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The question this episode has been building towards isn't whether
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Gettysburg is haunted, because oh my god, it is. And
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if you've made it this far, you already know the
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answer to that, or at least you know that something
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is happening there that defies easy dismissal. Why this place,
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why so consistently, why for so long? And why does
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it feel when you stand on it, stand on that
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ground like the earth itself is holding something it can't
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let go of.
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Broadcast truth in the minds of the beetle.
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Fifty thousand men fell in three days, and I patched
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a Pennsylvania farmlands smaller than most state parks. Now I
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say fell it was just casualties. It's not how many died.
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That was July eighteen sixty three. But here's what nobody expected.
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The dying didn't stop when the guns went quiet. For
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over one hundred and sixty years, visitors to Gettysburg have
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reported the same things. The crack of musket fire when
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no reenactments are scheduled, the smell of sulfur drifting through
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boulders where sharpshooters bled out in the summer heat, figures
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and torn uniforms who speak to tourists, hand them artifacts and
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then vanish into thin air. Cameras that were perfectly fine
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in the parking lot, but go dead the moment they
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step onto you step onto the rocks. I just walked
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to this ground with my family about a month ago,
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and I need to tell you something. I am not
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someone who sees apparitions or hears voices. That's never been
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how it works for me. But I am sensitive to energy.
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Many of you have heard these stories, right, and many
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of you already know that. So when I tell you
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that the entire Gettysburg battlefield carries a heaviness, right, it's
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a saturation that I have never felt anywhere else. I
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need you to understand that I'm not being dramatic. I'm
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being precise, and something is still alive on that ground.
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And by the end of this episode, you're going to
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understand what happened at three of the bloodiest sites on
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that battlefield and why the paranormal activity there is unlike
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anything else in this country. I mean, that might be true,
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but these rocks themselves might be part of the reason
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the dead can't rest. This is hollowed ground. Welcome back
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to broadcasting Seeds I'm your host, Benattan, and this is
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know how we do things. We start with history, We
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follow the evidence, and we lead you. We let you
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decide where the line is between what we can prove
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and what we can't expect. Plane And before we get
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into it, if this show has ever made you think,
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for us. It's you. It's always been you, and I
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don't take that for granted. Now, Gettysburg. I've researched haunted
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locations before on this show, but this one is different
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because it didn't just read about it. I stood on it.
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My family and I took a trip to Gettysburg, and
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I walked on Devil's Den. I walked in the wheat
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field and little on top with the full intention of
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feeling what that ground has to offer, not performing an
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investigation per se. I mean I wasn't running equipment, but
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being present and paying attention, and frankly, the battlefield delivered.
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But before we get into what's been seen and heard
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and felt at these three sites, you need to understand
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what happened there, because the paranormal activity at Gettysburg doesn't
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exist in a vacuum. It's tethered to specific ground, in
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specific hours, specific acts of violence that were so extreme
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they may have fundamentally altered the land itself. Okay, And
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July eighteen sixty three, the Civil War had been grinding
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for two years, FREEDERI General Roberty Lee, riding high after
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a string of victories in Virginia, made the decision to
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invade the North, and his goal was to win a
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decisive battle on Union soil, to break the North's will
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to fight and force a negotiated end to the war.
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He marched the Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania with
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nearly seventy five thousand men waiting for him, or seventy
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five thousand men waiting for him. Scrambling to assemble on
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unfamiliar ground was the Union Army, the Army of the
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Potomac under Major General George Meade, you had roughly ninety
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three thousand strong, and they collided at Gettysburg, almost frankly
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by accident, and what followed over the next three days
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became the bloodiest battle in American history. More than fifty
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thousand men were killed, wounded, captured, or went missing. Okay,
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the town of Gettysburg, for comparison, had a population of
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about twenty four hundred people. In seventy two hours, the
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number of casualties on their doorstip exceeded twenty times their
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entire population. But it was the second day, July second,
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that carved the deepest scars. And that's the day the
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three locations in this episode were soaked, I mean absolutely
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soaked in blood. Devil's Den, the wheat Field, and Little
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Roundtop all of them hit within the same afternoon, all
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of them part of Lee's massive assault on the Union
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left flank. All of them produced a kind of carnage
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that the men who I've struggled to put into words.
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And here's what makes Gettysburg different from almost any other
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haunted location in America. The paranormal reports didn't start decades later.
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They actually started the same night and Confederate soldiers ordered
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to guard Devil's Den on the night of July second,
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reported unnerving experiences among the boulders before the battle was
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even over, and the reports have never stopped. Not in
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the eighteen eighties, not in the nineteen thirties, and not
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in nineteen ninety three when the film crew encountered something
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on the little roundtop that left behind physical evidence, and
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not when I stood on those rocks last week and
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felt the weight of that place pressing against every nerve
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in my body. To take these three sites one at
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a time, we'll start in the rocks at Devil's Den,
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move to the blood soaked wheat of the George Roses farm,
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and finish on the hill where three hundred and fifty
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eight men from Maine saved the Union with a bayonet
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charge and something else that to this day nobody can
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fully explain. Let's get into it. When we talk about Gettysburg,
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we talk about the soldiers, We talk about pickets charge
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and Chamberlain's bayonet run and the fish Hook defensive line.
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We talk about fifty thousand casualties in three days, and
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we should, and we should. These men deserve to be remembered.
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But there's a part of this story that almost nobody tells.
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And if we're going to have an honest conversation about
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what happened to this land, about why it feels the
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way it feels, we can't leave it out. The men
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weren't the only ones who died at Gettysburg. Between three
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and five thousand horses and mules were killed during the
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three day battle. These weren't wild animals caught and crossfire.
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They were cavalry mounts and artillery teams and supply chain animals.
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They were essentially essential to both armies, which made them targets.
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And at the Troussel Field of Troussel Farm alone, the
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ninth Massachusetts Battery lost roughly eighty horses in a single
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engagement eighty one farm it one afternoon. And that's just
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the service animals. As Lee's army moved through Pennsylvania during
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the Gettysburg campaign, they seized and estimated forty five to
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fifty thousand head of cattle, around thirty five thousand sheep
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and thousands of hogs. Many were driven south to feed
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conate the Confederate war machine, but a significant number were
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butchered right there on the ground, on the farms and
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fields surrounding the town. Others were killed by stray shells
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and musket fire and simply left to starve when the
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farmers who owned them fled for their lives. So when
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the guns finally went silent on the evening of July third,
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here's what Gettysburg actually looked like. Okay, a town of
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twenty four hundred people buried under the weight of over
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fifty thousand human casualties and thousands upon thousands of dead animals.
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Horses with their legs blown off, still lying in harness,
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cattle rotting in pastures, and all of it baking in
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the July heat of a Pennsylvania summer. The cleanup was
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a freaking horror story in itself. I mean, horses average
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about a thousand pounds each, right, You can't easily dig
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a hole big enough for that. So the disposal crews
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did what they had to do. They chopped the legs
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off the carcasses to fit them into shallow pits, and
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when that wasn't practical, they dragged the bodies into massive
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piles and set them on fire, literally burning pires of
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horse flesh one after another across the battlefield. The smell
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of decay was replaced by the thick, choking stench of
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burning remains, reported that it didn't matter which way the
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wind blew, there was no escaping it. At the Lydia
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Leyster House, which had served as General Meads headquarters during
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the battle, dead horses contaminated the families well, their water
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supply gone. At Cemetery Hill, one of the key artillery positions,
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the ground was described as littered with horse carcasses. The
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stench was so severe that the smell of death was
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reported as far away as Frederick, Maryland. Guys, that's thirty
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two miles from Gettysburg. Let that sit with you for
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a second. Thirty two miles away. People could smell what
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had happened. And it wasn't just the smell. The decaying
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remains became, oh my god, a breathing grounds for what
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they called bith flies and mosquie. Those insects carried cholera,
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in dysentery, and typhoid, the same diseases that killed more
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Civil War soldiers than bullets ever did. The living horses
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that survived the battle were often infected with glanders, a
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highly contagious and fatal respiratory disease that could spread through
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the surviving animal population. If the carcasses weren't disposed of
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fast enough, okay, Local residents Sarah Broadhead wrote that the
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atmosphere was loaded with the stench and the misery of
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those conditions lasted for weeks, not days. Weeks. The town
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of Gettysburg didn't just witness a battle. It was buried
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under a biological aftermath of one of the largest mass
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casualty events in American history. Human bodies, animal carcasses, contaminated water,
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clouds of disease, cared insects, and the smoke of burning
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pires hanging over everything. And here's the detail that don't
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I don't think enough people sit with. In the aftermath,
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feral hogs were reported scavenging human remains on the battlefield,
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the dead, feeding on the dead. Now, if you're someone
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who believes that energy imprints on land, that violence and
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suffering leave a mark on the place where they occur,
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then you have to account for all of it, not
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just the soldiers. The horses that screamed as artillery tore
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through their bodies, the cattle that bled out, and fields
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they graze peacefully days before, on the town that choked
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on death for weeks after the army moved on. When
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we talk about about Gettysburg being haunted, we tend to
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just picture transluc soldiers walking through fog. But the reality
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of what soaked into that ground is far more total
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than that. Every living thing on that landscape was consumed
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by what happened in those three days. Can you imagine
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the blood that saturated the soil, Not just human, it
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was everything. And if the ground holds what happened bro
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it's holding all of it. There's a modern footnote to
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this that I think is worth mentioning. In March of
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twenty twenty six, the National Park Service confirmed the first
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case of chronic wasting disease in the white tailed deer
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population at Gettysburg National Military Park. It's a fatal neurological disease,
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but it requires strict herd management to prevent environmental contamination.
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A fatal disease of the brain showing up in animals
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living on that ground over one hundred and sixty years later.
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I'm not drawing a conclusion from that. I'm just telling
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you it's happening. Okay, Now that you understand the full
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scope of what Gettysburg absorbed, let's walk the ground where
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the worst of it happened, and we're we're going to
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start in a place that was considered dark and haunted
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long before the first shot was ever fired, and that's
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Devil's Den. There's a pile of boulders on the southern
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end of Hoax Fridge at Gettysburg, about five hundred yards
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west of the little roundtop that was that has has
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been unsettling people for a lot longer than the Civil War.
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Two hundred million years ago, molten rock forced its way
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up through the Earth's crust and cooled into a formation
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of dark, densely diabase stone, and over millennia, frost and
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erosion cracked and shifted those rocks into the jumbled, maize
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maze like terrain that you can walk through today. Boulders
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the size of a house, stacked and leaning against each other,
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creating crevices and overhangs and shadows that swallow light even
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on a clear afternoon. Now, the place had a reputation
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before a single soldier ever set foot on it, and
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throughout the early to mid eighteen hundred, local residents in
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the Gettysburg area believed that something lived in those rocks.
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The story was that a massive snake somewhere between eight
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to fifteen feet long, depending on who you was telling,
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It had made its home in the crevices between the boulders.
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The snake became locally known as the devil, and the
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place where it lived became Devil's Den. But the snake
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wasn't the only legend that attached itself to that ground.
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According to early accounts, the rock out cropping had served
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as a Native American hunting ground for centuries, and local
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oral tradition held that a bloody conflict known as the
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Battle of the Crows had been fought. There was significant
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loss of life. Arrowheads and tomahawk fragments were found among
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the boulders by early settlers, lending weight to the idea
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that it was contested and violent ground. Long before eighteen
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sixty three, and in eighteen eighty a Gettysburg writer named
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A Man Bushman published an article about what he called
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the many unnatural and supernatural sites, what he referred to
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as the Indian Fields now. Bushman wrote that early settlers
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had told stories of ghost scene among those rocks, that
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apparitions of Native American chiefs had been spotted wandering the
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area at dusk, that on certain nights, the sound of
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war whoops could still be heard echoing off the boulders. Now,
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people in their letters home have described Devil's Den as
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a desolate and ghostly place, which I would agree with.
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Well before the Civil War gave it a reason to be. So,
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here's where your first layer sits. Before a single bullet
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was fired, before a single soldier blood out between those rocks,
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Devil's Den was already considered a dark and haunted location.
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That matters because it raises a question that doesn't have
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a clean answer. Did the violence of July second, eighteen
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sixty three create what people experienced there now or did
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it just amplify something that was already present. Let's talk
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about what happened on that day. And on the afternoon
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of July second, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg,
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered Lieutenant General James Longstreet
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to launch a massive assault on the Union left flank.
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Longstreet's flank wait long Street's first Corps included the division
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of Major General John Bell Hood. Those brigades were tasked
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with taking the rocky ground to at Devil's Den and
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the surrounding area. Now Hoods men had already endured an
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exhaustive march to reach their attack positions on one of
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the hottest days of the summer. They were already tired, dehydrated,
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and about to walk into a meat grinder. On the
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Union side, Brigadier General J. Hobart Ward's Brigade held the
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line at Devil's Den and along Hoax Ridge. Ward had
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six regiments and two companies of sharpshooters about twenty four
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hundred men. Captain James Smith's fourth New York Independent Battery
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had four parrot rifles positioned on the crest of the
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ridge providing covering fire, and around four in the afternoon,
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hoods Den Vision launched the assault. Almost immediately, Hood himself
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was shot by shelf fragments that completely destroyed his arm.
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He never was a He never used it again, and
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command passed down the line in confusion as the attack
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pressed forward without clear leadership at the division level. Now,
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the terrain dictated the fighting, and the massive boulders at
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Devil's Den made it nearly impossible to maintain organized battle lines,
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so men fought in small clusters among the rocks, often
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unable to see friend or enemy until they were within
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arm's reach. The first Texas and third Arkansaw hit Ward's
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line head on through Rose Woods. The forty fourth and
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forty eighth Alabama pushed through Plumbridge Valley on the east side,
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and the fighting was close, chaotic, and just absolutely savage.
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After more than an hour of stand up combat at
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close range, the weight of the Confederate assault became too
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much and Ward's brigade was forced to retreat. Smith's battery
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came under fire from three sides, and the supporting infantry
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were taking catastrophic casualties, and the Confederates captured three of
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Smith's guns. The fortieth New York and sixth New Jersey
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were pulled from a nearby wheatfield to try to cover
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the retreat in an area that would earn the name
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to the Slaughter Pen, and by the end of the day,
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roughly fifty five hundred Confederate troops had overwhelmed twenty four
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hundred Union defenders. The casualty count was staggering eighteen hundred
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Confederate casualties, eight hundred Union twenty six hundred men killed, wounded,
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or missing in a single engagement in one single afternoon
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among a pile of rocks and then it got worse.
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After the fighting stopped. The dead weren't buried, not right away.
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They couldn't be. The bodies laid I mean everywhere, wedged
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between boulders, draped over rocks, tangled in crevasses that had
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given the dan its name. The summer heat did what
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it does, and then the photographers came. One of those photographers,
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Alexander Gardner, did something that added another layer of darkness
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to Devil's Den. He found the body of a dead
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Confederate soldier and moved it, dragged it from where the
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man had actually fallen, and repositioned it in the rocks,
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propped up behind a stone barricade with a rifle place nearby.
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He captioned the image of home of a Rebel sharpshooter
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and published it as an authentic battlefield scene. The same
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body was photographed multiple times in different locations. This soldier,
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tentatively identified in twenty eighteen as a man from Georgia,
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was manipulated in death for the sake of a compelling image.
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That detail has taken on a life of its own
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in the paranormal community. Okay, many investigated investigators believe that
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Gardner's desecration of this soldier's body is one of the
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reasoned spirits at Devil's Den are hostile towards cameras. No,
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whatever you think of that interpretation, the technology failures at
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Devil's Den are one of the most consistently reported phenomena
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on the entire battlefield. Visitors across decades, using everything from
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film cameras to modern smartphones, report the same thing. You
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walk onto the rocks with your device, it stops working.
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Cameras freeze phones, glitch, batteries drained instantly, Footage comes back
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corrupted or blank. And then you walk away from the den,
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back to your car, back to the road, and then
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everything works perfectly again. That pattern has been documented so
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many times by so many unrelated people that even skeptics
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acknowledge it exists, even if they attribute it to environmental
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factors rather than anything paranormal. And then there's the tattered man.
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This one is the most consistently described apparitions in American
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paranormal history. Visitors to Devil's Den across decades have independently
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report encountering the same figure. A man with long, dirty hair,
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ragged clothing, no shoes, a floppy brimmed hat. He appears
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behind people, sometimes startling them, and either points them in
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a direction or speaks briefly briefly before vanishing. In the
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early nineteen seventies, a woman walked into the National Park
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Service Information Center and told a ranger she'd been photographing
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the rocks at sunrise when she felt someone behind her.
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She turned around and found a man matching that exact description.
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He told her what you are looking for is over
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there and pointed behind her, and then was gone. Years later,
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at a book signing, paranormal researcher and former park ranger
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Mark Nesbitt, who I interviewed for this podcast, heard and
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an almost identical account from a different woman. This time,
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the figure pointed at her University of Texas sweatshirt and
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said first Texas before disappearing. Nazabet Re recognized the significance immediately,
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and the description these women gave independently and years apart,
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matched exactly what a Confederate soldier from Hood's Texas Brigade
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would have probably looked like during the battle. Barefoot, ragged,
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long haired, the kind of appearance you wouldn't know to
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describe unless you studied the specific unit There's also the
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account of a young woman climbing the boulders who felt
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a hand grab her ankle from a darkened crevice below.
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When she looked down, she saw a young man in
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a Civil War uniform reaching up from between the rocks.
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She screamed for her friend, looked back, and he was gone.
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Here's what I find most interesting about the Devil's Den
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encounters is that these aren't residual hauntings. The tattered Man
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doesn't walk the same path on a loop. He doesn't
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replay a moment from the battle. He interacts, He speaks,
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He responds to what the living person is wearing, doing,
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or looking for. That's intelligent behavior, that's awareness, and whatever
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is that Devil's Den, at least some of it knows
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you're there. I stood among those rocks with my family,
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and I didn't see the tattered Man, and I didn't
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hear phantom gunfire. But I can tell you that I
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felt it. I felt something. The heaviness at Devil's Den
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is distinct, even compared to the general saturation across the
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rest of that battlefield. It's just denser, man more concentrated
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and standing there knowing the geology of the two hundred
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million year old diabase boulders. Knowing the pre war legend,
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knowing what happened on July second, and what was done
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to the dead afterward, I understood something I couldn't have
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understood from behind a desk. This place was never just
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a battlefield. It was something before, and it became something
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more afterward, and whatever it is now, it's not finished.
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About four hundred yards north of Devil's Den there was
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a farm owned by a man named George Rose, and
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on that farm sat nineteen acres of wheat, just wheat,
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a small, unremarkable patch of grain growing in the Pennsylvania summer,
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bordered by woods to the south and a stone wall
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on the eastern edge, the kind of place you drive
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past without a second thought. And on the afternoon of
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July second, eighteen sixty three, over twenty thousand men from
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both armors were fed into those nineteen acres. By the
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time the fighting stopped, the wheat was gone, trampled flat,
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soaked through, and buried under the bodies of more than
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four thousand dead and wounded soldiers, and the wheat field
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changed hands six times in a matter of hours. Think
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about that for a moment. Six times. Control of this
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one small piece of ground shifted back and forth between
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the Union and Confederate forces. Men charged across it, they
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took it or pushed back, watched their friends die holding it,
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and then were ordered to take it again and again
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and again. The soldiers who survived later compared the fighting
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to a whirlpool, advancing and retreating bands of men streaming
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over the landscape, falling, flowing like water across what was
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left of the wheat. There was no stable frontline, there
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was no clear objective being held. It was just absolute
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chaos distilled into acreage. And the fighting began around four
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point thirty in the afternoon, when a Georgia brigade under
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Brigadier General George Anderson swept through the woods south of
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the field and slammed into Union Brigadier General Regis Day
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Trobion's regiments dug in behind the stone wall on the
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southern edge. These men were outnumbered, but they held for
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nearly an hour until the seventeenth main ran completely dry
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on ammunition and was forced to pull back. Anderson's Confederates
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surged across the field in pursuit, but Union General Davis
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Berney ordered an immediate about face and led a desperate
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bay in that charge that stopped the Confederates advance. And
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it's just in its tracks. And that's just the first exchange.
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As afternoon ground on the situation compounded, Confederate reinforcements kept arriving.
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In Georgia. Regiments under General Paul Seems moved up to
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support Anderson. Seems was mortally wounded deploying his men along
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a small stream and the Union side. General John Caldwell's
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division was sent from Cemetery Ridge to shore up the line,
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and his brigades pushed into the wheat Field and temporarily
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reclaimed it. Colonel Edward Cross was killed leading his old
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New Hampshire regiment along the stone Wall. General Samuel Zuck
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was shot from his horse leading his brigade forward and
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died at a field hospital the next day. Patrick Kelly
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led the famous Irish brigade into the fight on Stony Hill.
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Every time, once I gained the foothold, the other threw
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more men at it and the Confederates and gaged six
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fall brigades. The Union committed thirteen smaller ones, and the
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wheatfield became a funeral or a funnel for human beings,
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and it was chewing through them at a rate that
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defied comprehension. When the Union position and at the nearby
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Peach Orchard collapsed around six in the evening, the wheat
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field became untenable. Confederate brigades pushed eastward with their units
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jumbled together, exhausted from hours of combat in the summer heat,
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and they advanced all the way to the northern shoulder
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of a little roundtop before running into a counter attack
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from Pennsylvania's reserves under Brigadier General Samuel Crawford. Now Crawford's
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men drove the spent Confederates back beyond the wheat field,
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and the fighting finally ground to a halt. The feel
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the field fell silent, But silent is a generous word, man.
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What it actually became was still, and the shooting stopped
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and the charges stopped. What was left was nineteen acres
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of Pennsylvania farmland, incarpeted with dead and dying. Out of
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the twenty thousand and forty four hundred and forty four
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men engaged in and around the wheat field, approximately six thousand,
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one hundred became casualties. I mean, guys, that's a thirty
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percent casualty rate across all units involved. Some individual units
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fared far worst. I mean, the first Minnesota infantry committed
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to hold back to Confederate tide on Cemetery Ridge at
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as the wheat field collapsed, suffered eighty two percent casualties
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in a single charge of two hundred and sixty two men,
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only forty seven walked away. The scale of what happened
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in that little space and that compressed window of time
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is hard to process. Change is of possession. Four generals
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killed or mortally wounded in and around the field, thousands
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of men dead or broken in an area you could
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walk across in five minutes. Okay, And when it was over,
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the once chaotic and blood soilked wheat Field fell into
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what one account described to as an eerie calm for
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the remainder of the battle. Now, that eerie calm, according
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to the people who visit the wheat Field today, never
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fully lifted. Oh Man, I can tell you that the
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paranormal activity reported at the wheat Field is fundamentally different
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from what people experience at Devil's Den. At the Den,
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you get individuals, the tattered man, the hand reaching from
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the crevice, a single figure interacting with single person. Those
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are personal encounters. At the wheat field, what people report
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is larger, a more atmospheric, less like meeting someone, and
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more like walking into a memory that the land is
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still playing backward. Visitors describe a non anomaloust mists and
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fogs rolling over the field, sometimes on clear days with
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no meteorological explanation, and within those mysts, some have reported
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seeing the shapes of soldiers, not sharp defined apparitions like
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the tattered man. Those. These are dimmer, more like impressions,
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formations of men moving through haze, charging, falling, reforming. The
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fog itself seems to carry the battle. Audio phenomenon are
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heavily reported. Paranormal investigators have captured VP recordings that include
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sounds of yelling and whispering and screaming. Visitors who aren't
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running any equipment at all have reported hearing cannons, horses galloping,
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and the distinct crack of rifle fire when the field
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is otherwise completely quiet and no reenactments are scheduled. These
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sounds have been reported not just in recent years, but
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going back well over a century, and the guns have
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never fall be gone silent at this place. The physical
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sensations people describe are also distinct, intense, heavy, negative energy.
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Man I felt it a sense of being watched from
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multiple directions at once, unexplained cold spots that appear and
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vanish without any change in weather. Some describe a feeling
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of pressure, as though the air itself is thicker in
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certain parts of the field. Then there are the lights.
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Moral visitors have reported seeing large blowing orbs hovering near
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the tree line, often described as resembling lanterns, and these
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lights appear drift and extinguished without explanation. Glowing lights near
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areas of mass death is not a phenomenon unique to Gettysburg.
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It appears in folklore and first hand accounts across cultures
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and centuries. But at the Wheat Field, with the history
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of what happened there, the image of lights drifting along
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a tree line where thousands of men fought and died
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carries a weight that's hard to dismiss, and just like
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Devil's den. Cameras and electronic devices have been documented as
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failing at the wheat Field, Phones, footage, corrupted photos come
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back showing mists and shapes that weren't visible to the
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naked eye. Here's what I think is worth sitting with
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about the wheat field. If Devil's Den shows us what
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happens when individual trauma is intense enough to leave a
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conscious presence behind, the wheat field might be showing us
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something else entirely. This isn't one soldier lingering at his post.
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This is an event so massive, so compressed, and so
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violent that the location itself seems to be replying it.
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Over twenty thousand men surging back and forth across the
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nineteen acres six times in a few hours, generating a
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concentration of suffering that may have exceeded what any landscape51200:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.320
can simply absorb and release. The soldiers who fought there51300:42:49.440 --> 00:42:54.000
didn't know it if they were winning or losing. I mean,51400:42:54.039 --> 00:42:59.119
they didn't know if their death would have would mean anything.51500:43:00.159 --> 00:43:02.639
And the ground changed hands so many times that dying51600:43:02.719 --> 00:43:07.360
for it felt almost meaningless in the moment. And if51700:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.679
we're exploring the idea that unresolved energies linger, that's about51800:43:12.679 --> 00:43:16.480
as unresolved as it gets. Man men who died holding51900:43:16.559 --> 00:43:21.480
ground that was lost twenty minutes later, retaken an hour52000:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.920
after that, and lost again before sunset. The wheat field52100:43:26.000 --> 00:43:30.679
may not have ghosts in the traditional sense. What it52200:43:30.760 --> 00:43:35.079
may have is something closer to a wound that just52300:43:35.159 --> 00:43:43.280
never closed, a place where the sheer volume of concentrated52400:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.280
agony pressed so deep into the earth that the earth52500:43:46.360 --> 00:43:52.079
keeps bleeding it back out in fog and sound and52600:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.480
light and a heaviness that visitors feel the moment they52700:43:55.599 --> 00:44:01.000
step onto that field. And we haven't even got to52800:44:01.079 --> 00:44:06.519
the hill where something showed up that shouldn't have been possible.52900:44:23.440 --> 00:44:26.239
If Devil's Den is where the darkness concentrates, and the53000:44:26.239 --> 00:44:29.519
wheat Field is where the ground replays its worst memories,53100:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.280
then Little Roundtop is something else. Entirely. This is where53200:44:34.440 --> 00:44:38.760
the story breaks its frankly breaks its own rules, and53300:44:38.880 --> 00:44:43.280
Little Roundtop sits just east of Devil's Den, a rocky53400:44:43.360 --> 00:44:48.159
hill of the same two hundred million year old die53500:44:48.239 --> 00:44:52.360
Base Dia Base formation, rising about six hundred and fifty53600:44:52.360 --> 00:44:56.000
feet above sea level. It's the smaller companion to Big53700:44:56.079 --> 00:45:01.000
Roundtop to the south, and from its crass you can53800:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.960
see the surrounding battlefield for miles in every direction on53900:45:06.000 --> 00:45:10.920
a tactical map. It's obvious whoever holds that hill controls54000:45:11.000 --> 00:45:15.519
the Union left flank lose it, and the entire Army54100:45:15.559 --> 00:45:20.320
of the Potomac could be rolled up from the side. Now,54200:45:20.960 --> 00:45:24.079
on the morning of July second, eighteen sixty three, it54300:45:24.199 --> 00:45:31.840
was empty. Nobody was defending it. The fact almost changed54400:45:31.880 --> 00:45:36.280
the outcome of the war, and Union General Governor K. Warren,54500:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.280
the chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac, rode54600:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.840
to a Little Roundtop that afternoon on a reconnaissance check54700:45:44.320 --> 00:45:50.239
and realized with what must have been just sickening jolt54800:45:50.280 --> 00:45:56.079
of horror, that the hill was unoccupied. Confederate forces were54900:45:56.119 --> 00:46:02.000
already moving into position, and if they took if they55000:46:02.039 --> 00:46:06.159
took that hill before anyone arrived, the entire Union line55100:46:06.360 --> 00:46:12.280
would collapse. Now, Warren sent urgent messages calling for reinforcements,55200:46:12.719 --> 00:46:17.159
and Colonel Strong Vincent received the call and made a decision.55300:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.079
Without waiting for orders. He marched his brigade to Little55400:46:21.119 --> 00:46:26.679
Roundtop and positioned four regiments along the southern and western slopes,55500:46:27.719 --> 00:46:33.320
the sixteenth Michigan on the western face, then counterclockwise, the55600:46:33.360 --> 00:46:37.000
forty fourth New York, the eighty third Pennsylvania, and finally,55700:46:37.360 --> 00:46:41.679
at the very end of the line on the southern slope,55800:46:42.239 --> 00:46:48.119
the twentieth Main Volunteer Infantry under Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.55900:46:49.800 --> 00:46:54.880
Vincent told Chamberlain to hold his position at all costs.56000:46:55.599 --> 00:46:59.440
Those weren't words of encouragement. That was a freaking order,56100:47:00.039 --> 00:47:05.079
and Chamberlain had roughly three hundred and fifty eight men56200:47:05.119 --> 00:47:10.599
were the extreme left flank of the entire army. If56300:47:10.639 --> 00:47:15.199
they broke, there was nothing behind them. They had about56400:47:15.199 --> 00:47:19.199
ten minutes to set up before the Confederates arrived. The56500:47:19.280 --> 00:47:24.440
attacking force was the Alabama Brigade of Hood's Division, primarily56600:47:25.119 --> 00:47:30.400
the fifteenth and forty seventh Alabama under Colonel William Oates.56700:47:31.480 --> 00:47:38.079
These were experienced, aggressive soldiers who had marched hard through56800:47:38.119 --> 00:47:41.360
the heat and fought their way past Big Roundtop to56900:47:41.400 --> 00:47:45.920
reach Chamberlain's position. They outnumbered the twentieth Main, and they57000:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.920
knew what taking that hill would mean now. What followed57100:47:52.000 --> 00:47:57.239
was ninety minutes of fighting that has been studied and57200:47:57.360 --> 00:48:04.360
written about and dramatized more than almost any other engagement57300:48:04.400 --> 00:48:08.880
in the of the Civil War. The Alabama's launched charge57400:48:09.280 --> 00:48:14.480
after charge up the rocky slope. Chamberlain's men fired from57500:48:14.480 --> 00:48:21.199
behind boulders and trees, taking casualties with every exchange. The57600:48:21.239 --> 00:48:26.199
fighting straight up at times devolved to hand to hand combat,57700:48:26.599 --> 00:48:31.079
men clubbing each other with rifle butts and grappling between57800:48:31.119 --> 00:48:35.199
the rocks. And Chamberlain saw the Confederates working around his57900:48:35.360 --> 00:48:39.079
left flank and stretched his line thinner to cover the gap,58000:48:39.519 --> 00:48:44.199
eventually or ordering the southern half of his regiment to58100:48:44.320 --> 00:48:48.440
swing back and refuse the line, forming an angle to58200:48:48.519 --> 00:48:56.159
prevent being outflanked. Parts of his line were now single58300:48:56.199 --> 00:49:04.639
file troops. Charges were repulsed, but the twentieth Main was58400:49:04.719 --> 00:49:08.320
being ground down man straight up. A third of the58500:49:08.360 --> 00:49:12.559
regiment was already was already gone, killed or injured, and58600:49:12.599 --> 00:49:17.079
they were almost out of ammunition. This is the moment58700:49:17.280 --> 00:49:22.519
that enters legend okay, and Chamberlain knew his men couldn't58800:49:22.719 --> 00:49:30.199
withstand another charge, not with empty rifles. Retreating was not58900:49:30.320 --> 00:49:36.280
an option, and Vincent's order had been explicit hold at59000:49:36.320 --> 00:49:42.079
all costs. So Chamberlain made the decision that military historians59100:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.320
have debated for over one hundred and sixty years. He59200:49:45.519 --> 00:49:49.719
ordered his men to fix bayonets and the twentieth Main59300:49:49.840 --> 00:49:54.920
charge downhill into the Confederate line. It wasn't a coordinated,59400:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.079
textbook maneuver. It was closer to a desperate act of59500:49:59.320 --> 00:50:07.159
calculated insanity, frankly exhausted men with empty weapons running screaming59600:50:07.800 --> 00:50:11.880
down a rocky slope into a forest that outnumbered them.59700:50:12.440 --> 00:50:16.559
But the Alabamans, who had just spent ninety minutes clawing59800:50:16.599 --> 00:50:20.840
their way up hill and were spent themselves, didn't expect it,59900:50:21.360 --> 00:50:25.679
and the shock broke their momentum. And at that exact moment,60000:50:26.280 --> 00:50:31.880
Captain Walter Morrill's company, b, positioned behind a stone wall60100:50:31.880 --> 00:50:35.280
one hundred and fifty yards to the east, opened fire60200:50:35.360 --> 00:50:39.440
on the Confederate right flank from a position that Alabamas60300:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.679
hadn't known existed. Colonel Oates later said it made him60400:50:45.719 --> 00:50:51.079
believe two full Union regiments were moving to surround him,60500:50:51.519 --> 00:50:56.280
and the Confederates broke the twentieth Main swept down the hill,60600:50:56.920 --> 00:51:00.679
capturing dozens of prisoners and securing the Union left flank60700:51:00.719 --> 00:51:05.920
for the remainder of the battle. Strong Vincent was mortally60800:51:05.920 --> 00:51:11.000
wounded during the fighting and died five days later. Chamberlain60900:51:11.079 --> 00:51:14.920
eventually received the Medal of Honor, and Little Roundtop became61000:51:15.079 --> 00:51:18.880
one of the most celebrated pieces of ground in American61100:51:18.920 --> 00:51:24.000
military history. But here's where Gettysburg's story crosses a line61200:51:24.039 --> 00:51:29.440
that history alone can't explain Okay, the very first ghost61300:51:29.440 --> 00:51:33.360
story directly connected to the Battle of Gettysburg didn't happen61400:51:33.440 --> 00:51:37.480
weeks or years after the fighting. It happened the night61500:51:37.559 --> 00:51:42.760
before Little Roundtop, on the night of July first, stretching61600:51:42.800 --> 00:51:46.880
into the hours of July second, eighteen sixty three, the61700:51:47.079 --> 00:51:52.840
Union Army's Fifth Corps was marching into Gettysburg, and according61800:51:52.920 --> 00:51:58.679
to multiple soldier accounts documented by researcher Mark Nesbitt, who61900:51:58.679 --> 00:52:03.960
we've had on the podcast, the column spotted a mysterious62000:52:03.960 --> 00:52:08.400
horseman ahead of them in the darkness, and the figure62100:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.519
would appear and then disappear. But soldiers who got close62200:52:12.639 --> 00:52:15.639
enough to make out details described a man in a62300:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.679
uniform that didn't belong to their era. He wore the62400:52:19.679 --> 00:52:24.800
blue and buff of the Continental Army, a tricorn hat,62500:52:25.199 --> 00:52:28.880
He sat atop a horse, and carried himself with a62600:52:28.920 --> 00:52:34.360
bearing that soldiers describe as tall, composed and commanding. Many62700:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.920
in the column came to the same conclusion. They believed62800:52:38.079 --> 00:52:41.960
they were looking at the ghost of George Washington. And62900:52:42.039 --> 00:52:46.079
before you decide what to do with that, consider the context.63000:52:46.400 --> 00:52:51.519
This wasn't a ghost story told at campfires. Fifty years later.63100:52:51.840 --> 00:52:55.039
These were accounts from soldiers in the field that day63200:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.639
during active movement toward a battle that hadn't begun, and63300:53:00.719 --> 00:53:04.320
the fifth Corps was marching to reinforce the Union position.63400:53:05.039 --> 00:53:09.920
They were headed towards the ground that would include Little Roundtop,63500:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.119
and according to the man the men who were there,63600:53:16.000 --> 00:53:20.639
something in a Revolutionary War uniform was out ahead of them,63700:53:20.719 --> 00:53:28.519
appearing and vanishing in the darkness, seemingly guiding them towards Gettysburg.63800:53:28.800 --> 00:53:33.480
To the twentieth Main reported encountering this figure at a63900:53:33.599 --> 00:53:36.760
fork in the road when they were unsure which direction64000:53:36.960 --> 00:53:42.639
to take. It's just wild. A mounted rider appeared, waved64100:53:42.679 --> 00:53:47.719
them in the correct direction, and led them forward. The64200:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.199
soldiers initially assumed he was a Union general, but his64300:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.559
appearance didn't match anyone in their command structure, and that64400:53:55.760 --> 00:53:59.960
the uniform was wrong, too old, and there was something64500:54:00.079 --> 00:54:04.360
about the figure that seemed that some described as an64600:54:04.480 --> 00:54:08.840
eerie glow even in the darkness. When the writer vanished64700:54:08.880 --> 00:54:12.719
without a word, the men who'd been close enough to64800:54:12.840 --> 00:54:18.360
him see his face and began saying what they were64900:54:18.360 --> 00:54:23.800
already thinking. He looked like George Washington. Colonel Chamberlain himself,65000:54:24.559 --> 00:54:28.079
in his postwar writings, addressed the story with a careful65100:54:28.159 --> 00:54:34.000
but telling line. He wrote, who shall say that Washington65200:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.159
was not among the number of those who aided the65300:54:37.199 --> 00:54:42.239
country that he founded. That's not a denial, that's not65400:54:42.360 --> 00:54:46.079
a confirmation. Though. That's a man who led one of65500:54:46.119 --> 00:54:51.039
the most famous charges in American history, acknowledging in his65600:54:51.119 --> 00:54:55.360
own measured way that something was present at Gettysburg he65700:54:55.440 --> 00:55:01.760
couldn't easily categorize. And here's what pushes this beyond standard65800:55:01.800 --> 00:55:08.400
ghost lore. George Washington died in seventeen ninety nine. He65900:55:08.519 --> 00:55:11.760
had no connection to Gettysburg, and he wasn't a spirit66000:55:11.840 --> 00:55:15.320
tied to the land where he fell like a tattered66100:55:15.360 --> 00:55:18.760
man at Devil's Den. He wasn't a residual imprint of66200:55:18.840 --> 00:55:23.280
trauma like the phantom battles in the Wheatfield Nest. If66300:55:24.079 --> 00:55:28.119
the accounts were taken at face value, what appeared to66400:55:28.199 --> 00:55:31.440
the Fifth Corps and to the twentieth Main was something66500:55:32.039 --> 00:55:37.599
that chose to be there, something that intervened at a tactical,66600:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.880
tactically critical moment in the preservation of the nation Washington66700:55:42.960 --> 00:55:48.159
himself had built. Now, whether you interpret that through a66800:55:48.440 --> 00:55:52.719
paranormal lens, a spiritual one, or file it under battlefield66900:55:52.840 --> 00:55:58.239
legend amplified by exhaustion and fear. The Washington apparition sits67000:55:58.920 --> 00:56:04.119
in a fundamentally different category than anything else at Gettysburg.67100:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.840
It suggests that whatever is happening on that ground isn't67200:56:08.920 --> 00:56:13.800
limited to the dead replaying their deaths. Something else may67300:56:13.840 --> 00:56:20.199
have had a stake in the outcome. Now fast forward67400:56:20.239 --> 00:56:23.320
one hundred and thirty years, and in nineteen ninety three,67500:56:23.400 --> 00:56:28.400
the movie Gettysburg Being was being filmed on the actual battlefield,67600:56:28.679 --> 00:56:33.320
and thousands of Civil War reenactors served as extras, and67700:56:33.400 --> 00:56:39.159
during breaks they wandered the grounds in costume. One evening,67800:56:40.000 --> 00:56:46.360
near sunset, a group of extras portraying Union soldiers hiked67900:56:46.440 --> 00:56:48.760
up to the top of Little Roundtop to watch the68000:56:48.880 --> 00:56:53.679
light fade. Then heard rustling in the trees, and then68100:56:53.880 --> 00:56:59.280
a figure stepped out. He was old, haggard, and filthy.68200:56:59.599 --> 00:57:03.800
He the uniform of a Union private that had been68300:57:03.880 --> 00:57:09.280
torn and scorched, and he reeked of sulfur, the key68400:57:09.480 --> 00:57:14.719
ingredient in blackpowder used in Civil War firearms. The extras68500:57:14.760 --> 00:57:18.480
assumed he was another member of the production, maybe a68600:57:18.519 --> 00:57:21.559
method actor. Who'd committed a little too hard to the68700:57:21.679 --> 00:57:27.320
role and man. The man looked at them and spoke,68800:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.840
rough one today, hey boys. Then he extended his hand68900:57:31.880 --> 00:57:36.840
and passed over a handful of musket rounds. The extras69000:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.039
examined the rounds and something about them didn't look right.69100:57:41.079 --> 00:57:44.599
They didn't look like the blanks or props used in69200:57:44.639 --> 00:57:48.480
the film, and when the men looked up to ask69300:57:48.519 --> 00:57:54.320
the soldier about them, he was gone. Not walking away,69400:57:55.280 --> 00:58:00.360
just gone. They brought the ammunition to the film's problem master,69500:58:00.440 --> 00:58:04.360
who confirmed immediately that the rounds had not come from69600:58:04.440 --> 00:58:10.639
the production. They were examined more closely and authenticated, authenticated69700:58:11.079 --> 00:58:16.400
as genuine Civil War era musket rounds, original ammunition, one69800:58:16.519 --> 00:58:20.840
hundred and thirty years old in pristine condition, handed to69900:58:20.880 --> 00:58:23.280
a group of men on the exact ground where the70000:58:23.280 --> 00:58:26.960
battle had been fought by a figure who smelled of70100:58:27.000 --> 00:58:31.280
gunpowder and spoke as though the fighting had just ended.70200:58:33.480 --> 00:58:38.920
That that account encounter stands apart from nearly everything else70300:58:39.000 --> 00:58:43.599
at Gettysburg for one reason, there was physical evidence. The70400:58:43.639 --> 00:58:47.920
tattered man at Devil's Den speaks and vanishes. The mists70500:58:48.000 --> 00:58:51.679
at the weadfields carry sound and shape, but the little Roundtop,70600:58:52.320 --> 00:58:57.320
something left an object behind, something crossed that line between70700:58:57.639 --> 00:59:02.840
seen and unseen, and placed authenticated civil war ammunition into70800:59:02.920 --> 00:59:06.360
the hands of living people. I'll let you decide what70900:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.440
that means, but I'll tell you what I felt standing71000:59:11.599 --> 00:59:16.480
on that hill. Little Roundtop and Devil's Den are connected,71100:59:17.039 --> 00:59:21.840
not just geographically with the Valley of Death running between them,71200:59:22.000 --> 00:59:28.199
because oh my god, but energetically. They're both dense concentrations71300:59:28.239 --> 00:59:33.760
of that same ancient rock. Both locations carry a heaviness71400:59:34.480 --> 00:59:40.000
that is palatable, and for me personally, they hit harder71500:59:40.039 --> 00:59:44.199
than anywhere else on the battlefield. I've said that before71600:59:44.679 --> 00:59:47.920
that I don't see apparitions and I don't hear voices,71700:59:48.480 --> 00:59:53.840
but what I do. What I do is feel shifts71800:59:53.840 --> 00:59:57.159
and energy, and I've been transparent about that from the71900:59:57.199 --> 01:00:02.480
beginning on this show. And around top, what I felt72001:00:02.519 --> 01:00:09.519
was intensity, not dread like some people described, but not72101:00:10.119 --> 01:00:18.119
really sadness right, intensity like the ground was still holding72201:00:18.159 --> 01:00:24.320
its breath, like whatever happened there in those ninety minutes72301:00:24.639 --> 01:00:29.360
when Chamberlain's men held the line and then broke every72401:00:29.480 --> 01:00:34.679
rule for self reservation by charging downhill with bayonets and72501:00:34.719 --> 01:00:41.719
empty rifles. That energy is still there, like coiled onto72601:00:41.760 --> 01:00:46.840
the rock and still loaded, still waiting. I think Little72701:00:46.880 --> 01:00:51.199
Roundtop sits on something, whether you call it a lay72801:00:51.239 --> 01:00:57.000
line or a power point, or just a geographically significant72901:00:57.039 --> 01:01:01.840
concentration of minerally dense rock that interacts with energy in73001:01:01.880 --> 01:01:05.400
ways that we don't that I don't think we fully73101:01:05.480 --> 01:01:11.039
understand something about that. He'll amplifies what's there, and the73201:01:11.079 --> 01:01:18.320
diabase formation, the courts content, the elevation, the convergence of73301:01:18.559 --> 01:01:23.880
such so much violence into such a compressed space and73401:01:23.960 --> 01:01:29.199
time man at all compounds. There's one more story I73501:01:29.239 --> 01:01:33.079
want to leave you with before we pull everything together,73601:01:34.519 --> 01:01:37.519
and that's visitors still at the round Top have reported73701:01:37.599 --> 01:01:41.880
for years hearing the sound of a drum at the summit.73801:01:42.719 --> 01:01:45.199
Some I've seen the apparition of a young boy in73901:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.599
the Union uniform playing a drum, moving along the crest74001:01:50.119 --> 01:01:53.960
as those searching for something now. His name, according to74101:01:54.039 --> 01:01:58.280
the accounts, is Gideon, a drummer boy who died during74201:01:58.320 --> 01:02:02.079
the battle and who, ing to the people who encountered him,74301:02:02.679 --> 01:02:09.800
is still looking for his regiment, a child still searching74401:02:09.840 --> 01:02:13.199
for the men he marched with, still drumming on a74501:02:13.320 --> 01:02:18.199
hill where three hundred and fifty eight farmers and fishermen74601:02:18.840 --> 01:02:24.360
from Maine held the line against an army. If that74701:02:24.400 --> 01:02:37.480
doesn't sit heavy with you, man, I don't know what will. Okay,74801:02:37.719 --> 01:02:46.239
we've walked three sites now, Devil's Den were something ancient74901:02:46.320 --> 01:02:50.880
and something violent overlap in a maze of boulders that75001:02:51.000 --> 01:02:56.840
have been unsettling people for centuries. Then you have the75101:02:56.840 --> 01:03:00.079
Wheat Field, where the land itself seems to replay the75201:03:00.119 --> 01:03:03.679
worst hours of its existence on a loop that hasn't75301:03:03.719 --> 01:03:07.960
stopped in over one hundred and sixty years. And then75401:03:08.039 --> 01:03:13.559
little Roundtop, where the encounters don't follow the rules, where75501:03:13.639 --> 01:03:17.199
physical evidence has crossed the line between the dead and75601:03:17.239 --> 01:03:21.280
the living, and where something that looked like George Washington75701:03:21.840 --> 01:03:27.039
may have intervened in the fate of a nation. Three locations,75801:03:27.360 --> 01:03:34.360
three distinct profiles of paranormal activity, but one shared piece75901:03:34.400 --> 01:03:42.000
of ground. So the question this episode has been building76001:03:42.079 --> 01:03:46.199
towards isn't whether Gettysburg is haunted, because oh my god,76101:03:46.320 --> 01:03:50.400
it is. And if you've made it this far, you76201:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.840
already know the answer to that, or at least you76301:03:53.960 --> 01:04:02.000
know that something is happening there there that defie easy dismissal. Right,76401:04:02.639 --> 01:04:06.800
And the question is why, why this place, why so consistently,76501:04:07.960 --> 01:04:11.480
why for so long? And why does it feel when76601:04:11.519 --> 01:04:15.280
you stand on it, stand on that ground, like the76701:04:15.320 --> 01:04:18.519
earth itself is holding something it can't let go of.76801:04:20.039 --> 01:04:23.119
I think the answer starts two hundred million years ago76901:04:23.199 --> 01:04:28.000
below your feet and the geological formation underlying Devil's Den,77001:04:28.480 --> 01:04:34.360
Little Roundtop, Big Roundtop, Coulpsfield, and much of the battlefield77101:04:33.719 --> 01:04:42.400
in around what's called Gettysburg sil It's a massive intrusion77201:04:42.599 --> 01:04:51.880
of York Haven diabase, a dark, dense, in ingenious, ignacious77301:04:52.000 --> 01:04:56.440
rock that formed while molten magma pushed through the Triassic77401:04:56.519 --> 01:05:00.519
plane and cooled underground. That's what the science is right77501:05:02.320 --> 01:05:07.000
over geological time, erosion exposed it, frost cracked it into77601:05:07.039 --> 01:05:10.920
the boulder fields we see today, and one geologist describes77701:05:10.960 --> 01:05:14.679
the entire Battle of Gettysbury as essentially an effort by77801:05:14.679 --> 01:05:19.320
the Confederate Army to drive the Union Army off the77901:05:19.360 --> 01:05:26.480
outcroppings of that sill. The armies fought over the rocks78001:05:26.599 --> 01:05:30.159
because the rocks were the high grown, but the rocks78101:05:30.159 --> 01:05:34.519
themselves may be part of what of why the fighting78201:05:34.559 --> 01:05:41.920
still echoes. Diabase can detains significant concentrations of quartz, and78301:05:42.079 --> 01:05:47.000
other crystalline materials and courts. Has a property that most78401:05:47.039 --> 01:05:52.159
people have heard of, but few think about in this context.78501:05:53.159 --> 01:06:01.480
It's pisioelectric, and when quartz is subjected to mechanical stress, impression, vibration,78601:06:01.840 --> 01:06:07.519
or pressure, it generates an electrical charge. This isn't theory,78701:06:08.880 --> 01:06:16.239
it isn't speculations established physics. It's why quartz is used78801:06:16.320 --> 01:06:23.920
in watches, electronics, and precision instruments. Right. The mineral converts78901:06:24.159 --> 01:06:29.840
physical force into electrical energy. Now, think about what happened79001:06:29.960 --> 01:06:33.960
to those rocks in July nineteen sixty three, eighteen sixty three.79101:06:34.880 --> 01:06:38.840
Artillery bombardment, the concussion of thousands of cannon rounds hitting79201:06:38.840 --> 01:06:43.320
the ground, the vibration of cavalry charges, the physical impact79301:06:43.440 --> 01:06:48.000
of tens of thousands of men marching, running, falling, dying79401:06:48.320 --> 01:06:53.960
on those minerally dense surfaces. Three days of sustained violent79501:06:54.039 --> 01:06:59.800
mechanical stress applied to a geographical formation with piezioelectric properties.79601:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.119
I'm not telling you the rocks recorded the battle. I'm79701:07:04.119 --> 01:07:07.960
telling you the rocks were electrically active during the battle.79801:07:09.079 --> 01:07:13.880
What that means in terms of energy retention, environmental influence,79901:07:14.559 --> 01:07:20.320
or interaction with human consciousness is where confirmed science ends80001:07:20.360 --> 01:07:25.880
in legitimate mystery begins. Right, But the foundation is real,80101:07:26.440 --> 01:07:31.199
the geography. Now, the geology is real, and the experiences80201:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.159
people have reported on that ground for over one hundred80301:07:34.159 --> 01:07:38.440
and sixty years are real, whether or not we have80401:07:38.559 --> 01:07:45.440
complete framework to explain them. Now, this is where concept80501:07:45.679 --> 01:07:50.000
called the stone tape theory enters the conversation, and the80601:07:50.039 --> 01:07:54.840
stone tape hypothesis, first proposed in the nineteen seventies but80701:07:55.039 --> 01:08:00.119
rooted in ideas that go back further, suggests that in80801:08:00.199 --> 01:08:05.480
geological formations, particularly those high in silica and courts, might80901:08:05.599 --> 01:08:10.920
absorb and store emotional or psychic energy from traumatic events.81001:08:11.519 --> 01:08:17.920
Under the right conditions environmental triggers like temperature changes, electromagnetic fluctuations,81101:08:18.520 --> 01:08:23.760
or the presence of a sensitive observer, the stored energy81201:08:23.800 --> 01:08:29.479
replace not as a conscious entity, not as a ghost81301:08:29.560 --> 01:08:34.000
with awareness and intent, but as an environmental recording, a81401:08:34.159 --> 01:08:39.000
moment pressed into the stone that bleeds back out when81501:08:39.119 --> 01:08:44.239
the conditions align. It's not a proven theory, no one81601:08:44.439 --> 01:08:48.399
has demonstrated the mechanism in a laboratory, okay, but it81701:08:48.479 --> 01:08:54.079
offers a framework that maps remarkably well into a specific81801:08:54.279 --> 01:08:59.199
category of haunting, the kind where the same scene replays81901:08:59.319 --> 01:09:05.640
without very now where soldiers march, and the same path82001:09:05.680 --> 01:09:09.239
every time, where the sounds of a battle echo without source,82101:09:10.199 --> 01:09:16.279
where missed carry shapes that look like combat, but never82201:09:16.359 --> 01:09:20.399
to deviate from the pattern that sounds a lot like82301:09:20.439 --> 01:09:24.840
the wheat Field. The residual haunting model accounts for a82401:09:24.920 --> 01:09:30.079
significant portion of what's reported at Gettysburg. The phantom gunfire82501:09:30.119 --> 01:09:34.399
heard across the entire battlefield, the battle replays of the82601:09:34.399 --> 01:09:38.000
wheatfield's mists, and the drums on the little roundtop, the82701:09:38.079 --> 01:09:41.439
sounds of marching described by visitors going back to the82801:09:41.520 --> 01:09:48.000
eighteen hundreds. These aren't interactions. Nobody is speaking to these82901:09:48.039 --> 01:09:53.760
phenomena right in getting a response. They're playbacks, loops, moments83001:09:53.760 --> 01:09:58.600
frozen in the environment and cycled endlessly. But residual energy83101:09:58.760 --> 01:10:03.680
doesn't explain everything. Explain the tattered man at Devil's Den83201:10:03.720 --> 01:10:10.079
who responds to individual visitors, references their clothing, and gives83301:10:10.680 --> 01:10:17.319
context specific directions before vanishing. That's not a recording, that's awareness.83401:10:17.000 --> 01:10:21.039
It doesn't explain the nineteen ninety three film crew encounter83501:10:21.119 --> 01:10:26.680
where the figure spoke conversationally, physically handing over authentic ammunitions83601:10:26.880 --> 01:10:32.279
and then cease to exist in visible space recordings don't83701:10:32.359 --> 01:10:36.680
leave physical objects behind, and it certainly doesn't explain the83801:10:36.800 --> 01:10:42.119
Washington apparition, which involved an entity with no connection to83901:10:42.199 --> 01:10:47.479
this battlefield appairing before the battle itself. Wow, what we84001:10:47.560 --> 01:10:50.720
may be looking at standing on the Gettysburg battlefield is84101:10:50.760 --> 01:10:54.520
not one phenomenon. It may be several layered on top84201:10:54.560 --> 01:10:59.239
of each other, operating simultaneously on the same ground. Because84301:10:59.319 --> 01:11:03.760
why not. The geology provides the medium two hundred million84401:11:03.800 --> 01:11:08.079
years of mineral dense rock with pzo electric properties subjected84501:11:08.079 --> 01:11:12.039
to one of the most violent events in American history,84601:11:12.319 --> 01:11:16.880
sitting in a region that already carried centuries of supernatural activity.84701:11:17.800 --> 01:11:22.319
The trauma provides the charge over fifty thousand human casualties,84801:11:22.720 --> 01:11:27.399
thousands of dead horses in livestock weeks of biological decay.84901:11:27.840 --> 01:11:31.079
I mean not to say the blood soaked up by85001:11:31.119 --> 01:11:35.479
the ground. I mean that has an effect that goes85101:11:35.479 --> 01:11:40.600
back in historical precedent, right. I mean the smell could85201:11:40.640 --> 01:11:44.760
be it could be thirty miles away. The smell blood85301:11:44.840 --> 01:11:48.119
human animal soaked into the soil. It sits on top85401:11:48.159 --> 01:11:53.159
of that crystalline bedrock, and whatever came before provides a85501:11:53.239 --> 01:11:57.960
foundation we can't fully map right the Battle of the Crows,85601:11:58.439 --> 01:12:04.319
the ghost sightings Bush documented in the eighteen eighties that85701:12:04.399 --> 01:12:08.680
predated the Civil War, the giant snake that gave Devil's85801:12:08.720 --> 01:12:13.279
Den it's name, That ground was marked long before eighteen85901:12:13.359 --> 01:12:18.600
sixty three. When you stack all of that, the geology,86001:12:18.720 --> 01:12:22.079
the pre existing energy, the scale of the trauma, and86101:12:22.119 --> 01:12:25.920
the ongoing reports spanning over one hundred and sixty years,86201:12:26.720 --> 01:12:30.159
you start to see Gettysburg not as a haunted battlefield,86301:12:30.239 --> 01:12:34.279
but as a place where the conditions for paranormal activity86401:12:34.439 --> 01:12:38.920
are built literally into the earth itself. The violence of86501:12:38.960 --> 01:12:43.439
the battle didn't create something from nothing, It supertrires something86601:12:44.279 --> 01:12:47.960
that was already there. So now I want to bring86701:12:48.039 --> 01:12:51.520
this to a place that I think matters, not as86801:12:51.560 --> 01:12:55.479
a framework for this episode, but as a thread worth pulling.86901:12:56.439 --> 01:13:01.520
Scripture has something to say about blood and life. In87001:13:01.600 --> 01:13:06.439
Genesis chapter four, after Cain kills Abel, God says to him,87101:13:06.840 --> 01:13:11.920
the voice of your brother's blood carries out, cries out87201:13:12.000 --> 01:13:18.479
to me from the ground. That's not poetry in the87301:13:18.520 --> 01:13:23.279
context of the passage, it's presented as a literal statement.87401:13:23.920 --> 01:13:27.479
The blood that entered the earth made a sound. It87501:13:27.640 --> 01:13:32.119
called out the ground that received it was charged by it.87601:13:32.640 --> 01:13:37.800
Lincoln stood at at Gettysburg in November in eighteen sixty87701:13:37.800 --> 01:13:41.159
three and said, the brave men who fought there had87801:13:41.399 --> 01:13:47.000
consecrated the ground far beyond our poor power to add87901:13:47.439 --> 01:13:53.479
or detract. He used the words hallowed, set apart, sacred,88001:13:54.920 --> 01:13:58.119
changed by what was done on it, and the sulfur88101:13:58.239 --> 01:14:03.640
that remains visitors smell at Devil's Den. The little round88201:14:03.680 --> 01:14:10.800
top has a practical explanation. Black powder contains sulfur as88301:14:10.840 --> 01:14:15.760
a primary ingredient. Smelling it at the battlefield makes chemical sense, right,88401:14:16.479 --> 01:14:21.720
But sulfur also carries weight in scripture that's harder to88501:14:21.760 --> 01:14:29.399
set aside brimstone to substance associated with divine judgment and88601:14:29.520 --> 01:14:36.520
destruction from Genesis through revelation. So I'm not building a88701:14:36.560 --> 01:14:40.960
theological case here, okay. But when a place reeks of88801:14:41.039 --> 01:14:44.640
sulfur one hundred and sixty years after the last shot88901:14:44.680 --> 01:14:48.960
was fired, the practical source of that sulfur no longer89001:14:49.000 --> 01:14:53.279
physically exists on the ground. The biblical resonance is hard89101:14:53.279 --> 01:14:59.119
to ignore entirely. And the Washington apparition, a figure resembling89201:14:59.159 --> 01:15:03.399
the founder of an nation appearing at a precise moment89301:15:04.039 --> 01:15:07.079
when the nation he built was closest to being torn89401:15:07.119 --> 01:15:11.640
apart on a hill that had to be held or89501:15:12.319 --> 01:15:18.319
the battle and possibly the war would be lost. You89601:15:18.359 --> 01:15:22.439
don't have to interpret that spiritually, of course, but if89701:15:22.479 --> 01:15:25.720
you do, it suggests that the spiritual significance of Gettysburg89801:15:25.800 --> 01:15:30.800
extends beyond restless soldiers and residual trauma. It suggests that89901:15:30.920 --> 01:15:35.720
forces beyond human understanding may have recognized what was at90001:15:35.760 --> 01:15:41.479
stake on that ground and acted accordingly. Okay, I stood90101:15:41.760 --> 01:15:53.359
on the Gettysburg battlefield and I felt something bottom line,90201:15:53.560 --> 01:16:00.159
I've never felt anywhere else. A saturation, a heaviness. It90301:16:00.279 --> 01:16:05.439
wasn't limited to a hotspot or the famous locations, man,90401:16:05.520 --> 01:16:11.439
I was everywhere. The entire landscape carries it, from the90501:16:11.479 --> 01:16:16.680
parking lots to the mountinuments, to the open fields between90601:16:16.720 --> 01:16:20.039
the sites where the fighting was worst, but a devil's90701:16:20.079 --> 01:16:24.960
den and little roundtop where those ancient boulders push up90801:16:24.960 --> 01:16:33.760
through the surface. The intensity was unmistakable heavier, I mean90901:16:33.920 --> 01:16:39.159
just way more concentrated, Like the ground was vibrating at91001:16:39.159 --> 01:16:43.000
a frequency just below what your ears can register, but91101:16:43.079 --> 01:16:48.079
your body knows something's there. I've described myself as someone91201:16:48.159 --> 01:16:53.359
who feels energy shifts, and my audience knows that about me.91301:16:57.159 --> 01:16:59.600
I spent years learning to pay attention to what my91401:16:59.640 --> 01:17:03.600
body tells me about the spaces that I moved through,91501:17:04.119 --> 01:17:08.239
and I'm telling you that Gettysburg is unlike anything I've encountered.91601:17:10.119 --> 01:17:14.880
It's the most total. The energy there isn't concentrated in91701:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.000
one room or one corner of a property. It's in91801:17:18.039 --> 01:17:21.760
the ground. Literally, it's in the rock, it's in the air,91901:17:21.840 --> 01:17:25.319
and it's been there so long that it feels permanent,92001:17:26.840 --> 01:17:30.520
like it's part of the place now, the same way92101:17:31.279 --> 01:17:34.439
the monuments are, the same way that the stone walls92201:17:34.479 --> 01:17:38.319
are in the same way the dead are. Over one92301:17:38.399 --> 01:17:41.800
hundred and sixty years of reports soldiers on the night92401:17:41.880 --> 01:17:45.720
of the battle, civilians in the eighteen eighties, visitors in92501:17:45.720 --> 01:17:49.880
the nineteen thirties, film crews in nineteen ninety three, tourists92601:17:50.199 --> 01:17:55.279
last freaking week, and me standing on little round Top92701:17:55.319 --> 01:18:00.279
with my family, feeling something press against every nerve in92801:18:00.399 --> 01:18:06.279
my body. Folks, that ground remembers. That might be the92901:18:06.279 --> 01:18:09.800
most unsettling part of all of this, not that there's93001:18:09.960 --> 01:18:14.279
ghosts at Eddysburg, but that the ground itself might be93101:18:14.359 --> 01:18:21.039
what's keeping them there, So where does this leave us?93201:18:21.600 --> 01:18:24.640
We started this episode with a pile of two hundred93301:18:25.439 --> 01:18:28.680
on a pile of two hundred million year old boulders,93401:18:29.640 --> 01:18:35.039
where a giant snake reportedly once gave it lived there93501:18:35.039 --> 01:18:37.920
and gave its name to the place where a barefoot93601:18:37.920 --> 01:18:41.760
conveterate soldier still walks up behind tourists and tells them93701:18:41.840 --> 01:18:46.199
what they're looking for is over there. We moved into93801:18:46.279 --> 01:18:49.199
nineteen acres a week that soaked up so much blood93901:18:49.640 --> 01:18:53.319
and so many men so many times in a single94001:18:53.359 --> 01:18:58.399
afternoon that the ground seemed incapable forgetting what happened. And94101:18:58.479 --> 01:19:01.119
we finished on a rocky hill where three hundred and94201:19:01.159 --> 01:19:05.239
fifty eight men from Maine held the line with bayonets94301:19:05.279 --> 01:19:09.239
and empty rifles, where authenticated Civil War ammunition was handed94401:19:09.439 --> 01:19:11.760
to a film crew by a man who smelled of94501:19:11.840 --> 01:19:17.439
sulfur and then disappeared, and where the ghost of Washington,94601:19:17.720 --> 01:19:21.159
George Washington may have shown up to make sure the94701:19:21.239 --> 01:19:26.319
nation he built didn't die on a July afternoon in Pennsylvania,94801:19:27.039 --> 01:19:32.680
and underneath all of it literally the piezeoelectric rock court94901:19:32.720 --> 01:19:37.399
stents diabase that generates an electrical charge under stress. Three95001:19:37.479 --> 01:19:41.880
days of the most concentrated violence in American history applied95101:19:41.920 --> 01:19:47.760
directly to that mineral surface, blood, human animal saturating the95201:19:47.800 --> 01:19:53.520
soil above it. Pre existing history of supernatural activity stretching95301:19:53.560 --> 01:19:57.720
back centuries before the first cannon was hauled into position.95401:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.840
Gettysburg isn't haunted the way a house is haunted, folks.95501:20:04.399 --> 01:20:09.039
It's not one spirit in one building, attached to one event.95601:20:09.920 --> 01:20:15.439
It's an entire landscape functioning as a repository for something.95701:20:16.199 --> 01:20:22.279
We don't have the complete language to describe. Residual energy95801:20:22.319 --> 01:20:27.960
that replays, intelligent presences that interact, physical evidence that crosses95901:20:28.000 --> 01:20:33.439
the divide, and a geological foundation that may be conducting, trapping,96001:20:33.720 --> 01:20:39.520
or amplifying all of it. I walked that ground, I96101:20:39.640 --> 01:20:42.840
felt it, and I'm not the first, and I sure96201:20:42.840 --> 01:20:47.560
as ill won't be the last. This is part one96301:20:47.960 --> 01:20:51.119
of a two part series. The part two, we're leaving96401:20:51.159 --> 01:20:55.520
the battlefield and walking into the town the Jenny Wade House,96501:20:56.039 --> 01:20:58.239
where a twenty year old woman was killed by a96601:20:58.279 --> 01:21:02.720
stray bullet while knee eating bread, and where visitors still96701:21:02.760 --> 01:21:07.800
smell at bacon, the soldier's orphanage at seven seventy seven96801:21:08.319 --> 01:21:11.920
Baltimore Street, where children who lost their fathers to the96901:21:11.960 --> 01:21:15.279
war were chained in a basement dungeon by a woman97001:21:15.439 --> 01:21:20.239
named Rosa Carmichael, and where those children are still heard97101:21:20.279 --> 01:21:24.479
crying in the dark in the National Cemetery right next97201:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.920
to that, where Lincoln called the ground hollowed, and where97301:21:27.960 --> 01:21:32.159
the dead still walked between the headstones. The battlefield is97401:21:32.199 --> 01:21:36.279
where the violence happened. The town is where the consequence97501:21:36.359 --> 01:21:41.840
is all landed, and the consequences may have been worse.97601:21:43.720 --> 01:21:47.199
If this episode made you think, made you feel something,97701:21:47.279 --> 01:21:51.640
or sent your mind somewhere, it doesn't usually go do97801:21:51.800 --> 01:21:54.359
me a favor, share it. Send it to a friend97901:21:54.760 --> 01:21:57.640
who stays up reading about this stuff. Send it to98001:21:57.760 --> 01:22:01.880
one who thinks it's all nonsense. Send it to both98101:22:02.399 --> 01:22:06.079
of them and let them argue about it. That's how98201:22:06.079 --> 01:22:10.359
the show grows. Like subscribe, leave a review. It matters98301:22:10.359 --> 01:22:14.800
more than you know. And if you're a researcher, an investigator,98401:22:15.239 --> 01:22:19.199
or someone that with firsthand experience at Gettysburg that you98501:22:19.920 --> 01:22:25.239
think deserves to be heard, please reach out. I'm always98601:22:25.319 --> 01:22:28.800
looking for people who take this work seriously and bring98701:22:28.920 --> 01:22:33.880
something real to the table. I'm Benettanton. This has been98801:22:34.000 --> 01:22:37.880
broadcasting seeds and I'll see you in part two, and98901:22:37.960 --> 01:22:41.960
I'm calling now. One of the ground remembers. The question99001:22:42.159 --> 01:22:45.159
is whether we're ready to listen to what it's been99101:22:45.319 --> 01:22:49.119
telling us.99201:22:57.279 --> 01:23:03.600
Fifty thousand shadows on a pennsylvani flame, three days of thunder,99301:23:05.000 --> 01:23:10.359
three days of flame, that we'd been a low where99401:23:10.399 --> 01:23:16.560
the young men fell, and the stones kept secrets they99501:23:16.760 --> 01:23:17.920
would never tell.99601:23:20.520 --> 01:23:26.880
Its den was breathing before the armies came, all the rocks.99701:23:26.560 --> 01:23:29.800
And whispering nobody's name.99801:23:31.479 --> 01:23:36.359
So far in the summer, Small King, the skies.99901:23:37.720 --> 01:23:43.520
And the dead don't always know they died. You can100001:23:43.640 --> 01:23:49.840
leave the field. You can count thieves. The blood has100101:23:49.880 --> 01:23:52.119
a voice, and.100201:23:52.159 --> 01:23:58.479
They are still here. The crown remembers what the living100301:23:58.600 --> 01:24:04.840
forg is. Every cannon let, every cry, every unpaid it.100401:24:06.520 --> 01:24:09.680
In the roster noes well.100501:24:09.680 --> 01:24:16.239
A lofty room, the ground remembers.100601:24:17.039 --> 01:24:19.319
And it won't go.100701:24:24.720 --> 01:24:28.199
On a little round top where the line helping baby,100801:24:28.199 --> 01:24:32.159
and it's fixed. No rounds lefting and from and came100901:24:32.359 --> 01:24:34.439
charging down in the fate of a.101001:24:34.560 --> 01:24:36.159
Nation shook the ground.101101:24:36.279 --> 01:24:40.640
Some say Washington Road that night blue and buffing.101201:24:40.880 --> 01:24:42.840
The ghostly a point in.101301:24:42.880 --> 01:24:45.600
The robo where the soldier should go through the dark,101401:24:45.720 --> 01:24:47.600
through the smoke, through the valley below.101501:24:48.640 --> 01:24:52.840
You can call it a legend. You can call it fear.101601:24:54.119 --> 01:24:58.600
If something still moves when the night dross me.101701:25:00.039 --> 01:25:06.760
At the crown, remember what a living foregain. Every cannon,101801:25:07.079 --> 01:25:12.720
every cry, every unpaid day in the rocks. In the101901:25:12.840 --> 01:25:17.439
wise we're aloft in your room.102001:25:17.560 --> 01:25:20.720
The crown remembers.102101:25:22.279 --> 01:25:24.000
Any wall land.102201:25:29.800 --> 01:25:32.680
There's a boy with a drum on the hilltop. Still,102301:25:35.800 --> 01:25:38.720
there's a man in the rocks who bends you will.102401:25:41.880 --> 01:25:48.039
There are lanterns low by the old tree line, and102501:25:48.359 --> 01:25:59.479
voices calling from another time. The horses screamed, the angel102601:25:59.479 --> 01:26:00.119
will stay.102701:26:00.039 --> 01:26:09.239
The soil drank deep, and the stones were the ground.102801:26:09.439 --> 01:26:16.600
Remember what the living pag gets every prayer of every wom,102901:26:17.119 --> 01:26:23.399
every last regret, and the smoke in the stone, where103001:26:23.439 --> 01:26:24.640
the cold in the blow.103101:26:26.159 --> 01:26:36.159
The ground remembers, and warm salk, real soul.103201:26:37.640 --> 01:26:44.800
Where the brave men see someone's shallow, some one's rundy.103301:26:46.560 --> 01:26:55.279
The ground remembers, The ground remembers, and it won't103401:27:00.439 --> 01:27:02.239
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