The Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours®
Writing by Susan Hilliard on Saturday, 21 of May , 2005 at 11:55 am
Information supplied by Carol Nesbitt of www.ghostsofgettysburg.com
Over the years since the infamous battle, stories of scores of sightings, stranger than reality, have emerged from the quaint houses and gentle fields in and around the town of Gettysburg: Stories of sightings of soldiers, moving again in battle lines, across the fields where they once marched… and died; tales of visions through a rip in time into the horrible scene of a Civil War hospital; whispers of a look at men long dead held eternally captive by duty. These apparitions - and more - come back to remind us, in one way or another that they are not to be forgotten for what they did here…
In 1994, Mark Nesbitt started the first ghost walk in Gettysburg, The Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours®. Armed with tales from his ghost books - and with a few that are not in the books-guides dressed in period attire take visitors on evening tours through sections of town that were bloody battlefields 13 decades ago; through night-darkened streets to houses and buildings where it is not as quiet as it should be; to sites on the old Pennsylvania College campus where the slain once lay in rows, and the wounded suffered horribly, waiting to become corpses themselves; to cemeteries where the dead lie… sometimes not so peacefully. Gettysburg may very well be, acre for acre, the most haunted place in America.
Tour Overviews:
Baltimore Street Tour
BEGIN your tour in the courtyard of the haunted The Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours® Headquarters–where disembodied voices have been recorded and a child has been spotted…a century after his death.
PASS BY the County Courthouse that witnessed the battle and was filled to over-flowing with wounded soldiers…and now holds visitors from another world.
SEE the church where so many amputations occurred they had to drill holes in the floor to let the blood run out and where a spectral undertaker continues to walk to the nearby cemetery…removed decades ago.
Carlisle Street Tour
SEE the building where a modern elevator took two unsuspecting passengers down for a vision of hell on earth — a Civil War Hospital…
PASS BY the structure where young actresses see “The General” materialize in a vacant seat to admire their performances…
HEAR about where three wings of a defeated Union Army and their pursuers all came together to provide the focal point for intense emotional energy and produce continuing, bizarre poltergeist activity…
Seminary Ridge Tour
SEE the site where a young soldier remained buried alive under a pile of corpses for days until he was finally taken from the hideous cellar sarcophagus. But he never really left until a priest came and blessed the house…
HEAR tales about Robert E. Lee’s Headquarters, where a renowned psychic witnessed in her mind’s eye a meeting of high-ranking Confederates whose decisions changed the course of history…
PASS BY the numerous buildings of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, used as hospitals whose grounds became temporary graveyards, where unexplainable activity has occurred over the years…
(Note: The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg has agreed to allow the tours on campus as a source of entertainment and a way to present local folklore. In so doing, the Seminary does not endorse the information presented as necessarily factual history.)
The Steinwehr Avenue Tour
BEGIN in the parking lot of The Reliance Mine Saloon at the Quality Inn-Gettysburg Motor Lodge.
SEE the Gettysburg National Cemetery, where ghostly footsteps follow unwary visitors and the wraith of a shunned Union cavalry commander walks to this day…
WALK the grounds of the modern hotel where disembodied, phantom arms appear in the dead of night to awaken unsuspecting tourists…
GAZE across the fields where Pickett’s gallant men charged to their doom, and left bizarre remnants of their passing…and their continued presence!
The Gettysburg Ghost Bus Tour
(The Ghosts of Gettysburg and Historic Battlefield Bus Tours)
VISIT haunted sites other walking tours in Gettysburg miss!
SEE a famed Civil War house where unexplainable noises may be the spirit of a soldier still buried in the dirt cellar.
WALK on a farm that witnessed the battle, became a hospital for the wounded, and a burial site for the dead…hear about the mysterious physical manifestations of age-old amputations which appeared, then suddenly disappeared…and perhaps witness for yourself THE SUPERNATURAL as others who visit there have…
TRAVEL to “Hospital Woods” and hear about the quiet home that suddenly became paranormally active with moving furniture, opening and closing shutters and doors, and destructive entity activity.
PAY A CALL on what some say are the spirits of the intrepid soldiers in Pickett’s Charge and hear of their deeds…which occurred a dozen decades after they died.
The Gettysburg Ghost Train
(The Ghosts of Gettysburg and Pioneer Lines)
TRAVEL through parts of the battlefield where no other ghost tours go…
SEE haunted Oak Ridge, where the phantom messenger still rides and the wails of the dying have been heard…fourteen decades after their deaths…
RIDE past the modern engine house, haunted because of its location–next to the bloody railroad cut…
HEAR some of the most frightening stories of ghost trains in American Folklore.
–The Zouave still searching a railroad cut for something he’s been missing since the Battle of Second Manassas.
–The Christmas Train Disaster and the hauntings it spawned.
–The ghosts of Pennsylvania’s famous Horseshoe Curve.
–The distant glow of the lights of a mournful train carrying wounded soldiers…from the Civil War.
–The most famous ghost train, carrying a slain president, still seen to this day.
The Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours®
Tour Headquarters
271 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325
Office: 717-337-0445
Fax: 717-337-9673
Website: www.ghostsofgettysburg.com
Contact: hauntgburg@aol.com
Category: Ghostly Stories, Ghostly Tours, Haunted Homes
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Comment by Kelly Gray
Made Wednesday, 5 of October , 2005 at 4:13 pm
Hi- I live in Northern Virginia and was hoping you can give me some info on how to book what the dates are and the cost for the tour.
Thanks,Kelly
Comment by Teri
Made Friday, 28 of October , 2005 at 2:42 pm
I will be in Gettysburg next weekend and would like to know the cost and times of the tours and naturally, where they meet.
Comment by Vickie Moore
Made Monday, 26 of June , 2006 at 6:20 am
We will be in Gettysburg on the 28-30 and my son has Mr. Nesbitts Ghosts of Gettysburg books given to him by a friend and would actually love to meet him and we were wondering if you have any tours around that time. There are seven of us coming from Ky.for these few days because our son is so into the civil war and especially fascinated with all the ghosts. We have all enjoyed the books and look forward to hearing from someone about your tours and cost and such. Thank you so much, Vickie
Comment by Susan Hilliard
Made Monday, 26 of June , 2006 at 12:21 pm
Hello Vickie,
I would have written you directly but your email doesn’t work. You need to follow the website’s link to talk with them directly.
Thanks,
Susan 
Comment by Faye
Made Tuesday, 26 of September , 2006 at 1:27 pm
Could you possiably send me a site to view pictures taken of gettysburg national park ghosts.
