M.B. HENRY 
A Ghost at Gettysburg: No Photographs Please…
Devil’s Den.
Just the name provides a good idea of what awaits you in such a place. Towering, jagged rocks make for difficult climbs while the sun blasts on your back. Hills covered with brush, snarled trees, and stone monuments linger nearby. It’s isolated from the road, and a perfect place to twist your ankle if you don’t watch your step. And on July 2 of 1863, this piece of earth in the fields of Pennsylvania created a whole other level of horrible.
In fact, Devil’s Den has never been that merry of a place. According to local legend, the area attracted violence and bloodshed long before Lee and his gray-clad troops came through looking for trouble. Centuries before then, indigenous populations hunted both game and warring tribes in the area. 19th century archaeologists unearthed some signs of a great tribal battle that might have taken place there. More modern historians think that some large mounds nearby could have served as ancient burial sites. Even the eerie, dangerous placement of the rocks scared plenty of people away over the years. The narrow twists and turns between big stones, along with the dark nooks and crannies, made it easy to get turned around in the times before roads and Google maps. Then there’s the snakes. I mean, even Indiana Jones draws the line at snakes.
So, in July of 1863, Devil’s Den already had a reputation, although it’s still up for debate when the nickname came along. And by the time Union and Confederate troops finished with the area, Devil’s Den had earned a place in the immortal grounds of history.
It all started because of two big foothills called the Little Round Tops. On the second day of what would become one of the most well-known (and deadliest) battles fought on North American soil, a Union general named Gouverneur K. Warren scouted two big hills outside the town of Gettysburg, right in the middle of the battlefield. As he looked out over the vast terrain from his cushy, hilltop position, he thought, “hm, what a view. Might come in handy for keeping an eye on things.” [My quote, not his.] He quickly spread the word, and Union generals across Gettysburg began stacking the hills with troops in blue, and stuffing gunners into the rocky “Devil’s Den” gorges below.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the line, Lee, Longstreet, and their battle hungry troops were ready to follow up the sweeping victory they had gained just the evening before. In one of the most stunning routes of the Civil War, July 1, 1863 saw a massive retreat by Union soldiers. After a hot, bloody day of fighting, they dashed through the town of Gettysburg in a panic before converging on Cemetery Ridge to try and reform. Had this route been pressed immediately, there’s no telling how that battle (and subsequently the entire war) might have turned out. However, miscommunication between Lee and his generals closest to the fighting led to a halt in the attack, which gave the Union soldiers time to regroup and reorganize.
Ready to finish the job he started the night before, on July 2, Lee prepared his forces for a large-scale assault all across the Union Line. He ordered General Longstreet, along with General Hood, to attack the far left of the blue stronghold early in the morning, in hopes of rolling up the flank as he and the late General Jackson had done at Chancellorsville earlier that year. However, things turned sour from the offing, starting with costly delays in marching reinforcements up to the line. On a morning when every second counted to press their advantage, it wasn’t until late in the afternoon that rebel artillery finally opened up, and fighting broke out all over Gettysburg and the surrounding area. Blue and gray crashed in a swath of now-infamous places like the Peach Orchard, the Wheat Field, and the rocky, dangerous area now known as the Devil’s Den.
No place on the Gettysburg Battlefield was very healthy for those three days in July of 1863, but Devil’s Den was probably the last one anyone would sign up for. A Pennsylvania soldier unlucky enough to fight there had this to say of it – “[It seemed] as though nature in some wild freak had forgotten herself and piled great rocks in mad confusion together.” Another Federal fighter in the area described it thus – “Its base huge boulders, some of them as large as a small house, rest in an irregular, confused mass, forming nooks and cavernous recesses suggestive of its uncanny name.”
In such rocky, formidable terrain with its twists and turns, cracks and grooves, and narrow, dicey passageways, regiments battling it out there quickly broke down into disorganized chaos. Marching orders and formal commands flew out the door faster than the terrified Gettysburg citizens. Despite the gunners Warren had placed in the area, and the strict lines of reinforcements, the fighting turned into a staggering “every man for himself” situation, with men slugging it out over those boulders in the midday heat and gunfire. Then came the artillery from the hills up above.
A reporter on the scene struggled to capture the insanity of the barrage – “Down the plunging shot came, bursting before and around and everywhere tearing up the ground in a terrific rain of death… the rain of grape and canister began, mingling their sharp cries with the shrill whistle of the mad Minnie balls which seemed to come in showers.” As for the men ensnared in the bloodbath, they had little better to say of it. A gunner of the 9th Massachusetts proclaimed – “The shrieking, hissing, and seething… it seemed as though it must be the work of the very devil himself.” A fitting description for the locale, I suppose.
By the time the fighting around Gettysburg stopped, and Lee’s troops limped out of town, the Devil’s Den appearance easily stacked up to its name. The rocks, according to many witnesses, wound up splashed red with blood and covered in blackened, swollen corpses. More bodies piled up in the gaping cracks and gorges below. All of the fields in and around Gettysburg became hollowed ground, but death reaped an especially bad harvest on Devil’s Den.
Perhaps that is why, over 155 years later, it is considered one of the most haunted locales in the city of Gettysburg. Strange stories began circulating not long after the final shots had been fired – most of them involving a male apparition appearing to people who got lost in the area. Two hunters strayed into the battlefield one evening shortly after the war, and when they got turned around in the rocks, a shadowy, dim figure of a man appeared behind them. He said nothing, just pointing them in the right direction. When one of the hunters turned to thank him, the apparition vanished.
According to former Gettysburg Park Ranger and local ghosty historian Mark Nesbitt, a similar apparition began appearing in the 1970s. In the modern era, this stranger “developed” (photo pun!) a taste for picking on photographers. Early one morning, a woman went to Devil’s Den early to get some pictures in the swirling, morning mist, but she grew uncomfortable when she felt a presence behind her. She turned to find a strange man with shaggy hair, ragged clothes, and a flop-hat like those worn by many rebel soldiers during the Civil War. “What you are looking for is over there,” the man said, pointing her the way out of the rocks. When she tried to ask him what he was talking about, he disappeared.
When the woman reported the sighting to a park ranger at the visitor’s center, the ranger shrugged it off. Because let’s face it, it was the 1970s. Dudes with shaggy hair and floppy hats weren’t exactly a phenomenon back then. However, the ranger found it uncanny when another visitor came, less than a month later, and reported a similar occurrence, only this one was even stranger. This visitor was also a photographer, and he had wanted to capture some Devil’s Den photos at sunset. He made sure no one else was around when he set up his camera (because some of us photographers don’t like people in our shots). Although the battlefield looked bare at the time, something weird happened when he developed his shots at home. A blurry image of a man with shaggy hair, ragged clothes, and a floppy hat appeared in the photos, standing on the rocks in the right side of the picture.
The annoyed photographer thought a tourist had somehow walked into his shot, so he returned to Gettysburg a few weeks later to try again. This time when he developed the roll, every single photo came out with damage to the right side of the film – in the exact same spot the mysterious man had appeared in the first roll.
Even after shaggy hair and flop hats vanished from trendy fashion, visitors still reported seeing this strange man around Devil’s Den. Some claim they mistook him for a Civil War re-enactor and posed for photos with him, only to find the man missing from the photos when they got developed later. Other visitors reported damage to their film rolls no matter what tricks they tried to mitigate it.
As the years passed and cameras got more advanced, Devil’s Den upped the ante by messing with the cameras themselves. Slews of visitors began reporting strange malfunctions in their equipment when they tried to get shots in that creepy, rocky zone. Full batteries suddenly lost their charge. Pictures came out black for no reason. Buttons stuck and screens froze.
Mark Nesbitt has yet another strange story about this, one he actually experienced first-hand. One day, he led a father/son duo through the entire park, providing historical information and pictures for an artsy documentary they wanted to make about the famous battle. All three of them, even Nesbitt, had brought very nice, modern cameras along for the journey. Although their equipment worked beautifully all day, problems began almost as soon as they set foot on Devil’s Den.
It started with Nesbitt. His film stuck, which he figured signified the end of the roll. Yet when he checked the indicator, it showed a half roll of film remaining. Thinking the camera needed a minor adjustment (and maybe some curse words), Nesbitt waved at his company to go on without him. But when he looked up again, father and son looked equally frustrated. One of their cameras had jammed out of nowhere, while the other had frozen without explanation. The three frustrated photographers continued their journey while fiddling with their cameras. Once they left Devil’s Den, all three cameras returned to perfect working order.
Bizarre… but certainly not the end of camera problems at Devil’s Den. Since we all love a good ghost story, a local public television station reached out to Mr. Nesbitt for some phantom tales to include in a Halloween Special on their network. Nesbitt agreed to take them on a tour through the battlefield, and they brought all their best filming and video equipment along. Nesbitt took them to Pennsylvania Hall (read about the elevator that gives you the ride of a lifetime here) and Gettysburg College Campus before strolling into Devil’s Den. Just as the camera crew finished wiring Nesbitt’s mic for his interview, the camera’s lights flashed red and the whole system went down.
The show’s producer was stunned and frustrated. The camera was top of the line – coming with a whopping $12,000 price tag and plenty of fancy, computerized bells and whistles. They pushed through the interview anyway, and the footage came out barely usable. However, it still served as the show’s opening segment, along with testimony from the shaken producer that the camera had always worked perfectly until they walked into Devil’s Den.
Being familiar with these stories, and many other ghostly happenings in and around Devil’s Den, I admit I was a bit excited to visit the place in 2016. As much as I love to write and read about ghosts, I’ve never had the pleasure (or horror) of meeting one. I thought maybe my camera obsession, and my cute little face, could draw the Devil’s Den floppy hat ghost who picks on photographers out for a visit. And if he made an appearance, surely he’d be no match for the wizardry of my modern, digital, Canon 60D DSLR.
I snapped pictures all over Gettysburg that day, and everything went off without a hitch. So as I descended the Round Tops and mounted the jagged rocks at Devil’s Den, I got chills of anticipation. I took a good look around, but I saw no mystery man in a flop hat lounging nearby. In fact, I saw no one at all, since it was a bit later in the day and most had retreated back to their hotels. I checked to make sure my camera was in good working order. I raised the eyepiece to my face, lined up a gorgeous shot of the rocks framed by blooming dogwoods, and clicked.
When I looked at my camera screen to see how the picture came out, I saw…. A gorgeous shot of rocks framed by the dogwoods. Just as I had framed it in the eyepiece. I took several more pictures around the area, and all of them turned out well. A little too well. In fact, the pictures I took around Gettysburg are some of the best I’ve ever taken.
If the Devil’s Den ghost did pay me a visit, I didn’t see him, and he certainly broke his MO and didn’t ruin a single pixel of the hundreds of pictures I took that day. But then again, ghosts seem to like me. I’ve never had one pop out and scare me, or make things go bump in the night in my house. Perhaps because I’ve dedicated myself to purging history’s ghosts, so they figure I have enough problems and they should mind their manners.
But what about everyone else? Why would a ghost pick on people trying to photograph Devil’s Den? Maybe he’s trying to tell us something, and that really got me thinking. In this modern era, the rush for the perfect photo sometimes becomes all-consuming, and it overshadows the power of experience. The rise of Instagram and Facebook have led to very public obsessions of the perfect yoga pose, the perfect filter, or the perfect framing when lining up a shot. People at tourism sites the world over seem way more concerned with post-worthy perfection than taking in the sights and sounds around them.
Perhaps Mr. Floppy Hat wants us to know that sometimes, it’s worth it to put away the camera, pocket that phone, and just take in the energy of the place you’re standing in. Especially in such a haunted locale like Gettysburg. You don’t have to see a ghost to feel its presence. You can just stand there in silence, and look out over those fields. The magnitude of it, the lives lost, the time that has passed, and the countless personal histories wired into the grounds, can hit you right in the center if you open yourself up to it. The feeling creates something much more powerful than the perfect photograph. It forms a strong bond to the history, and the spirit of the people who bled there.
Take a trip to the small town of Gettysburg. Climb up on the rocks in Devil’s Den. Look around, stop, and be still for a few minutes. Breathe in and breathe out. Let the emotion of what happened there during those fateful three days seep into your blood. Then hit your yoga pose and take your picture. Maybe whisper a greeting to that ghost while you do so. Let him know you care. Because your pictures could turn out gorgeous, but your memories will turn out even better.
SOURCES
Gettysburg Ghost Tour
Gettysburg National Military Park
Ghosts of Gettysburg Vol I – M. Nesbitt
Spirits of the Civil War – T. Taylor
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage – N.A. Trudeau
Civil War Ghost Stories – A. Konstam
All photos by M.B. Henry, and maybe a little help from that ghost! For more from the Civil War battlefields, click here, here, and here.
And for another ghostly tale from Gettysburg about the 20th Maine and the Little Round Tops, click here.
Interested in some ghosty poetry about this story? Visit my friend Lee Austin’s blog for a Devil’s Den post that rhymes!
You went at the best time of year. I live in Lancaster and every time I went there is was like 90 degrees. Fun trip though and if you didn’t this time you have to stop at Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum if only to say you did. 🐘🐘🐘
I’m sure I will return to Gettysburg someday, as it is such an amazing place. And you can bet I will be adding the elephant museum to my list of places to stop, now that I know it’s there 🙂 🙂
Don’t expect too much but you will definitely have to but a souvenir elephant, I still have mine.
I love little quirky stops like that, so I’m sure I will enjoy it 🙂 The Route 66 is crammed full of that kind of thing. Don’t know if you’ve ever traveled any parts of that route, but something tells me you would like it.
History at its best, spiced with ghostly intervention. What is there not to like. Thank you.
Joanna
Glad you liked it!
This post is very well written and interesting, not unusual for you.
Thanks very much! 🙂 🙂 So glad you enjoyed it and the others too. What have you been up to? Feel like I haven’t seen you around lately!
I finished writing my second novel in August, and have slowly returned to nature photography. But this Covid-19 pandemic is seriously curtailing any out of state travel …
Oh man, I hear you there. We managed a trip to Yellowstone in June but nothing outside of that. Here’s hoping we can travel more next year. And congrats on your second novel! How wonderful!
You led me through this way different Blog post, and I, too, made it through, all the way. The battles fought there, Oh My Goodness. MB Henry, you sure lead, and lead to where we have never thought we’d be . . . .
What a flattering, lovely thing to say 🙂 <3 I want you to know it means a lot and I really appreciate it! I'm so glad you enjoyed the post in all its quirks, I do love little ghost stories this time of year 🙂
Interesting post and wonderful pictures!
Thanks – glad you enjoyed it!
How fascinating!
🙂 Thanks!
That was a damn fine read M.B!
I’m damn glad you think so 🙂
Wow, this is fasinating! I’ve been there, and remember a strange eerie feeling at those rocks! It was weird, and guess what……it was the 1970’s.
Uh oh!! Did you see anyone in a flop hat?!
No, maybe a shadow but I can’t be sure. Eerie for sure!
Oooooh very interesting. Outside of feeling all the feels, I’ve never had a first-hand ghost experience. But standing in a place like Gettysburg, it’s easy to believe ghosts are real!
Yep, for sure. 🙂
That was a real interesting Post on Devils Den. I have been there 2 or 3 times in the past, but never had or experienced anything but seeing those huge rocks. I have walked around, like you, and wondered just what it was like back then, even though it’s so quiet now. Never saw any snakes or ghostly forms. No strange sounds, either. I kinda wonder why people like Mark Nesbitt seem to have these “experiences” and others don’t.
I’m like you – while I’ve certainly felt the sad, eerie energy of Gettysburg, I’ve never encountered any ghosts in the flesh, so to speak. As for why they appear to some and not others, I guess we’ll never know, and some things just defy explanation. I don’t know if ghosts are real or not, I think they are in some form, and different people experience that differently.
Fabulous storytelling and photos, MB! You didn’t need a ghostwriter to write this well about that (possible) Gettysburg ghost. 🙂
Ghost puns! 🙂 Well done, Dave.
Such a powerful story MB. Loved the images and especially your thoughts about the real message the ghost is trying to deliver. Wonderful
I’m so glad you enjoyed it – thanks much for visiting 🙂
What a helpful ghost! Glad you were able to capture both the experience and great photos. I guess it’s all in the attitude.
I think so too! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the post
It created chaos on the field of battle, but it certainly made for interesting scenery for your pictures.
I was in Gettysburg when I was a kid, but don’t recall this. Thanks!
Right? A nice place to take photographs when the ghost lets you! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the post – hope you make it back to Gettysburg again someday!
I’d love to….. now to get my better-half on a plane!!
I also haven’t been to Gettysburg since we lived nearby when I was young. My trip to Pennsylvania this year got derailed, but maybe in a year or two.
Wonderful storytelling- I’ve always been partial to ghostly tales. The Civil War is ripe for a lot of that, given all the premature death and mayhem.
Yep… lots of trips got derailed this year, didn’t they? 🙁 I hope everything works out next year or the year after. And I agree, Civil War ghost stories have an extra thrill for me 🙂
This is my second attempt at posting a comment. It’s the perfect season for this story! The photos are hauntingly beautiful as well. I love stories from the Civil War era. You tell this one so well.
Glad you liked it
A fascinating story well told. You have certainly put into perspective what was just a battlefield name to me. My one experience of assistance from beyond the grave is featured in this post: https://derrickjknight.com/2012/08/07/would-you-believe-it/
Wow – what a fascinating post! Glad you shared it here as it fits right in 🙂 I’ve never had much of an experience first-hand outside of some very odd dreams here and there, and just “feeling it” in the air when I visit certain places. Glad you enjoyed the post!
What spooky ghost stories. They were almost more than I could phantom. So well written as we have all come to expect from you.
Well done on the phantom pun, sir. I approve. Glad you enjoyed the post! 🙂
The eerie sadness of Gettysburg stuck with me for weeks after my visit there. It’s as if that ghost sat on my shoulder and whispered reminders – then finally he went back home! Nice post!
Gettysburg does have that effect on people I have found – they’ve done such a good job preserving it, it’s hard not to step back in time there! So glad you enjoyed the post.
Another excellent and compelling history lesson. Nice!
Thanks much! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it
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Good photos, well written and presented. Captures the past and bring it to the moment.
I’m so glad you enjoyed both the photos and the writing 🙂
the photography ghost added spice to a morbid war history … but then you always tell a tale well! You did take great shots on an obviously sunny day but it’s not difficult to imagine the grey heavily laden skies with blood spilt everywhere … an eerie place indeed.
thanks for the history lesson 🙂
I’ve met a few “ghosts”, one in Wales at a youth hostel, so spooky it had to be true! Another I was trying to take two friends to an historical site in the poorest Indian state, Bihar, that was notoriously difficult to find. We were also warned of rabbie riddled dogs in the area. We’d got lost several times when this gentle chap in rags with a large staff showed us the way. I turned to thank him but he’d vanished …
Oooo chilling!! I’ve never encountered a ghost myself, at least not that I could see. But I definitely believe there’s a lot of things out there that can’t be explained. Glad you enjoyed the post and thanks as always for your kind words 🙂
I always do, so that’s why I wait until I have space to savor them 🙂 thanks MB!
I am not nearly as well versed in Civil War history as I should be so your offerings are both enjoyable and educational.
I’m happy to help! 🙂
Very poignant, M.B.
Ghosts or no ghosts. the ghastly happenings of Gettysburg should never be forgotten.
Here here – I completely agree.
Nice story! Perfect for this month with Halloween coming up. I had never heard of this place story before. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it and learned something new 🙂
Spent so many hours of my childhood on Devil’s Den! I feel like I practically live there, I visit Gettysburg so often. 😆❤ It’s my second favorite place on planet Earth.
I don’t blame you! I feel like if I lived closer I would visit very often. They’ve done such a remarkable job keeping that place up, and I bet you could visit several times and still learn something new with each visit! Glad you enjoyed the post.
Great story and I love the photos. Lots of rural personality.
The area is truly a pretty one to photograph, especially when the trees are blooming 🙂
This is interesting to read. I’ve heard so many ghost stories and this is quite captivating and at the same time scary. Wondering why they picked only photographers too. I tend to doubt much about the existence of ghosts. I’ve always thought it’s fantasy. But real-life experiences of people encountering ghost keep coming to me. This clears my doubts once more.
Sometimes I’m still not sure exactly what I believe when it comes to ghosts, but I do believe there are lots of things that happen that can’t really be explained. I also believe that things linger over a place like Gettysburg, you can feel it in the air! Glad you enjoyed the post, thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
Wow! What a fascinating and well told story. Those poor soldiers. I would never have thought of rocks being a problem like it was…and the ghost. Perhaps after so many years, he accomplished whatever he wanted to. Glad your photos turned out. Although it would have been cool to have captured the man with the floppy hat. I agree with you – we often just need to be still in a place before photographing. I often do that on a simple walk in the woods 🙂
Yeah… I’ve tried to meet ghosts a few times but I’ve still never seen one. Maybe that’s a good thing though haha! 🙂 So glad you enjoyed the post, and yes, it’s definitely good to slow down and take it in sometimes, especially in a walk through the woods! 🙂 Lots of beauty to appreciate there.
That might be a good thing in the long run :). Lots of beauty in the woods – in nature everywhere for sure 🙂
A grim and bloody battle superbly retold along with a very curious story of ghosts. Most interesting, thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it – thanks very much for saying so!
It definitely looks like an ominous place… and it’s not surprising at all that the place would be haunted. It’s also evident in the photos that winter is approaching. I only visited that area once and it was in late spring so it looked a lot different. Great post!
So glad you enjoyed it! We actually visited at the very tail end of winter – some buds here and there were just starting to come out, and you’re right, it lent the place an extra eerie, haunted feeling. Next time I go, I think I’ll try for late spring or summer. I agree about the hauntings too, not surprising some energy might be lingering around there after everything that happened.
so hauntingly beautiful. I must put this on my list of “to visit” places when the border finally opens. xo
Oh yes I hope you can go sometime. It is a pretty amazing place – they’ve done such a good job keeping it up. Glad you enjoyed the post! 🙂
So interesting – all of it. Your photos are so beautiful, it was hard to imagine the carnage that took place there…but your vivid writing made it seem real enough.
As for the ghost sightings, those are wonderfully creepy stories. I am a little sad you didn’t run into Mr Floppy Hat, though.
I was a little disappointed too! 🙁 Maybe next time, since I’d love to go back again someday. I’m so glad you liked the writing and the photos, I do enjoy sharing my little historical ghost stories 🙂 And I do like helping people learn and remember!
I wouldn’t want to encounter any ghosts. But I do want to visit Gettysburg some day. The battle there was profound. Hi. I enjoyed your essay a lot.
It is a pretty amazing place to visit – I hope you make it over there someday! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the post.
Whoa! I can’t lie, I may be a little creeped out to visit this place! If I did and this man showed up in my pictures, I might poo my pants. Awesome story lady!
It’s worth a visit for sure, all creepy stories aside 🙂 Just stay away from the ghost tours hahahaha 🙂 🙂 . So glad you liked the post!
I’d say your experience is the one that thousands of visitors experience: things go normally. How to account for a few anomalies, I don’t know.
Yup! That’s about right, and it sure is fun reading and writing about those anomalies 🙂
That looks like an intimidating place to do battle and so interesting that the Native Americans had also fought there.
Agreed – so much history in one small little spot! 🙂
I really enjoyed your Gettysburg story here, M.B. Your writing is always a pleasure to read, and here you had a nice mix of history and facts, with fun present-day additions, like Indiana Jones and snakes, and then the interesting story of the Floppy Hat ghost and photographers. I appreciated seeing the whole area in your photos and hearing the sad incidences of the Civil War battle here; you made it easy to imagine what it looked like, a truly gruesome war scene.
So glad you enjoyed it (and the Indiana Jones reference haha! 🙂 ) I’m always glad to provide a window through history 🙂
I read your post on Devil’s Den just after you published it. I am ashamed that it’s taken me this long to send you a message. As always, you managed to spur curiosity and wonder about a place and time in our collective past. I love Gettysburg! Having stood on the rocks in Devil’s Den, it is not too hard to imagine the terror and carnage that took place there. But, for those less fortunate, who have never been to this historic place, you brought it to life! Thanks!
I’m so very glad you enjoyed it! Gettysburg is truly a remarkable place, they have done such a good job keeping the place up. I’d love to go back and visit again sometime!
Great place!
Glad you liked it!
so beautiful photos!
Many thanks!
These rocks look so lovely. The surroundings make them even more attractive! Nice photos by the way!
It is quite a lovely place isn’t it? Despite all the terrible things that happened there! I’m very glad you enjoyed the photos and the post. This got caught up in a pending folder so I didn’t see it until now, I’m very sorry for my late response! 🙂
What a lovely, spooky story. I am glad I saved it to read fully. Now I want to see images of the floppy hat man.
It’s too bad he didn’t pay me a visit! 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed the post, thanks so much for giving it a read 🙂
I never really understand anyone’s desire to visit a battleground and raise those images of horror. But you’ve done it very well. Thanks for your visit 🙂 🙂
I can certainly understand feeling that way. It’s not for everybody. I only started visiting since I write about it so much and it helped me put things into perspective. I keep going back because I want to keep the memory of those people alive, and that certainly helps me do it. Very glad you enjoyed the post!
Such a beautiful blog…
Thanks very much! <3
Most welcome
Strange occurrences… I would love to do o a camp out overnight.🤔🍮🍮
Wouldn’t that be fun and creepy?! I’ve actually thought about that too, I don’t think they allow it on the battlefield itself though! 🙁 But a lot of the hotels around there have spooky ghost stories too.