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00:00On this episode of Expedition X,
00:07Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is the site of the bloodiest battle in America's history.
00:12In the Battle of Gettysburg, there were 51,000 casualties.
00:16But some say the Civil War-era fighting still rages on today,
00:21now between the living and the dead.
00:24I see full-body apparitions, head to toe.
00:27Y'all have so much paranormal activity here.
00:30Witnesses claim a terrifying phantom regiment marches through the town and its historic battlefields.
00:36His left cheek looks like it's been just, like, ripped off.
00:39This sounds like a horror movie.
00:41I'm terrified.
00:43Can you show yourself?
00:46We have a face.
00:48This chair was just moving.
00:50Phil and Heather face the fight of their lives as they make war...
00:54Heather!
00:55...with the ghosts of Gettysburg.
00:58Look at this.
00:58Look!
00:59What?
01:14All right, guys.
01:15I want to talk about Gettysburg.
01:17Big topic.
01:18Ultimate battle of the Civil War.
01:20Turning point for the Union Army and a decisive victory over Confederate forces.
01:24And the largest battle in American history.
01:27And the bloodiest.
01:28Well done, history nerds.
01:29You know your stuff.
01:30But I bet you didn't know this.
01:31The locals say the fight has continued with the ghost of those that have died on the battlefield.
01:36Uh, okay.
01:37Go on.
01:37Well, there's reports of paranormal activity all over Gettysburg.
01:40We're talking phantom cannon blasts, shadow figures in military uniform, and even violent poltergeists.
01:46Fascinating.
01:47But, you know, look, if you're a paranormal believer, it also hardly seems surprising, right?
01:52This was death on an industrial scale.
01:54We're talking thousands who died in brutal battle, brother against brother.
01:58If anywhere in America is haunted, it's got to be Gettysburg.
02:11July 1st, 1863.
02:14The Civil War has been raging for two and a half years when Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his
02:20troops north.
02:21They collide with Union soldiers just outside of the small, sleepy town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
02:31The fighting quickly escalates to envelop the entire town and surrounding farmland.
02:36For three days, 165,000 soldiers on both sides clash in brutal, bloody combat.
02:46Bullets tear through flesh.
02:49Mini balls shatter bones.
02:52Shrapnel shells turn men into red mist.
02:58The town is the bleeding heart of the war zone.
03:02Makeshift hospitals spring up in family homes and inns.
03:05Amputations are so common that piles of severed limbs stack up taller than a man.
03:17When the smoke finally clears, around 8,000 men are dead, with 30,000 more wounded.
03:24It is the deadliest battle of the Civil War and America's history.
03:28The locals, stunned and grieving, are left to bury the dead in shallow graves.
03:34Miraculously, only a single civilian, Jenny Wade, dies in the crossfire.
03:39But the town is forever scarred and never at peace.
03:43Because that's when the hauntings begin.
03:46The first published accounts of paranormal activity come in 1887, with one newspaper article describing, quote,
03:54supernatural sights and sounds on Gettysburg's Round Top Hill.
03:58In the years that follow, there are stories of full-body apparitions of soldiers, seen throughout the town and surrounding
04:06battlefields.
04:08Today, visitors and locals regularly report disturbing encounters.
04:13In the South Cavalry battlefield, ghostly figures are seen marching silently in lockstep.
04:19And some hear the sounds of phantom cannons and disembodied screams.
04:25In town, places that were on the conflict's front line, like the Farnsworth House Inn and the Jenny Wade House,
04:32are said to be plagued by violent poltergeists.
04:36Over 160 years after the fateful conflict, residents are convinced the war rages on, fought by the soldiers who will
04:45never surrender, even in death.
04:52What do you think?
04:53With so many compelling stories from all over the battlefield, we have to investigate.
04:57But stories really could be the key word here.
05:00I mean, this battle isn't just part of the town's collective memory.
05:03It's part of our nations.
05:05Every American knows the story of what happened there.
05:08So how could you go to Gettysburg and not be on it, not feel like there's this tragic energy all
05:13around you?
05:14That's a fair point, right?
05:15I don't think there's a battlefield anywhere in America that's more emotionally charged than Gettysburg.
05:20So maybe it's not ghosts.
05:22Maybe people's imaginations and emotions are waging war.
05:25I just think there's more to it than that.
05:27The spectrum and depth of reports are incredible.
05:30Eyewitness accounts, photos, videos.
05:32There's something else going on here.
05:34All right.
05:35Well, consider the Expedition X Regiment deployed.
05:38Quick march to Gettysburg for maneuvers.
05:40Your mission is to find out what's really going on here.
05:43See if you can experience what the locals are experiencing.
05:46Capture evidence and find out if Gettysburg is truly still at war.
05:51We're on it.
05:52Good luck.
05:53Thanks.
05:54It's about a four-hour drive from New York to the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
05:59And from the moment Heather and Phil arrive, they're overwhelmed by the history.
06:08Wow.
06:09Take a look around Gettysburg Battlefield.
06:14It's one thing to read about it in the history books, but to actually be here and look at
06:19these battlefields, it gives you a whole new perspective.
06:22It's beautiful countryside.
06:24It's hard to imagine the carnage that was here.
06:28And what's wild is that in these fields, there are well over a thousand bodies that still
06:35have not been recovered and accounted for.
06:38While the battlefields cover about 11,000 acres of land, the town at its center is only about
06:45one and a half square miles.
06:47This must be it.
06:50Heather and I head straight to the historic Farnsworth House, named after 25-year-old Union
06:56General Elon Farnsworth, who died heroically at Gettysburg.
07:00Hello.
07:01Hey, how are you?
07:01We're meeting local historians Christina Rowand, Doc Weitzel, and Val Capone.
07:07To hear first-hand accounts of how the battle engulfed the town and the paranormal activity
07:12that's allegedly resolved.
07:13Okay.
07:14So, this is a map of the Battle of Gettysburg.
07:18Yes.
07:18Correct.
07:19So, everybody hears about the battlefields.
07:21What we're really interested in is what was happening in town.
07:25The town is the battlefield.
07:28It's the first example of urban warfare here in America.
07:33We're in the Farnsworth House right now.
07:35How does it fit in this battle?
07:37After all the carnage, the rear cellar was used as a temporary morgue.
07:44Oof.
07:45With hundreds of Union soldiers stacked down there.
07:49Hundreds?
07:50Hundreds.
07:52And the cellar is where we have some of our most intense activity.
07:59I've experienced physical contact.
08:01I was setting up for a tour.
08:04They have pews down there for seating.
08:06When I'm near the back, there was a black figure sitting looking at me.
08:12It rose from the pew and was hovering, and I stepped backwards, and I fell on the floor.
08:20I put my hands up.
08:22I never felt threatened before in this way.
08:26You tell me you saw a full-fledged shadow spirit that looked at you and scared you so much you
08:32fell over.
08:34One of the most frequent experiences that people will capture with their cameras, either in a picture frame or in
08:43our mirrors, is of what is called a shadow man.
08:47He is dressed in all black, so tall he reaches the top of the ceiling.
08:52Do you have any of those photos?
08:54I do.
08:55Okay.
08:56Whoa.
08:59Ooh.
09:00And no one was standing there?
09:01No, they were not.
09:03That's creepy.
09:05We never see the shadow man with the naked eye, just in the photographs.
09:10In the Jenny Wade house, the only house where a civilian was killed during battle, Jenny is making dough for
09:20the hot, hungry, and tired Union soldiers.
09:22She will be shot by accident by a sharpshooter's bullet.
09:27It's going to penetrate two doors.
09:31She'll be dead on that kitchen floor at 20 years old.
09:36And there have been things that have happened that have made me say, this is Jenny Wade.
09:43Like, we continuously hear footsteps.
09:49People frequently smell bread baking in the house.
09:53Hmm.
09:54About two blocks away from here, I decided to take a walk and see the town at night.
09:59I noticed a paved path where the energy was so much different.
10:05Hmm.
10:07And at that moment, I see full-body apparitions at the top of the hill.
10:15They were a spitting image of a Civil War soldier.
10:18I could see the cap down to their feet, and I was scared.
10:22And when I say scared, I'm talking about nightmare, kind of scary.
10:27That is a wild story.
10:30Other people see something like that.
10:31Other people see things like that.
10:33Really?
10:33Yes.
10:34Out there drilling, marching, just as they would.
10:37They call them the Phantom Regiment.
10:40Y'all have so much paranormal activity here.
10:43I know where I want to start tonight.
10:44Let's get to it.
10:45Let's do it.
10:45Thank you all so much.
10:51Phil and I decide to split up.
10:53He'll investigate the Farnsworth house, where Doc had a terrifying encounter with an entity
10:57in the basement.
11:00While I head over to the Ginny Wade house, where several witnesses have seen a mysterious shadow
11:05man appear in photos.
11:07Later, we'll regroup at the edge of town, where Val reported seeing the Phantom Regiment.
11:21Oh my gosh, that's from the bullet that killed Ginny Wade.
11:29I'm placing myself in her exact position.
11:32I brought flour because Ginny Wade was baking bread for the Union soldiers.
11:39If Ginny Wade is still haunting this house, it could be a trigger object.
11:43So if there's anyone here with me, you can connect with me with these dowsing rods.
11:51Can you cross for yes?
11:57Can you open wide for no?
12:02Okay.
12:04Is there anyone here with me?
12:10Yes.
12:12Are you Ginny Wade?
12:18No.
12:22Are you the shadow man?
12:28Yes.
12:32Were you a soldier?
12:40Yes.
12:41Big yes.
12:42Were you one of the snipers that murdered Ginny Wade?
12:50Yes.
12:52Big yes.
12:56I just got chills.
13:01Did y'all hear those footsteps?
13:03Yeah.
13:07Okay.
13:09There's definitely something going on here.
13:10And go check out that noise.
13:22Is anybody there?
13:26Oh my god.
13:28This is the picture.
13:32Can you show yourself?
13:36I'm just going to take pictures of every reflective surface that I can.
13:40I know you're here.
13:41Will you show up in these pictures?
13:53Oh my god.
13:54Yeah.
13:58We have a face.
14:06We have a face.
14:09Two eyes.
14:10Nose.
14:11Mouth.
14:14Let me check the baby picture just to see.
14:19You're kidding me.
14:20There's another one.
14:21I've got two separate really interesting pictures here.
14:24Look at this.
14:25Right here.
14:26Nothing.
14:27No shadow.
14:31Look at this one.
14:33That is the silhouette of a shadow man right there.
14:37You can definitely see.
14:39It's like a cavalry hat.
14:41I was taking that picture here.
14:44And that would have been behind me.
14:51I head to the cellar of the Farnsworth house.
14:54It served as a makeshift morgue during the battle.
14:57And it's where Doc says he saw a terrifying shadow figure.
15:07Oh, look, look, look, look, look, look.
15:12Did you see that?
15:13You got that?
15:13Yeah.
15:14I swear that door just moved on its own.
15:22It looked like it was opening.
15:26Don't feel any breeze.
15:27There's no traffic going through here.
15:32Very weird.
15:43They would stack dozens and dozens of bodies on each other in here.
15:47Where I am standing right now, the blood seeped into the ground.
15:53Looking at this floor, I wonder if it's slightly uneven.
15:57And when you step on uneven ground, it has been shown that it can trigger your brain to enter a
16:06state of adrenaline, a state of alarm, a state of there could be something wrong.
16:11You add that to the history of what factually happened in this room, that can warp your perceptions around you.
16:19I want to test the floors.
16:25Starting my audio recorder.
16:27I'm upstairs at the Ginny Wade house.
16:30My name's Heather.
16:32I'm here to understand all the activity that's going on in Gettysburg.
16:35Can you tell me your name?
16:39Help?
16:39What do you need help with?
16:44Pain?
16:48Are you trapped here?
16:52That chair just moved.
16:59This chair was just moving.
17:03That chair just moved.
17:07Is there a draft?
17:10There's no draft.
17:13I mean, there is no reason.
17:18Oh, my God.
17:25I got to get answers.
17:31Did you just make this chair move?
17:34Yes.
17:37Are you the shadow man that showed up in pictures?
17:43Yes?
17:44All right.
17:46Why are you still here?
17:51I'm here.
17:52Blood?
17:53Blood?
17:57Leave?
17:58Leave?
17:59I'm not leaving.
18:01I'm trying to get answers.
18:04Are you a soldier?
18:09Were you one of the snipers?
18:13Yes.
18:19This is a laser leveler.
18:23Look at the height of the laser on that block right down there on that floor.
18:28It's basically right at the corner, maybe a centimeter above.
18:33And then when you go over to this side, a significant slant.
18:37It's got that kind of uneven ground.
18:39That can literally make Doc slip, fall backwards when he said he was scared.
18:44It just makes it easier to kind of be knocked over and maybe feel like you're being pushed.
18:48When you are in a place like this, it can make even the slightest thing seem a little bit bigger,
18:54a little bit scarier.
18:55Maybe Doc's imagination got a little ahead of his reality.
19:03Phil, do you copy?
19:05Heather, hey, what's going on?
19:07The Jenny Wade house did not disappoint.
19:09I got the silhouette of a shadow man in a picture.
19:13And it's possible that I might have been communicating with the man who killed Jenny Wade.
19:18What?
19:19That is crazy.
19:20We got one more place to go tonight.
19:21Yes, we do.
19:22Want to meet in the middle over where Val saw that supposed phantom regiment?
19:26See you there?
19:27Heading there now.
19:35So the top of the hill is where Val saw that phantom regiment.
19:42So I want to do what he did.
19:44He let his eyes adjust to the darkness and took in the world around him.
19:47I want to get into his headspace and see if I can get more activity.
19:50All right, well, I want to bust out the flare and use thermal vision.
19:55Because look at this.
19:55This could be the largest patch of forest next to town.
19:59Meaning, it's probably home to a lot of animals.
20:02Things like groups of deer that may go marching at night.
20:05He saw the full outline of soldiers.
20:09You hear that, yeah?
20:10Yeah.
20:10Something's moving down there.
20:12All right, get the flare out.
20:17All right, you work on your night vision.
20:19I'm going to try to track down whatever that noise was.
20:20Okay.
20:28Let's see if we can see anything.
20:32Is there anyone out there?
20:37I really want to see this phantom regiment, so you can show yourself to me.
21:00Heather!
21:01Heather!
21:02Get over here!
21:05What was it?
21:06Look at this.
21:14Look at this.
21:16Look at this.
21:18What?
21:19Isn't that wild?
21:20That's incredible.
21:22There's three of them.
21:23That was separate, distinct signatures.
21:26That could be the phantom regiment.
21:28You don't see anything over there, right?
21:29No.
21:30I've never gotten anything like that on the flare.
21:34Let's get over there.
21:38There's a trail leading into the forest.
21:41You seen anything on the flare?
21:44No, not yet.
21:46I don't feel any temperature changes.
21:48It doesn't feel like there's any cold spots.
21:51Look, I say we give it a couple more hours, see if anything shows up on the flare.
21:56I'll go this way, you go that way?
21:57Yep.
21:57Let's keep at it.
21:59Let's keep at it.
22:09Heather and I search for a few more hours without witnessing anything like those anomalies again.
22:14But Heather has seen enough.
22:17She's convinced this is the phantom regiment, and she wants to learn more about who they could be.
22:27I'm meeting with Dominic Drybola.
22:30How you doing?
22:30Another local who claims he came face-to-face with a troop of spectral soldiers on the battlefields of Gettysburg.
22:37So I understand you think you may have seen what people are calling the phantom regiment.
22:41Yeah.
22:42Tell me your story.
22:43What happened?
22:43Me and my dad, we came out here about 2, 2.30 in the morning.
22:48As we look over Little Round Top, we see 12 soldiers coming up the hill.
22:54Soldiers?
22:55Yes.
22:58Gettysburg is known for ghost stories.
23:00Is there a chance that some people were dressing up and just trying to spook you?
23:03There shouldn't be anybody, like, 2, 3 in the morning doing duck and cover in the middle of the night.
23:09Fair.
23:09My dad is spooked, so he kind of peers off.
23:12I stay, and I just, I keep looking over.
23:14Fire!
23:17As I'm watching, I look to the right, and I see a full-body apparition five to six yards from
23:25me.
23:27And it starts to approach me.
23:32It probably got about five feet from me.
23:34I could start to make out facial features of what I believe a Confederate soldier.
23:40His left cheek, it looks like it's been, like, just, like, ripped off.
23:43His left eye is gone.
23:45And I'm just staring at this guy.
23:47What were you thinking?
23:48I'm terrified.
23:50I decided to turn around and make my way to my dad.
23:52And behind me, he sees apparitions falling.
23:56You're telling me you didn't just see the Phantom Regiment.
23:59It sounds like you got chased out of here by them.
24:01I believe so.
24:02This sounds like a horror movie.
24:04Probably the most terrifying experience that I've had.
24:10I'm meeting with Gettysburg historian Mark Nesbitt.
24:13Mark, it's a pleasure to meet you.
24:14Yeah, you too.
24:15To try to learn more about who the Phantom Regiment could be.
24:20Have people been able to narrow down who this Phantom Regiment is?
24:23And some people think that it may be related somehow to Farnsworth's charge.
24:26So what do we know about General Farnsworth?
24:29General Farnsworth was serving under General Kilpatrick.
24:32General Kilpatrick had the nickname Kilcavalry.
24:35He was given that name by his own men because it was so reckless with their lives.
24:39Kilpatrick ordered him to make a charge on horseback where horses really can't go.
24:44It was a tangle of fallen logs, rock fences this high.
24:48That terrain sounds like the worst place to send men on horses.
24:52Absolutely.
24:53It was a suicide mission.
24:54When they found Farnsworth's body, he had five bullet holes in his torso.
25:00So if the Phantom Regiment really is Farnsworth's unit, where exactly were those men killed?
25:05Farnsworth's charge took place over in that area towards our little round top.
25:08And that's where Farnsworth and his troops died.
25:11Where do we have the best chance of getting some activity?
25:14I would go south of the battlefield.
25:16Because that's where Farnsworth and his troops were stationed before they were sent to their deaths.
25:22And that's where many of them were buried.
25:28For tonight's investigation, we're heading south of town to an area of the battlefield near Little Round Top.
25:34And I've got the perfect way to get there.
25:37What did cavalrymen ride?
25:40Horses.
25:40Exactly.
25:42So there's this theory that the leader of the Phantom Regiment is actually General Farnsworth, who led a brigade of
25:49cavalrymen.
25:49Okay, namesake of the Farnsworth Inn.
25:51Yes.
25:52Wow.
25:52And where we're headed is the southern battlefield where they set up camp.
25:56Okay.
25:57So you're seeing these horses as two giant trigger objects with hoofs.
26:02Exactly.
26:02It's just over this ridge.
26:09Look at that cannon in the camp.
26:11Yeah, I know.
26:12I had the reenactors come and set it up to help with our investigation.
26:15That is amazing.
26:17Please tell me I get to pull the pin.
26:18Yeah, you do.
26:19But first, you got to set up the cameras.
26:20All right.
26:21On it.
26:25I brought all of these trigger objects to the spot where Farnsworth and his men spent their last night alive
26:30to see if we can stir up any activity.
26:34To make sure we catch it, Phil is setting up surveillance cameras all around our replica camp, cannon, the pasture
26:42where many soldiers died,
26:44and the treeline where our witness saw full-body apparitions of the Phantom Regiment.
26:49Once we're set up, I lay out my plan.
26:52We actually have three trigger objects, Phil.
26:55The cannon, the camp, and I'm going to charge down this hill just like the cavalry would have done.
26:59Okay.
27:00It's like our version of a cavalry reenactment.
27:02And when I yell fire, let her rip.
27:04You got it.
27:05All right.
27:05You ready?
27:07Yep.
27:07Get this thing loaded.
27:08All right.
27:09Let's do it.
27:14Loaded.
27:15Woo!
27:17Cavalry has charge.
27:18Hey!
27:20All right, hover!
27:22Three, two, one, fire!
27:33Fire!
27:36Woo!
27:38All right!
27:40Wow!
27:41That was really loud.
27:47All right.
27:48Stay walkie.
27:49All right.
27:50With all our triggers in place, we get right to work.
27:53I'll be keeping an eye on the monitors for any activity, while also doing a call and response
27:57session with the spirit box.
27:59Phil will move toward the treeline, keeping his eyes peeled for any of the shadowy soldiers
28:03witnesses have reported.
28:05He's also equipped with a metal detector to see if he can uncover any direct evidence of
28:10the battle that we could use in our investigation.
28:12I want to see if I can experience some of these very bold claims that people are talking about.
28:17And if this is where the South Cavalry was camped, maybe some of that history has been left behind.
28:24Now, I just got to find it.
28:36Oh!
28:38Hey!
28:39That sounds sizable.
28:44We got something here.
28:47Not seeing anything at the surface.
28:54Something sawed in here.
28:57What is that?
28:59Oh!
29:00A horseshoe.
29:02Look at those nails.
29:04Those do not look modern.
29:05They look flat.
29:08This could be a sign of cavalry.
29:12Tangible evidence that could be from the exact moment in history that brought us here.
29:17I'm going to get some images of this so we can try to date it.
29:26I'm at the southern battlefield.
29:29This area is where General Farnsworth was ordered to his death.
29:33If there's anyone that wants to communicate with me, you can use this audio recorder or this spirit box.
29:42Is there anyone here with me?
29:50Yes?
29:53Who are you?
29:56Were you a cavalryman?
30:01Okay.
30:03Were you stationed here?
30:05A tent.
30:06A tent?
30:07Safe.
30:08Safe.
30:08Why are you still here?
30:14Death?
30:15Did you die here?
30:18Run?
30:20Run?
30:31Oh.
30:32Oh.
30:35Oh.
30:35Oh, yeah.
30:36Right in here.
30:38Right in here.
30:39All right.
30:40I'm going to dig.
30:41What's that?
30:43There.
30:48All right.
30:50I'm not getting it in here anymore.
30:53Which means it must be in here.
30:56So let's sift.
30:59You hearing that?
31:02Oh.
31:03Oh, my God.
31:05That is a bullet.
31:07It's a bullet.
31:08And it's a shot bullet.
31:11So you can see the front of it.
31:13It's been flattened.
31:15These are what they called mini balls.
31:18It's not because they're small.
31:19They're actually named after a Frenchman named Monet.
31:22And it has one, two, three lines on the side,
31:25which means this was Union.
31:30Absolutely amazing.
31:32Why do I need to run?
31:35Am I in danger?
31:42Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:47I saw a black shadow run right across the field.
31:51It was right at the edge of that light.
31:53I need the XLS.
32:04So I saw that shadow figure
32:07right about here, actually, running.
32:11If there's something still out here,
32:13the XLS will pick it up.
32:16Hello?
32:17Hello?
32:18Here's the tree line.
32:21So it would have been heading right into these woods.
32:26Are you a soldier?
32:30If you show yourself, I'll take it as a yes.
32:36Ooh, got one.
32:38Oh, boy.
32:46In November 1863,
32:48President Abraham Lincoln arrives in Gettysburg
32:51to deliver his historic address.
32:53But before he does, he wants to do two things.
32:56First, unsurprisingly, is to visit the battlefield.
32:58Second, very surprisingly,
33:00is to meet a notoriously cranky Gettysburg resident,
33:04John Burns.
33:05That's because on the day of the battle,
33:0769-year-old Burns watches the Confederates
33:09march into his beloved town.
33:11But instead of fleeing,
33:13he grabs his antique musket,
33:15dons an oversized top hat,
33:16and joins the Union front lines uninvited.
33:19The soldiers are skeptical,
33:21but Burns makes a massive impact,
33:23shooting multiple Confederate officers
33:25before becoming injured himself.
33:28In the aftermath of the Union victory,
33:30old Mr. Burns becomes an overnight folk hero.
33:33In 1903, on the 40th anniversary of the battle,
33:37a statue is even erected in his honor.
33:39Really brings a whole new meaning to
33:41Not In My Backyard.
33:48It's all sorts of movement right there.
33:52Disappeared.
33:58Can you show yourself again?
34:04Heather, you copy?
34:07Yeah, what's going on?
34:08I got something you are absolutely going to want to see,
34:11so I think you should head over here.
34:13Copy that.
34:13Where are you?
34:15Down the hill in the woods.
34:17Can you see my light?
34:18Yeah, I see it.
34:19I'll head your way.
34:20All right.
34:21Leave it here.
34:29Hey.
34:30Hey.
34:32What'd you find?
34:33Get ready for this.
34:35Whoa.
34:36Civil War era horseshoe.
34:38This is hand forged.
34:40This is incredible.
34:41Gets even better.
34:42Check it out.
34:44Oh, this is a bullet.
34:45Yes.
34:46A Union bullet, and?
34:48It's been shot.
34:49Exactly.
34:50That bullet was in battle.
34:53I mean, these are incredible finds.
34:55Think you can use it?
34:56Yeah, I think I can, and I want to try something specific with this, but first, I need that.
35:06All right.
35:10How old do you think this tree is?
35:12Probably 200 years old.
35:15Exactly.
35:15It's a witness tree.
35:16Soldiers could have ridden right past this, taken refuge underneath its limbs, maybe even
35:20taken cover from bullets.
35:22It's true.
35:24In some paranormal circles, witness trees are believed to hold residual imprints of traumatic
35:29past events, perhaps keeping spiritual energy for centuries.
35:33Being close to it could increase our chances of making contact with the Phantom Regiment,
35:38especially using the violent trigger object Phil found.
35:41Okay, I want to try to communicate with the spirits around us using this bullet as a
35:47pendulum, and to cover our bases, I'm going to put an audio recorder out to see if we can
35:51get any EVPs.
35:52Okay.
35:56This is Heather and Phil.
35:58We are underneath a witness tree to the Battle of Gettysburg.
36:03I invite you to communicate with this pendulum.
36:06Make a circle for yes.
36:08Make a line for no.
36:09Phil, is there anyone here with us?
36:21Were you a soldier in the Battle of Gettysburg?
36:27Yes!
36:33Did you hear that noise?
36:38What the hell was that?
36:41Almost sounded like the whiz of a bullet going by.
36:43What?
36:44Yeah, when it flies past you.
36:48Did you hear that noise?
36:50Oh, I just got goosebumps.
36:52Look at that.
36:53You sure did.
36:54Wow.
36:54Oh my God.
36:57Were you under the command of General Kilpatrick?
37:04Yes.
37:07Was General Kilpatrick a bad leader?
37:14Yes.
37:17Are you General Farnsworth?
37:22No.
37:24Did you die under General Kilpatrick's command?
37:31No.
37:33Did you die at the Battle of Gettysburg?
37:38No.
37:40It's weird.
37:42Are you still marching Gettysburg because you're still fighting the battle?
37:52Yes.
37:56This is really strange.
37:59I asked the question if they died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
38:01I get no.
38:03These soldiers don't know they're dead.
38:05They're still fighting.
38:07Oh, that is awful.
38:09Yes.
38:10That is horrific.
38:15It's a truly chilling thought.
38:18The soldiers of General Farnsworth's unit fight on,
38:22believing they're locked in an endless battle at Gettysburg.
38:26Heather believes she's gathered enough evidence to show that Farnsworth's 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division Cavalry Corps
38:34is indeed the so-called Phantom Regiment.
38:37Farnsworth and 97 of his men mowed down on a suicide mission 162 years ago
38:44are seemingly haunting the battlefield still.
38:49And Heather believes they aren't the only spirits that made contact.
38:53Are you the shadow man?
38:56Yes.
38:58During her investigation of the Jenny Wade house,
39:01Oh my God.
39:02she believes the shadow figure caught in the photos is not the ghost of murdered Jenny,
39:07but rather the sharpshooter that killed her.
39:10Were you one of the snipers?
39:14Yes.
39:16After weeks of extensive historical research,
39:19unfortunately,
39:20we are unable to put a name to the soldier whose stray bullet took innocent Jenny's life,
39:25or definitively confirm which side he fought for,
39:30even though we may still be able to see him in Heather's photos.
39:33What?
39:34Isn't that wild?
39:36However,
39:37one piece of evidence did not stand up to scrutiny.
39:40After reviewing the mysterious black shapes Phil saw on the FLIR,
39:44they turned out to be just a glitch on the FLIR's monitor.
39:48Guess that means I'll have to buy them a new one.
39:51Great.
39:53And as for our surveillance cameras,
39:55they caught nothing out of the ordinary during our search of the Southern battlefield.
40:00But there was one final shocking piece of evidence from the bloody grounds of Gettysburg.
40:05Our microphones picked up the whizzing sound that Heather and Phil heard.
40:14Did you hear that noise?
40:17We were able to isolate it and have it analyzed.
40:21The results were astonishing.
40:24The noise you hear matches that of a bullet displacing the air around it.
40:29And not just any bullet.
40:31Oh!
40:32Oh my God!
40:33It appears to most closely align with the signature made by a .59 caliber mini ball.
40:40Just like the ones used in the Civil War.
40:44Oh boy.
40:46After all they experienced with the ghosts of Gettysburg,
40:49Heather thinks it really could be a residual echo from Farnsworth's tragic last charge.
40:59And speaking of shots, the team had one more to take before leaving Gettysburg for good.
41:06Not bad, Phil.
41:07Please address me as General Torres from now on.
41:10Now your turn.
41:14Nailed it!
41:15I know.
41:16Should we take the photo?
41:17Yeah, but I need one more thing.
41:20Okay, guys.
41:21Looking good.
41:22Hold right there for me.
41:25Okay, you can relax.
41:28I'll be right back.
41:28Bye.
41:31Bye.
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