When it comes to ghosts I'm not just a skeptic. Fact is I just don't believe in them, that they exist or any other supernatural stuff. Despite that, I can't say that I didn't find this tour interesting and tour guide to be extraordinarily knowledgeable and exceptional in that the tour didn't involve anything I would term to be outright flimflammery or trickery. Indeed our tour guide was very real about everything, so all I can say is that though I can't really explain what I saw or what others said they saw, heard or encountered during the tour. Suffice it to simply say that my conclusions differed from his as well as those of the others on the tour.
We started off at night, 10:00pm o'clock, and went on until midnight which are the hours the times that ghosts are supposedly more up and about. Of course those hours are also spookier, when the human mind is more given to various imaginations. As Gettysburg was once a battlefield in which thousands were killed, actually outright slaughtered, it has supposedly become haunted with ghosts of the past.
At the commencement of our tour we were given a piece of string with a lead fishing sinker attached to it. By holding it out, it was supposed to begin swaying, which it did, indicating the presence of some sort of spirit. I can't it explain why it did sway, but it did, and when it did you were to ask certain questions with yes or no answers. For the answers a forward/backward sway was to mean yes and crosswise sway no. Indeed, when hold in out, my string did begin to sway, but then again my hands aren't the most steady and though everyone else swore that the sways of their strings were actually responsive to the questions they asked, I seemed to be the one person out, more or less getting nothing but random sways. The tour guide also had a certain other radio frequency like device that was to produce a sound so that one could audibly speak with ghosts along with LED like light indicators to indicate the proximity of a ghost being near.
Our tour took us to a house, where during the Battle of Gettysburg, Union soldiers were said to have controlled one side of the house with Confederate soldiers in control of the other side, apparently making it a sort of ground zero for a gun fight with them firing at each other through and around the house. We were encouraged to use our cameras and if the pictures showed white spots, those were said to indicate the presence of ghosts. I did take some pictures and indeed some of them showed unexplainable white spots, but whether or not those spots could actually be attributed to ghosts, I haven't a clue.
We later proceeded along a dark trail close to what was to have been a battlefield area. Here the tour guide and others used the electronic device. I did hear some sounds, I did see the LED's light up, were convinced that they could hear and understand the voices of ghosts, I didn't hear anything except static or white line type sounds. That is except on one occasion wherein someone asked a ghost his name and I clearly did here the response of "Zeth," and when asked his age, did hear what sounded like "nineteen." But, just because that was what it sounded like, I can't jump to the conclusion that what I heard was actually a name, Zeth, or an age, nineteen; it just sounded like that.
All in all it was a very interesting tour, I really enjoyed and in an odd way enjoyed conversing with those who were true believers in ghosts and spirits of the night. After all, just because I'm not a believer, doesn't mean I'm not open or have nothing to learn. read more