jack – remain
unsolved, even today. Many assert that
the killer was a doctor or was somehow
connected to the medical profession; others
believe the killer to have been Queen
Victoria’s grandson, Prince Albert
Victor, though nothing substantial has
ever arisen to support the theory.
Five women, all of them poor prostitutes,
were slaughtered by the mysterious Jack
in the span of just four months, known
collectively as “The Autumn of Terror.”
Four of the women – Mary Nicholls,
Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine
Eddowes – were found in various
streets and alleys throughout Whitechapel
horribly disfigured and mutilated. The
fifth – Mary Kelly – was the
only victim murdered in an interior location;
as such she was the most horribly mutilated,
the death scene like something from a
slaughterhouse.
Jack the Ripper enjoyed a brief career
as London’s most infamous serial
murder and the fact that he was never
caught still adds to the mystery surrounding
him. Nevertheless, it is thought that
his horrible mutilation of Mary Kelly
was his last act of violence and there
is no evidence that Jack, whoever he may
have been, killed again after November
1888.
Today visitors to London’s East
End can walk the streets that Jack prowled
and visit pubs and other locations he
may have haunted in life – and death.
Walking tours of the area are very popular
and although Jack’s legacy is certainly
the most enduring, other ghosts that haunt
the East End are those of Jack’s
victims, in various stages of mutilation;
a ghostly band of Roman soldiers; a murderous
sea captain’s ghost that haunts
a local pub; and a mysterious black carriage
drawn by ghastly white horses that approaches
without a sound and disappears right before
your eyes. These and other haunts, combined
with the long haunted history of the East
End make it one of the must visit ghostly
locations in the world.
No. 9:
Unit 731 Experimentation Camp, Harbin,
Manchuria, China.
“It is called the Asian Auschwitz
and, in terms of inhumanity and horror,
it certainly warrants this description.
Yet there remains a fundamental difference
with the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis
against Jews: While Germany has shown
deep contrition and remorse, the leaders
the country that spawned the evil of Unit
731 still struggle to come to grips with
what occurred . . . In the end at least
3,000 prisoners, mainly Chinese, were
killed directly, with a further 250,000
Chinese left to die through the biological
warfare experiments.”
In the gruesome world of Unit 731 the
unthinkable was done on a daily basis.
Prisoners, mostly taken in Japan’s
conquest of Manchuria at the beginning
of WWII, were subjected to unimaginable
horrors. They were infected with diseases
such as anthrax, cholera and even bubonic
plague. To gauge the effect of these diseases
on their subjects – whom they dehumanized
by calling them “logs” –
live, un-anesthetized vivisection was
performed. In many cases the subjects
would regain consciousness while the dissection
was taking place.
Whole towns and villages were decimated
by the ghoulish doctors and researchers
of Unit 731 and the effects of their horrible
crimes still resonate there to this day.
Parts of the Unit 731 complex still remain
– there are buildings where frostbite
experiments were performed, courtyards
and open areas where prisoners were subjected
to live bombs detonated at close range
to enable researchers to evaluate the
effect of explosives of the sort that
Japanese soldiers were encountering in
the fields. Other buildings where live
human vivisections took place overlook
the prisoner holding area and the long-unused
railway station where the “logs”
were offloaded for their horrible fate.
The Chinese government sanctioned the
Unit and the surrounding area as a learning
center for future generations of Chinese,
and just recently visitors from the West
have been allowed access to the killing
fields at Harbin. But for many years there
have been reports of paranormal activity
associated with the old charnel houses:
ghost lights and apparitions are frequently
seen, including a ghostly figure that
walks the empty precincts surrounding
the frostbite units. Ghostly voices have
been heard and anomalies frequently appear
in photographs taken in the area. Recently,
during the filming of a BBC television
documentary, the English film crew experienced
unexplainable problems with their lights
and batteries – often a sure sign
of ghostly activity. Many speculate that
as the story of Unit 731 is more widely
told, the ghosts of those tragically tormented
and murdered there are becoming more and
more active, and more anxious for justice
than ever before.
No.
10: Haunted Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The most
deadly battle of the Civil War took
place in 1863 in the tiny Pennsylvania
town of Gettysburg. Union soldiers
were low on ammunition and losing
the fight, nearly capitulating them
to the advancing Confederate army.
Then, as they used up the last of
their gunpowder, a ghostly George
Washington on a white stallion appeared
before them, urging them on to victory
— an event that ultimately
turned the tide of the war. That's
the way the legend tells it anyway,
and to this day, the people who
live in and around Gettysburg maintain
that George Washington's ghost rides
regally across that same battlefield
every summer. 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 Haunted images and chills.
But the
horrible days of the Battle of Gettysburg
are not just distant memory in this
haunted 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 haunting's 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 moaning's 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 Cemetery 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 spiritual energy proceeds
it, but the apparition never appears!
Whether
you come for Haunted Gettysburg great
battlefield Ghost or history, Haunted
Ghost tales, or just to vacation let
your next destination be Haunted Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania!
Mark
Nesbitt, author of the best-selling
Ghosts of Gettysburg book
series recently won two
national awards for his
six-volume collection of
tales of paranormal happenings
on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, site of the
3-day Civil War battle.
His popular Ghosts
of Gettysburg Candlelight
Walking Tours®
and many books tells
more of the whole story
Also
Check Out: Ghost
TV Dead On Productions
is a partnership between
historian Mark Nesbitt,
author of the highly acclaimed
Ghosts of Gettysburg series,
and Investigative Medium
Laine Crosby, marketing
strategist and former director
of marketing for high-tech
ventures, including the
launch of The Weather Channel
New Media and weather.com.
The
duo also co-host the talk
show Ghost Talkers. The
show includes interviews
with psychics, authors,
historians, and paranormal
investigators. The first
season’s topics include:
unpublished Gettysburg ghost
stories, capturing electronic
voice phenomenon, psychic
encounters, demonology,
possessed possessions, and
all things paranormal. “We
noticed a void in the market-
audiences’ desires
were not being met,”
said executive producer
Laine Crosby, an ex-marketing
executive who now works
as an Investigative Medium.
“Although national
cable networks have begun
to offer quality programming
about the paranormal, with
the exception of the random
podcast, the Internet seems
to be dead silent. We are
the first non-television
network to launch this unique
programming in the high-tech
world.” www.ghostchannel.tv
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