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    Ghosts of Gettysburg V: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield
    Ghosts of Gettysburg V: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield
    Ghosts of Gettysburg V: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield
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    Ghosts of Gettysburg V: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield

    By Mark Nesbitt

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    "Ghosts of Gettysburg V" is the fifth volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. This volume includes tales of eerie events and more ghostly encounters on the Gettysburg battlefield in such well known areas as Devil's Den, the National Cemetery, the Triangular Field, Oak Ridge and Little Round Top.
    The first volume in the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series was released in October 1991. Mr. Nesbitt started collecting ghost stories from Gettysburg in the early 1960s. In the 1970s, he worked as a Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and was assigned to live in some of the historic houses on the Park. His collection of ghost stories grew.
    As long as visitors to the Gettysburg area continue to share their “ghostly” experiences, Mr. Nesbitt will continue to add to his "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSecond Chance Publications
    Release dateJan 9, 2012
    ISBN9780984906307
    Ghosts of Gettysburg V: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield
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    Mark Nesbitt

    Mark Nesbitt is Honorary Associate Professor at UCL Institute of Archaeology, Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway and Senior Research Leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His research concerns human-plant interactions as revealed through museum collections. His research addresses the histories of empire, medicine and botany and their relevance today.

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    Ghosts of Gettysburg V - Mark Nesbitt

    Ghosts of Gettysburg V

    Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield

    by

    Mark Nesbitt

    Published by Second Chance Publications at Smashwords

    Copyright 2012 Mark V. Nesbitt

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    Original cover design by Ryan C. Stouch

    ***************

    To Katie

    Yours to count on….

    Sit down again together, Army of the Potomac! all that are left of us,—on

    the banks of the river whose name we bore, into which we have put new

    meaning of our own. Take strength from one more touch, ere we pass

    afar from the closeness of old. The old is young to-day; and the young

    is passed. Survivors of the fittest, it seems to us, abide in the glory where

    we saw them last,—take the grasp of hands, and look into the eyes,

    without words! Who shall tell what is past and what survives? For there

    are things born but lately in the years which belong to the eternities.

    —Major General Joshua Chamberlain

    The shadows deepen. It has passed—the splendid pageant; it is gone

    forever,—the magnificent host that streamed from the mountains to the

    sea; that flaming bolt which cut the Confederacy in two,—or shall we

    say that left its deep track upon the earth to mark the dark memories

    of those years; or to shine forever as a token of saving grace in the galaxy

    of the midnight sky?

    —Major General Joshua Chamberlain

    ***************

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1 - Acknowledgements

    Chapter 2 - Introduction

    Chapter 3 - Mad Carnival

    Chapter 4 - Dying Game

    Chapter 5 - Eden Afire

    Chapter 6 - Climbing To Golgotha

    Chapter 7 - Those Who Cast No Shadows

    Chapter 8 - Pageant of The Macabre

    Chapter 9 - Masters of The Ruins

    Chapter 10 - Mysteries of Oak Ridge

    Chapter 11 - Endnotes

    Chapter 12 - About the Author

    ***************

    Chapter 1: Acknowledgements

    Once again, scores of individuals were helpful in putting together this work. My sincere thanks go out to those who, out of the goodness of their hearts, a love for Gettysburg and a more or less forced interest in the paranormal, have shared their strange, yet fascinating and undeniable experiences with me.

    Those who related stories to me include Denise and John Ackerman, Mary Adelsberger, Jennifer Hodge and Ann Leifert, Mollie Back, Andrew Batten, Harry Borger, Corinne Brownholtz, Sara Callen, Richard Capiccioni and family, Deborah DiCaro, Duke Conover, Jim Cooke, James J. Corsetti, Jr. Esq., Suezette Dunham, John Dynia, Dr. Charles Emmons, Donald E. Evans, John Fenstermacher, the Rev. Mark Fischer, Rick Fisher, Jim Garrahy, Jason Gross, Bill Hallett, Harry I. Halloway, Aloma Handshew, Dave Hann, Michael K. Hollahan, Steve Kovall, Suzanne M. Ledger, Dianna Loski, Wendy Miller, Jennifer Moyer, Edward Newhouse, Ron Ogburn, Lorraine Ortiz, Danny and Terri Potter, Cheryl A. Raimondi, Katherine Ramsland, Betty Roche, Kerry J. Ryan, Bruce A. Sigmon, Karl Silvius, Michael Smith, Terry L. Smith, Rachel Stombaugh, Shelley Sykes, Sally Thomas, Mark C. Wilson, Sue Wilson.

    I have endeavored to include everyone who contributed to this book in this list, but papers get shuffled and names get misplaced until after the book is finished. If I have not mentioned you, my sincerest apologies. Look for yourself in my next book!

    ***************

    Chapter 2: Introduction

    The distinction between past, present, and future

    is only an illusion, however persistent.

    —Albert Einstein

    To those who say, these are good stories…if you believe in ghosts, I say: You don’t have to believe in ghosts to believe these stories. All that you have to believe in are the powers of human observation, for these stories are eyewitness accounts of experiences at Gettysburg.

    Still there are those who doubt what I have written and collected from the percipients of the paranormal at Gettysburg.

    Scientists are great skeptics since paranormal experiences, they feel, cannot be recreated in a laboratory. I saw a recent TV special in which scientists had been shown photos and videos of paranormal events to watch on TVs in their labs. They proceeded to explain how easily the videos or photos could have been faked.

    I am not a scientist, but I know that if you want to find out if things are faked or not, the first thing you do is watch the experiment being done. The next thing you do is try to do the experiment yourself. Not one of the scientists pronouncing the fakes had ever been along when the videos were being made.

    I have. I have accompanied numerous paranormal investigators on forays into haunted houses, or cemeteries or battlefields. Intrigued, I purchased the equipment and have made videos and taken photos and asked questions in the silence of the darkened battlefield and have heard noises and voices recorded when there were none to be heard while recording. Nothing, I can say unequivocally, in my presence, was ever faked.

    You must realize that it is obviously not the ghosts fault that they cannot be explained scientifically. The ghost is merely evidence of something that our current definition of science is too narrow to explain. Because we cannot explain why something happened or repeat it in a lab does not mean it did not happen or was not observed. Perhaps it is science that needs to change to accommodate what is going on, like it did when Newton explained through mathematics about motion and gravity, or when Einstein’s theories forced science to expand even more to encompass the unseen interior world of the atom. Eminent scientific scholars once believed the universe revolved around the Earth too.

    The problem with science denying the existence of ghosts in spite of all the collected data, is that it fails to take in the future, the potential or the possibility that one day we may have an explanation for the sightings and experiences: it may come from a newly developed method or device; or perhaps from something—an offshoot—of paranormal studies, some pattern we haven’t noticed before because there wasn’t enough data.

    I mean, if you would have told someone just fifty years ago that sand would be doing our thinking for us in the 1980s and 1990s—our calculations, our writing, our editing, our printing—they would have considered the concept nonsense. And yet, that is just what is forming the letters I write now—sand— silicon—computer chips.

    We’re not at the end of our knowledge, so please do not sell us humans short. About reality and what exists, we haven’t yet scratched the surface.

    Another group of disbelievers are the historians, especially around Gettysburg, yet their motives are still unexplained. I consider myself an historian and admit that our own discipline is far from scientific, history being, as one wag once wrote, a pack of lies everyone agrees upon.

    But the concise definition of history is the collection of eyewitness accounts to an event in the past. It’s as simple as that. There’s no cut-off date; it can be as recent as ten minutes ago. Strictly speaking, history doesn’t even have to be eventful—doesn’t have to be the Battle of Waterloo—but can be something as simple as diary entries, which a number of historians now publish.

    The only real criterion is the veracity and the reliability of the eyewitness.

    The soldiers who fought in the battle were under tremendous personal stress: They could have been sent to their Maker at any second. So it can be forgiven if two soldiers, fighting in the same battle within yards of one another remembered differently the events that took place. Yet some historians are willing to take a soldier’s recollections of the events on the Gettysburg battlefield observed while under awful duress as more believable or cogent than the recollections of a family, safe in their own automobile, under no stress whatsoever, who happen to witness an unexplainable and possibly paranormal event.

    Finally, and perhaps the most vociferous of all doubters to the existence of ghosts are devout religious-types who claim they are demons sent by the devil to confuse us. Some quote scripture denying and warning about the existence of ghosts.

    And yet, in the Bible—and in other religions’ primary literature—there are found numerous references to life after death. Sixty percent of Americans believe in a final judgment, that is, a reckoning to a higher being after one is dead.

    You who are not a scientist, or historian, or particularly religious may view the sightings of ghosts with skepticism because you have never experienced one. Subscribing to that theory, however, means that Paris never existed until I personally visited it this past June.

    But collecting close to 400 stories of peoples’ paranormal experiences (and adding to those the 300 others Dr. Charles Emmons collected in China and in America) does two things.

    First, it puts the burden on skeptics: if it were one or two sightings we’ve collected, well, maybe our sources are suspect. But hundreds? Could they all be mistaken as to what they witnessed on the fields of carnage?

    Second, it gives us an opportunity to analyze data. Here’s what we know about whatever it is that people are experiencing here at Gettysburg and other places as well:

    — The subjects (aka ghosts) may represent some sort of energy because they give off cold and sometimes heat that can be felt by persons coming in contact with them or being near them.

    — The subjects reflect light and so must have some substance to them that is sometimes seen by the naked eye, but more often shows up in photographs. They may even generate their own light.

    — The subjects sometimes appear white, with a bluish core and tint; other colors, particularly red, red-orange, and gold are seen. Occasionally, the entire rainbow spectrum is displayed.

    — The subjects are in motion: they even rise, something cold air does not do on its own. They have been videotaped moving toward, away from, and perpendicular to the camera’s viewpoint.

    — The subjects have electromagnetic properties. Gauss meters—electromagnetic detectors—have been seen to spike when

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