Historic haunting: New Gettysburg attraction explores town's paranormal past
When Patti O'Day's parents purchased the Farnsworth House Inn property in 1972, she immediately started sensing that ghosts were nearby. Her belief that the Farnsworth House Inn was haunted led her to start offering ghost tours at the property in 1986. Here's a look at some of the spirits who have been spotted at what the Travel Channel called one of the most haunted inns in America:
Mary: A matronly woman that keeps the other ghosts in line. Walter: A red-bearded Confederate Civil War soldier. Nan: A nurse midwife. Billy: A little boy from the 1950s. Jeremy: A little boy tragically killed by a horse-drawn carriage in the 1800s. Cissy: A little girl from the early 1900s who died of respiratory failure. Florence: A 19-year-old woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby. Elizabeth: The ghost who moved into the house with her mortal family. Lt. Jackson: Cared for a mortally wounded comrade in the cellar. Dying comrade: Painful cries can be heard in the cellar. William: Jeremy's grief-stricken father. Jennie Wade: Gettysburg woman believed to have been killed by a sharpshooter from The Farnsworth House. Source: Gettysburg's Haunted Addres' GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Rene Staub believes in spirits. During his 14 years as a ghost tour guide at the Historic
Farnsworth House Inn property in downtown Gettysburg, Pa., he said
he's experienced enough peculiar events to believe that
otherworldly beings are present. He's smelled the scent of blooming
flowers in February, listened to screaming women who could feel the
presence of ghosts nearby and watched surveillance videos
indicating the presence of spirits. Staub is also a realist. He knows many of his Historic
Farnsworth House Inn ghost tour guests do not believe in ghosts and
no amount of evidence will convince them. And that's why he said
he's so excited about the grand opening of Gettysburg's Haunted
Address from 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Regardless of whether his visitors believe in ghosts or not, he
said the new indoor attraction he designed will help educate those
who pass through it. Gettysburg's Haunted Address is located next
to the Historic Farnsworth House property, where ghost tours have
been taking place for 25 years. "This was the battlefield," said Staub while standing outside
along the sidewalk next to Gettysburg's Haunted Address. "On the
first day of the battle, Union soldiers were pushed right up
through here. ... A lot of soldiers were stuck in backyards.
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When Loring and Jean Shultz purchased the property in 1972, their daughter Patti became so convinced that otherworldly beings were present that she became the first ghost tour guide in Gettysburg, Pa. She told stories in the cellar of the Farnsworth
It was the same sort of soundtrack one hears in those cable channel ghost story documentaries. Really. Yeah, yeah maybe I'm nit-picking. And who I am to second-guess such noted historian contributors as James McPherson (Battle Cry Of Freedom) and
His two sons and a daughter remember with nostalgia the fun of annual camping trips with their old man sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories that had them trembling with delight. They saw Gettysburg with him and Disneyland and a large part
He entered the city in Syfy's America's Home Town Ghost Hunt. The 50 finalists have been selected, and Hickory is right there among cities such as Cincinnati, Gettysburg, San Antonio and Raleigh. “There is a lot of paranormal activity in Hickory,”
Its July/August issue, which began hitting mailboxes in late June, included a feature about Gettysburg, entitled Ghost Fields. Not surprisingly, it quoted from the famous speech delivered there by US President Abraham Lincoln. “On June 16, 1964,
Haunted Gettysburg: True ghost stories from Little Round Top
Abe Lincoln said that in his address dedicating the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania back in 1863. Most of us had to memorize his speech at some point in our school days, and perhaps one of the things we were most thankful for at the time was for Abe’s brevity.
A Google search for haunted Gettysburg might very well convince you that it is certainly possible to detract from what the brave men, living and particular the dead did there. You get the feeling, perusing the search results, that there must be swarms of ghost hunters, cameras and tape recorders in hand, combing the more than 30,000 acres looking for evidence of the dead who might be less than at rest. And in the process, keeping the spirits stirred up.
If there is a place in these United States where the dead have a good reason for still shuffling about the old mortal coil, Gettysburg, about 90 minutes from Washington D.C, and less than an hour from both Baltimore, Maryland and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is it.
In 1863, Gettysburg was a sleepy little town in the Pennsylvania countryside with a population of about 2,500, boasting a bit of light industry and a college. Today it hasn’t changed all that much, with a population of less than 8,000. Or to look at it another way, Gettysburg’s population has grown enough in the past 150 plus years to finally match the number of dead delivered on their doorstep in July of 1863. One need not be a rocket scientist to figure out that having one’s life snuffed out suddenly and violently is a prescription for a haunting. And if amateur ghost hunters are to be believed, Gettysburg is overrun with spirits.
Ghost stories at Gettysburg didn’t begin following the battle. Like any small town, it had its share before the slaughter which made it famous. In fact, the first documented haunting here actually helped lead to the battle itself.
The 20th Maine division were marching towards the Pennsylvania hamlet when they struck a fork in the road and found themselves unsure which direction to proceed. Luckily for them, a mounted rider appeared, albeit in somewhat unusual and old-fashioned uniform, who directed them in the right direction, and even brought them to the top of Little Round Top, where they became famous for repelling one of the first massive assaults on the union lines. Even as they followed this unnamed rider, many found his appearance unusual, particular the eerie glow which seemed to emanate from him. When he disappeared without a word, many were convinced that he was not of this earth. Lincoln’s Secretary of War, did a proper investigation of the matter, and was told by Colonel Joshua Chamberland, one of the heroes of the battle, “We know not what mystic power may be possessed by those who are now bivouacking with the dead.
wasn't my point. Gettysburg is ripe with ghost tour companies that rely upon sensationalism/made up stories to entertain
Making s'mores after telling ghost stories. It's the camp experience I never had. 
i am in Gettysburg checking out ghost stories
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