ghost stories

[rebkid]

just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is going to try to bag a buck this morning, he was telling me about someothers and himself being at mingus mill in nc earlier this year. he and 4 others showed up in all their gear to do a special tour for mingus mill, it is a old grinding mill or something in the smokey mountains of nc. anyway, he was standing out front of the mill and this lady walked up and requested a pic with jon and her sons. after the pic was taken, she commented about the "snobby" solder, who kept walking after she asked for a pic. well this upset my friend because he thought it was callous to do such a thing, so he asked her to describe this other gent so he may speak to him about it. he says his mouth dropped open when she mentioned he was wearing a red kepi, my friends group is infantry, nd they all wear the same kepi with a blue strip on the bottom! he remained calm long enough for her to make her way on, then he confronted all the other guys. none of them seen anyone in period dress besides the grist mill workers and themselves. obviously, some old artillary soldier thought the war was back on. as they were closing the mill, another reenactor was upstairs reading the little signs they have on the machinery, when he glanced out the window and seen the soldier himself. he yelled for jon and they all ran outside, but noone was there. pretty spooky to me, has anyone ever had anything happen to them along these lines??

k. lida

[CheeseBoxRaft]

I've been visiting Civil War sites for almost twenty years. I've slept overnight at many of them. I've never seen a ghost or an orb, felt a cold spot or a "presence", or seen a reenactor who might actually have been a real soldier come back to life. Yet, oddly enough, I keep hearing stories told by someone who heard it from so-and-so who was there...

Note to self: Maybe if I drink more at events I'll finally see one of these ghosts.

- John Steadman

[sbl]

It must be time for all those Ghost Tours in Gettysburg and Harper's Ferry.

[Rob Weaver]

I hate to be the one to say it, but if you run a search you'll probably find the thread where we discussed this a couple months ago. I've spent countless hours on the Gettysburg battlefield, and never seen or felt a thing. I am disinclined to believe in ghosts (except the Holy One)

[sbl]

Rob,

It' "deja view all over again." I had folks telling me about the marching feet at the Sunken Road and the lost Texan at Plum Run 25 years ago. Oh yeah Gen'l Reynold's horse ghost too.

Did you ever hear about the Lady In Black at Ft. Warren in Boston Harbor?

[Parault]

I have been to events where I thought they were ghastly. Does that count?

[RWelker]

just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is going to try to bag a buck this morning, he was telling me about someothers and himself being at mingus mill in nc earlier this year. he and 4 others showed up in all their gear to do a special tour for mingus mill, it is a old grinding mill or something in the smokey mountains of nc. anyway, he was standing out front of the mill and this lady walked up and requested a pic with jon and her sons. after the pic was taken, she commented about the "snobby" solder, who kept walking after she asked for a pic. well this upset my friend because he thought it was callous to do such a thing, so he asked her to describe this other gent so he may speak to him about it. he says his mouth dropped open when she mentioned he was wearing a red kepi, my friends group is infantry, nd they all wear the same kepi with a blue strip on the bottom! he remained calm long enough for her to make her way on, then he confronted all the other guys. none of them seen anyone in period dress besides the grist mill workers and themselves. obviously, some old artillary soldier thought the war was back on. as they were closing the mill, another reenactor was upstairs reading the little signs they have on the machinery, when he glanced out the window and seen the soldier himself. he yelled for jon and they all ran outside, but noone was there. pretty spooky to me, has anyone ever had anything happen to them along these lines??

k. lida

I've taken some orb pictures- a whole lot of them in fact. At Gettysburg, because we were on the ghost tour. (Cliche alert!) But, strangely, also here in Europe... but only in pictures of one of my friends. With the language barrier (Latvian is a little tough) it took me a good half hour to figure out why we were taking all these pictures of Elina and then of other people standing in the same place she had been...

[rebkid]

just found it to be a interesting subject. i havent ever seen any spooks on battlefields either, but i have seen some live folks who could pass for them!! just thought it was a interesting story, and i wanted to pass it on. jon is a competent person not fancy to telling tall tales. i was also wondering if anyone else had seen anything spooky. seems like a good time of year to hear ghost stories true or false.


"I hate to be the one to say it, but if you run a search you'll probably find the thread where we discussed this a couple months ago."~rob weaver

sorry, havent been on here that long, sorry if i ruffled some feathers with some. just found it to be a interesting story. i wasnt there so i dont know. glad i can sleep tight tonight without worrying about boogers haunting me or banshees screaming outside my window. geez guys, get in the halloween spirit!!

kris

[reb64]

I've taken some orb pictures- a whole lot of them in fact. At Gettysburg, because we were on the ghost tour. (Cliche alert!) But, strangely, also here in Europe... but only in pictures of one of my friends. With the language barrier (Latvian is a little tough) it took me a good half hour to figure out why we were taking all these pictures of Elina and then of other people standing in the same place she had been...

nothing ghostly about orbs, nor are there any ghosts since every one dead is awaitng judgement day. I've been to the Lincoln house, memorial, Ft monroe etc and all say the have lincolns ghost. pretty good to have more ghosts than actual persons. no ghosts, or if there were why not at walmart? surely some stores are built on strange historic sites.

[amontalvo915]

I have gotten a picture of something strange in Gettysburg on the Wheatfield. My husband (who does't know a who lot about the Civil War, he is a WWII kind of man) claims it looks like a soldier from the picture of the Irish Brigade I have. I also got a strange picture at Chancellorsville, up near an oven looking thing. When I say strange things in the photos, I mean a shadowy thing in the picture. I have heard countless things, such as a couple of reenactors were sitting down rolling cartridges. It was just them two near a wooded area, and a man walked up to them and handed them a couple packages of cartridges, and walked away without saying anything. They opened up one of them and realized there were actual minie balls in them, and they were perfectly reproduced. They took them to an antique shop in town, and the man almost had a heart attack when he looked at them...they were perfect originals.

But of course...this is only a story...I personally don't believe it...but it seems particularly striking as it was a couple reenactors in a living history.

Ashley Montalvo