Posted on 09/19/2020 8:53:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A video posted by a tourist that shows what appears to be a ghost sighting at a Gettysburg battle field has launched an online debate.
A story written by the New York Post states that New Jersey resident Greg Yuelling took the video while on a trip to Gettysburg with his family on Sept. 2.
The clip captured by Yuelling appears to show ghostly figures walking around tow cannons on the battlefield.
Although the sighting was captured on camera, some people aren't convinced.
Upon viewing the video, the New Jersey Paranormal Research Organization posted to their Facebook page that the 'ghost sighting' wasn't actually a ghost at all, but rather water droplets on the camera.
The reason most people are seeing a “ghost” is because they already know about the history of Gettysburg, and our brains will automatically try to make something familiar out of a visual anomaly," the organization said in the post. "The entities are actually just the light being distorted by the streak on the windshield as the background elements move into the streak."
The Sun, a British tabloid, spoke with Yuelling, who said that his family started hearing weird nosies before they spotted the figures on the battlefield. Yuelling also told The Sun that the figures were the size of humans.
Yuelling says he is now convinced that ghosts exist after watching the video several times.
not ghosts
water
I’ll never forget back in the mid 70’s walking through that graveyard with my mom at midnight ghost hunting. Didn’t experience anything other than it seemed spooky.
In the case of the “second ghost”, it’s a bead of water on the window that creates a distortion. You can see light reclecting off the bead just before it crosses the cannons as a “ghost.”
Beat me to it!
Is it scarier than that ghost in the German car commercial that suddenly walks up to the camera at the end? Because when I first saw that, I literally fainted. And slept with the lights on for the next 3 nights. Even my Jeff Sessions Real Doll couldn’t comfort me.
Good on the paranormal group for debunking it and not yelling ‘ghost!’
It’s just a mark on the windshield.
They may have been running away from PA state Democrat workers harassing them to register to vote for the November election.
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who ya gonna call... Smudge Busters-
Nuttin but a smudge on windshield that ‘looks to move’ as the car rolls along a curved road- they showed it in slow mo- and pretty clearly a smudge- you can see the second smudge appear off to the side as the light gets just right on it and the camera picks it up ‘peripherally’
Bookmark.
Never heard of it.
There are ghosts on the highway on the way to Antietam, in Maryland:
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/600?offset=5
The Civil War soldiers are pushing their cannon up the hill. I have experienced it and it is chilling. And very sad. What a terrible battle that was. The worst loss of American life in a single day.
Gettysburg is reportedly one of the most haunted sites. Stick around for a few hours or so and you’re bound to experience something paranormal .
From Michael Medved’s book Right Turns about his ghostly encounter at Gettysburg:
On another occasion, I impulsively hitchhiked to western Pennsylvania with a lovesick fellow freshman who wanted to visit his girlfriend near Pittsburgh; along the way, we slept on the battlefield of Gettysburg. A farmer in the vicinity had dropped us off on a dark, lonely road (Highway 15) after eleven at night. We walked more than two miles across fields and pastures to the border of the Gettysburg National Military Park, looking for a place to camp for the night. Only briefly discouraged by the elaborate fencing and numerous signs that ordered “No Trespassing” and “No Camping, we clambered through the wooden rail and barbed-wire barriers that protected the federal land and what Lincoln had called “this hallowed ground,” On a chill, hushed, moonless November night, we marched over the famous battlefield, climbing up behind the key Federal position of Little Round Top where so many determined Confederates lost their lives. In fact, more than fifteen thousand young Americans on both sides were reported killed or missing, with nearly fifty thousand total casualties in the three-day battle—a fact I foolishly recalled to my already queasy pal as we tramped along Cemetery Ridge. We began to sense shadowy, larger-than-life military figures looming out of the misty night on all sides of us—part of the statuary on the monuments to the various regiments and states who participated in the great struggle in 1863. “This is creepy. It’s horrible,” my friend said with a shiver. “We shouldn’t be here at all.”
He was right, of course, but I argued that at this point we had no choice but to throw down our sleeping bags and try to pass the time till dawn. We tramped over damp, frosty grass to within sight of the Pennsylvania Memorial—a huge, four-story Victorian monstrosity with cannon and sentry statues, multiple columns, soaring arches, and a dome, all of which seemed to offer some sense of protection or reassurance. Nevertheless, sleep remained completely out of the question as we exchanged hushed, frightened words with the sleeping bags drawn up to our eyes. The noises we heard all night could connect to rational explanations—birds, owls, foxes, raccoons, deer, or other creatures that might normally wander through open country. The visual shocks made far less sense, however: about 4 a.m., shivering and shuddering and trying to catch some sleep, we both suddenly sensed moving figures not more than thirty yards away. “Do you hear that?” I hissed, grabbing his arm. My friend pulled his head deep into the sleeping bag and tried to cover his ears, but I propped myself up on my elbows, peering through the darkness and felt my blood race when I saw a small squadron of uniformed figures—perhaps eight of them, not more than a dozen—carrying weapons and running at full tilt along the ridge. They looked gray and shadowy, but notably lighter (almost illuminated, in fact) than the gloomy mist behind them, before they careened out of view in about six seconds.
Of course, Civil War reenactors love the battlefield at Gettysburg, and their costumes and equipment often look chillingly authentic. But why would a group of modern-day history buffs and weekend warriors suddenly turn up at four in the morning, running away from the Pennsylvania Memorial and disappearing into the silence within seconds? We remained too terrified to talk and waited through the excruciating minutes until the dawn—which was announced ahead of time by the mournful lowing of some cows that must have been let of of their barn by a farmer behind the ridge. At first light we jumped up, threw together our packs, and ran in panic from the haunted battlefield.
Though I never shivered through any further ghostly visitations, I continued to spend the great majority of my free time on sporadic, largely unplanned voyages of discovery and exploration.
The music was unnecessary!
Snopes says it fake but it still scared the s--t out of me. Supposedly a ghost literally pops up at the end.
That is a great story, excellently written.
That’s the fake zombie ad.
Too funny :-)
Both sides are coming back because of the statue and monument destroyers.
God help the anarchists ! Men in the 1860’s didn’t have purple hair and earrings.
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