- Joined
- Oct 10, 2019
- Location
- Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Greetings from the Volunteer State; I'm fairly new to CivilWarTalk and have been browsing the forums and found this one. Are there ghosts that wander the battlefields ? I'm not sure about the perceived image of ghosts, but there is something out there. In all the years and all the battlefields I have visited, I only had one unexplained experience (call it paranormal, I suppose). It was on the battlefield of Spotsylvania Court House on a May day in the early 80s in the late afternoon. I had been at it all day, touring Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and the Wilderness. Spotsyvania was my last stop of the day. I remember that I was the only person on the battlefield at that time; a storm was brewing, which I guess accounted for the lack of other visitors. Anyway, I was standing at the Bloody Angle, looking out at the ground the Union troops advanced over, trying to imagine what it must have been like. My thoughts were interrupted when somebody behind me said, "You do not belong here !". I spun around to see who it was and ......... it wasn't anybody, nobody was there! I could see the parking area; my car was the only one there and there wasn't a soul around (at not least, not one that I could see). What did I do ? I calmly thought, "OK, sounds like good advice", walked to my car and left.
So what was it ? An overactive imagination, perhaps ? Or was it a message being given ? I have no idea; I only know I heard the voice distinctly, there was no mistaking f the message being given. I have visited other battlefields since that day in May, and never had a similar experience. But at Spotsylvania, something told me I was not welcome.......
So what was it ? An overactive imagination, perhaps ? Or was it a message being given ? I have no idea; I only know I heard the voice distinctly, there was no mistaking f the message being given. I have visited other battlefields since that day in May, and never had a similar experience. But at Spotsylvania, something told me I was not welcome.......