ghost stories

[reddcorp]

I have personally met the ghost of Jack Daniel's many times.
Frightening.

A.Redd

[CheeseBoxRaft]

I also got a strange picture at Chancellorsville, up near an oven looking thing.

By 'oven-looking thing' do you mean Catherine's Furnace?



- John Steadman

[Rob Weaver]

"...ask directions from a genie in a bottle of Jim Beam and she lies to you..."

A couple years ago, I was talking with an individual I had recently met here in the town in which I live. She retold a chost story which she swore she had seen in the vicinity of Spangler's Spring. I listened politely, but intriqued because two college buddies and I made up that story while standing around Spangler's Spring one fall night in the early '80s. Sometime in the intervening years, the story had jumped the track into folklore, complete with the requisite "And I was there and saw her, too" appeal to credibility. Real-life ghost stories are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, but you can see why I'm incredulous.

[amontalvo915]

By 'oven-looking thing' do you mean Catherine's Furnace?



- John Steadman

Yes sir, that is what I took a picture of, there was something peeping around the back corner of it.

Ashley Montalvo

[redleggeddevil]

I collect ghost stories like other people collect stamps. And, like a stamp collector, I only value the "real thing"-- that is, stories I can trace back to the original person.

That being the case, I have discarded about 90 percent of the stories I have heard, those that happened to "a friend of a friend". Still, there are some things I have heard from others (and a few that I have felt and seen myself) that I cannot otherwise explain. Some come from battlefields, but many come from otherwise peaceful, unlikely places. For example, several Rangers at Gettysburg have told me that the scariest, most haunted place there is...the Eisenhower Farm. Devil's Den at midnight? Kids' stuff! They tell me that, if you want a real scare, go down the back staircase to Mamie's kitchen.

As for me, I can say that, if one spends enough time in old houses, it is hard to stay an agnostic about ghosts. I was director of a house museum in Oyster Bay, New York. It was famous for ghostly activity, although only a fraction of it could be traced to an actual, identifiable observer. I had gotten pretty blase about it all, since I had been there for almost 3 years without seeing anything (although my staff had a few interesting interactions).

And then, one December night, while I was closing up after a candlelight tour...

[reb64]

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.

Ashley Montalvo

Can we see them?

[amontalvo915]

http://flickr.com/photos/10100463@N0...7600869504498/
http://flickr.com/photos/10100463@N0...7600869504498/
http://flickr.com/photos/10100463@N04/836903241/

These aren't the ones I mentioned above, those are hard copies, but these were taken when we were leaving Gettysburg. I had the windows down, so there is no possibility of reflections.

[reb64]

[QUOTE=These aren't the ones I mentioned above, those are hard copies, but these were taken when we were leaving Gettysburg. I had the windows down, so there is no possibility of reflections.[/QUOTE]


Thanks, enjoy photos and especially daytime ones. most supposed ghost photos are at night. Have anyother photos done this? If so Id first check camera lenses inside and out, looks like spots on the lenses, glare off the flash or moisture in the camera. In your series of 54 photos many others also have spots, mist like areas

[Frenchie]

One of my reenacting mentors told about the time his son-in-law, who was not a reenactor and had very little interest in or knowledge of the War, asked him if anyone in the War ever wore red pants. He said he'd been driving east on Lee Hwy through the Manassas NBP toward Sudley Road at dusk. He said he'd seen someone run across the road some distance in front of him, and the figure appeared to be wearing red trousers and carrying some sort of stick. My friend determined that the figure was running through the area where the 5th NY Volunteer Infantry (Duryee's Zouaves) were overrun by Longstreet's assault of August 30, 1862 (Second Bull Run). He then called the park and learned that there were no events going on at the time. I ain't believing or dismissing the story, just passing it on.

[rebkid]

i have only had 2 experiences with the supernatural. the first, we were working in a old plantation called "the price house" here in sc, it was built in 1794, and used to be a grand plantation, but now its a museum. anyway, we were outside checking around the foundation, when the fellow i was with and myself both felt like someone was touching us. the bricks of this house were all made by slaves, and the lady who runs the place told us it was common to feel or "sense" stuff there. but we never saw anything or "sensed" anything else the whole time were there after that.

the second thing, was in waverly iowa. me and some friends were walking down the railroad tracks and we all seen something, kind of like a blob of smoke, beside the tracks, and then it moved across the tracs and just faded out. maybe a sneaky hobo?? who knows, but it was spooky, cause we all sensed we were being watched.