Ghosts of Gettysburg VI: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places on the Battlefield by Mark Nesbitt

Author:Mark Nesbitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, civil war, supernatural, haunted house, ghost stories, gettysburg, hauntings, haunted battlefields, haunted buildings, supernatural haunting ghost, ghost adventures, supernatural events, ghost guide, mark nesbitt, ghosts of gettysburg

Chain at the High Water Mark.

They got to a row of granite blocks—monuments to the individual companies of the 69th Pennsylvania—connected by massive black chains. For a while these had been removed from the battlefield and put in storage by the National Park Service, but, within the last ten years, had been resurrected and placed presumably in the same spots the veterans originally identified as their positions.

The chains hang separately between each granite post. As the three women approached, they realized that one of the huge chains was swinging. As they were alone in the area their first thought was that the wind had moved the chain so smoothly, almost, the woman wrote, “like a hand was guiding it.” But its sheer mass belied the fact: it would have taken a hurricane to move that chain.

One of the other women moved to another chain and touched it. Holding it in her hand for a few seconds, she suddenly jumped back, startling the others. “It’s vibrating,” she announced, and sent the rest of them running toward the car.

Halfway to the car they stopped and allowed reason and common sense to return. After all, this was just another field, just another stone wall and a few monuments, right? They decided to investigate their friend’s claim.

They returned to the chain that, by now, had stopped swinging. The author of the letter picked the chain up to see if the wind could actually make it swing, but it was far too heavy to be moved in any light breeze they had felt that warm summer night. She swung the chain to see if she could replicate the movement with the human hand. Of course, like any chain hung between two solid objects, when touched at a spot, it begins a wave-like motion. So it was with the chain she touched: a wave-like, “choppy” motion, far removed from the smooth, swinging motion the entire chain displayed when they first approached it. One person could not have moved the chain as it moved; it would have taken—well, there’s no other way to put it—an entire company of men to swing it like a solid piece of metal.

One other thing she noticed: in spite of the hot day, and still warm evening, and the fact that the metal was painted a heat-absorbing black, the chain, to her touch, was icy cold.

One final experience this woman and a friend had the next summer while walking the fields through which Pickett’s, Pettigrew’s, and Trimble’s men advanced on their march to mutual immolation, impressed her enough to write about it. It echoes an experience some reenactors had while acting the part of the fated men during the filming of the movie “Gettysburg.”

It was 1997 and a hot day. They walked out into the farm fields, shimmering with the heat, past the National Park Service orientation maps and audio stations, and out onto the ground to about where the Confederates first began to feel the mortal sting of Federal artillery. Up

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