The Ghost of Devils Den :: Ghost Stories Urban Legends Civil War

The Ghost of Devils DenThis ghost story was told by a nineteen-year-old Caucasian student at the University of Maryland. She is from the Baltimore vacuum tube Area and lives with her mother and younger sister. I decided to approach her since she is a notorious lover of ghost stories and folklore. While we were hanging out with friends, I asked her to spot me a ghost story. As soon as I asked, her eyes lit up and she took me to the side, out of earshot of our friends. With great energy and enthusiastic facial nerve expressions, she proceeded to tell me the following story about the Civil War site of the bout of GettysburgMy friend Carl was attending a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. He went to a highly strung corner of the battlefield filled with boulders, called Devils Den, to conduct a picture of the battlefield. He took out his camera and as he was about to take the picture, he heard a voice say, W chapeau youre looking for is over there. Carl looked up and s aw a man who resembled a hippie, wearing a lax hat, no shoes and had long hair, pointing somewhere in the distance. Carl looked to see where the man was pointing, and when he looked back the man was nowhere in sight.The Storyteller claimed she once watched a documentary on television about the ghosts of Gettysburg, and it told a strikingly similar story of a ghost in a floppy disk hat verbalism the same words to m each tourists who were taking pictures at Devils Den. Similar stories have been told involving a man in a floppy hat at Devils Den. One tells the story of a woman visiting the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. After experiencing no paranormal activity, she sarcastically challenged any ghosts of Devils Den to come home with her. A few days later she saw a man wearing a floppy hat and loose shirt in her house. She saw this vision many times, but it would always disappear very quickly. She believed this was a ghost from Devils Den accepting her challenge (U.S. Civil War History and Genealogy).Another version of the story involves a man who was also visiting the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. He took many photographs throughout the day. In the afternoon, a soldier dressed in a floppy hat, gray clothing and possessing an odor of sulfurous pulverization approached him (U.