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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

A GHOST HUNTER'S GUIDE TO THE CIVIL WAR: WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO EXPECT

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ghost hunting America's historical sites has become a popular way to teach youngsters history- because its exciting and can be rewarding. Civil war battlefields and hospitals are the most popular areas to visit, and many offer ghost tours in addition to guided tours. In this story we begin with the two most popular sites- Gettysburg and Antietam, and then offer dozens of our locations.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is that?

0:02.0

What is that?

0:04.0

Oh my God.

0:07.0

What is that?

0:08.0

What am I seeing right now? No way there's a guy out here at 2 a.m.

0:17.0

I held out the window and got no response.

0:21.0

And when I swung the car back around, the guy was gone. There was nobody there.

0:26.5

I was expecting it to be creepy, but I was not expecting to get something like this. Me being obsessed with history like how I am. I always

0:36.8

picture the battlefield and picture how things were during this war during the Civil War and how it would have sounded all the sounds of the cannons and the guns and the screaming and the fighting and fighting.

1:03.3

Hi everyone, my name is McKenna White and I'm one of the student fellows at the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College.

1:03.4

If there's one thing that Gettysburg is almost synonymous with,

1:07.0

it's ghosts and ghost stories.

1:08.9

And today we're going to be taking a look at some of the earliest ghost stories

1:12.2

that appeared here at the Gettysburg

1:14.7

battlefield.

1:16.7

Now, the first ghost story actually appeared almost immediately following the conclusion of the battle here at

1:25.6

Iverson's Pitts. Now on the first day of battle Iverson's brigade came from

1:32.3

over here and rushed across this field meeting union troops on the top of

1:38.1

this hill by the stone wall and they faced almost total devastation especially in this dip as you see right behind.

1:45.6

It was a little after 10 p.m. and we went through a fog bank and there were at least a dozen

1:51.4

Union soldiers marching with their muskets or with blank expressions on their face.

1:57.0

Decided to take you guys out for a little nighttime car tour.

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