Speaker 1: Gettysburg ghosts what is said to be the grizzliest battle
Speaker 1: to ever take place on American soil. The Civil War
Speaker 1: began on July first, eighteen sixty three, when Confederate Army
Speaker 1: General Robert E. Lee confidently marched his troops through Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: where they planned to launch an attack on Union forces,
Speaker 1: But miscalculations on the battlefield cost the Confederacy to fight
Speaker 1: and many lives. Total of nearly fifty one thousand casualties
Speaker 1: were tallied by the end of the three day battle.
Speaker 1: With so many corpses and so much carnage, it was
Speaker 1: impossible to bury all the dead. Many were buried quickly
Speaker 1: simply to get them out of the way, and without
Speaker 1: proper rights at that. It's no surprise to those of
Speaker 1: us in this community that many of those soldiers, most
Speaker 1: of whose names have been long since forgotten, still roam
Speaker 1: the area and haunt the nearby ends and homes which
Speaker 1: were used as makeshift hospitals and morgues. The battlefield itself,
Speaker 1: where so much the blood was shed, is arguably one
Speaker 1: of the most haunted in the United States. There's an
Speaker 1: almost infinite number of reports, phantom cries and screams, ghostly
Speaker 1: apparitions dressed in the same now how to date garb
Speaker 1: they wore when the massacre happened in near and around
Speaker 1: Gettysburg Battlefield. There's even been an immeasurable number of people
Speaker 1: who have reported hearing ghostly music from the Civil War
Speaker 1: era playing softly in the background, whether they've visited or
Speaker 1: toured one place or another at the infamous site. There
Speaker 1: are reports of the sounds of horse hooves dropping along
Speaker 1: the fields and streets in front of the ends and
Speaker 1: restaurants many horses felt during the battle, and yes, animals
Speaker 1: can be ghosts too. There wouldn't be a way to
Speaker 1: mention every single victim of such a vicious and brutal war,
Speaker 1: but today we want to take the time to discuss
Speaker 1: at least some of them here in this video. Even
Speaker 1: the most skeptical of the non believers would be hard
Speaker 1: pressed to deny every single evidentiary piece of information, report,
Speaker 1: or sighting happening here every single day in Gettysburg. I've
Speaker 1: been there for one of their famous ghost tours, or
Speaker 1: out for some relaxation at one of the beautiful bed
Speaker 1: and breakfast, or just staying a few nights at one
Speaker 1: of the many haunted hotels or ends, you're sure, if
Speaker 1: you're there long enough and pay half attention to what's
Speaker 1: going on around you to have a run in with
Speaker 1: at least one of these spirits or lost souls who
Speaker 1: have so long ago passed away but for whatever reason
Speaker 1: can't or won't move on. A hot spot where many
Speaker 1: visitors have Gettysburg Battlegrounds like to stay is a former
Speaker 1: farm house now called the Balladeri Inn. The patio in
Speaker 1: the back overlooks the gazebo, and the view from this
Speaker 1: spot is relaxing and peaceful, to say the least. However,
Speaker 1: once you know a bit more of the history of
Speaker 1: this particular area, you may have a hard time keeping
Speaker 1: your eyes from roaming again and again towards the gazebo itself.
Speaker 1: Back during the battle, the Balladeri End served as a
Speaker 1: Union hospital. It's no wonder some of the main experiences
Speaker 1: reported here by guests and staff alike are bone chilling.
Speaker 1: Whales of the dying souls as they lay in the
Speaker 1: most unbearably excruciating pain one could even imagine while they
Speaker 1: were waiting for their turn to be treated, and even
Speaker 1: then the treatments available back then, usually consist of either amputation,
Speaker 1: a shot of morphine, or simply laying around waiting for
Speaker 1: death to come. It's no wonder some of the souls
Speaker 1: are so haunted by the way they left this world
Speaker 1: and continue to scream, complete in pain, with anyone and
Speaker 1: everyone who will listen. After all, there's no sounds of
Speaker 1: cat and fire or absolute chaos to round out the
Speaker 1: pitiful and grievous wells these days, although sometimes even phantom
Speaker 1: shots have been reported. There are, however, plenty of guests
Speaker 1: seeking to attend to reenactments, ghost hunters waiting for just
Speaker 1: those very screams, and even regular people who are simply
Speaker 1: in Gettysburg for the history of it all because Zebo
Speaker 1: in particular is said to be a hotspot of paranormal activity,
Speaker 1: as the soldiers who died can be seen standing around there,
Speaker 1: still proud in their uniform they so painfully left us
Speaker 1: realm wearing. Sometimes they salute and other times they simply stare.
Speaker 1: But most of the time, if you listened very closely,
Speaker 1: those aforementioned wales and screams can be heard all around
Speaker 1: at all hours of the day and night, simply by
Speaker 1: sitting in the area of the gazebo. The n's proprietor,
Speaker 1: a woman named Judy C, told a story one time
Speaker 1: to a woman doing a piece on exactly what we're
Speaker 1: discussing here today. The ghost Saghettysburg story goes that an
Speaker 1: FBI officer who was also a paranormal investigator was standing
Speaker 1: in the kitchen having a conversation with Miss Judy. He
Speaker 1: somewhat playfully asked if she believed in ghosts. Oddly enough,
Speaker 1: the proprietor of an allegedly haunted in replied to the
Speaker 1: investigator in the negative. She did not believe in ghosts.
Speaker 1: The digitant informed her that there right behind where she
Speaker 1: was standing there talking to him, stood the apparition of
Speaker 1: a portly woman, complete with a long dress covered by
Speaker 1: an apron, her hair and a messy bun. I wonder
Speaker 1: if that changed her mind at all. Now. There's another place,
Speaker 1: the historic Dobbin Inn, which existed during the Civil War
Speaker 1: as well, and which is part of one of the
Speaker 1: many ghost tours in the town. The ghost to an
Speaker 1: unnamed Confederate soldier is said to stare forlornly out war
Speaker 1: the second floor windows. During one of these ghost tours,
Speaker 1: you may come across the house on Baltimore Street, or
Speaker 1: the television and computers stay on. It's said that it's
Speaker 1: been that way ever since. The occupants one day ran
Speaker 1: out and left everything they owned with the gloves on
Speaker 1: their backs behind. They were so terrified of the alleged
Speaker 1: ghosts of the Confederate soldiers who are said to still
Speaker 1: haunk this place. While some ghosts are sad and yet
Speaker 1: others are angry and confused, some are the innocence, not
Speaker 1: soldiers at all, innocent bystanders for those that were caught
Speaker 1: up in the war for other reasons, people that in
Speaker 1: fact had nothing to do with the war going on
Speaker 1: around them. Some were made casualties, and some passed away
Speaker 1: simply because the dangers of life way back then but
Speaker 1: said that just turning a corner could get you killed
Speaker 1: a hundred different ways. Take, for example, a little boy
Speaker 1: only known as Jeremy, whose spirit is said to lurk
Speaker 1: at the Farnsworth End, deeply involved in seemingly perpetual game
Speaker 1: of marbles. Jeremy was injured during a horse and carriage
Speaker 1: incident during the Civil War, after being carried into a
Speaker 1: nearby house and also being assured by a doctor that
Speaker 1: he was safe, Jeremy died and continues to haunt the
Speaker 1: well known area to this very day. Is it possible
Speaker 1: that there residual energy left behind in a place filled
Speaker 1: with so much pain, anguish, rage, defeat, sadness and death
Speaker 1: could eventually coax spirits who otherwise would or could have
Speaker 1: peacefully and easily passed on to remain behind. Well, that's
Speaker 1: one we will surely never have an answer to, but
Speaker 1: interesting to ponder. Nonetheless, in the middle of a field,
Speaker 1: somewhere in the midst of all the haunted INDs and
Speaker 1: Goes two attractions, there stands a large maple tree. This
Speaker 1: is allegedly one of, if not the most haunted in
Speaker 1: active spots in all of Gettysburg. It's said that six
Speaker 1: Union soldiers were popped up against it and left for dead.
Speaker 1: Legend has it, and many witnesses they claim to this
Speaker 1: as well, that if you show up at the tree
Speaker 1: anytime after eleven PM, you'll not only find dozens of
Speaker 1: tourists and reporters with cameras just waiting to catch a
Speaker 1: glimpse of something, but also neither you nor they will
Speaker 1: be disappointed, as the souls of those soldiers are said
Speaker 1: to sometimes appear, but more often than not they like
Speaker 1: to make the equipment malfunction, pull hair, and grab at
Speaker 1: the poor people who are only there for some fun
Speaker 1: at their expense. As mentioned earlier, this town has a
Speaker 1: reputation as being the site of one of the bloodiest
Speaker 1: battles ever to take place in this great nation, and
Speaker 1: therefore it is a site no history or paranormal enthusiasts
Speaker 1: want to miss out with on their bucket lists of
Speaker 1: places they want to visit before they die. Three enactmos
Speaker 1: are said to be epic, as are the sightings of
Speaker 1: the dead, who still roam and lurk almost everywhere in Gettysburg.
Speaker 1: In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a street
Speaker 1: or field where there's never been any activity at all,
Speaker 1: especially near where the battles are fought. The battle at
Speaker 1: Gettysburg was and still is considered to be especially dreadful
Speaker 1: and grim. It lasted for three entire days, and approximately
Speaker 1: eight thousand men were outright killed on the battlefield, with
Speaker 1: thousands upon thousands more in the aftermath and otherwise perishing.
Speaker 1: The carnage and death were so extensive Gettysburg itself has
Speaker 1: been given the nickname the harvest of death in reference
Speaker 1: to how many poor souls lost their lives defending their
Speaker 1: particular cause or just being in the wrong place at
Speaker 1: the wrong time. Their actual accounts have still remained today
Speaker 1: from soldiers who were part of the lucky few who
Speaker 1: were to end up surviving. Here's an account from one
Speaker 1: such soldier from New Jersey. Some with faces bloated and
Speaker 1: blackened beyond recognition, lay with glassy eyes staring up at
Speaker 1: the blazing summer sun. Others with faces downward and clenched
Speaker 1: hands filled with grass or earth, which told the agony
Speaker 1: of the last moments. Here a headless trunk, there a
Speaker 1: severed limb, and all the grotesquesesis and unbearable pain and
Speaker 1: intense suffering contorts the human form they lay. It was
Speaker 1: summer on the East coast, after all. Imagine for a moment,
Speaker 1: if you will, what that must have smelled like, how
Speaker 1: it must have reaked, the dead, decaying and dying men
Speaker 1: and horses, all laying there atop one another, baking in
Speaker 1: the summer sun and heat. The only reason even the
Speaker 1: simplest of burials were done was to help quell the
Speaker 1: stinch just a little bit, and for it but a
Speaker 1: moment for those who were still alive and able to
Speaker 1: breathe in the foul and acrid air around them. Later on,
Speaker 1: of course, proper burials were given to some of the men,
Speaker 1: but only a small fraction, and the rest were left
Speaker 1: forgotten to history, and what happened to them being left
Speaker 1: to the speculation for more than a century. The effort
Speaker 1: to bury the bodies couldn't keep up with a constantly
Speaker 1: rising body count. The corpses that were later exhumed were
Speaker 1: reburied at the National Military Park Cemetery right there in Gettysburg.
Speaker 1: But after all that time, there's almost no way that
Speaker 1: the bodies were completely whole. It's almost certain that many
Speaker 1: bits and pieces were left behind. Things like this, some
Speaker 1: may say, are what causes hauntings in the first place.
Speaker 1: A body not properly buried, an incomplete body someone kills
Speaker 1: so violently and tragically and then dug up with only
Speaker 1: pieces of it reburied. On top of all the other
Speaker 1: residual energy from the pain, suffering and blood in the
Speaker 1: air during those three days, well, it stands to reason
Speaker 1: that this place would become a paranormal enthusiast dream. To
Speaker 1: put all of this into perspective for you before we
Speaker 1: move on. In nineteen ninety six, more than one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty years after the battle itself was over, remains
Speaker 1: of these soldiers and horses were still being uncovered. The
Speaker 1: rumor and speculation alone are enough to entice anyone with
Speaker 1: even a hand of curiosity in the supernatural to come
Speaker 1: and visit the town and roll in the streets at nights,
Speaker 1: hoping and not hoping all at once to catch a
Speaker 1: glimpse of some sad looking and pitiful soul who may
Speaker 1: or may not know that more than a century has
Speaker 1: passed since they lost their life, that is, if they
Speaker 1: even are aware enough to know they're dead at all.
Speaker 1: There are some rather benign reports of sightings of men, women,
Speaker 1: and even children who once lived and then died during
Speaker 1: this there, regardless of what the cause of death was.
Speaker 1: Some are kind of in between what we feel we
Speaker 1: can believe as rational people, and then there are those
Speaker 1: that are played and simple extremely strange. Among these stranger
Speaker 1: claims are the continuous and led sightings of General Robert E.
Speaker 1: Lee himself. This in and of itself is bizarre, considering
Speaker 1: he didn't die in the battle and in fact went
Speaker 1: on to live a long life, or long for eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty six anyways, and passed away quite peacefully at home
Speaker 1: in Virginia, years after the battle had been fought and lost.
Speaker 1: Why would he haunt a place where he not only
Speaker 1: lost the battle itself, but where so many of his
Speaker 1: men had died under his lead, where so much blood
Speaker 1: was shed and fear and pain were inflicted. Could it
Speaker 1: perhaps be the very same thing that brings seemingly rational
Speaker 1: and reasonable people to a town with such a supernatural
Speaker 1: and somewhat macob claim to fame as Gettysburg, again hoping
Speaker 1: for a quick scare from an out of place spirit.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps it's for more personal reasons that generally has
Speaker 1: spotted so often there near the battlefield, sometimes having drinks
Speaker 1: with his men and one of the many taverns and inns,
Speaker 1: or standing staring benignly at the ground. Is it possible
Speaker 1: he's doomed to relive the moments of the war over
Speaker 1: and over again, having a pike the night before the
Speaker 1: big battle with his men in the hopes of lifting
Speaker 1: their spirits and bringing them to a swift victory. Does
Speaker 1: he stare at the ground because he is seeing the
Speaker 1: carnage and destruction all over as once again helpless to
Speaker 1: stop any of it from happening again. We may never know,
Speaker 1: but we can and do always speculate. It's at the
Speaker 1: cash Town end where the very first soldier was allegedly killed,
Speaker 1: where photos were taken which seemed to show glowing orbs
Speaker 1: and even skeletons by the husband and wife pair that
Speaker 1: owned the place. Now guest report what we in this
Speaker 1: community would call the usual activity with doors slamming, lights flickering,
Speaker 1: and even doors locking and unlocking, all on their own.
Speaker 1: While staying at the establishment. At the famously haunted Gettysburg Hotel,
Speaker 1: a phantom black woman is said to dance in the ballroom.
Speaker 1: Paranormal investigators who went to the hotel to professionally investigate
Speaker 1: all the reported sightings claim that they have even seen
Speaker 1: roaming the halls at night aimlessly and seemingly lost the
Speaker 1: ghost of Union soldier James Culbertson of Company K under
Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania Reserve Squad. There was a sighting about a
Speaker 1: decade ago from an independent visitor slash investigator that went
Speaker 1: viral once he uploaded it onto the internet. The man
Speaker 1: claimed he had been driving through the battlefield late at
Speaker 1: night with his family when they all saw or thought
Speaker 1: they saw the exact same apparitions, two ghostly figures, seemingly
Speaker 1: dressed in uniform, walking across the road directly in front
Speaker 1: of them. He stated, we were driving along one night
Speaker 1: and we started hearing noises. I heard things to the left,
Speaker 1: and my uncle heard things to the right, and there
Speaker 1: was a fog. But the fog was weird. It was
Speaker 1: only in one patch, not dispersed. It was scary, it
Speaker 1: was crazy. I couldn't go to sleep. What exactly is
Speaker 1: happening here in Gettysburg may always remain a mystery. With
Speaker 1: how famous it's become for the alleged sightings and hauntings
Speaker 1: in general, it really says something about our own fascination
Speaker 1: with death and supernatural, perhaps with the afterlife in general.
Speaker 1: Is their own fear of death or something else? The unanswered,
Speaker 1: but ever asked a question of what happens to us
Speaker 1: when we die? That thought constantly looms at the edge
Speaker 1: of the mind and the periphery of our thoughts. Could
Speaker 1: it be just the massive amount of carnage and blood
Speaker 1: that was shed on the battlefield, which left some poor
Speaker 1: souls to up here continuing to suffer for all eternity,
Speaker 1: even more so perhaps than they had suffered during their
Speaker 1: final moments and last breaths. Is it a question of
Speaker 1: some sort of residual energy or leftover emotion which shows
Speaker 1: up as a vision to those more open and or
Speaker 1: sensitive people in the world. Or could it be that
Speaker 1: there is no such thing as ghosts and spirits and
Speaker 1: it's all just a mass pigment of everyone who's ever
Speaker 1: seen anything like this in Guintysburg or otherwise imagination. It's
Speaker 1: up to you to decide what you're willing to believe
Speaker 1: and want you simply cannot allow yourself to think is true.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and exploring with us today, as there's
Speaker 1: always more to come. The loss of life in this
Speaker 1: single battle has left an almost infinite amount of opportunity
Speaker 1: for who knows how many ghosts and spirits to lurk
Speaker 1: around in this one community. We will keep searching for
Speaker 1: answers and look forward to not only hearing your thoughts
Speaker 1: in the comments, but to bring you more strange stories
Speaker 1: as well.