A Ghost a Day by Maureen Wood

Author:Maureen Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: epub, ebook
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2010-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

JULY 1, 1863 THE PHANTOM SURGERY

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

If tragedy and blood-soaked land are a root cause of hauntings, then it only seems logical that locations like Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, would abound with paranormal phenomena. On July 1, 1863, the Civil War raged in Gettysburg. It lasted for three hellish days. By the end of the third day, it had left more than 51,000 casualties of wounded, maimed, and dying upon the fields. In the struggle to tend to the wounded, the dead had been left where they had fallen. But soon, the blistering sun would take its toll on the 7,000 dead. In fact, the smell of rotting corpses was so heinous, that the living could not leave the house without the aid of a scented handkerchief.

Many of Gettysburg's structures quickly became makeshift hospitals for the thousands of wounded, who, even under the best of circumstances, were forced to endure prolonged misery, witnessing piles of amputated limbs while they waited their turn for medical assistance.

Countless visitors to Gettysburg have seen the ghostly apparitions of soldiers walking through the mist-shrouded fields. And there is hardly a home or restaurant that doesn't have a ghost tale or two.

Mark Nesbitt, an authority on Gettysburg's hauntings, related one of the many stories he'd heard. One night, while two administrators from Gettysburg College rode an elevator from the fourth floor to the first, they unexpectedly ended up in the basement. When the doors opened, they had the shock of their lives. Before them lay the dead and dying. They stood frozen for a few seconds as they both watched blood-soaked surgeons frantically work on the countless soldiers littering the basement. In a panic, they pushed the button on the elevator, their horror only relieved at the closing of the elevator doors.

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