Hauntings in Gettysburg

As a writer of paranormal romances and urban fantasy, I'm always interested in real ghost stories. When I was researching a young adult ghost story romance, I discovered a restaurant not far from where I used to live where the story takes place (Merritt Island, Florida), which is inhabited by a flapper era ghost. She's not nice. :) Patrons have experienced choking!

My son went with a group of AFROTC cadets to Gettysburg with their AF graduate assistants to see Gettysburg and learn about the battles during a leadership training exercise. He's learning about computer stuff all summer in NY. What I found fascinating was the ghost stories that prevail at Gettysburg.

One is about an alley where if you take a picture of yourself in the alley, the alley will be visible, but not the person. So he tested it out and sure enough, he wasn't in the picture. :) At Gettysburg College, the Pennsylvania Hall was turned into a field hospital during the Civil War and sentries are seen pacing across the cupola. Many sightings have been reported in the battlefields, but the most have been at a place called Devil's Den where many slain soldiers have been seen.

At Triangular Field, electronic and photographic equipment often fail to work. A door at the George Weikert House won't stay closed no matter what anybody does with it. At Baltimore Street where bodies were stacked up before they could be buried in the July heat, phantom smells have been reported. At the Jenny Wade house where she was killed while kneading dough, baking bread can be smelled. I never think of smells when I think of ghosts, so I thought this was a fascinating aspect for turning into fictionalized versions.

My own phantom letter "C" on my son's wall hasn't returned. And when he has more time to talk to me, I can't wait to hear more about the ghosts of Gettysburg. My sister and her husband had actually lived there while they were stationed at Fort Ritchie, but she never told me about all the neat stuff! :)

Okay, so I've got to get back to the real world where I'm teaching happy hookers, checking out a romance cover hunk (I got review of my website that said that the guy loved my paranormal books and he's a friend of the romance cover hunk, so I need to thank him), and post a new review Google alert just told me about for Heart of the Wolf.

So before I go, I wanted to ask, have you ever been anywhere that is supposed to have regular ghost visitations?

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Terry Spear

Heart of the Wolf, Don't Cry Wolf, Betrayal of the Wolf, Allure of the Wolf

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