The Ghosts of Gettysburg
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The results of Diane Hill’s and my investigation of Gettysburg were
documented in a 60 minute DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg, which is
available for purchase on this website.
documented in a 60 minute DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg, which is
available for purchase on this website.
Photos shot at night on the battlefield
Photo by Joseph Flammer
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Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
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Crop from photo above
The Story of
Gettysburg
by Joseph Flammer
The story of Gettysburg is one of
catastrophic mass human annihilation.
Fifty-one thousand casualties were
recorded amid the farmlands of a small
Pennsylvania town named Gettysburg
over a three day period of fighting
between the North and the South in the
summer of 1863 during the Civil War.
The battlefield was knee-high with the
remains of human bodies and the corpses
of 5,000 horses. The local creek, which
was known afterwards as “Red Creek”,
on account of the blood that spilled into it
and turned it red, was dammed-up in the
heart of town by human bodies and body
parts following a rainstorm the day after
the battle concluded.
The Ghosts of
Gettysburg
Today the battlefield is a National
Military Park. In the heart of town is a
National Cemetery where many of the
unidentified bodies from the Battle of
Gettysburg were buried. President
Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous
Gettysburg Address in the cemetery
following the conclusion of the Civil War.
Everywhere on the roads are monuments,
statues and plaques commemorating the
events that took place during the terrible
three days of fighting at Gettysburg and
honoring the extraordinarily brave men
from both sides who fought in the battle.
These days - not even a full century and a
half after the battle - ghost hunters
photograph the images and record the
sounds of the battle on the battlefield as if
it's still happening.
Photographing orbs and misty images is
more common in Gettysburg than many
other places Diane and I have
photographed. Ghost hunters claim the
likelihood of photographing apparitions is
greater on the battlefield at Gettysburg
than many other places; but as far as
Diane and I could tell it's still a rarity.
Gettysburg
by Joseph Flammer
The story of Gettysburg is one of
catastrophic mass human annihilation.
Fifty-one thousand casualties were
recorded amid the farmlands of a small
Pennsylvania town named Gettysburg
over a three day period of fighting
between the North and the South in the
summer of 1863 during the Civil War.
The battlefield was knee-high with the
remains of human bodies and the corpses
of 5,000 horses. The local creek, which
was known afterwards as “Red Creek”,
on account of the blood that spilled into it
and turned it red, was dammed-up in the
heart of town by human bodies and body
parts following a rainstorm the day after
the battle concluded.
The Ghosts of
Gettysburg
Today the battlefield is a National
Military Park. In the heart of town is a
National Cemetery where many of the
unidentified bodies from the Battle of
Gettysburg were buried. President
Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous
Gettysburg Address in the cemetery
following the conclusion of the Civil War.
Everywhere on the roads are monuments,
statues and plaques commemorating the
events that took place during the terrible
three days of fighting at Gettysburg and
honoring the extraordinarily brave men
from both sides who fought in the battle.
These days - not even a full century and a
half after the battle - ghost hunters
photograph the images and record the
sounds of the battle on the battlefield as if
it's still happening.
Photographing orbs and misty images is
more common in Gettysburg than many
other places Diane and I have
photographed. Ghost hunters claim the
likelihood of photographing apparitions is
greater on the battlefield at Gettysburg
than many other places; but as far as
Diane and I could tell it's still a rarity.
Crop from picture above
The Battlefield Ghost Investigation
The Paranormal Adventurers
Investigate Gettysburg
It should be noted at this point that our experiences on the battlefield at night were of a truly paranormal
nature, in line with our growing experiences with the spirits. We have found that ghosts do not generally
appear out of the night and say, “Here I am, photograph and interview me.” Rather, the spirits seem to
rely on coincidences and playful paradoxes bordering on trickery to reveal their presence.
For us this took the form of strange events connected with Diane’s black 2005 Saturn VUE. We returned
from a hunt on the battlefield at night to find the passenger door wide open and the vehicle’s interior lights
on. In addition, I heard the very obvious thuds of footfalls of someone running away from the vehicle and
into the nearby woods. It sounded like a human running. Oddly enough, when I was fifteen I had once seen
a full-fledged ghost and it was running, too, making similar footfall sounds.
Nothing was missing from the car, however, and nothing had been disturbed.
The event with the vehicle was recorded on video and is on our DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg. The event
was recorded as it happened and was in no way staged or edited to try to make it look real.
Another event that was similarly documented in the DVD was the discovery that a camera bag I had been
carrying went missing, only later to be found inside the car under items on the floor, a place I would never
put an expensive SONY camera.
Diane and I photographed extraordinary images on the battlefield at night, unlike images we had ever
photographed before. These images are also recorded on the DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg. Some of the
photographs we shot at night on the battlefield are on exhibit at the bottom of this page.
Some of the photos we shot at night showed fogs and mists that we did not detect with our eyes, though we
did see mists in the form of our exhalations when the spirits were around us on the battlefield. The mists
that shot from our breaths coincided with a abrupt drop in temperature. These mysterious mists left us just
as quickly as they came.
Other photographs we took captured intricate lines of light that formed strange images, cartoonish shapes.
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Investigate Gettysburg
It should be noted at this point that our experiences on the battlefield at night were of a truly paranormal
nature, in line with our growing experiences with the spirits. We have found that ghosts do not generally
appear out of the night and say, “Here I am, photograph and interview me.” Rather, the spirits seem to
rely on coincidences and playful paradoxes bordering on trickery to reveal their presence.
For us this took the form of strange events connected with Diane’s black 2005 Saturn VUE. We returned
from a hunt on the battlefield at night to find the passenger door wide open and the vehicle’s interior lights
on. In addition, I heard the very obvious thuds of footfalls of someone running away from the vehicle and
into the nearby woods. It sounded like a human running. Oddly enough, when I was fifteen I had once seen
a full-fledged ghost and it was running, too, making similar footfall sounds.
Nothing was missing from the car, however, and nothing had been disturbed.
The event with the vehicle was recorded on video and is on our DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg. The event
was recorded as it happened and was in no way staged or edited to try to make it look real.
Another event that was similarly documented in the DVD was the discovery that a camera bag I had been
carrying went missing, only later to be found inside the car under items on the floor, a place I would never
put an expensive SONY camera.
Diane and I photographed extraordinary images on the battlefield at night, unlike images we had ever
photographed before. These images are also recorded on the DVD, The Ghosts of Gettysburg. Some of the
photographs we shot at night on the battlefield are on exhibit at the bottom of this page.
Some of the photos we shot at night showed fogs and mists that we did not detect with our eyes, though we
did see mists in the form of our exhalations when the spirits were around us on the battlefield. The mists
that shot from our breaths coincided with a abrupt drop in temperature. These mysterious mists left us just
as quickly as they came.
Other photographs we took captured intricate lines of light that formed strange images, cartoonish shapes.
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Photo by Joseph Flammer
The Gettysburg Photo Exhibit
Photo by Joseph Flammer
Photo by Joseph Flammer
