The Gettysburg College Library
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.
Scary if you believe it. I don’t.
Comment by Jordan | 03.15.2006 | 3:09 pm
scary ? sooooooooooo not
Comment by Hope Dawson | 03.17.2006 | 8:04 pm
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.
Comment by sierra | 04.4.2006 | 11:18 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.
Comment by Carl Bailey | 05.10.2006 | 10:51 am
I wish these stories were acually scary i mean for real blood quitting job wutever
Comment by Turtle | 05.15.2006 | 9:57 am
I’m from Philadelphia and I’m telling you it’s true.
It was featured on the Travel Channel.
Comment by merd325 | 09.6.2006 | 12:48 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.
Comment by Critic | 09.16.2006 | 6:45 pm
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!
Comment by Kelly | 09.23.2006 | 9:53 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.
Comment by tony | 10.13.2006 | 7:15 am
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.
Comment by Meme | 10.20.2006 | 1:44 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.
Comment by Dee | 10.20.2006 | 5:06 pm
i do not belive in ghost
Comment by anna | 10.28.2006 | 7:11 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 !!!!.
Comment by steve Hyde | 10.28.2006 | 9:51 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.
Comment by fyrefiter31 | 11.17.2006 | 4:48 pm
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.
Comment by josh | 02.7.2007 | 3:46 am
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.
Comment by Kat | 03.26.2007 | 4:39 pm
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.
Comment by Heather | 06.19.2007 | 11:41 am
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!
Comment by loco | 06.20.2007 | 5:31 pm
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.
Comment by Resident | 08.18.2007 | 8:39 am
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.
Comment by Matt | 08.28.2007 | 7:12 pm
This is horse ****. My Girl Friend went to college there. A. It was Penn Hall not the library. B. They only saw doctors and not blood anywhere. C. Wheres the Blue Boy? Cause thats REAL!
Comment by Adam | 10.5.2007 | 12:40 pm
Gettysburg is supposed to be extremely haunted, and I think that at the very least it should be treated respectfully because of all the blood that was shed there and all the people that lost their lives there. I would never even try to convince anyone it’s not haunted, because it could very well be with all of the sudden deaths there.
Comment by Jen | 11.3.2007 | 3:53 pm
First off to Adam, The sceen they saw was a civil war hospital. They supposedly saw doctors, and men being opperated on. They said it was a very grizzly sceen.
I was raised around G-Burg, and when I was in my late teens I saw and heard enough out on the battlefield to tell you it is very active. We could sit and argue the point all day, but I can prove it to anyone. Lets go out and sit on the field for awhile, I bet you either run home, or wet your pants.
Comment by Homebrew | 12.29.2007 | 5:25 am
Now i don’t know what to think. Half of you say thatit’s real and haunted, and the other half say it isn’t. Me and my friend were actually planning to go there this weekend and check out all the places. Can someone show me some proof? because now i’m just confused…
Comment by tiff | 01.21.2008 | 12:37 am
that story is fake. the gettysburg college library is haunted my a sniper’s ghost, the a freakin doctor. DAH!
Comment by john charles garcia | 04.25.2008 | 1:39 pm
that story is fake. the gettysburg college library is haunted by a sniper’s ghost not a freakin doctor. DAH!
Comment by john charles garcia | 04.25.2008 | 1:45 pm
Well I used to live in Gettysburg and i’ve heard most of the stories. I’ll attest to these stories because i no tis stuff is true. I’ve been to the Farnsworth house and if you really are interested in the supernatural then this is one place to put on your list. I’ve also been to the college and know for a fact that its haunted.
Comment by Sami | 05.5.2008 | 10:18 am
I never want to go there and see blood from the civil war. If I ever go there I will emediotly quit or leave as soon as I can.
Comment by pool | 05.22.2008 | 4:26 pm
I saw a show based on gettysburg ghosts. They did a recreation of where the women went down to the basement on the elevator. They were trying to go to the 1st floor but it took them to the basement and when the doors opened they saw a doctor and nurses operateing on a civil war guy. Then the doc looked right at them and motioned with his hand for thme to come and help. They didn’t set foot off the elevator just kept pressing the button for it to close the doors.
Comment by James | 05.27.2008 | 8:57 pm