Was this true at Gettysburg?

[NH Civil War Gal]

Gettysburg NMP had a full time paranormal investigator at one time whose job it was to handle these sort of experiences by visitors.....

@pmuskett Do you know if it is true that Gettysburg NMP had a full time paranormal investigator at one time? Now that would be an interesting job! Sort of like Project Blue Book!

 

[pmuskett]

Gettysburg NMP had a full time paranormal investigator at one time whose job it was to handle these sort of experiences by visitors.....

@pmuskett Do you know if it is true that Gettysburg NMP had a full time paranormal investigator at one time? Now that would be an interesting job! Sort of like Project Blue Book!

Never heard of them having one. I don't think they ever had one. They don't promote ghost hunting on the battlefield or let ghost tours on the park. So my bet is never had one. Mark Nesbitt did not publish his ghost books until after he left the park service.

 

[lupaglupa]

I feel like this should be a story in itself - the person who comes into the visitors center saying they wanted to thank Archie, the guide who gave them the ghost tour last night and are told "We don't have a ghost tour. And Archie died twenty years ago....."

 

[Bonny Blue Flag]

I recall several incidents reported during the making of the G'burg movies at the national park. The reports were similar in that at the end of each day's filming, local residents would use their pickup trucks and let the staff and reenactors in the movie, ride in the back of the trucks to town for their rides home, dinner, hotels, etc.

One of the locals picked up 3 actors in her truck at filming sites. Before leaving the national park, she picked up another 6 actors. When she arrived into town at the drop off point, only 6 actors were in the back of the truck. She asked them when did the other 3 actors get out of the truck. The actors said they spoke with the 3 men initially but did not notice them getting out of the truck, they seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Hitchhiking ghosts?

--BBF

 

[bamaman]

I recall several incidents reported during the making of the G'burg movies at the national park. The reports were similar in that at the end of each day's filming, local residents would use their pickup trucks and let the staff and reenactors in the movie, ride in the back of the trucks to town for their rides home, dinner, hotels, etc.

One of the locals picked up 3 actors in her truck at filming sites. Before leaving the national park, she picked up another 6 actors. When she arrived into town at the drop off point, only 6 actors were in the back of the truck. She asked them when did the other 3 actors get out of the truck. The actors said they spoke with the 3 men initially but did not notice them getting out of the truck, they seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Hitchhiking ghosts?

--BBF

There is no such thing as ghost.

 

[bamaman]

There is no such thing as ghost.

Except the Holy Ghost

 

[Kurtlg]

I do not believe in ghosts but I absolutely believe in sounds from the past being present now. There was a very distinct sound I heard while alone at an ancestors old farm house decades ago . A friend heard the exact same thing several years later. A few years ago I told a friend who does ghost hunting about it and they recorded the same exact sound . There was something very specific about the sound that I had never told anyone . The ghostgunter was a bit disappointed because she thought what she recorded was less than she had hoped for , but it turned out to be exactly what I and my friend had heard. It was also recorded at the same of day that I and my friend had heard it. I hadn't told the ghost hunter what time of day I had heard it .
So what is going on ? I don't think this is supernatural . I think that this is some kind of physical phenomenon that we don't understand yet .

 

[51st Georgia]

I once heard Seminole chants and drums on the winds faintly on a lonely hike to abandoned Seminole War Fort Center in Fisheating Creek Florida. Can't explain it. Maybe it was a tribal group secretly meeting way out there in the boonies. But I heard what I heard.
The drums here sound a little too clear but it's intriguing.

 

[lupaglupa]

There is no such thing as ghost.

In general I agree with this - except I do believe there are phenomena we can't yet explain. Echoes, sounds, sights - we experience things we don't understand and try to label them. I hope some day we will know what these things are.

 

[51st Georgia]

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

 

[bamaman]

In general I agree with this - except I do believe there are phenomena we can't yet explain. Echoes, sounds, sights - we experience things we don't understand and try to label them. I hope some day we will know what these things are.

I don't believe in ghosts but as a Christian I believe in the existence of the Devil and therefore there are demonic spirits

 

[infomanpa]

I don't believe in the supernatural, so I can't really be unbiased.

 

[Scott1967]

My wife swore her purse had disappeared every time we went shopping or paying for a meal I have to believe in the supernatural .

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

I once heard Seminole chants and drums on the winds faintly on a lonely hike to abandoned Seminole War Fort Center in Fisheating Creek Florida. Can't explain it. Maybe it was a tribal group secretly meeting way out there in the boonies. But I heard what I heard.
The drums here sound a little too clear but it's intriguing.

Brighton Reservation is only 10-15 miles from Fort Center and there's not much I'm between.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

I don't believe in ghosts but as a Christian I believe in the existence of the Devil and therefore there are demonic spirits

Demonic spirits and the devil provide a convenient excuse for any bad behavior. It removes responsibility for one's actions.

The example I've heard cited multiple times I surely can't repeat here so I will pick a much tamer example. Booth wasn't a bad man; he shot Lincoln because he was possessed by a demon. Sherman's bummers, Quantrill, slaveowners, klansmen - all possessed by demons when they did bad things.

 

[u515]

Never heard of them having one. I don't think they ever had one. They don't promote ghost hunting on the battlefield or let ghost tours on the park. So my bet is never had one. Mark Nesbitt did not publish his ghost books until after he left the park service.

I first began visiting Gettysburg in the 1950s as a child. All through my subsequent visits in the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s I heard nothing about Gettysburg ghosts. There were no "Ghost Tours" that I recall throughout those decades. Only in the late 1980s and 1990s did this "take off."

 

[bamaman]

Demonic spirits and the devil provide a convenient excuse for any bad behavior. It removes responsibility for one's actions.

The example I've heard cited multiple times I surely can't repeat here so I will pick a much tamer example. Booth wasn't a bad man; he shot Lincoln because he was possessed by a demon. Sherman's bummers, Quantrill, slaveowners, klansmen - all possessed by demons when they did bad things.

I didn't say that. Every person is responsible for their own actions. I would not blame God, men,or the Devil. Booth did not shoot Lincoln because of the Devil. He did it because he was a evil man
.

 

[Rebforever]

Angels do what is described above. I can attest to that.

 

[51st Georgia]

Brighton Reservation is only 10-15 miles from Fort Center and there's not much I'm between.

Wow the corner of that reservation is literally in spitting distance of the Fort. I'm sure there are homes out there. Had no idea. Thanks

 

[Sheltowee]

I first began visiting Gettysburg in the 1950s as a child. All through my subsequent visits in the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s I heard nothing about Gettysburg ghosts. There were no "Ghost Tours" that I recall throughout those decades. Only in the late 1980s and 1990s did this "take off."

Certainly- supernatural tourism is a big business today. And seems every "historic" city has a few ghost tours offered.

Seems a perfect venture- virtually no overhead costs. Just need to be a good storyteller.

And if you happen to own an abandoned prison……..$$$