05/31/2026
Good Morning, everyone. I joined this list a few months ago because I love Gettysburg, and feel pulled in by the, I don't know what to call it other than mood, every time I visit. I live in Western Ohio, so I don't go often. I've loved the pictures and stories that I've seen and read here, and feel like I should share the pictures I have taken. My first visit was in July of 2001. My son had become interested in the Civil War and was doing reinactments, and he invited us to the reinactment. We did all the touristy things, and of course, I went on a ghost walk, not expecting to see anything. I took a ton of pictures but didn't look at them until we returned home. I had a lot of pictures with orbs in them, and it was fun to imagine what they might have been. I didn't know what an orb even was back then. Then I got to the two pictures I'm going to share and the doubts started and real curiosity. Both pictures were taken one after the other, and I'm showing the first picture mainly so that you can see that the person in the picture looked perfectly normal with no discoloration on her skin. Also, there was something in the window that I could see but couldn't figure out what it was. Also, you can see where it was. All I did in that picture was bring the light up a little. I wasn't even interested in the next picture until I was showing my sister-in-law and she said she was more worried about the soldier walking in the corner of the picture. We started enlarging it until we could see him clearly and then I was creeped out. His eye is glowing and it looks like blood around his face, and he has no ear! I hadn't changed the picture in any way, so it's just as it came out of the picture. I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen anyone walking in the picture, and none of us can remember seeing a reinactor at the time I took it. I'm pretty sure that, if I had seen one I would have thought how cool that was. Oh, he also looks like he is carrying a rifle maybe on his right shoulder. You can see his right hand if you blow it up. You can think whatever you like, but I know what I think it is. Also, much later I took my pictures back to Gettysburg to get some opinions. I showed them to the man who wrote all the Ghosts of Gettysburg books, and he felt they were what I thought. Sorry this is so long winded, and I have more that I will share also. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I hope you like the pictures!