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OutdoorsAmos Humiston memorial
Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York Infantry died at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. His body was found near Stratton and York Streets, with a…
Inns & businesses · AI illustrationAndrew Woods House
The Andrew Woods House at Baltimore and Breckenridge streets in Gettysburg began with a carriage-trimming shop in 1834. Mark and Carol Nesbitt bought…
Inns & businesses · Aerial viewBaladerry Inn
The Baladerry Inn on Hospital Road near Gettysburg occupies the Bushman family’s former tenant farmhouse. Its ghost stories include soldiers on the…
OutdoorsBaltimore Street
Baltimore Street in Gettysburg has a ghost story experienced through scent rather than sight. Writer Troy Taylor recalled noticing an unexplained,…
Battlefield Bed and Breakfast
The Battlefield Bed and Breakfast occupies the Gettysburg farm associated with Anna and Cornelius Houghtelin, abolitionists who lived there during…
Bechtel Victorian Mansion
The Bechtel Mansion in East Berlin was built in 1897 as banker William G. Leas’s home. After it became an inn, owners Richard and Carol Carlson…
Inns & businessesCashtown Inn
Cashtown Inn stands west of Gettysburg at a crossroads used by travelers since its opening in 1797. Its place in Civil War history is central to the…
Chestnut Hall
Chestnut Hall in New Oxford was operated as a bed-and-breakfast by Steve and Tina McNaughton. Steve included its resident child ghost, called Alice,…
BattlefieldsCooper’s Battery B monument
During the artillery fighting on East Cemetery Hill on July 2, 1863, Cooper’s Battery suffered casualties before being relieved by Captain R. Bruce…
Institutions · Aerial viewDaniel Lady Farm
The Daniel Lady Farm near Gettysburg became a Confederate field hospital during the July 1863 battle. Wounded officers were treated in the stone…
BattlefieldsDevil’s Den
Devil’s Den is a formation of large boulders on the Gettysburg battlefield, where Confederate soldiers fought during the July 1863 battle. Its narrow…
Inns & businessesDobbin House Tavern
The Dobbin House in Gettysburg was built in 1776 by the Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a home and school. It predates the Civil War by decades, and its…
Inns & businessesDoubleday Inn
The Doubleday Inn stands on Oak Ridge in Gettysburg, where John Forney’s apple orchard was caught in the fighting on July 1, 1863. The house itself…
Historic homesEisenhower Home
The Eisenhowers’ farm near Gettysburg was a family retreat as well as a presidential home. Mamie Eisenhower’s mother, Elivera Carlson Doud, had a…
Inns & businessesFairfield Inn
The Fairfield Inn, also known as the Mansion House, hosted two overnight investigations by Black Raven Paranormal in September 2011 and September…
Inns & businessesFarnsworth House Inn
The Farnsworth House Inn stands on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, where its marked brickwork recalls the 1863 battle. The inn’s supernatural…
Culture & landmarksFormer International Museum of Spiritual Investigations
Jonathan Williams and three fellow paranormal investigators opened Gettysburg’s International Museum of Spiritual Investigations in March 2010. Their…
Historic homesGeorge George House
The small stone George George House on Steinwehr Avenue in Gettysburg briefly sheltered the body of Union Major General John F. Reynolds after he was…
CemeteriesGeorge Rose Farm
The Rose Farm at Gettysburg was home to John and Elizabeth Rose and their seven children. During the July 1863 battle, its stone house served as a…
Historic homesGeorge Weikert farmhouse
George Weikert’s farmhouse stands north of Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield. After the fighting in July 1863, the Weikert family…
InstitutionsGettysburg Municipal Building
Gettysburg’s municipal building at 59 East High Street began as the Adams County jail and later housed the public library from 1949 to 1992. By the…
CemeteriesGettysburg National Cemetery
Captain William Edward Miller of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Without…
SchoolsHigh Street School
Gettysburg's High Street School was built in 1858 and used as a hospital during the Civil War. Tour guide Steve Anderson told a story about a candle…
InstitutionsHistoric Adams County Courthouse
Gettysburg’s historic Adams County Courthouse was built in 1859 and used as a hospital after the July 1863 battle. Its original courtroom contains…
Inns & businessesHotel Gettysburg
Hotel Gettysburg stands on Lincoln Square in the center of town. Its ghost stories include a woman called Rachel, described in local tour lore as a…
BattlefieldsHummelbaugh farmhouse
The Hummelbaugh farmhouse at Gettysburg is associated with Confederate General William Barksdale, who was brought there after being wounded in the…
BattlefieldsInn at Herr Ridge
The Inn at Herr Ridge began as a tavern on the Chambersburg Pike west of Gettysburg. During the fighting on July 1, 1863, Confederate troops advanced…
BattlefieldsIverson’s Pits
Iverson’s Pits lies near Oak Ridge on the Gettysburg battlefield. On July 1, 1863, North Carolina soldiers under Brigadier General Alfred Iverson…
Historic homes · Historical imageJennie Wade House Museum
The Jennie Wade House Museum in Gettysburg preserves the home of Jennie’s sister, where Jennie was killed while preparing bread on July 3, 1863. The…
BattlefieldsJohn Burns Monument beside Herbst Woods
John Burns, the Gettysburg civilian who fought alongside Union soldiers in July 1863, later described a frightening return to the battlefield.…
John Winebrenner House (Twin Sycamores)
Twin Sycamores is the historic John Winebrenner House at Baltimore and Lefever streets in Gettysburg. Winebrenner was a tanner, and his home stood…
BattlefieldsLittle Round Top
Little Round Top is the rocky hill on the Gettysburg battlefield where Union reinforcements defended a threatened position on July 2, 1863. Brigadier…
Battlefields · Historical imageMary Thompson House and former Larson’s Motel
Mary Thompson’s stone house on Seminary Ridge stood amid the fighting on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. In the twentieth…
BattlefieldsPennsylvania Hall
Pennsylvania Hall was Gettysburg College's first building, begun in 1836. It originally housed classrooms, student rooms, and other college…
BattlefieldsPennsylvania Memorial
The Pennsylvania Memorial on Gettysburg’s Cemetery Ridge has been associated with reports of unexplained music. In an account preserved on a family…
BattlefieldsPickett’s Charge Trail
Pickett’s Charge field at Gettysburg is the setting of a story Loy Mershimer recorded secondhand in August 2005. A mother and daughter were walking…
BattlefieldsSachs Covered Bridge over Marsh Creek
Sachs Covered Bridge carries a pedestrian crossing over Marsh Creek southwest of Gettysburg. Both Union and Confederate troops used the crossing…
SchoolsSeminary Ridge Avenue at the Chambersburg Pike (Buford Avenue)
A cellar across the Chambersburg Pike from Mary Thompson’s house figures in one of Mark Nesbitt’s Seminary Ridge ghost stories. During the Battle of…
BattlefieldsSherfy’s Peach Orchard
Joseph and Mary Sherfy’s peach orchard became a battlefield on July 2, 1863, when Union artillery occupied the rise and Confederate troops attacked.…
Historic homesShriver House Museum
Confederate sharpshooters occupied the attic of the Shriver family’s Gettysburg home during the July 1863 battle. Accounts of the fighting described…
Battlefields · Historical imageSpangler’s Spring area near Colgrove Avenue and lower Culp’s Hill
Spangler's Spring lies near the foot of Culp's Hill on the Gettysburg battlefield. Beyond its Civil War associations, it has acquired a local legend…
Battlefields · Historical imageThe Angle
An early-1970s encounter at Gettysburg’s Angle was told to author Mark Nesbitt by a local police officer. Parked near the stone wall while completing…
Inns & businessesThe Pub & Restaurant
The Pub & Restaurant on Gettysburg’s Lincoln Square was destroyed by fire on February 8, 2001. Lisa Grim committed to rebuilding, and employees and…
CemeteriesThe University Greys and Jeremiah Gage’s Last Letter
Sergeant Jeremiah Gage of Mississippi’s University Greys was mortally wounded before his company took part in the July 3, 1863 assault at Gettysburg.…
BattlefieldsThe Wheatfield
The Wheatfield at Gettysburg was part of George Rose’s farm when fierce fighting swept through it on July 2, 1863. Lieutenant Berzil Inman of the…
BattlefieldsTriangular Field on Houck’s Ridge
The Triangular Field lies on Houck’s Ridge, west of Devil’s Den on the Gettysburg battlefield. Among its ghost stories are reports of failing…
BattlefieldsWashington’s Ride to Little Round Top
On July 2, 1863, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain’s 20th Maine helped defend Little Round Top at Gettysburg. A legend about the regiment’s arrival gives…
BattlefieldsWilloughby Run at Chambersburg Road (US 30)
Willoughby Run flows along the western side of Gettysburg's first-day battlefield. Confederate troops crossed the stream during the fighting on July…