Paranormal experience while reenacting?

[Josey_Wales]

Has anyone have any paranormal experiences while reenacting on actual battlefields?

 

[oleslavecatcher]

I shot some pictures at night at Cedar Creek and got orbs, but that's it.

 

[Gen Cleburne]

Absolutely Josey(BTW, love the name). Many of them I relate in my new novel, "Time Touches- a Narrative", coming out very soon. Some particular 'hot spots' for spiritual energies are: the Angle at Gettysburg, the Mule Shoe Salient at Spotsylvania, Millers corn field and Sunken Road at Antietam. I submit that in reference to these places, if you dont feel a tinge of spiritual electricity, check your pulse. Joshua Chamberlain said something to the effect that "something abides" where great struggles occur. I'd like to think that he was referring to such remnant paranormal energies.

 

[Josey_Wales]

Thanks haha I'm fresh into reenacting and hope to have some experiences of my own.

 

[major bill]

If you all keep this up, soon many reenactors will need night lights because they are afraid of the dark. Just watch someone will be asking about period correct night lights.

Major Bill

 

[frontrank2]

I mentioned this in another thread, but when I was an extra in the movie Gettysburg, I was told a few stories from the guys who were filming most of the summer. I was only there for three days, but some were there a couple of months. We were shooting 20th Maine on Little Round Top, but our sleeping arrangements were a camp a couple miles away. Supposedly it was situated behind where the Confederate lines had been. Guys swore that sometimes they were kicked or punched in the middle of the night with nobody there, personal stuff would disappear and sometimes turn up unexpectedly, and reports of voices off in the distance but no one there. It never happened to me, but those guys said there were a lot of strange happenings there in the summer of 92.

 

[wilber6150]

I had a few while doing Rev War, that I still don't believe, so will keep them to myself for now lol

 

[Josey_Wales]

Lol

 

[Craig L Barry]

Absolutely Josey(BTW, love the name). Many of them I relate in my new novel, "Time Touches- a Narrative", coming out very soon. Some particular 'hot spots' for spiritual energies are: the Angle at Gettysburg, the Mule Shoe Salient at Spotsylvania, Millers corn field and Sunken Road at Antietam. I submit that in reference to these places, if you dont feel a tinge of spiritual electricity, check your pulse. Joshua Chamberlain said something to the effect that "something abides" where great struggles occur. I'd like to think that he was referring to such remnant paranormal energies.

Well, consider my remarks in the context of a non-believer. Where is the hard evidence in support of it other than somebody said it? People also claim Bigfoot sightings, UFO encounters and kidnapping by extra-terrestrials. I would agree that the human mind is happy to be deceived and it often finds what it "expects" to find with heightened sensitivity or based on anticipation. I have been to almost all those places and never felt any "spiritual electricity" there or anywhere else for that matter.

Now, do strange things happen? Yes, they do. At the 150th anniversary of Stones River we were doing a program in the Slaughter Pen, the park ranger said to the crowd "...the weather is virtually identical today to what it was exactly 150 years ago, except it was sleeting." No sooner were the words out of his mouth then we began getting pelted with sleet. While that was certainly a cool moment, in no way did supernatural forces intervene. Rather, I would conclude, "in the right weather conditions, sometimes it sleets."

 

[wilber6150]

Ok, I will give one experience.. I was at Crown Point setting up to watch a battle and looked over at a gentleman about 20 feet away.. He was garbed as a highlander and his kit was first rate, just standing there looking into the woods I turned to photograph some native reenactors coming from their camp, and when I turned around he was gone.. Now to give a sense of where I was I included this image

 

[wilber6150]

He was just gone, and there was no where he could have gone that I coudln't have seen him, I first thought he fell off the side of the parapit, as its a very steep fall but nothing...There was no one around me...

 

[Bob Owen]

A professor was giving a seminar on paranormal activity at the University of Florida a few years back and he started his presentation with a few questions. He first asked for those in the audience to raise their hands if they believed in ghosts. Almost all raised their hands. He then asked if anyone had actually seen a ghost. Quite a few raised their hands. He then asked if anyone has had a conversation with a ghost. about a dozen people raised their hands. He finally asked if anyone has had sex with a ghost. One hand was raised. He inquired with the man if he actually had sex with a ghost. The man replyed by asking did he say ghost? He said that he was sorry as he thought the professor had said goat!

 

[Poor Private]

Our unit went down to one of the 150th shilohs last year. Some of them still swear we saw a confederate carrying his pard across the field. And no we wern't drinking skull smasher or anything else. That night was like it was described 150 years ago. Rain, hail, just plain uncomfortable conditions. 1/2 way across the field they just disapeared.

 

[frontrank2]

He was just gone, and there was no where he could have gone that I coudln't have seen him, I first thought he fell off the side of the parapit, as its a very steep fall but nothing...There was no one around me...

Do you know if Highlanders were originally there?

 

[Josey_Wales]

Thanks for sharing guys!

 

[Bob Owen]

Believe in it or not. It's still good fun.

 

[Josey_Wales]

That's bone chilling poor private cool story.

 

[wilber6150]

Do you know if Highlanders were originally there?

There were several units of Highlanders that were there during the Rev War, and the F-n-I war, it was also a staging point for units coming out of Canada to raid New York.

 

[diane]

Their walk and our walk is not separated by much. Sometimes the paths cross! With battlefields though, there is often a lot of anger and fear because of the struggle, and sometimes the land gets hurt or disturbed for a very long time. And, sometimes soldiers are killed before they know it and still do their duty yet. One thing I've noticed - a number of great battles of the CW have taken place in areas known way before the war to have been disturbed. For example, Chickamauga - that was an ancient battleground on an old war path!

 

[lakertaker]

Would have been a great idea for an episode for The Twilight Zone.

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