Real Haunted Houses

Real Haunted House

The Gettysburg College Library

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Once, two highly acclaimed administrators ventured into the basement of the library. While there, they saw a doctor in clothes reminiscent of clothes worn in the Civil War, who asked them to come and help. Also during this brief moment of horror, the witnesses claim to have heard the screams of patients and the sight of blood as well. The two witnesses quit their jobs the following day, never to return. It turns out that this place was the site of a field hospital during the Civil War after the Battle of Gettysburg.

51 comments on this haunted house. Share your story »

51 Comments

Leave a comment

[1] · 2 · 3 · Next » ·

Show All Comments

Jordan says:

March 15, 2006, 3:09 pm

Scary if you believe it. I don’t.

Hope Dawson says:

March 17, 2006, 8:04 pm

scary ? sooooooooooo not

sierra says:

April 4, 2006, 11:18 am

scarry story! write more i love the chilling tingle going up my spine! this reminds me of a time when my great gramps died he spent all his time in his shanny after he died he was there every day at noon. i missed him and was not scared because i knew he was ther to confert me i only see him 3-5 times a month now he speaks to me and tells me its time to let go but i dont know if i can its hard to let go of something thats not really there.

Carl Bailey says:

May 10, 2006, 10:51 am

I have actually gone to tour the campus. Let me tell you what! After reading numerous books and documentation regarding the battle and after how could you not think that place has spirits of the dead? Sit out at Little Round Top or any where on the battle field over night. You need to focus only on what has happened there. You will go home with a different feeling of the place. You should go on the anniversary of the battle. July 1st-3rd.
Also at the campus there is the story of the ‘little blue boy’ as well as the ‘lady in the bell tower’, and the soldiers shadows marching past the theater windows.
Go to the cemetary.
Believe you me! I was a huge sceptic. Not any more.

Turtle says:

May 15, 2006, 9:57 am

I wish these stories were acually scary i mean for real blood quitting job wutever

merd325 says:

September 6, 2006, 12:48 pm

I’m from Philadelphia and I’m telling you it’s true.
It was featured on the Travel Channel.

Critic says:

September 16, 2006, 6:45 pm

you cant divulge enough information in the little bit of writing that these stories contain. I am a critic because I was devistated as a child by many paranormal activities. Mine will be in paperback within a year and it will be the talk of the nation.

Kelly says:

September 23, 2006, 9:53 am

this is supposedly one of the most haunted places in the US! I’m a paranormal fanatic and I have read countless documentation on Gettysburg and it’s ghosts. I totally believe it!

tony says:

October 13, 2006, 7:15 am

I live in pennsylvania and am a civil war reenactor i have seen ghosts at gettysburgh and other battle fields believe me their real.

Meme says:

October 20, 2006, 1:44 pm

I lived for a time in the building on campus that was once an orphanage during the Civil War. The Blue Boy stories are true. There is also a woman who haunts the building, my neighbor entered her room one day to find her folding her laundry. And I myself have heard whispers coming from the attic and have woken in the middle of the night to the feeling of pressure on my back, as if someone were puching me into the mattress. It’s real.

Dee says:

October 20, 2006, 5:06 pm

I have heard many stories about Gettysburg. I do believe that this story was featured on Unsolved mysteries. I love the paranormal I actually have the gift of sight. I understand being skeptic about it but I think that is because you fear it.

anna says:

October 28, 2006, 7:11 pm

i do not belive in ghost

steve Hyde says:

October 28, 2006, 9:51 pm

I live in Pennsylvania, and have been to Gettysburg many many times over
the last forty years. Although, I have never seen anything myself, you do
sense things. After the horror that happened there, how can you not. I have
lived in two homes that were haunted, and my wifes grandmothers” house
had three spirits there also. I DO BELIEVE !!!!.

fyrefiter31 says:

November 17, 2006, 4:48 pm

i have been to gettysburg a few times. the last time i was there i too one of there ghost walks. yes the building they say they saw the doctor and pts. in was on unsolved mysteries.ithey also talked about the little blue boy and the lady in the tower.

josh says:

February 7, 2007, 3:46 am

I’m from gettysburg and ive never seen a thing. when we were in our teens we always tried to find ghosts and never have. Have the places around town are fakes just to make money. Most of my childhood friends worked there growing up, and they tell you when you start the job that you need to make up your own stories along with the regular legends. I live right near the battlefield in the country side and never heard or saw a thing. I believe in ghosts and visited all of the hot spots but all i come up with is nothing.

Kat says:

March 26, 2007, 4:39 pm

I go to Gettysburg college. The story posted here is wrong, even if the idea behind it is true. The building used as a field hospital was Penn Hall, not the library. Penn Hall’s basement is not blocked off, after the scence described above was witnessed.

Heather says:

June 19, 2007, 11:41 am

I remember seeing this story on Unsolved Mysteries many years ago. While I’ve never been there myself, I’ve only visited PA once (I’m in CA), I believe almost every place the Civil War was, spirits linger. Just considering how many people died, at least a few must still be around.

loco says:

June 20, 2007, 5:31 pm

Well now, I was just in Gettysburg a few months ago- and the dead are quite alive and well there. Believe what you want, but don’t knock Gettysburg. It’s one of the most well documented areas of phenomena in the United States. It is indeed haunted, kiddies!

Resident says:

August 18, 2007, 8:39 am

I was born and raised in Gettysburg (63 yrs)and have NEVER seen a ghost. I’ve been over the battlefield hundreds of times and never saw a thing (day and night). A friend of mine who works for the telephone company (31 yrs) has been in all the basements at the college and never saw or felt anything. I keep looking and hoping but not one time have I ever had an inkling of a ghost.

Matt says:

August 28, 2007, 7:12 pm

It’s been detailed on Travel Channel, and The History Channel too I think. Anyway, anybody wants to know more about it and other Gettysburg encounters and stories, you can always try the Ghosts of Gettysburg books by Mark Nesbitt, and a few other authors as well. I know this story in particular is covered in one of them. I try to go to Gettysburg once a year, (so far I’ve managed it 3 times in the last 3 1/2 years) I go with a camera and an audio recorder. I’ve seldom been disappointed with the results.

[1] · 2 · 3 · Next » ·

Show All Comments

Leave a Comment

Name (required)

Email (will not be published) (required)

Website

Please use correct grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. Let's try to keep this place looking classy.
Real Haunts reserves the right to remove any comment that does not adhere to this requirement or is otherwise
inappropriate. Any post containing a link will be flagged for moderation due to recent comment spam. Feel free
to include relevant links, but please know that it will delay your post.

About Real Haunts

Do you believe in the supernatural?

This is the best resource for haunted houses, spooky stories, ghostly tales and all things paranormal.

 

We have mountains of stories about ghosts, ghouls, and specters.

Sitemap

HomeStatesSubmit a Haunt

 

Copyright © 1998-2010

i85media Networks LLC

Privacy Policy