Pickett's Souls | Gettysburg National Cemetery

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales · Feb 10, 2026 · 25m · transcript

Join host Kristin as The Grim descends into Gettysburg National Cemetery — where blood-soaked Pennsylvania earth became the birthplace of America's first national cemetery and a monument to the true cost of war.

Before national cemeteries existed, soldiers were buried where they fell. The Civil War changed everything. At the Battle of Gettysburg — the deadliest battle in American military history — over 50,000 casualties fell in just three days as outdated battlefield tactics collided with modern repeating rifles. On July 3, 1863, nearly 12,000 Confederate soldiers marched across open ground…