Gettysburg Campground
(See UPDATE at the bottom of the page as well)

The night that scared me the most:

I was vacationing at a campground with my family and relatives in Gettysburg PA one summer. The last night we were there we took part in a Ghost Tour which was interesting. Very creepy stories we heard and I don't know if any of you have been there but if you go into town at night and no-one is around. It doesn't feel like it.

After the tour we went back to the campground and I still felt funny. I don't know but it was weird. My sister and I were walking to the bathroom. It wasn't far from our site. She was a couple feet ahead of me and as I was walking I saw a light move out of the corner of my eye in the woods really fast, right when I turned to see what it was this guy dumped bottles and cans into the dumpster and it made this loud noise and my sister and I jumped. It was funny, so later when I brought it up I mentioned the light and she said she saw a light too. How scary and weird is that?

So my 4 cousins, sister, and I were sitting around the campsite bored, and I thought why not grab the video camera go into town and ghost hunt. We all laughed then thought why not. So we did. It was 11:00 at night and we were just walking around and stopped at the Jennie Wade House (only civilian killed in the Civil War) which is supposedly haunted and filmed but nothing happened to the camera. But if you watch the tape you can see that there are two spotlights that are on and are pointed to shine on her statue but you can't see the lights shining on her. Its just dark. And you don't see the lights shining on anything else; they are pointed at the statue. Very odd.

The scary stuff continues. My 2 cousins Mike and Dan and I decided to go into a cemetery where soldiers are buried with the video camera to see if anything would happen like the camera malfunction or whatever. So my sister and other 2 cousins (both girls) decided to wait in the road because they were kind of freaked and also were afraid to get caught so they were going to be the lookout. I started the tape and told the boys to not say a word in the cemetery That way if we get any sounds or voices on tape we know it wasn't us.

We headed on in and walked to the center. I noticed nothing was going on on the camera so I was looking around this graveyard. It was really nice out and the sky was clear and the moon was shining on everything, I don't remember if it was a full one or not. Anyway, I started to hear this noise but I couldn't make it out so I stopped and was trying to pay attention to it. It sounded like alot of people were yelling and cheering way off in the distance. There was also this sound of banging like drums and a weird popping sound. You could hear it faintly. I listened for about 2-3 minutes and thought maybe it was the girls making the yelling noise. And I didn't ask the boys because I thought maybe it was just my mind. So we decided to leave and met up with the girls.

I asked my cousin Beth if they were talking or laughing really loud. She said no, the whole time they were quiet. I told her what I heard and we just laughed and went back to the campground. Everyone went to bed except for my cousins Beth, Erin, and I. We stayed up a bit talking and making jokes about ghosts and stuff. Mostly about Jennie Wade, not to be mean. We were just saying how weird it was that her statue in the front of her house has her holding a loaf of bread. When baking bread is what killed her. As we were talking I kept hearing a noise coming from the woods across the road from our site. I kept looking over to see if their was an animal but the steps didn't sound much like an animal. They were slow, I don't know maybe it was. Then Beth goes, "Does anyone hear that?" And I said, "Yeah its like footsteps." And Erin goes, "Oh I just saw a light move really fast." So I go, "OK well its time for bed." And we all took off.

They went to their tent and I went into our pop-up camper and got in bed. As I was starting to lay down I heard a woman's voice say my name about 3 times. I looked out and saw no-one standing there. I called out Erin's name but not loud, thinking it was probably her, that's what it mostly sounded like. But their tent wasn't close to our pop-up and the voice sounded like the woman was a few feet from me outside. So I quickly zipped up the screen windows and got under the covers. My heart was pounding and I was shaking. I was 20 at the time and nothing really creeps me out. But at that moment I was more scared then I have ever been in my whole life. I don't remember how I fell asleep. I think I just put my headphones on and listened to music. But I have no idea what happened that night.

A few months later I was watching the movie Gettysburg and their was a part where soldiers were running to attack and as they did they were yelling and their were rifles being fired. It suddenly all came back to me, standing in the cemetery And I realized I heard the battle that night. But as for everything else, I really don't know. As for the video we shot, nothing happened But it still brings back memory of that fun yet incredibly creepy night.

W813bill

UPDATE

Hi. A few months ago I sent in a story and it was put on your website. Its the Gettysburg Campground story. In it I mentioned filming in the cemetery. Well one night I thought I'd watch the tape and turned the volume up to see if I can hear anything. Its mostly quiet but you hear this noise like someone's walking on rocks. Its weird because I wasn't walking when I filmed. And the cemetery was all grass. Then you faintly hear a voice that says "Attack everyone." And the tape stops. I played it for my cousins to show them and it was funny. They were all leaning towards the TV so they can hear it and I had the volume turned all the way up then it came and they all quickly jumped back and their eyes were wide open and so were their mouths.