I was reading about the Battle of th Littel Bighorn, in which General Custer and several hundred of his men were killed. The report mentioned that years afterward, there were reports of violent images of the dead, reported by visitors. S, if ghosts exist, wouldn’t battelfields be the most likely place to find them? I mean thousands of men meeting violent deaths-there ought to be thousands of ghosts hanging arounf these locaions. What do belivers say? Anoney have any personal experinces at the Custer massacre site?
If ghosts exist and they are the spirits of those who died violently, then a battlefield would seem a good place to look.
In World War One, there were horrendous casualties in the battlefields of France and Belgium.
Millions died from machine-gun fire, poison gas, and disease etc.
In one battle alone on the Somme:
British casualties on the first day alone, were over 60,000 and by the time the fighting ended on the 17th November 1916 more than 400,000 were killed.
The Germans are thought to have lost about as many men as the British…
Our school sends school parties over annually to these battlefields (as do many others). In 20 years I’ve never heard of any reports of ghosts.
We’ve had experiences at the Shiloh Battlefield in Tennessee. Odd.
I think you have got that incorrect. The total number of British casualties was 400,000 (including wounded) - not 400,000 killed. In the Great War Britain suffered less than 1 million military deaths.
To the OP- many men promised their sweethearts / wives that they would contact them if they were killed in battle. That no contact was ever made was seen as a sign that there was nothing beyond this life.
For that matter, shouldn’t Hiroshima/Nagasaki be the really really big twinkies* when it comes to paranormal activity?
*Twinkie, unit, measure of psychokinetic energy; 1 twinkie = the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area.
Some say spirits are a kind of vapor, and nukes are said to vaporize people.
I had an odd experience at Gettysburg about 10 years ago. I was near Devil’s Den and, looking into a nearby field, I saw a man in a Union uniform walking by himself with his back to me. I watched him for a few moments and then I turned to get my father’s attention, so that he could take a picture of the guy, but when I turned back to point him out to my father, the man was gone. It’s perfectly possible that the man was a re-enactor in full costume, but this was in November, when there were no re-enactments going on, and I don’t know how he could have disappeared so quickly in an open field in a matter of seconds. He was a few hundred yards away from me, but I saw him clear as day.
I used to live down the road (well, Rt. 212) from the Little Bighorn battlefield and I’ve been there four or five times (and to other nearby sites of massacres, like the sites of the Fetterman massacre and the Wagon Box Fight in Wyoming), but I’ve never had any creepy experiences personally. The rangers we spoke to said that people have reported strange experiences all over the battleground (seeing riders on horses that disappear, etc.) and within the visitors’ center, as well (hearing voices and things of that nature).
I lived right off the Northern Cheyenne reservation, and I can tell you some stories about experiences and beliefs in that area (e.g., the Little People and the ghost road that supposedly ran through a nearby neighborhood), but they’re not connected to battles.
One day I’ll have to post my haunted cemetery story. I think I may have in the past. Anyway, I’ve got belief in the supernatural, but things can be decieving.
1991, Fort Campbell, Kentucky: I was on a field exercise with my unit, and on guard duty at night at our perimeter with a buddy of mine, named Smith. Smith was prankster. We were being relieved by 2 other soldiers. Smith starts telling them how there are civil war graveyards all around the area…and there were…we’d seen some of them…and how legend tells that the ghosts of these fallen soldiers can be seen moving about. He got them both all jumpy. so while I’m talking to them Smith goes into the bushes. He ties to chemical light sticks to the end of his rifle and starts going ‘ooooooohhhhh’ and all and waving the light sticks around. These two guys almost wet themselves. I couldn’t stop laughing until our squad leader showed up and cursed us out for making too much noise.
Is the area haunted? I’d heard it was. But its easy to be fooled or tricked also.