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The Ghosts of Gettysburg · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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Speaker 1: There are stories everywhere you go, some more horrifying than others.
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Speaker 1: We're here to investigate the stories. This is Ghost Stories
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Speaker 1: and the Unusual Paranormal Podcasts with your hosts, Joe the
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Speaker 1: Ghost Guy.
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Speaker 2: Last time on Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast,
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Speaker 2: Joe the Ghost Guy told us about the Dead Children's Playground.
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Speaker 2: Where is he going to talk about next? Tuneing on
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Speaker 2: Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
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Speaker 3: You are listed the Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast.
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Speaker 3: I am indeed your hosts, Joe the Ghost Guy. I
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Speaker 3: hope everyone's having a wonderful holiday weekend here in the States.
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Speaker 3: It's our Independence Day and lucky for some it happens
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Speaker 3: to fall on weekend, so lost everyone got a three
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Speaker 3: day day weekend and that's wonderful. My family and I
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Speaker 3: we barbecue and art the fireworks on TV. Where's nice
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Speaker 3: and safe and not to worry about trying to get
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Speaker 3: out into a crazy spot, you know, trying to run
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Speaker 3: over half a half a town, trying to get out
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Speaker 3: of the parking lot, you know, trying not to get
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Speaker 3: rex and stay home while it's nice and safe. But
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Speaker 3: player works are really cool around and we just watched
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Speaker 3: it on TV and festivities were really good. And that
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Speaker 3: leads us to today's story, you know, being it's our
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Speaker 3: independence day and we are thankful for our freedom and
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Speaker 3: all the conflicts that we endured and make this nation.
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Speaker 3: But there was a time where our nation was tearing
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Speaker 3: itself literally apart, and we ended up having a big
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Speaker 3: civil war and it was you know, nation and versus nation,
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Speaker 3: brother's brother, North versus South. It was big, uh you
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Speaker 3: know upheople that almost cross this country. And that's what
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Speaker 3: we're going to talk about today. And before we do it,
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Speaker 3: everybody grow up by your loved ones, sit down and relaxed.
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Speaker 3: It was our story comes in as you turn down
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Speaker 3: the lights. Our story begin right, you know, as the
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Speaker 3: civil war began, you know South versus North, you know,
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Speaker 3: whatever political issues it was, and there was a many
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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of people thought it was just
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Speaker 3: basically slavery, but that was that was only one of
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Speaker 3: the many things that was going wrong. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: industries and you know pretty much uh you know the
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Speaker 3: South poet you know, you know, trying to import their
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Speaker 3: you know, goods and everything. Yes, slavery was some of it.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was a lot of economic upheaval. You know,
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Speaker 3: they wanted to basically make their own selves instead of
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Speaker 3: one nation. They wanted to rip us into different parts
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Speaker 3: of a nation. That's where the Civil War began. And
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Speaker 3: it was a bloody battle and a lot of brothers
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Speaker 3: were lost on both sides. I had a family member,
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Speaker 3: actually family members that fought in the Civil War, and
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Speaker 3: one was on the Confederate, one was on the you know,
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Speaker 3: the Union or the Northern and it was bloody battle.
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Speaker 3: And today we're gonna talk about a major battle that
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Speaker 3: ended up being the turning point in the Civil War
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Speaker 3: that helped the North win. And this battle, it was
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Speaker 3: the bloodiest battle on both sides. And with at cost
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Speaker 3: of a bloody battle and everything, the spirits are, you know,
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Speaker 3: ended up being still restless. No one knows what happened
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Speaker 3: to him. No one knows what happened, you know, after
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Speaker 3: the war. And today's story happens to be on the
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Speaker 3: battlefield of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Ghosts. The Battle of
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Speaker 3: Gettysburg was fought from July versus to July third, eighteen
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Speaker 3: sixty three, marketing a turning point in the Civil War
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Speaker 3: and stands as one of the deadliest battles in American history.
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Speaker 3: By the end of the conflict, over fifty thousand soldiers
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Speaker 3: had been killed or wounded or reported missing an etch.
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Speaker 3: Nearly one million people people visited Gettysburg each year today,
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Speaker 3: but they're not coming out just for the sake of history. Well.
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Speaker 3: Many are also drawn to the tales the lingering spirits
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Speaker 3: that are added to the mysterious and chilling lair to
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Speaker 3: this iconic Pennsylvanian town. After decades of stories and wandering
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Speaker 3: spirits across Getty's Bird Battlefield, local buildings nearby woods have
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Speaker 3: captivated visitors and residents alike, people who claim to hear
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Speaker 3: phantom footsteps, ghostly drumbeams, and echoes of musket fires and canons.
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Speaker 3: Many believe these encounters are the restless souls of the
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Speaker 3: soldiers relive in their final moments of violence and fear.
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Speaker 3: Today's Gettysburg's history lends folkmore hand's first hand accounts and tragedies,
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Speaker 3: solidifying its reputation as one of the most haunted places
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Speaker 3: in the United States. Gettysburg was the pivotal clash between
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Speaker 3: the Union and Confederate forces. General Robert E. Lee's Army
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Speaker 3: of the North Virginia faced off against General George Mead's
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Speaker 3: Army of the Potomac in a brutal three day conflict.
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Speaker 3: The battle ended with the decisive Union victory pulteen Lee's
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Speaker 3: invasion of the North, but make marking the beginning the
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Speaker 3: Confederate seas decline. However, victory came in enormous costs. Soldiers
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Speaker 3: lay there where they fell, and the graves lined with
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Speaker 3: one lined in the once peaceful landscape. The devastation was overwhelming,
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Speaker 3: turning Gettysburg into a grim sense of loss and suffering.
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Speaker 3: One Anominate, a New Jersey soldier, described a historic scene. Well.
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Speaker 3: Burial parties were sent out, and these who could get
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Speaker 3: away from the commands went out to view the scene
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Speaker 3: of the carnage, And surely it was a scene never
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Speaker 3: to be forgot. Upon the open fields like shades beyond
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Speaker 3: by the reaper, and crevices of the rocks, behind fences,
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Speaker 3: trees and buildings and thickets, where they had preppt for safety,
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Speaker 3: only to die in agony by stream or wall or hedge,
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Speaker 3: wherever the battle had raged, or their walking steps could
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Speaker 3: carry them lay the dead. The emotional and physical scars
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Speaker 3: left behind the Gettysburg weren't felt only by those who survived.
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Speaker 3: It is believed to sheer magnitude of the suffering and
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Speaker 3: the death has left imprint on the town and lingers
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Speaker 3: to this day. Theories behind the hauntings are There are
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Speaker 3: various theories as to why Gettysburg is such a hub
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Speaker 3: or led supernatural activity. According to Mark has been a
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Speaker 3: former Natural Park Service ranger and historian a Gettysburg and
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Speaker 3: arthor several books on the region's goes, the battlefield may
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Speaker 3: have been destined to be just that a battlefield, quote skiers.
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Speaker 3: Before the battle Gettysburg, another battle, one even bigger, may
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Speaker 3: have occurred about a mile from Big round Top at
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Speaker 3: the southern peak of the battlefield, he says. Maps show
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Speaker 3: that two Native American tribes and territories designated through that
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Speaker 3: Adams County suggested that they could have been a turf
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Speaker 3: war between them. Close clot Emmanuel Bushman, a writer from
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Speaker 3: the Gettys in eighteen eighty seven about about many unnatural
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Speaker 3: and supernatural sites and sounds expected in the area of
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Speaker 3: Round Tops, and he calls the Indian Fields his bid
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Speaker 3: who also runs the ghost tour company in Gettysburg, mentions
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Speaker 3: additional theories like the stone tape theory, which suggests that
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Speaker 3: energy is released the moment that death becomes trapped in
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Speaker 3: the area's abundant granite and courts. While intriguing, these theories
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Speaker 3: are respective at best. There are these individuals like Jeff
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Speaker 3: ber Bellinger, an author and folklore researcher who had studied
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Speaker 3: the history at Gettysburg, was simply accepted the haunting presence
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Speaker 3: as part of the region's history. Gettysburg is on it
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Speaker 3: because it should be on it. He says, when you
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Speaker 3: have tens of thousands dead, missing, or wounded in a
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Speaker 3: span of three days, it leaves a stain that can
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Speaker 3: never be washed away. That's very true. Belgier points the
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Speaker 3: infinitous words from President Abraham Lincoln's Gatysburg address. We cannot dedicate,
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Speaker 3: we cannot consecrate, we cannot follow these brown The brave
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Speaker 3: men living in the dead, who struggled, are have to
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Speaker 3: consecrate it far and above our poor power and added
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Speaker 3: to a distract. The world will little know or long
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Speaker 3: remember what we say here, but it can never be
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Speaker 3: forgotten what they did here. In his research, the first
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Speaker 3: ghost story and has been found especially try to tie
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Speaker 3: to the battle have to on the night of July
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Speaker 3: verse into the early hours of Jolyy Skin eighteen sixty three.
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Speaker 3: During that night, as a Union Army's Fifth Corps marched
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Speaker 3: into gideas they spot in the stories Horsemen in the
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Speaker 3: Darkness ahead. Nesbit explains the figure would appear then disappear,
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Speaker 3: but it was obvious that from their accounts he was
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Speaker 3: wearing a uniform for the Revolutionary War. Many believed it
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Speaker 3: was the ghost of George Washington. The battlefield is considered
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Speaker 3: a hotspot in paranormal activity, particularly at Devil's Den, a
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Speaker 3: rocky outcrop known for its intense fighting. Confederate sharpshooters use
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Speaker 3: the rocks for cover, resulting in many casualties. Visitors would
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Speaker 3: frequently a report strange occurrences, cameras malfunction, mysterious figures appear
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Speaker 3: in the photograph, and some claims to hear distant gunfire
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Speaker 3: and screams echoing through the rocks. Others claim to have
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Speaker 3: seen a barefoot, disheveled man dressed in rags clothing who
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Speaker 3: reportedly says, what are you looking for? Is over there
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Speaker 3: before vanishing into thin air. Confederate soldiers often wear their
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Speaker 3: own clothes during Civil War, since stranded standard uniforms were
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Speaker 3: not consistently issued this lack of regulation, but to give
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Speaker 3: attire on the battlefield, marking their appearance less uniform compared
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Speaker 3: to the Union Force. Trangler Filled located northwest of Devil's
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Speaker 3: Den is also notorious or ghostly activity. Visitors report shouting
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Speaker 3: figures crossing the field, feeling for being touch and being
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Speaker 3: unsettled appearances around them. Similar phenomena have been reported at
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Speaker 3: the Little round Top, where Colonel Joshua Chamberlain's twentieth Main
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Speaker 3: Regiment secure a crucial Union victory. May claim to see
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Speaker 3: soldiers in uniform here, musket fire and encounter figures from
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Speaker 3: the past who vanished without a trace just outside the
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Speaker 3: battlefield lines. Hospital would serve as a temporary field hospital.
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Speaker 3: Mark Nesbit called the speaking to a woman whose sense
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Speaker 3: of who since two men approaching her in the woods.
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Speaker 3: She later identified them as soldiers from the forty second
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Speaker 3: Mississippi Regiment have been providing their names and their company details.
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Speaker 3: Nesbit later confirmed that these soldiers had been wounded nearby
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Speaker 3: and treated at the same spot to come up with
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Speaker 3: two names and the unit number, and the fact that
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Speaker 3: these men were treated or almost impossible, you know. It's
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Speaker 3: it's funny. I mean, you hear a lot of that,
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Speaker 3: where you know, people you know come up and talk
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Speaker 3: to you and you don't even know who they are,
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Speaker 3: and they tell you what happened and all this, and
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Speaker 3: when you end up, you know, turn around, they're gone.
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Speaker 3: Then you recall their story and everything and find out
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Speaker 3: that you know exact thing happened, and it's just it's eerie.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's very eerie. The ghost of the town of Gettysburg.
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Speaker 3: Almost every old building in Gettysburg has its own home
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Speaker 3: and history about few, but a few places stand out,
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Speaker 3: including the Janie Wade. Janie Wade was age twenty when
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Speaker 3: she was the only civilian killed during the battle, after
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Speaker 3: being struck by a street bullet well baking bread in
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Speaker 3: her sister's kitchen after her death. Her death was unfortunate accident,
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Speaker 3: but it left it lasting mark on the house. Visitors
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Speaker 3: and stepped port doors that opened and closed on their own,
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Speaker 3: disembodied voices, and feeling of being watched. Some believed Janie's
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Speaker 3: spirit still lingers trapped in the place where she met
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Speaker 3: her untimely end, the Gettysburg College. It was another place
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Speaker 3: it was used to was used as a hospital and
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Speaker 3: command posts during the battle. One of the most famous
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Speaker 3: bousand involves two ministrators who, while writing the Elevator in
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Speaker 3: Pennsylvania home, were transported into what seemed like to a
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Speaker 3: Civil War era hospital. See they claimed to have witnessed
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Speaker 3: wounded soldiers, blood covered doctors, and frantic nurses. When the
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Speaker 3: elevators closed and reopened, the han vision disappeared, leaving them
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Speaker 3: startled and shaking and by the experience. And there's been
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Speaker 3: a lot of reports of those happenings where it's I
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Speaker 3: forgot what they call it, but it's like trapped in
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Speaker 3: you're basically trapped in time where you could see you
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Speaker 3: know that time and era, and it's you know, it's
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Speaker 3: it's a time phenomena where you're experiencing time timeless, and
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Speaker 3: then when you go back, it's like never happened. But
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Speaker 3: sometimes a lot of people end up getting to those
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Speaker 3: time frames where you might be only a second, but
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Speaker 3: you might have been gone for five to ten minutes.
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Speaker 3: It's it's time shifts, and those were the spookiest for
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Speaker 3: the Farnsworth House and once strongholds for Confederate sharpshooters is
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Speaker 3: still marked by a bullet holes from the battle. Spirits
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Speaker 3: are set to linger there too, with guests reporting appearances
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Speaker 3: of soldiers to somebody footsteps in cold spots. Other haunted
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Speaker 3: locations include the Tilly Pierce House, the Daniel Lady Farm,
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Speaker 3: and such as Covered Bridge. Gettysburg holds a special place
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Speaker 3: American history, a place where the past fills remarkably close
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Speaker 3: for those who visit these hollow grounds and the stories
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Speaker 3: of honored houses, rentless spirits, spirits and strange encounters serve
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Speaker 3: the reminders as the human cost of war and the
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Speaker 3: lingering forbes that would unfold over three faithful days back
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Speaker 3: in nineteen or back in eighteen sixteen. Ghosts are history,
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Speaker 3: demanding to be remembered, says Bellinger. Through the notion of
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Speaker 3: the haunted battlefields. May often some who believes the definition
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Speaker 3: of a ghost is some earth bounce spirit doomed to
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Speaker 3: never pass on. I think sometimes the ghost is a
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Speaker 3: movie that plays over and over and over again because
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Speaker 3: it has not yet reconciled the lessons of the past
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Speaker 3: and only going to take a moment for the farms
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Speaker 3: from were thin the land was in and was built.
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Speaker 3: One of the previous owners by Reverend Alexander Dops Dobbins,
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Speaker 3: who subdivided a larger estate and purposes selling it. John F.
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Speaker 3: Fairlane purchased the land and stated the first recorded owner
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Speaker 3: of the home. Portion of the house were said to
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Speaker 3: be dated nearly eighteen hundreds and its claimed to have
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Speaker 3: been built in eighteen ten. The exact data is unclear.
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Speaker 3: Farland owned the house until his death in eighteen fifty one,
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Speaker 3: at which point became property of the Bank of Gudeysburg
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Speaker 3: from eight From nineteen eighteen to nineteen fifty eight, the
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Speaker 3: proper zone by George Black and Well and was known
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Speaker 3: as the Sleepy Hollow Launch. During the Civil War, the
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Speaker 3: property was owned by Harvey D. Sweeley and his family.
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Speaker 3: In nineteen seventy two, the house was renamed in honor
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Speaker 3: of Regular General Elton J. Farnsworth by current owner mister
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Speaker 3: Lowing Schultz, and remains a bed and breakfast. The current
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Speaker 3: owners clamed the General Lewis Armstead has brought into it
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Speaker 3: to and threatened at the home before passing away in
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Speaker 3: julyy fit, but this is historically inaccurate, as they bought
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Speaker 3: the house from George spring Strangler file where he died
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Speaker 3: Schultz family claims that the end was been haunted by
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Speaker 3: many his sixteen spirits at one point in time, that
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Speaker 3: each spirit has owned distinct personality and name. The ann
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Speaker 3: has several rooms and it is supposed to be hotspots
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Speaker 3: for specific spiritual activity or spiritual that's for a particular ghost,
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Speaker 3: such as the Sarah Black Room, which is supposed to
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Speaker 3: be one of the most active rooms, and still have
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Speaker 3: spirits that could be photographed from the streets. That's pretty interesting.
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Speaker 3: Let's see the Janie Wade House was minor. Changes of
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Speaker 3: repairs at the Jamie Wade House remains much as Janie
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Speaker 3: Wood unknown over one hundred and sixty two years ago.
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Speaker 3: The walls of the old house tell the story of
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Speaker 3: some of those who took shelter the battle there. Mary
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Speaker 3: Virginia Janie Wade lived in the Record Ridge Street in Gettysburg,
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Speaker 3: where she and her mother worked to seamstresses. They fled
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Speaker 3: to their home in anticipation of the coming battle. Chosen
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Speaker 3: to stay with her. Stay with her was Janie's sister,
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Speaker 3: Georgia mcclin. This was not only for their own safety,
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Speaker 3: but because Georgia was very pregnant, given birth just an
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Speaker 3: hour before they kept Federal armor arrived in Getty's birth.
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Speaker 3: Janey was said to be a to be betrothed to
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Speaker 3: Corporal Johnston Jack Skilly, a childhood friend turned romantic interests.
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Speaker 3: Jack was wounded and captured in Winchester. The fact that
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Speaker 3: Jane would never never learn. The Wades and mccollins did
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Speaker 3: their patriot duty by serving bread and water by nearby
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Speaker 3: Union forces, and early morning of July third, Jane began
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Speaker 3: to knee bread a fresh batch of doe so they
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Speaker 3: could continue with riding for the soldiers. That same morning,
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Speaker 3: Confederate soldiers began firing on the north side of the house,
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Speaker 3: which was hit over one hundred It was hit by
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Speaker 3: over one hundred and fifty bullets. One with such bullet
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Speaker 3: a mami ball passed the two doors. Its struck Janey
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Speaker 3: in his shoulder, penetrating in her heart and finally coming
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Speaker 3: to rest in her courtset and in her life approximately
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Speaker 3: eight thirty on July third, eighteen sixty three, Federal soldiers
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Speaker 3: carried Jane's body to the cellar. Later they would bury her.
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Speaker 3: Janie's work was not in vain on July Firth. The
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Speaker 3: very next day, her mother used the dough to bake
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Speaker 3: fifteen lows of bread for honor for hungry Union soldiers Corposcilly.
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Speaker 3: Jane's fiance never learned of her death. He died in
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Speaker 3: Cactivity just one week later on July twelfth, before the
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Speaker 3: news could have reached him. Today, Janey is been buried
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Speaker 3: near Jack in the Evergreen Cemetery. Monument marks the rest place,
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Speaker 3: as well as a perpetual American flag that plays flight's
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Speaker 3: day and night. The only other woman to claim that
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Speaker 3: honor was Betsy Ross. Wow, that is I mean, and
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Speaker 3: I think if I remember, I think there was somewhere
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Speaker 3: on the History Channel that they went in the house
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Speaker 3: and they still fill the presence of her going back
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Speaker 3: and forth and everything. I think that he got some
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Speaker 3: EVPs of her. I believe. Yeah, it's I bet it's
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Speaker 3: a crazy place. I mean I would, I mean, I
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Speaker 3: would love to go there, and you know it's weird.
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Speaker 3: I just got a just found a thing that was published.
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Speaker 3: It was a paper published on July seventeenth, twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: three by Laurie Here.
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Speaker 4: There is an entire section of the journalism industry dedicated
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Speaker 4: to luring and visitors with its haunted history. Ghost hunters
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Speaker 4: and fans of the paranormal love the idea a passerby
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Speaker 4: capturing the photos or videos, some explained parents are seeing
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Speaker 4: and hearing it with their own two eyes. The United
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Speaker 4: States has a time of the United Haunted Fractions. A
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Speaker 4: lot of those Haunted getaways center around World War history
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Speaker 4: areas where blood was shed, often by brutal methods or
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Speaker 4: an a massive scale or titan idea that spiritual presence
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Speaker 4: for lepraying each makes the total sense one. Each place
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Speaker 4: at Giddy's Bristo being Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I visited Gettysburg some
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Speaker 4: years ago, and while I knew that the ghost tours
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Speaker 4: were affected here or offered here, I did not expect
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Speaker 4: them to play up the paranormal angle quite as much
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Speaker 4: as they did. So how haunted did I find Gettysburg?
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Speaker 4: Read on and find out. I visited Gettysburg in a
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Speaker 4: warm sunny July day, staying overnight in order to make
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Speaker 4: an advantage of one of the night nightly ghost tours
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Speaker 4: they would offer. The town was the one giant tourist
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Speaker 4: attraction with hotels, parking lots and maps at each of
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Speaker 4: the museums, battlefields, cemeteries, and other attractions. It feels very touristy,
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Speaker 4: like the illustration reconstruction of the place in the past,
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Speaker 4: other than the place the people actually lived, work and play.
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Speaker 4: The first area I visited was the site of Lincoln's
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Speaker 4: It's Gettysburg address. This is really the series of mental
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Speaker 4: plaques along the roadside. From there I ventured into the
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Speaker 4: north the National Soldiers Cemetery. Cemetery is full of old gravestones,
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Speaker 4: the tall, flat and kind that you see, and drawings
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Speaker 4: the old cartoons. Again a bright sunny day, there was
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Speaker 4: nothing eerie about the cemetery. This is our average graveyard
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Speaker 4: with monuments to war heroes dotted throughout. The main attraction
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Speaker 4: is the battle filled where the actual fighting took place.
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Speaker 4: I remember an old history teacher showing us that the
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Speaker 4: bullets that he fell while walking the battlefields during this
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Speaker 4: his visit years ago. I did not venture too far
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Speaker 4: from the battlefield, but the landscape was very amusing. It
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Speaker 4: was still hilly field, the trees got throughout. Many signs
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Speaker 4: of Delhi Battle were a long gone aside from an
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Speaker 4: old cannon's position along its edge of the field. I
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Speaker 4: figured that the creepness would appear once the sun went
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Speaker 4: down that afternoon, I booked a tour at the Janey
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Speaker 4: Wade House at the museum. It's dedicated only civilian casualties
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Speaker 4: of war. A guy just as a puerid clothing escorts
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Speaker 4: the group through the homes of the house. Janey Wade
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Speaker 4: was killed instantly by a stray bullet from the from
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Speaker 4: the battle come through the door and struck her in
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Speaker 4: the heart as she was making bread for the Union soldiers.
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Speaker 4: Her son death makes it possible that Jannie could have
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Speaker 4: stayed behind to mount the house long after Civil War ended,
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Speaker 4: her life having ended so soon as it began. She
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Speaker 4: also left behind a fiancee who died shortly after Janie,
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Speaker 4: and like we had, hadn't learned from her death before
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Speaker 4: I counted as own. The home was very old, with
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Speaker 4: creepy forwards, narrow steps, and old furniture, preserved as act
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Speaker 4: a state as it could have been. Jannie lived there
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Speaker 4: with her family. The tour is more historical than paranormal.
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Speaker 4: Throughout the guy did share a few stories to put
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Speaker 4: the group on edge. In one room there was a
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Speaker 4: hole in a single woman none destruct their finger. An
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Speaker 4: old woman has to stick their finger through the door,
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Speaker 4: but have received a marriage proposal within one year, well
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Speaker 4: nine years after placing my finger through the hole. I'm
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Speaker 4: still single, so I wouldn't see the significance on that legend.
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Speaker 4: There are many artifacts preserved and kept in the cabinet
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Speaker 4: and the home. One artifact is a place of blood
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Speaker 4: stained wood that was stained by Janie's blood.
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Speaker 3: But she was shot.
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Speaker 4: It was unsettling to see the piece of wood to
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Speaker 4: remain bloodstained decades later, and it plays to the belief
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Speaker 4: that Jamie may have left a piece of herself behind.
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Speaker 4: The three ps room in the house was that the
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Speaker 4: very house is the basement. Janie's basement is a rock wall, cellar,
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Speaker 4: the dirt floor and creepy a man a mural on
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Speaker 4: the wall. This is where they replayed the up the
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Speaker 4: paranormal activity and warn the group that they may fill
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Speaker 4: a drug on their clothes. I'll send there and listening
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Speaker 4: the guide's spiel. Fortunately, the only thing I fell was
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Speaker 4: a cold draft, which was a welcome relief to the
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Speaker 4: summer heat. Before dinner, I traveled the outskirts of town.
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Speaker 4: The Devil's Den, a large rock formation where there was
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Speaker 4: second day of the fighting took place. Rocks were easily
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Speaker 4: decline that while the sturdy view from the top was dizzying.
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Speaker 4: Devil's Den gets the name from the large snake as
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Speaker 4: they used to occupy the area. I'll remember reading signs
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Speaker 4: in the area that explained that the Confederate soldiers were
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Speaker 4: bind by snakes when they camped out under the rocks.
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Speaker 4: Location already had reputation being haunted before the battle and
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Speaker 4: as the site of the battle along numerous American tribes
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Speaker 4: long before the Civil War. But because of the broad
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Speaker 4: daylight and dozens of people turned around the area at
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Speaker 4: the time, Sally didn't see any or sense anything paranormal
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Speaker 4: from the spirits of the past during the town and
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Speaker 4: old buildings given hysterical time travel killing that the advices,
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Speaker 4: but the crowds and the merchantsizing also take away from
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Speaker 4: the amblance and brands of the bit. Not that I
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Speaker 4: found Gettysburg to be super crowded, like a amusing work
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Speaker 4: or a large city, but it had distracts from the
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Speaker 4: more distracts from mood needed to see and experience everything supernatural.
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Speaker 4: A lot of souvenirs in the shops, sport and tagline
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Speaker 4: on a Gettysburg you'll find it, You'll find a ghost
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Speaker 4: station outside the restaurants or painted on the ground as
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Speaker 4: cute but also a bit in your face, like a
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Speaker 4: entering a hot an house attraction. It brings excitement, not
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Speaker 4: as authenticity that this logo is trying to relay. There
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Speaker 4: are multiple ghost tours in the Gettysburg, some kid freely,
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Speaker 4: some kid friendly, some are made for adults only. The
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Speaker 4: one I went to is actual ghost haunt, where a
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Speaker 4: group is often given tools to use during the tour.
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Speaker 4: We are provided with a handful of and a handful
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Speaker 4: of meters and stones and radios that were meant to
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Speaker 4: detect sounds or cousins. Even allowed the spirits to announce
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Speaker 4: themselves to the group. At the start of the tour,
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Speaker 4: we typalized away the busy town and were back roads
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Speaker 4: and woods along the battlefield. Guide was very fantatistic, but
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Speaker 4: also played the activity, plade up the activity in order
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Speaker 4: to give us a good show, rather than just telling
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Speaker 4: us the true historical facts about the area or allowing
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Speaker 4: any activity to pair on its own. At one point
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Speaker 4: of the woods, the guide scrolled through the stations on
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Speaker 4: the radio, telling us that the ghosts I speak for
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Speaker 4: us through the radio waves. If we overheard a random
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Speaker 4: word of phrase. It might be a ghost trying to communicate.
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Speaker 4: He even mentioned to have communicated with the spirit of
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Speaker 4: the little girl at the spot of the past. At
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Speaker 4: one point we thought we heard low girl's voice freet us.
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Speaker 4: With this said Hi, the guide experienced proceeded to talk
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Speaker 4: to her and keep scrolling through the radio. That wouldn't
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Speaker 4: But what would the ghost of the little girl be
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Speaker 4: doing in the woods along the road at Gettysburg. I
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Speaker 4: took several photos on the area and caught a few
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Speaker 4: orbs in the dark with a new obsolete digital camera,
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Speaker 4: But disappointingly, it was the paranormal experience I had to
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Speaker 4: hope to get. We were more distracted by tools than
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Speaker 4: really taken in the scenery and the atmosphere. Begin In,
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Speaker 4: the groups of twenty so downplayed the spookiness of the
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Speaker 4: station of the other situation, and they did admitted us
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Speaker 4: they'd taken us. The areas where off limits that night,
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Speaker 4: and the paranorma caused him to round us up by
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Speaker 4: cattle each time we stepped it too far off the paths.
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Speaker 4: At the end, I left Gettysburg, but zero paranormal experiences.
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Speaker 4: No self respecting ghosts would haunt each a busy town
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Speaker 4: or these ancient buildings, no matter how old or creepy
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Speaker 4: they looked, the area is well preserved and heavenly trafficked,
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Speaker 4: so it gives the place a historical feel rather than
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Speaker 4: haunted one. If they downplayed trying to province us that
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Speaker 4: we were having paranormal experiences or where we were haunted
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Speaker 4: in a haunted town, maybe the town would have lived
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Speaker 4: up the haunted reputation. A good ghost story needs privacy,
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Speaker 4: and the person who again spook to call us apart,
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Speaker 4: armed like a ghostbuster and seeing is seeing outdosts. So
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Speaker 4: I feel like as soldiers and endangerous Americans and Jenny
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Speaker 4: Wade are all rest and peacefully in the fields, the
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Speaker 4: cemetery and their homes.
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