High Strangeness
As many folks do over the summer, Greg Yuelling and his family were visiting the famed Civil War battle site in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
And he knew about the ghost stories.
"I've heard people say you can catch videos of ghosts around there, but we were so skeptical until that night," the 46-year-old told The U.S. Sun. "I always questioned the validity of those ghost videos you see on TV; I was always pretty disbelieving."
Then he added these words to the paper: "I believe everything now."
What happened?
"We just went there as tourists, to learn more about the history of the Civil War and see the old battleground, where the Gettysburg Address was given and all that stuff," Yuelling recounted to the paper.
And given all the ghost stories — over 50,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day battle in July 1863 — you don't think they were going to stay inside when the sun went down, do you?
"We were driving along one night, and we started hearing noises," Yuelling told the paper. "I heard things to the left, and my uncle heard things to the right, and there was a fog — but the fog was weird. It was only in one patch, not dispersed."
It got weirder.
"Then we saw these shapes moving in the darkness. They were the size of humans. One of them ran right through the cannon," he recalled to the paper.
Yes, video was rolling — and faint shapes can be seen apparently moving on the grass near the cannons before slithering away.
Yuelling called the whole ordeal "scary" and "crazy" — so much so that his spooked-out uncle quickly rolled up the window, the paper said.
"We went back, and watched the videos over and over again, and then we blew them up on the big screen to get a closer look," he told the paper.
Bad idea.
"That made us even more freaked out," Yuelling noted to the Sun.
Things didn't improve after hours, either, as he told the paper he couldn't shake "this strange, ominous feeling, like something was telling me to go back there."
(You know the plot of "Pet Sematary," don't you?)
Sleep wouldn't come for Yuelling that night, he told the Sun — but he wouldn't go back to the spot of the apparent apparitions, either: "I was creeped out, so I didn't go."
Reader Comments
Like coronavirus, it's a clever hoax.
No it's not a rust stain. It's the Virgin mary!
Once again, having the audio would significantly assist in attempting to determine legitimacy. The fact the BFM didn't provide it is, for me, what must seal the issue.
R.C.
(Especially when on the wrong side of town trying to buy some crack.)
RC
Also, though, I'd guess that we see that because the Blaze? / BFM cropped it, ran it through a video image stabilization and framing program, and at that time, they changed the audiotrack as I griped about above.
I'd guess that whoever did all that was well aware of what this really was, but, after all, it probably originates from a 'National Enquirer' motivation, whose every motive is to stretch credulity.*
R.C.
*Have you ever read the Steven King short story, Night Flyer? A vampire story with a pretty good and funny, on point discussion of that mentality.
RC
I think there's something to seeing apparitions in the fog, it enables them to be seen where otherwise they'd be invisible to the naked eye. Like spraying aerosol thru a laser. That "Lady of the Lake" ghost story where people see her along the roadside during a fog, i believe the fine water molecules provides a medium for their orbs to materialize into full body form.
When i was a teen i was traveling late at night in a thick fog with my aunt and uncle in a rural patch of interstate outside of Dallas, my aunt was asleep, my uncle driving, i was in the front seat watching ahead in case he got tired, lost control in the fog. Suddenly i yelled, "watch out, you'll hit him!" As i seen a boy going across both lanes in front of us on a 10-speed bike. Then he disappeared like he was never there. Excited, i asked my uncle, "did you see that guy on a bike? He vanished!" To my surprise he said yes, that he saw the same thing. He wasn't too surprised as he said he drove an 18 wheeler truck for years long haul down interstate highways, and seen similar in fog before. His belief was fog played tricks on your eyes. But the fact that without hesitation he said he saw the exact same thing convinced me we saw the ghost of a boy who was killed trying to cross the road on his bike.
RC
A residual haunting, also known as a place memory, is the most common type of haunting. In most cases it does not involve a ghost or spirit interacting with the people who are witnessing it. This type of sighting is a remnant of a past traumatic event that happened at or near the location prior to someone’s death.
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RC
We do not always remember because we do not want to and our ability to remember has been shut down in early childhood. It is common to have memories of flying because in the spirit body you can. It is very fast - just desire to be in a different location and it happens immediately. When we learn to leave our physical body on whim, we will fly.
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I.... have become comfortably numb.
RC. Yes awareness is stopping.
My father who is in heaven, I recognise you are all holy loving and merciful, And I am your child, not the sinful subservient and depraved creature that our false teachers would have me believe. 💕
I am the greatest of your creation, the most wonderful of your handiwork and the object of your great soul’s love and tenderest care. 💕
I know that your will is that I become at-one with you and partake of your great love which you have bestowed upon me through your mercy and desire that I become in truth, your child through love, and not through the sacrifice and death of any of your creatures. 💕
I pray that you will open up my soul to the inflowing of your love, and that then will come to me your Holy Spirit to bring into my soul this Your Divine Love, until my soul is transformed into the very essence of yourself. 💕
And that there will come to me faith, such faith as will cause me to realise that that I am truly your child and one with you in very substance and not in image only. 💕
Let me have such faith as will cause me to know that you are my Father, and the bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only I myself can prevent your love changing me from mortal to immortal. 💕
Let me never cease to realise that your love awaits each and every one of us, and when I come to you in faith and ernest aspiration, your love will never be withheld from me. 💕
Keep me in the shadow of your love, every hour and moment of my life, and help me to overcome all the temptations of the flesh, and the influence of the power of the evil ones who constantly surround me, and try to turn my attention away from you to the pleasures and allurements of this world. 💕
I thank for your love and the privilege of receiving it. I believe that you are my father, the loving father who smiles upon me in my weakness, and is always ready to help me and take me in your arms of love. 💕
I pray this with all the earnestness and sincere longings of my soul, and trusting in your love, give you all the glory honour and love this finite soul can give. Amen. 💕
I do not pray in Jesus name; I go straight to God. No intermediaries.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
Not knocking your beliefs, but if i hadn't cried out Jesus with my dieing breath in that ravine, i wouldn't be here. If i had tried to talk to God the father...crickets, grave.
God definitely heard your heart felt prayer and answered you.
When Jesus said ‘I am the way the truth and the light’ I believe he meant follow me and I will show you the way to God.
The next bit about nobody comes to the Father except through me, I do not believe. I believe that is an interpretation that suits the religions who do not want us to have a direct relationship with God, but God does.
It is simple to experiment and try it out; This is what I have done.
I believe there is but one God and He/She is my true parent. I believe the Holy Spirit is God’s conduit by which we can receive Divine Love and I believe Jesus is a teacher about the way to God and that is what he demonstrated to us in the first century.
Parts of the Bible I love but a lot of it I do not believe because it paints God as wrathful etc and I think God is only love and a loving parent is only ever kind caring and compassionate. Also I do not think it possible to fit all of God in one book; He is much more than that.
So no conscious, interactive ghosts, like in Ghostbusters. No need to shout "Oh who ya gonna call?"
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Yup, the second is most likely what we’re seeing.