About 10 years ago, I stayed at the B&B just across the road from the pits, the only B&B/hotel that actually lies within the battlefield perimeter. Great place to stay if you ever want to say you've slept on the battlefield, and a very friendly staff. At breakfast one morning, one of the Guests, a boy of about 10 or 11, came down to breakfast all excited about what he and his mom had heard at the pits the night before. He was so excited, he could barely contain himself. On a search for ghosts, they had been out on the battlefield near dusk before the park closed and had a small recorder with them. The kid said he captured a voice on the recorder.
I was extremely skeptical, of course, but went along with his story. He asked if I wanted to hear it and ran upstairs to his room to get his recorder. Now mind you, neither my wife nor I believe in ghosts, but the kid brought down the recorder and played it for us and sure as all get out, we heard a voice on the recorder among the night sounds that sounded like it said "get out" or something to that effect. It's been so long, I can't recall exactly what it said, but it made the hair on my arms stand up on end when I heard it. My wife heard it too and we understood why the kid was so excited. The kids mom echoed our skepticism and said although she had heard nothing when they were recording at Iversons pits, but when they got back to the room and played the recording to see if they heard anything, it scared the heck out of her.
We got a little excited ourselves and took some photos that day to see if we could "capture" anything on film, as they say you can capture haze or orbs, etc. Nothing from Iversons pits, but up near Devil's Den, I was taking some pics and the wife took one of me in a sharpshooter's crevice. Nothing. Before I left, I knelt down and said "show yourselves, ghosts," and she snapped one more before we walked away - voila - it had orbs in the pics (below). All others were clear. Also took some pics across the grounds where (I think) the South Carolinians (?) charged toward the rocks and were slaughtered en masse. All were clear except the last one, which has a strange fog or haze in it (below). And again, I had jokingly said something aloud like "You ghosts aren't real - show me something!".
I'll tell ya, after hearing that recording and seeing a couple strange things in pictures, I have to reconsider if Gettysburg is indeed haunted, with Iverson's pits being a big possibility.
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