Gettysburg Ghosts?

[John Bell Hood]

Here are three youtube video's of Gettysburg Ghosts. Is the battle still being fought or is this proof of the afterlife?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGkdHyw7TM

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StlW9XuA2g

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G39FMA26NK8

Enjoy

[Fubar]

Fake!!!

[Hinkel]

When we were in Gettysburg last year, we recorded a ghost in herbst woods!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aY0Mycma34

[A. P. Hill]

Aw Man!

You guys are SssOoooo awesome!

Do you have any idea how many times I've gone in the dead of night to see if I could see any unexplainable phenomena ... and look how lucky you guys were! In broad daylight no less!

I'm just sooooo jealous.


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On the other hand, having lived in areas where battles were fought during the civil war, there have been extraordinary events that are completely unexplainable that I have witnessed myself. But this was before the advent of the cell phone and digital cameras that everyone carried 24/7.

[Kyle422]

when we were in gettysburg last year, we recorded a ghost in herbst woods!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ay0mycma34

im so jealous hinkel ive spent many hours at gburg looking for such paranormal things to happen and for you to catch something on camera such as this is just amazing.

[Morris8911]

When we were in Gettysburg last year, we recorded a ghost in herbst woods!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aY0Mycma34

10/10

[Dman979]

Here are three youtube video's of Gettysburg Ghosts. Is the battle still being fought or is this proof of the afterlife?

No, it's not videos of ghosts.
And the only place the battle is being fought is in the history books.

Best,
Dman979

[Poorlaggedman]

I don't believe in ghosts. However, having been to Gettysburg many times I will tell you it can be creepy, on the cusp of where you may be prone to start believing. Part of it may just be the fact that the battlefield has no streetlights so even driving down the Emitsburg road is creepy at night with even minimal understanding of the enormous emotional center of Civil War history.

A good book about the supposedly haunted Devil's Den Area by Gary Adelman and Tim Smith explain the history of the area. It all but dismisses any ghost theories and doesn't go much into them. The ghost stories are a relatively new phenomena. The theories behind ghosts are interesting. At what point does a ghost suddenly activate? Because there was no talk of it for over a century. The Devil's Den area in particular was highly disrespected and desecrated for a long time. There was literally a Little Round Top theme park. A guy put a trolley through Devil's Den blasting boulders. The trolley bed is still there. The rocks were caked with carvings. Couples made out in the rocks all the time. Lots of littering. All in the late 1800s before the War Department basically started seizing the property of the private enterprises.

The "Gettysburg Ghost" tours are mainly a crock of shit. In fact they can't even get their facts straight. They aren't called out on it because it's mostly just casuals who take the tours. The guy I had said Sickle's Corps took 90% casualties. I guess 50% isn't as impressive. If you're there... and have the time and money to blow, go for it. I did learn an interesting fact.... the fence to the cemetery was procured by Dan Sickles' political ties. It was the fence across the street from the White House at the time, the fence against which he shot his wife's boyfriend. I wouldn't have known that otherwise.

I was there in the offseason a few times and talked to a lot of locals on their opinion... all of them said they believed in ghosts and detailed experiences they felt were paranormal. I still don't believe.

[John Jones]

I can't speak to Gettysburg, never having had the privilege of visiting the US battlefields but I have been to the battlefields of France and Belgium for both WW1 and WW2, as well as the site of the Belsen concentration camp and personally, I have never been spooked at any of them, and certainly never in the way it can be creepy walking along a country lane or field in the dark.

I have, however, heard a number of accounts of people having 'experiences' in these places, Mametz Wood on the Somme battlefield is relatively well known for it and when I was based in Germany with the British army (generally former Wehrmacht barracks) there were plenty of stories of ghostly Russian POWs - a former boss of mine, and not ever someone I would have classed as a fantasist, claimed to have seen one in her kitchen, so I don't dismiss them entirely.

My own theory is that these places are often visited by people who know one or two things (or lots) about the battles and events that took place there and that in all likelihood, people take their own ghosts in with them.

10/10 for the video though.

[John Bell Hood]

Ha, Ha Hinkel I loved the video. Well maybe if you don't agree the videos I posted might be real. Check out this ghost adventure video where they trigger the Gettysburg Ghosts if you have a chance...Interesting at least.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hdl2q

[David Dire]

I wouldn't call commercial TV a good source of credible information.

Also, the videos in the OP are suspiciously low quality. Not to mention the first one could literally be 15 seconds of film stretched to a few minutes worth, perfect for adding CGI.


My theory for "Gettysburg Ghosts" is someone saw a Reenactor going out to piss on a tree, and thought it was the "real thing." ;)

[McMuffin]

that scared me

[Soulfly]

I dont want to comment the videos of the OP, but i had the chance to visit some battlefields and one cant deny this specific feeling you have in such areas....not necessarily in pitch black darkness, personally i have never encountered such "ghosts" but if i would, i would never react that cool ;)

[LTC Philip A. Work]

I, along with my family, saw this exact same phenomenon in 2005 when I visited Gettysburg. Looked like a column of plastic bags floating by at the foot of Little Round Top. Still can't explain it and it's the only "paranormal" experience I've had.


https://youtu.be/_xlyofmznOs

[Riversong]

I have a few interesting "ghost" pictures from Gettysburg. I'll have to post them when I get home from work.

[Riversong]

I have a few interesting "ghost" pictures from Gettysburg. I'll have to post them when I get home from work.

9153

This was taken at the Wheatfield from the road. It's about 500 yards from the road to the tree line. If you look at the original picture you wouldn't even notice but blown up it gets interesting. People say they see different things. I see a man. My kid sees a horse too, others see a woman. What do you all think? Is it just matrixing? Or It's just the pixels?

R

[A. P. Hill]

Believe me, it's not just Gettysburg. Almost every battlefield has some ghost stories associated with it.

[Shiloh]

On the evening of the 155th Anniversary of Antietam I walked up and down Bloody Lane using a candle to guide my way. I didn't see anything other than the candle flicker playing tricks on my eyes but I did get a very "heavy" feeling to the point where I felt I should leave. I went to start my Jeep and the battery seemed drained and only after a few tries did I get it started. I had my wife sage me when I got home as I felt something attached itself to me. That may sound crazy but it was my experience and I know what I felt.

I've also taken some photos there with orb-like features that don't make sense according to where the rising sun was. I've had people look at it and shake their heads. I'll see if I can find them.

On another note my friend Tyler had a quite remarkable experience on the Gettysburg battlefield at the point where the famous Confederate sharpshooter photo was taken. He was a bright-eyed 13 year-old and he was laying down in that exact position where the sharpshooter was positioned as his mom was taking his photo. He claims he felt a hand grab his ankle and said he felt a rush of every emotion that soldier had felt when he died - fear, anger, etc. - rush through his body and he said it changed his life. His mom has told me the story too and she could instantly see that something traumatic had happened to him. He's 20 now and a Marine and at the 155th Gettysburg reenactment we stayed up late and talked about it for about an hour. He's as honest as they come and no doubt he experienced something.

Tyler's coming to visit me in late-August and we'll walk Antietam and Harpers Ferry as well. Man I'm blessed to live close to many of these battlefields and have good friends who want to visit and have those experiences with me. If I know Tyler he'll want to walk it at night with me so let's see what happens.

[Riversong]

When my daughter was much younger she was an Orb magnet. Almost every photo I took in Gettysburg on a battlefield there were Orbs following or around her. As she got older there were less and less of them. I'm a sensitive, so is she but she turns it off because it spooks her. One thing I always try to teach my kid while on battlefields is to have respect for the men who fought, no matter what side.

[TheRegulator]

Isnt it funny ... Allmost everybody have a phones with cam's and gopro cams and, never has there been so many posibilities to record stuff. And yet to this date no one has come up with, some valid good recordings of spooky stuff ..

99% of all spooky recordings are fake its CGI Work ... That leaves us with about 1 % who most likely is just errors in the recordings.

I worked some years as a journalist/reporter on a radio station. In that time i produced a broadcast about ghost's. I was allowed to stay over nighte in one of the most hunted Places here in Denmark "Borreby Manor".
I was equppied at the time with one of the first night vision cams, as i had to go around the big manor in complete Black out after midnighte. I spend all nighte there until daylight broke ... I did not hear or see anything, at all.

The only thing i ever recorded as filmmaker/Producer (Thats what i do now for a living) is an UFO, but i have never shown the recording in puplic ... Because you will never be able to tell if its simply the cam doing odd stuff, or its mirror reflections in the lens, it might even be a fatamorgana ... To my best knowledge ... There are no ghost's nor is there a life after death. Death is the ultimate end, nothing just a Black universe of nothing, like before you where born.
The human allways seek Things that can provide evidense of such Things, to carm Down thier fear of thier own death. Ohh yes there are a life after death ...

Its like this you have one life, use it at it admost and do good Things, tell the people you love, that you do love them. Because when it goes Black ... Its over.

[Shiloh]

Isnt it funny ... Allmost everybody have a phones with cam's and gopro cams and, never has there been so many posibilities to record stuff. And yet to this date no one has come up with, some valid good recordings of spooky stuff ..

99% of all spooky recordings are fake its CGI Work ... That leaves us with about 1 % who most likely is just errors in the recordings.

I worked some years as a journalist/reporter on a radio station. In that time i produced a broadcast about ghost's. I was allowed to stay over nighte in one of the most hunted Places here in Denmark "Borreby Manor".
I was equppied at the time with one of the first night vision cams, as i had to go around the big manor in complete Black out after midnighte. I spend all nighte there until daylight broke ... I did not hear or see anything, at all.

The only thing i ever recorded as filmmaker/Producer (Thats what i do now for a living) is an UFO, but i have never shown the recording in puplic ... Because you will never be able to tell if its simply the cam doing odd stuff, or its mirror reflections in the lens, it might even be a fatamorgana ... To my best knowledge ... There are no ghost's nor is there a life after death. Death is the ultimate end, nothing just a Black universe of nothing, like before you where born.
The human allways seek Things that can provide evidense of such Things, to carm Down thier fear of thier own death. Ohh yes there are a life after death ...

Its like this you have one life, use it at it admost and do good Things, tell the people you love, that you do love them. Because when it goes Black ... Its over.

... says the skeptic.

Everyone has their own beliefs about things and some people are 'sensitives' which means they are more sensitive or tuned in with unexplainable phenomenon. If you're a skeptic, and it seems like you are, you are likely not tuned in with this type of stuff so therefore you'd be less likely to have an experience with it. You are going to find a way to debunk anything people bring forward on their phones or cameras right? You can find a somewhat logical explanation for any paranormal phenomenon and explain it with science OR you can believe that what you're seeing is unexplainable and reserve opinion. I think a lot of being a believer vs a skeptic is open-mindedness vs closed-mindedness and it's as much a personality trait as anything else.

It's the "wow... it's possible it could be" vs. "there's no way it could be because I can explain it with science." Neither is good or bad it just is.

I did a mini-documentary in college about the view into mortality, and the possibility of life after death. I interviewed Lorraine Warren and Joe Nickell. Turn on cable on any given night and you might see one of them on; Warren talking about her belief in things, Nickell taking the role of skeptic. If this production and meeting these people taught me anything, it's that people have varying views and both sides should be respected. For you to say every 'spooky' recording is fake is single-minded and your opinion.

The truth is we don't know if we go to black and it's end-game or if there's something more as none of us who are currently alive have gone through the process of death so how would anybody truly know?

It's the great mystery of life and it will be debated always.

[TheRegulator]

Naeee ... It goes Black. But what ever makes your happy :)

[Shiloh]

Naeee ... It goes Black. But what ever makes your happy :)

Have you died and come back... how do you know? :D

[TheRegulator]

Have you died and come back... how do you know? :D

If your dead, and revived ... Then you havent been dead. No dead has ever come back. But your brain will halucinate all kinda stuff when your close to dying. As i said, you can belive anything you like ... Any fairytale will go, as long as it makes your happy. Are you ready for the big Black nothing :)

Sometimes can dying even be funny ... The British author Oscar Wilde. Lying in his death bed, he looked up at the wall ... His last words where " Ither that wall paper goes ... Or i do"

[Monkey]

Never forget the great sheet ghost charge of Gettysburg

[Alasdair]

I've always been fascinated by the idea of spirits lingering at these major sites. Sadly, it's extremely hard to sort out real accounts from fake ones.

After that, it just becomes hard to decide whether or not I believe in any of it- though I'd certainly like to.

One day I'll get around to testing a spirit box.

[Ben H. Phillips]

Gettysburg Ghosts are kinda creepy i seen vids its creepy imagining seeing these face to face

I think we can all agree that seeing lingering ghost from the past is kinda creepy when ya think of it

[Ben H. Phillips]

May the soldiers rest in peace who fought that day and lost their lives

[Alasdair]

Thread encouraged me to buy a spirit box. Going to test it out soon. Curious to see what happens.