Battle of Gettysburg - Gettysburg College
During the filming of the movie Gettysburg, many extras would find themselves with plenty of free time. Although the movie was not filmed on the battlefield, it was not uncommon for these extras to walk upon the battlefield in their period uniforms. One small group of men found themselves atop the Round Top, admiring the view as the sun began to set. A rustling of the leaves behind them alerted them to the presence of a stranger. From the brush emerged a rather haggard looking old man, dressed as a Union private. The man was filthy and smelled of sulfur, a key ingredient of the black powder used in 1863. He walked up to the men and as he handed them a few musket rounds, he said "Rough one today, eh boys?" He turned and walked away. The group looked down at their musket rounds, when they looked up the man had vanished.
When the rounds were brought in to town they were authenticated as 140 years old! Many visitors have reported the smell of gunpowder, and have heard gunshots and screams from the Little Round Top over the years.
Pennsylvania Hall at Gettysburg College has been the site of many Civil War era ghost encounters, but perhaps none can compare to what two college administrators saw one night. The Hall had been used as a field hospital during the battle of Gettysburg. The two administrators were taking the elevator from the fourth floor down to the first floor; the elevator passed the first floor and continued on to the basement. When the doors opened, the administrators could scarcely believe their eyes. What was a storage space was replaced by a scene from the hospital: dead and dying men were lying about on the floor; blood soaked doctors and nurses were rushing about desperately trying to save their lives. No sound emanated from the ghostly vision, but both administrators saw it clearly. Horrified, they frantically pushed the elevator button to close the doors. As the doors closed, one of the nurses looked up and directly at them, seeming to see them, with a pleading expression on her face.
One of the most famous stories is that of the Blue Boy, a ghost of Gettysburg College. The young boy supposedly haunts what was once a women's dormitory. After escaping from the local orphanage, two girls hid the boy on a window ledge in the winter during a room check. When they returned more than an hour later, the only sign of him were footprints. The boy's ghost has been seen by past occupants of the room with blue lips as if he was frozen in the winter weather. That window is known to fly open during storms, even while locked.
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