Gettysburg Ghosts? Chilling Analysis Revealed.

[@awatts222]

Me and my dad, a former police officer, went to Gettysburg, in 1999. When we went to the triangle field, we smelled wood smoke and gunpowder. We heard yelling and saw misty soldiers coming out of the woods and disappearing about 10 ft into the field. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

[@agent_ninety9]

We just came back from Gettysburg, I was there with my ex-boyfriend 20 years ago and as a young kid we snuck into devil's den. At that time we only had disposable cameras. Not only was it a horrible eerie feeling at night time there, but after developing the film, and of course I can't find the picture because it's been passed around so much, besides all the orbs we had one large orb that looked like the Moon. We had to convince people that it wasn't by looking at the tree behind it. It's not necessary to go to Gettysburg to look for ghosts because the history in itself is so amazing but I do believe in ghosts and I absolutely do believe that that place has residual energy how could it not?

[@1060michaelg]

@@agent_ninety9 Great comment. Agree...with all of that chaos and life cut brutally short, how could it not indeed?

[@agent_ninety9]

@@1060michaelg 100%! Exactly

[@stevelenox152]

Shame you two didn't get it video

[@1060michaelg]

@@stevelenox152 Fair enough, Steve, I don't always read things right. What is it I didn't get (or Agent 99 and myself failed to see/comprehend) ? Not being facetious, I am asking in all sincerity. I was purely reacting to the way he communicated his view on the subject, it's his right to not truck in the metaphysical if he so chooses. Thanks.

[@shiloh6519]

I can understand historians not wanting to deal with "haunted" Gettysburg. But the two don't have to be equable. To deny the "experiences" many people have had over the years out of hand like that isn't right either. Even John Burns talked about encountering a ghost.

[@retiredguyadventures6211]

I was about to mention John Burns until I saw you already posted it. Apparently his encounter scared the s#!t out of him.

[@harolynallison6889]

Such silliness.

[@Nan-1017]

Thank you 👏👏👏 I’ve had many experiences, though the ghost never said a word…

[@MTknitter22]

Exactly @shiloh

[@EmKnowsThings]

Yeah, Tim is a bit of a turd from this video, but at least he’s funny. I love a good smart @$$ when I see one.

[@thirdgen377]

I stood right there and took a photo of that opening between the trees. Saw no ghosts but certainly felt the lasting effects of the battle. You can just sense the tragedy, sorrow and suffering that occurred there if you have the right mind.

[@michaelwilson8713]

What we call ghost are very real I can testify to that this thing materialized in front of me and my wife before that it materialized before my son there have been a double execution-style murder at that location we were unaware of dog picked up on it first went to the very spot with the murder took place and started howling we move never be an unbeliever I was I no longer am

[@haydenwittig8877]

Christians also in denial of Paranormal.

[@robertamaro5616]

I didn't see anything on video where the circle is

[@johnsamuels6021]

@haydenwittig8877 - only stupid Christians that don’t read the Bible. Jesus cast out many demons, and there’s all sorts of “paranormal” stuff. In the New Testament, Paul said “we fight not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers”… I can’t remember the rest of the verse. I need to read my Bible more often! Lol.

[@mariazimdars4058]

Not true. I m a Christian and I know for certain ghosts, spirits, exist. ​@haydenwittig8877

[@southeasternvirginiastormc8794]

I spoke with 2 confederate soldiers at devils den. I asked if they were rein-actors. They looked confused. They looked real. Then as I am about to climb over the one big rock. I then thought I wanted a picture I turn around they were gone. We could not find them. We asked others they said they did not see them!!!!

[@russram210]

What did they say to you

[@andybaker5466]

I was at Gettysburg in the late 80s and at Devils Den I swear I heard someone say "help me"! I looked to my wife and said what did you say and she said I didnt say anything! 2 seconds later I herd him say it again! It freacked me out and we went to little round top and I heard it again! I have never forgotten about it!

[@dragonwithagirltattoo598]

Unfortunately, when I visited Gettysburg, I didn’t see any ghosts. There was a heavy feeling driving thru there at night. Just knowing the horrors that took place, if anyplace is haunted, it’s this place.

[@dougiefresh2789]

thats cause ghosts ain't real bro

[@dragonwithagirltattoo598]

@@dougiefresh2789 I’m not a bro. and I didn’t say whether they are real or not. I simply said I didn’t see any. This is a video about ghosts isn’t it?

[@inconnu4961]

@@dragonwithagirltattoo598 It IS a ghost video! Doug must have gotten lost on his way to the cat videos! LOL

[@camerondaniels1662]

I too got a heavy feeling. This wasn't at Gettysburg but rather Dachau concentration camp. I think the feeling is just realizing you're in a place where such horrific things happened and it weighs heavy on your emotions.

[@sommesoul33]

@@dougiefresh2789they definitely are real. You just haven’t been lucky enough to experience them.

[@brianstamm1314]

I have experienced two sensory incidents. A cold spot in the Triangular Field with two cousins. The second was the smell of a campfire on Little Round top. My wife saw an apperition between McPherson's Ridge and Oak Hill during an evening drive another time. We have made numerous trips to Gettysburg over the years and no one can ever convince me that there are not the souls of some who fought and died still there.

[@thewenik6876]

Amazing hearing. I have only seen videos of soldiers walking. One at a roadside and another down a dirt road. But they seem to me to be doing as soldiers do.

[@forrestmosby7118]

I had a [very] cold chill hit me while walking alone across a portion of Cold Harbor

[@rachelscheel4]

When my boyfriend and I visited a couple years ago, as we were approaching the base of little round top I smelled gunpowder. It was a strange experience. I'm glad I'm not the only one to smell a smokey smell because my boyfriend swore he couldn't smell it.

[@brianstamm1314]

@@rachelscheel4 As former CW reenactor I have heard numerous stories from fellow living historians. Another Gettysburg story is where a friend of mine saw a Berdan Sharpshooter in a tree and he noticed the individuals shoes. Normally there are metal heel plates on the shoes. This "sharpshooter" had the plates on the toe area as well. He motioned to my friend to keep quiet and pointed across the field. When my friend turned to look then looked back into the tree, the soldier was gone. Later that day my friend was at a relic show and saw a pair of authentic period brogans (shoes) and the heels and the toe area of the soles had the plates as well. Apparently it aided the sharpshooter in climbing trees due to the slippery leather soles. Just another story of many.

[@rachelscheel4]

That's awesome! It's crazy how many people have experienced paranormal activity there. I'm looking forward to visiting again soon.

[@cvcoco]

About 1975 I took rocks home from the Petrified Forest. About 1980 I was up all night thinking about the recent years of terrible luck and hard times. I never knew any stories about haunted, stolen objects but I started to think about those rocks. That week i packed up a shoebox and sent the rocks back with a similar letter as this one. That day, I had -0.62 in my checking account and no hope of paying any bills. The very next day after the mailing, I got handed a $12,000 work contract and my life was changed. I dont believe in ghosts and angels and hauntings but its hard to pin this on just coincidence.

[@SuperNolaguy]

Sometimes we pick up energy from things... I visited Gettysburg while staying with family in Maryland at Thanksgiving in winter of 1994 during a snow storm with my wife and infant son... Till this day I believe we definitely picked up something evil and brought it back with us to California during our short visit there when we got out of our rental car at one of the battlefield's... It literally destroyed my family. My advise is to stay the f@#k away from this place!

[@cvcoco]

@@SuperNolaguy I can say that after my experience I became more sensitive about this and noticed that as more things happened that people would not ordinarily think about at all, I could trace steps back and say, oh, its that place or thing. People would say I was dreaming, it means nothing, dont worry about it yet there it was staring me in the face. I can only say what happened and ask, are we, as Bruce Lee said about americans, people who get themselves into trouble because they think too aggressively, or is there something to it?

[@kg30004]

I took some petrified wood from there also not knowing the stories and as I was hiking out my gf and I both heard an ominous voice being carried by the wind. We put the wood back and left only to find out bout the stories aftwerward

[@mike8610]

I'm from Baltimore and would visit Gettysburg every year. My mom and I have always been very interested in Civil War history. I have two strange incidents in the probably 25 trips I've made here. The first significant event was back in the late 90s, early 2000s. I was there with my mom, grandparents and great uncle. We were out of our car on the tour and we saw ALL alone in the field a man dressed as a union soldier in his blues, with a gun and bayonet. We all thought wow, what an amazing looking reenactor. We literally turned around and had a laugh about it and when we looked again he was gone...GONE. Nowhere to be seen. Mind you, he was about 50 yards away from us when we all saw him, in the middle of a field. There was nowhere to go, nowhere he could have went in the 3-5 seconds we looked away. We all got goosebumps and talk about it some 20+ years later. My second was in the Jennie Wade house, big shocker right?! My mom and I always stop here when we visit and usually take the same tour. We like to hang back in the rooms while the touring groups kind of goes ahead of us so we can take more pictures and spend more time. I generally always get a ton of orbs in my pictures there, but on one occasion we noticed the chain upstairs swinging back and forth for minutes at a time untouched, non stop. Nobody touched it, there is no air from a vent blowing on it. Very strange. Another time we were passing through a spot upstairs and felt a very unusual cold whoooosh of air and temp drop for a few seconds. Other than that many pictures get orbs on film camera and digital but mostly film from my experience. I've dabbled with audio recordings but have never had results worth noting. I love the place and have a great respect for the dead on both sides. It's an amazingly beautiful site but I also get a sense of major sadness when there I guess for obvious reasons. Something still lingers and how could it not.

[@jamesadams8848]

Poked in the back sharply in the basement at the wall where the photos are

[@AmidalaEmma]

Funny the only time I got orbs in my iPhone pictures was during a ghost tour in a graveyard

[@stonetrooper2]

I toured the battlefield this past week for four days. Took a few pictures at sunrise on Cemetery Ridge and every one has a singular green orb in different locations.

[@rosemarykirkpatrick1930]

Years ago I went with my sister and our cousin. We went to the triangular field. Our camera batteries went from fully powered to low percentage. While we walked toward the trees at the bottom we kept smelling sweet vanilla tobacco. When we were within about 200 feet of the tree line we all stopped. We got the undeniable feeling that we should no longer proceed and to turn around. We never said anything to each other in the field so we wouldn’t influence each other. But as soon as we got out we all three mentioned the battery power, tobacco and the feeling of being watched. We didn’t feel as though we weren’t wanted or in danger. Just that something was telling us it was better we not continue. Also had similar experiences two summers ago with my family hiking behind Devil’s Den and around to the field. No one else in my family felt anything. But I felt as though we were being watched and followed. I was at the back of the line. Something also tried to take the backpack off my shoulder.

[@Yoseman1]

I stayed at The Gettysburg Inn last week, and one strange thing did happen. The toilet paper fell off of the holder as I was leaving the bathroom, for no real reason. It was strange, and when I told the woman at the desk about it, simply because she asked specifically how my room was as I was checking out - and said she asked being I stayed in the most haunted room in the hotel (I was in room 311), she said that was common in that room. Apparently "Rachel" , the ghost who frequents the hotel, has been messing with peoples' bathrooms.

[@ifitsfreeitsforme1852]

So a ghost could be watching you do your business? Nice, very nice.

[@mikek5958]

Ghost or not when ya gotta go ya gotta go.

[@eightyblox6829]

@@ifitsfreeitsforme1852 I was thinking the same thing. I'd tell that thing to look away until I was done, damn pervert Rachel

[@peggykelley1799]

She wanted 2 ply it away

[@jeffg.3097]

I'm starting to get more involved in Gettysburg and the events that occurred during the Civil War. I just recently joined the 11th Pennsylvania Reserves reenactment group. I actually hope to participate in Gettysburg this year for the 160th anniversary as a Union soldier reenacting the moment of battle. Me and my girlfriend went last summer and it was such a humbling experience. I walked through the park with utmost respect to those fallen soldiers and really appreciated the dedication of all who fought for what they believed in. Most respectfully, Jeff G. Monessen, Pa

[@buckysimmons5164]

My family and I were in Gettysburg July 1-4 1997 for the burial of the unknown soldier who's bones were discovered in the railroad cut. Around 8 pm July 2nd we were standing in front of the Jennie Wade House reading the tablet and started smelling the most delicious bread cooking smell. We all commented on how delicious it smelled. A few days later we took a Ghosts of Gettysburg tour and they said during the tour that there had been reports over the years of people out of the blue experience the smell of bread cooking. She was making bread when the bullet came thru the door, struck her in the back and killed her. I have studied the Civil War since I was 5 years old and remember our family driving past the old guide shed near McPherson Farm and the cannons. I was hooked and suffered the Civil War addiction since. I had been to Gettysburg many times before that and knew her story, but that gave us cool chills because not everyone around the house smelled it except us.

[@christinabrown6442]

Visited there a few years ago. Stayed at the Tillie Pierce House. Awoke in the middle of the night to the distinct sound of footsteps (boots) walking from the direction of the room door to an armoire next to the bed, then heard it shake. It sounded like the handle on the armoire was being jiggled at the same time. I literally was looking in the direction of the footsteps and could tell where they were walking, but NOTHING WAS THERE. Was hard to fall back asleep after that, but I finally did with the tv on and lights on. Woke up at 5 AM to the buildings fire alarm blaring! Hurried out of bed to see what was going on, and found out that for some reason the fire alarm was triggered from the basement and they had no explanation as to how it happened. Gettysburg is full of paranormal energy 👍🏼💯

[@thesongbird2383]

I worked in commercial property management, I know what often sets off fire alarms... SPIDERS!

[@inconnu4961]

@@thesongbird2383 Really? I had never heard of this!

[@thesongbird2383]

@@inconnu4961 Yes, seriously. Fire alarms have certain sensitivities. If spiders crawl into an alarm, it may make a web, lay eggs, and/or just the spider's movement can trigger the alarm. As an aside, Fire Depts often have hefty fines for repeated false alarms.

[@shawnwhite2120]

As a CFA fire alarm tech and most likely was a ground fault example ,a nicked wire from either an animal or the weather etc. ghost do not pull manual pull stations lol

[@1zelcat]

As we were driving through Spangler's Spring, my dog who had been sleeping in the back seat suddenly sat up and looking out the back window, began to moan and whimper--sounds I had never heard her make before. She was shivering. We drove on and she settled down again but there had to be something she saw or felt that we didn't.

[@DJCannon5]

probably a rabbit.

[@amitisshahbanu5642]

probably should have let her out for a whizz@@DJCannon5

[@headedforhome]

I have witnessed several things in my visits to the battlefield near Trostle house, Rose's woods and Triangular field. There's something going on there.

[@robl2720]

I was there in 2003 and our digital camera got fucked up. All the photos from our trip were lost.

[@daren8448]

Native Americans can often see "spirits" ! I had a friend who was part Shawnee . When we went to visit Antietam she didn't want to get out litof the car! She could obviously see spirits! Antietam was the single bloodiest one day Battle of the Civil War .Over 23,000 dead or injured in a single day ,September 17,1862!

[@flippinohio]

My brother and sister-in-law went to Antietam back in the late 80s just to walk around. They drove home and got settled when they both saw a confederate soldier floating in their living room giving them a mean look. He then flew out the window. I guess he hitched a ride and wasn't happy about where he ended up.

[@stevenhall2408]

Been there and I could feel it, too.

[@billlawrence1899]

A few years ago in October I snuck into the park at 4AM and found myself at Spanglers Spring. I had heard about the "Lady in White" , so I sat myself on a rock to await dawn and said out loud "Ok lady. Show yourself" . She never showed up. Sassy wench! I grew up right in the middle of the Manassas battlefield and never heard of any ghosts until a couple of new young rangers from New York went to work there and started telling tales of ghosts in the field across the road from Groveton. So I went up there late at night to see for myself. Even fortified with a bottle of wine I never saw a thing.

[@LQOTW]

I guess that would make us two of a kind, Bill Lawrence. That would undoubtedly be my experience, as well.

[@snake316171]

I've been a reeanactor for 20+ years. My start in researching the paranormal started in the backside of the triangular field, on the path heading towards Cross Ave.

[@taramathews7391]

Have you seen anything in that time?

[@snake316171]

@@taramathews7391 yes, enough to write a book.

[@inconnu4961]

@@taramathews7391 Some people are sensitive to the paranormal while others arent! I lived an hour from Gettysburg and visited the area at least once a year for over 10 yrs and never had a personal experience there. Nor had I spoken to anyone who had. But i wouldnt necessarily discount other's experiences. Just because I havent won the lottery doesnt mean others have not either! LOL

[@taramathews7391]

@@inconnu4961 I'm not discounting anything. I've seen lots of things myself. I asked what has this person seen as in I find it interesting to know. Geese

[@TermiteUSA]

Nonsense

[@dutchdc]

Working at Gettysburg College 3rd shift cleaning the athletic bldg and Majestic Theater, I can write a lengthy book of the paranormal activity that I have experienced. The activity is non-stop when it's a full moon.

[@haroldcampbell3337]

Like Tim said, all the ghosts left the battlefield and are in town.

[@inconnu4961]

As a lonely male ghost, that is where I would want to go! LOL

[@forrestmosby7118]

Its been postulated that any spot that experiences such a traumatic human experience retains traces of psychic energy… A cab driver in San Antonio related on one bitter cold winter night, about 2 am, he was parked on a [deserted] street across from The Alamo when he noticed a figure roughly dressed(like a frontiersman) squatting by the door smoking a pipe and [ seemingly] lost in thought…It seemed to take notice of the attention from the cabbie and stood up and disappeared… The Original Colony graveyard in Savannah will also creep you out after dark…Lots of weirdness in our world

[@hildahilpert5018]

I know that area by the Alamo your talking about.I know there are haunted battlefields Would be cool if someone did a video of ghosts of Tobruk and El Aliman in North Africa, Monte Casino, Kursk, Hurgeten Forest, Flodden Field and others.There was a famous case in England of this battle being re- enacted in the sky in the 1600s.Forgot the name but the leaders, like the Duke of Marlbourgh, Prince Maurice and other men were seen fighting.This happened several weeks ir a minth after the battle.Reports were sent to London.The amazing thing is some of the men fighting in this sky battle were still alive!While others of course had passed on.

[@davidwilliam9681]

Devil's Den is legitimately haunted. I went there in 1997 with my boy scout troop. We saw a full-body apparition of a Confederate soldier. It wasn't negative or frightening. He just walked his path along the side of the road, totally unaware that our van was there pulled over. Then he vanished into the night without a trace. Our assistant scoutmaster was just exiting the van to ask if he was real, when the Confederate disappeared. It was a residual haunting, just an echo from another time.

[@waynehatton4136]

My cousin was driving with her rotweiler thru Devil's Den on a late fall weekday afternoon. She encountered a shabbily dressed soldier. She was particularly taken by the poor condition of his shoes.

[@ryans.4715]

That is fucking fascinating as hell

[@ryans.4715]

@@waynehatton4136 this too is so damn fascinating!

[@michaelamanek8908]

“Tim does not get a lot of fan mail” Hilarious

[@JD-kg3mx]

Ghosts are a curious thing. You could be standing next to someone that sees what they believe is an apparition but not you. Some have said they've heard cannons off in the distance at night. Many do not. Some visitors say they've seen figures at a distance, soldiers I reckon, many do not. I've had my experiences but the funny thing is - told to those that've never had the experience and they don't believe you. Told to some that have had encounters and they'll accept it and even tell you of their own experiences.

[@sadeaton]

I am not a paranormal fanatic or strong believer of the supernatural but something does feel different to me when on Civil War battlefields. It's hard to explain, I don't know how else to say this but at Gettysburg the air feels different to me than anywhere else has ever felt. Additionally, at times on other CW battlefields and no where else I have sensed feelings of dread.

[@chrislynch8128]

You are right, its difficult to explain but that entire battlefield just feels “different”. Like a heavy, energized type of feeling, to me at least. Tough to put into words

[@haydenwittig8877]

Its energy it cant be broken these men are in a time warp like a vacuum state no time meaning seconds, minutes and hours months or yrs its sad they havent moved on stayed earthbound.

[@stflaw]

I was prepared to lecture Smith on how historians shouldn't be encouraging superstitious nonsense. Then I watched the video. "Ghost tours are not allowed on the battlefield. For that reason, the town is filled with ghosts, but there are very few ghosts on the battlefield." Too damned funny.

[@inconnu4961]

If I were a ghost of a soldier, i wouldnt want to be in the middle of a field either! i would rather be in town, and especially at Gettysburg college! you know thats where the fun is!

[@lewisbreland]

I had a very strange experience at a reenactment event at New Market in 2001/2002. I was 15 years old. I woke up in the middle of the night after spending a day in the high sun, dehydrated, and marching. I woke up im the tent and litterally heard artillery going off all around me. I l ft the tent, put on my jacket and grabbed my Enfield. I went to join my formation, but i didnt recognize anyone. They were skeleton-like, ragged, barefoot. It was sudd nly daylight and the sounds of lead being fired was different from the blanks. I was woken up by my friend. There were no ghosts. My imagination was running wild in my sleep while i replayed my understanding of the battle of New Market.

[@lemmdus2119]

I lived up near there and witnessed many strange things on that battlefield, from bad feelings to seeing unexplainable stuff.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I’m not really a huge fan of the paranormal, but a whole lot of people have documented a whole lot of digital footage showing spirits dressed like soldiers, one even was leaning on a cannon. Clowns with closed minds like this dud only show how unimaginative and sarcastic they can be. I’m really surprised the Historical Society allowed him to do this video!

[@markmeader5148]

Personally, I have slept on the field of Gettysburg by Meade’s HQ, by the Dunker Church at Antietam, at Valley Forge, and on board the sloop of war USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor, and never saw, heard or felt anyone or anything. The only spirits were in a bottle (hic)!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jumpmaster82nd.]

Twice on Culps Hill here. Felt NOTHING but awe and reverence.

[@KathrynKLNA]

I’m sleeping on the battlefield right as I write this and I’ve slept here twice in the last week and been hoping to get something and don’t. I must not be the in the right place but I do truly believe there are things here. There’s no way this much murder and energy could take place here and not leave its mark

[@bharper9422]

@@KathrynKLNA not if you view life as ending at death then there is nothing there! 😀

[@KathrynKLNA]

Edit: I DID CATCH something on camera!! I wish I could share here with you guys. It’s a video my phone took by itself.. which caused me to look closely at it later.. but it’s a full apparition of what appears to be a man in full uniform. I was psyched! Shared on my Facebook and everyone was shocked!

[@inconnu4961]

@@bharper9422 why do you people take such joy in spoiling other fun? You must be HORRIBLE at parties!

[@Stevenp1863]

I think the only bad luck associated with said “chip” of rock with be when the National Park Rangers understand that a portion of the natural resource at a National Military Park was removed by said visitor from the mid west. As you know the government, frowns on this behavior and one may find, the only bad spirit that may be following you may be the law enforcement of the US Dept of Interior!! 👻

[@lukepaule6004]

I hate boomers

[@corypeacock556]

Who owns a small chunk of rock though

[@inconnu4961]

Tell them to stop selling those mini balls dug up from the field that they like to sell in the Grift shop!

[@jeffreymiceli2956]

I run freight trains through the cut and deal with that local rail company situated near the battlefield. We have seen pictures that give pretty clear evidence of beyond this world realities! I try to be as mindful as I can going through there and almost take a reverence to passing through!

[@johnkelly596]

What are those swirling spots circling your head, Tim? And, that shadowy soldier running up the field?

[@dadsongs]

Here's the thing: I believe that discrediting peoples' beliefs doesn't necessarily strengthen your credibility. However, showing openness and respect with people with differing beliefs goes along way toward better discourse.

[@snowcreek7156]

Some people are not aware of or hooked onto their natural intuitive or ability to see, hear, experience, etc., what’s occurring right before them, let alone, what’s occurred historically, where the faint and not so faint happenings are before them.

[@justin97410]

My grand pap took a picture there it had a solider leaning against a tree with his musket the camera stopped working

[@kevinkearns7719]

I lived in Gettysburg for a year. In fact, I lived in a house that was supposedly haunted. Never experienced anything.

[@MemoryCircle]

Just because there are no ‘ghost tours’ of the Gettysburg battlefield apparently has not stopped visitors from having paranormal experiences there.

[@browsman2328]

One of my relatives fought at Gettysburg, but he wouldn’t be a ghost because he survived and became mayor of Auburn NY. My family has about 30 letters he sent home from the war.

[@runningwithscissors1564]

I stayed at the 1863 Inn of Gettysburg several years back. For the two nights I stayed there, I would hear someone walking around my room in the early hours.

[@HANDHELD_HISTORY]

I took two rocks, one from Devil's Den and the other from Little Round Top that were much larger than the one in the envelope... I've had them for four years now and nothing bad has happened. After learning that my Great Great Great Grandfather fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, I was hellbent on going to the ground his regiment fought on which was the slaughter Pen... I wasn't really overwhelmed with emotion or anything like that, no chills went up my spine or anything, I suppose I was just catatonic to it all, but I do remember pulling into the battlefield thinking, "Damn, this is where it happened!"... but other than that, there wasn't really much else that I felt while I was there. I remember going to Big and Little Round Top as well as Devil's Den, and then I went to the slaughter pen. I was waiting for that famous sensory overload to hit me like it does everyone else, but I didn't really feel anything. It was a warm and beautiful day out too so maybe the birds chirping and the general tranquility prevented the melancholic feelings from occurring, but whenever I look at pictures of my 3x great grandfather and think of all the carnage he saw, I do get goosebumps.

[@sneaky_pete18]

I took a rock. I forgot where I took it from; either Little Round Top or someplace else-definitely on the “Day 2” side of the park. I did feel like I shouldn’t, but I did anyway. And I regretted it. When I got home, I felt very off-kilter. I couldn’t sleep soundly, and I felt like I was being watched. I’m not one to give up things I find too, especially so quickly and from a place far away. But that one I felt compelled to.

[@georgepapoutsis1598]

If you go looking for demons, you may just find one. I'm glad it was a beautiful day. It's very peaceful here.

[@retiredguyadventures6211]

Maybe people back then didn't feel that 'paranormal activity" was something to take up as a hobby like people do today... I'm 72 and my 2nd great grandfather fought at Gettysburg. The first son he had after the war lived until 1957. He was my great grandfather and I remember him. I remember back in the late 50's or early 60's my dad was driving the family through very rural country side in Pennsylvania and we stopped to explore an old deserted graveyard. We found a fenced off area with a placard that stated that the people buried there died from the Spanish flu. The Spanish Flu happened just a few years before my parents were born but they were raised listening to the horror stories about it from their parents. When my parents realized we were standing next to Spanish Flu graves they literally panicked to get us out of there. This was some 40+ years after the epidemic. I only bring this up because it seems disingenuous to judge people from the past by our standards today. Gettysburg was a horrible battle and the people that either lived there or fought in it and survived probably didn't want to talk about visitations and their children were probably just as traumatized by their parents stories as my parents were about the Spanish Flu stories they grew up with. Actually I believe one of the first Gettysburg Ghost stories came from a man that actually fought in the battle. John Burns who was a civilian during the battle but was a veteran of the War of 1812. He volunteered and fought with the 7th Wisconsin at McPherson's Ridge and Herbst Woods. Later in life Burns revisited McPherson's Ridge and while walking in the woods he swore he came upon a Confederate soldier. Legend says that it unnerved him so much that he never visited the battlefield after that. In my opinion there have always been ghost stories about the Gettysburg but it wasn't until enough time had gone by and someone decided they could make a profit off tourists that it became "OK" to openly talk and advertise about them.

[@LQOTW]

It is my great sadness that I am in no way sensitive to spirits or the presence of paranormal phenomena. I guess I am what you'd call 'psychically ham-fisted' - the spirit of an old lady was present in an old house in Minneapolis where I used to babysit. She moved things around in the third floor apartment (no one lived up there at the time) and would sometimes open the bathroom door during the night if someone was doing their business. She was so much a part of the house it didn't feel weird or scary (once I became used to the idea, that is). Her active time seemed to usually be late at night so I was usually sleeping or (when in the bathroom) drowsing.

[@theseeker4642]

You seem pretty sensible to me, you didn’t bother her, so she didn't bother you. I'm sensitive, but your none intrusive actions are the right ones if they're harmless, unless you want them to move on. I lived with my husband & young family in a 15th century blacksmith's house, the smithy adjoined the house. We had 2 resident ghosts, one was a young man who appeared as solid as you or me when seen outside & dressed in 19th century workman's garb smoking a clay pipe, but he was an invisible felt presence when in the house. The other was a black cat who always appeared as a solid cat, it just did as it would've when alive. We often heard the bellows, which were still in situ being worked.

[@m.j.9318]

This is some next level trolling well played sir 👏

[@poboy942]

Chickamauga battlefield is extremely haunted. What I saw there one night bavk in the late 1980s changed my life forever ...I was a nonbeliever so being in the battlefield area st night didnt bother me a bit It was actually kind of a thrill that is until I saw plain as day an entire area change colors , from green grass to dark brown blood and dirt mixed and heard this shrill screaming of men in agony and for a few seconds the scene in my mind alternated between green grass and blood and drom the shrill screams to silence and it alternated like that for a few seconds and then just as quickly as it appeared it was gone ,but that vision of men lying on the ground in pools of blood and the gut wrenching fear it out into me changed my life forever ..there are ghosts I can say this with 100% affinity ..how or why i was chosen to see this terrible moment in history is a queztion for wiser men than me but it instilled a respect for the dead and put the fear of God in me that is alive sns well to this day .. i dont think thr spirits will harm us but they do sometimes break through the spritual barriers to let us know they arent something to be joked about or lied about or made fun of

[@eugenedasher8380]

There's also a ghost called "Old Green eyes" at Chickamauga when seen all that can be seen are the bright green eyes floating a few feet above the ground.

[@cynthiaturner8419]

I agree 💯

[@Sts2025sts]

I can’t find it but a couple years ago somebody posted a video on here and it was taken at night of a very wide tree line and there were distinctly human figures that were transparent going through it and it was probably the most believable footage I have ever seen. I would rate it right up there with the brown mountain lights for believability. Unfortunately almost everything to do with Gettysburg is always send it around those two cannons and I filmed through a windshield to show that water spots really do haunt the cars that drive through Gettysburg

[@spiritualcoachlisahopp]

On my first visit to the Devil's Den/Triangular Field location very close to where Tim is, my camera battery died. It was a new battery. As soon as I left the area, the battery was fine.

[@francisebbecke2727]

If you take a rock from the Hawaiian volcano it will bring bad luck or so they say. The nearby hotel will return rocks sent back.

[@stevenhall2408]

Great great grandpa Henry E. Hall was in Co G 20th Maine but he was in hospital and missed the battle but a cousin in an other company perished there. Been twice as a reenactor but the first time we were just touristing at the base of Culp's Hill near the spring at dusk and you could really sense something. I took some instamatic pictures there and later when I had them developed there were silhouettes of soldiers in the folage edge, light streaks and floating orbs near the spring where the only available water source was for both sides. I still feel the connection to that moment.

[@stephenbrand5661]

When Tim said that he didn't really remember any ghost stories from when he was young, it reminded me of how Bigfoot, or Sasquatch stories have become so ubiquitous in the KZbin age. I was 20 years old when KZbin started in 2005, and back then, nobody claimed to be seeing Sasquatch in East Tennessee or other random places like that.

[@russellwright1422]

The fields that once were green and lush, Now bear the scars of war. The beauty of the countryside, Is marred forevermore. The meadows, woods and cornfields, Once serene and calm and still. Echo eerie cries of pain, The agonizing howling shrill. Two armies clash, their rifles flash, Cannon fills the den with doom. The hot lead flies, the panicked cries, The orchestra of death sings out her tune. It don’t seem right, Hell should have itself, Uprooted from below. Once so heavenly, where now the devil stands, Warm blood begins to flow. The two sides hurl into a single swarm, Of humanity, in flight. To escape their genocidal fate, A mangled, wicked site. The corpses litter all around, 23 thousand ghastly poses. Horrific, wild expressions, Now contort their mouths and noses. A pocket watch clicking and every second ticking, Marks the time of postmortem for the scored. One American fell every single second on the day, The battle of Antietam roared. The battlefield’s now hallowed ground, Where residual hauntings last. A time where death and dreams replay, A record of its past.

[@timothychristian1347]

I really need to go back to Gettysburg. Y'all need to visit Antietam and walk down Bloody Lane you will really feel something there.

[@francisbusa1074]

No doubt, brother!

[@eddiecollison]

Tim buddy, you had me rolling. Keep up the great work guys.

[@sparky6200]

3 minutes of my life I will never get back

[@paulwolf7562]

I'm not going to say, there are no such things as ghost, spirits, specters, what have you? However, I've been to Gettysburg, numerous times, since my childhood. As a tourist, spectator and as a reenactor. I've felt things, I can't explain or express. A cold feeling at the Triangular Field, the Wheatfield, Little Round Top, Devils Den and especially The Angle, where the Confederates brook through and almost carried the day on July 3. I've been down there, during the July 4th weekend, and walked the Battlefield. I could feel presences, smell black powder and hear things. It's an eerie feeling and you feel it, long after you leave. It's a feeling of dread, sadness and pain. We forget, it was the largest battle, fought on the North American continent. 51,000 on both sides became casualties. I had a friend, who I reenacted with. He was student at Gettysburg College, years ago. He told me,that long before the White men came, the Native Americans had fought a bloody battle there. It's also a spiritual place. It's their spirits that watch over the place keep the evil out. I've done my own research. He wasn't wrong. There are evil spirits, that haunt the area. That ground is truly Hallowed.

[@MsMadmax1]

Amazon Prime has a movie out called The Ghosts of Gettysburg. While the quality of the film looks professional it has a lot of boring stuff about the people who appear in the movie being psychic. One woman who moved her family to Gettysburg from Michigan was just so out there--she looked like the glitter fairy threw up on her. Most real psychics, and I've known a few are very ordinary looking people who don't draw a lot of attention to themselves or do hokey readings and paranormal investigations. While I've seen some really good footage of actual apparitions in the battlefields around Gettysburg, not much evidence of hauntings was provided by the movie.

[@inconnu4961]

Anytime someone can make money, they will set aside any principles they had! they ruin even the most legit of causes & professions! typical crappy human behavior!

[@rickpaton7538]

This is fantastic! Tim is unrivaled in stamping out Gettysburg nonsense. Bravo sir!

[@georgepapoutsis1598]

Finally a smart person....i've been scrolling for a bit trying to find one

[@1alexcody]

and the same lore is told in Hawaii that people who have removed lava rocks etc have bad luck and return them to the islands

[@FATMIKED5183]

It's like that Brady Bunch cursed tiki.

[@logicaredux5205]

This was hilarious Tim! But now you’re going to have “bad luck.”😄

[@BillsWargameWorld]

As I knew many Battlefield guides and some worked for Mark N. I always found it amazing that some worked on the side as ghost tour guides along with being LBG ..Rob W. As an example. Some believed in the Tales and others did not.

[@achillesavendano5267]

The souls are of soldiers who are not aware that they have passed. Some met an instant death. They are reliving the final moments before they die and are stuck in that moment of time.

[@zephyr1983]

I loved the disclaimer on Tim's ghost position!

[@jeffreyjordan4387]

Well, I will have to say it was funny and another good video from the great folks at ACHS. I had thought for just a minute while waiting for this to be released that maybe, just maybe Tim had possibly had his first ghostly experience and was now a believer. As I mentioned before, I'm a ghost person, what I didn't mention is that I'm about as psychic as a dry stick and even I have had one completely unexplainable experience on the Gettysburg battlefield. If someone like me who is not psychic at all can have an experience, anybody can and the ghosts are out there for sure!

[@inconnu4961]

Congrats on your experience. but i think it helps tremendously to be 'psychic' for lack of a better word. some people simply arent sensitive to spiritual things and will not have experiences. I had never had an experience any of the times i visited but have had a couple in other places!

[@garymorris1856]

I absolutely love these wonderful videos about history.. Thank you for posting this, sir.

[@huns12345]

Hey I think what would make your museam more fascinating is if you researched the rifles the units used in the battle at gettysburg,so people could see what there relatives used

[@Cr16604]

I have pictures from all over battlefield through the years that have no explanation. A lot of orbs at nighttime, but some taken in broad daylight have white swirling mist in them. People say it’s because of the camera, or things like that. I never get that type of mist effect anywhere else in pictures, so why does it happen in Gettysburg all the time. At least one picture will have something weird happening. Orbs at night are common, but the daytime pics with mist or streaks of light are really weird. The daytime pictures with whatever it is in the always seem to happen when climbing around on rocks. Almost like something feels disturbed or disrespected. .

[@thomasbrennan6303]

All the ghosts in Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania: “I heard the party is at Gettysburg.”

[@markpekrul4393]

I went to college with a girl who grew up in Gettysburg. She said they talked about ghosts the way some people talk about the weather. Very matter-of-fact, nothing special. She believed.

[@shushyshushy6762]

I was always told growing up to NEVER take anything from Graveyards, or remove items from homes where someone passed away and left all their belongings behind. To me, it's not really a thing of good luck vs Bad Luck, more so a sign of respect for the dearly departed. Regardless if it's a battlefield, a home of a loved one who passed away, or something as simple as a single blade of grass from a graveyard etc.

[@dedefisher30]

I've been to Gettysburg four times. And in those 4 times I had experiences happen. One thing I can say is that something happened every time. Gettysburg is the most haunted place I've ever been to and I've been a lot of places. I love Gettysburg.

[@mmommo-hx4dx]

wow, would love to go....

[@inconnu4961]

@@mmommo-hx4dx You really should! Hagerstown, MD isnt far so you could visit that battlefield there as well! Lots of history, both Civil War & Rev War nearby!

[@Alex-ej4wm]

You know who had bad luck? Any guy that served under Sickles on the 2nd day.

[@MECowgo]

I got click baited and I enjoyed it, good job ACHS!

[@gdubactual]

The editing at 1:33 was hilarious! LOL.

[@TheU-hv8qj]

look up Iverson's pits. first day near now tower and stone fence. only ghost story that has endured since the battle to this day.

[@anthonydouglascontares3471]

When you realize how many lives were lost in this one single battle of just three days (50K) men and one civilian a 20 year old woman. The fear and emotional stress that gripped the minds of those involved, there is bound to be a great significant amount of spiritual energies in the area's of this site. That's a great deal of death of many young men in a 72 hour period, more so then in all the time of the French Revolution over it's course. Something this bad is bound too have ghosts lurking around.

[@davidsweed2654]

I miss the Gettysburg I knew before the movie and Mr. Nesbitt's books. The Park Service has made such a mess of the place it's hardly worth the drive now.

[@tylerjerabek5204]

Ghost tours aren’t allowed on the park, what does the park service have to do with him running tours off the park?

[@inconnu4961]

@@tylerjerabek5204 The whole thing has become hyper-commercialized, ghost tours or no ghost tours!

[@brave_dave]

I have been coming to Gettysburg since 1988. I have spent countless hours on that field. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet a ghost. I wish I would. I think they know I would pepper them with about half a million questions... so they stay extra quiet.

[@vivians9392]

Concerning the comment about his fan mail...how do YOU know how much mail he actually receives?

[@brianshawkey2910]

I’d beg to differ, Tim Smith, because I believe we do go on. After dying, yes we do go on. It’s not just the Triangular Field in Gettysburg. It’s Perryville Kentucky, Vicksburg Mississippi, Fox’s & Turner’s Gaps South Mountain and Fredericksburg Virginia, I could go on & on, lots of real stories that happened to real people.

[@francisbusa1074]

The creek at Chickamauga... screams in the night.

[@tamanako2507]

¿Would any chapel/memorial/symbolic cemetery built there help those lost souls? 😢

[@Robboned]

You can't actively search for ghosts at battlegrounds....they'll show up when you least expect anything like that to show up....and you will run for your life....or at least out-run whoever might be tagging along with you.

[@sommesoul33]

I never ran when i seen one in a WW1 wood alone in France. Was a very comforting experience as the other experiences i had with them.

[@Itsthatoneguy371]

I was there as a chase truck, one June, on a summer motorcycle trip where one of the stops took us to Gettysburg. Around 10pm, I went to thee local bar, or maybe it was the only bar, anyway It was the closest to the motel. I found out, they only took cash and all I had was a dollar. I asked a guy standing next to me where the closest ATM was and he said out the door to the left, you’ll see a orangish street light in the bank parking lot down the hill. Well, I went out the door and to the left and that’s when I noticed In order to get cash, I had to walk to the bank that was a few hundred yards away, on the opposite corner of the cemetery. When I got back at took a seat at the bar, the guy who am had told me were the nearest ATM was happened to have the seat next to me and was talking to the bartender. He said, find it ok? I said yes. He said did you see anything on the way? I didn’t say anything. He said did you see anyone standing in the cemetery by the oak tree? I looked at him and said would I be crazy if I did? He and the bartender looked at each other and back at me. That kinda laughed and the bartender asked if it was my first time in Gettysburg? I said yes. He said union or confederate. I said union. He said yup, you saw him, these are in me and gave me a beer and two shots of whiskey. The guy next to me said he was there, clear as day and then when you looked back he was gone. I said yeah. The bartender asked if I was scared and I wasn’t, I have had stranger encounters at home. But it was just how defined the image I saw was. Most of the people I end up talking to that night said that was nothing new. One lady told me if I want to see some real impressive stuff, come in July on the anniversary or when they do the reenactment later this month. It’s like spirits show up to make sure they get it right. That was over twenty years ago and I haven’t made it back yet but I would love to go back and see whatever I can see.

[@rileyshields3273]

If you went there and didn’t know where you were, would you still experience the hokus pokus?

[@user-rn1hn3fg5y]

Have giggled through this and agree whole heartedly with you but.... several years ago had a very eerie experience one evening while on the battlefield. Not kidding.

[@chrislynch8128]

We`re all skeptics until we have that moment of "What the **** was thattt?????" I`ve had several of those around Gettysburg..... Seen, heard, and smelled.......

[@rolandgustafsson5655]

Great video.At last one person telling the truth about the Triangular Field,and i thing his words goes for the whole of Gettysburg 👍

[@jeffreyjordan4387]

Hello All, If you're into ghosts don't get your hopes up about this video, Tim Smith is a HUGE "there are no ghosts in Gettysburg" guy so I'm sure this is an anti-ghost video. I love the ACHS and Tim is a great historian. I am also a ghost person so, even though I will watch this I'm sure it will be anti-ghost. Just to let everyone know.

[@inconnu4961]

good call! You were spot on!

[@baltimorelimolady]

Tim is great and i love watching his presentations. growing up i was around a lot of old people who were born before the turn of the century. they all believed in ghosts, the thing is now Tim, cellphone's weren't around, not every family had a telephone or a tv for that matter. everything was word of mouth or what you read in a newspaper that was a day late. I'm a former reenactor at Gettysburg and Shiloh and Antietam. I did one time about 20 yrs. ago get numerous orbs on a digital camera at the Virginia memorial statue. I don't talk about it that much because people think your a goof and don't believe you, but in magnifying the orbs on camera several had faces in them plain as day. no other place that night did i capture any orbs on the battlefield. so yes Tim there are ghosts. one day you'll have an experience and it will make a believer out of you.

[@TommyLellan]

That took an unexpected turn

[@JonniePolyester]

I’m currently looking out my bedroom window over the misty fields towards the escarpment that saw the first major engagement of the English Civil War, part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, on Sunday 23 October 1642. It’s about 10 miles SE of Stratford upon Avon. On my shelf I’ve still got Ghost Stories for Children one of which tells of how phantom armies have been seen over Edgehill on moonlight nights. Now I’ve camped in those fields as a kid, cycled, walked and driven back from many of the wonderful country pubs round these parts, even on the 380th anniversary of the battle last year and I never seen anything remotely spectral. ☹️🤣😂

[@Brittneycaswell68]

Which side is this battle field

[@acaciablossom558]

Oh the not so subtle shade!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this video is wonderful

[@jasperstone6053]

Is it illegal to go on the Gettysburg field to metal detect on the property where the battle's took place??

[@AdamsCountyHistoricalSociety]

Yes, it is illegal to metal detect or posses metal detection equipment on Gettysburg National Military Park lands. You can read more about their rules/policies here: www.nps.gov/gett/learn/management/lawsandpolicies.htm

[@tubularfrog]

Sometimes you can get permission from private landowners to metal detect on their land near a battle site.

[@frankmithra6140]

God Bless Your Work 😇💒.The after life is truly a mystery.

[@dridemoto]

I love ghosts at Gettysburg !

[@juancarloshernandez471]

Sender : I'm having paranormal activity at home , please can you please put this rock back to where it belongs please 😭😭 Reciver: Nah I'll keep it ,good luck over there 😂😂😂

[@christineevans4408]

Is there anything new on the Gettysburg ?

[@bobbiemarsden4340]

I had a civil war solider in my back yard in Sanford, fl..... I lived at a place called Fort Melon. ...I lived on Mellonville ave ! I had part of the armory attached to my home !

[@thewenik6876]

Amazing with what the letter said. And returning the piece of rock taken. Wow.

[@FUNKRUBICON]

A ghost story helps sell a place. My take on it is this: Camp Colt was based on the grounds covering most of where Picketts Charge took place and I have never once seen or heard of any evidence of the soldiers that lived and slept on the Grounds where 1000s of men fell having any paranormal experiences while the Camp was operating. Seems to me it is 99% overactive imaginations regarding ghosts and the paranormal.

[@FATMIKED5183]

Skepticism is good.Not everybody is the same.I lived in a house for 11 years that had a lot of activity in it,including what you might call a poltergeist.None of the activity could be explained by a drafty window or leaky faucet.I think most people are just two sides of the same coin when it comes to this.Either they're not skeptical enough,or stubbornly skeptical to the point where they wouldn't admit it if a ghost walked up and punched them in the nose.

[@inconnu4961]

@@FATMIKED5183 i totally agree! We are far too all or nothing about everything! But i do think some people want it so bad they will imagine it, while other have real experiences that arent very easy to explain away!

[@matthewmiller9526]

Been there many times, never saw one, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Of course it may be true that only some people see them while others don’t. The question is why would Gettysburg be more haunted then other places? Most big cities have had more people killed in them than Gettysburg, why aren’t ghost stories more prevalent in say Brooklyn or Chicago. Perhaps the lay of the land is conducive to the paranormal, or perhaps it’s all imagination. Let’s hope we find out one day.

[@Pro-Deo]

It has to do with the amount of energy, stress, trauma and dying in just 3 days that happened all at the same time which is really rare. Just the cannonade alone on the 3rd day was the loudest man made sound ever heard up to that point. it wouldn't have mattered where it happened, it just happened to be in Gettysburg. Really none of the people who were there are still there now but it's still haunted.

[@inconnu4961]

Like you, visited many, many times and never had a notable experience there. And like you, I am not necessarily a skeptic. I do believe that those big cities can be haunted too!

[@sommesoul33]

@@Pro-Deosome are still there. Not all ghosts are residual hauntings. Some are intelligent hauntings where they are fully aware of the living and sometimes show themselves to people who can see them, in whatever manifestation they can do it. I have seen full body, orb moving a few feet off the ground, light jumping up off the ground and bounding off and mist moving watching me and moving to let me pass.

[@Pro-Deo]

@@sommesoul33 true. dead people are there, but rarely are they related to the place /history. residual hauntings are even rarer.