A tourist visiting Gettysburg recently took some video footage of one of the historic battlefields, footage that now has people questioning if ghosts exist.
Gettysburg was one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War, with up to 51,000 soldiers and 5,000 horses said to have died in the 1863 fight between the Union and Confederate armies. It’s no surprise that many visitors to the historic Pennsylvania site have claimed to have seen a ghost there and Greg Yuelling is the latest.
The 46-year-old went to Gettysburg with some family members to learn more about Civil War. They decided to tour the site from their car at night when he spotted a pair of eerie figures.
He told The Sun, “We were driving along one night and we started hearing noises, I heard things to the left and my uncle heard things to the right, and there was a fog, but the fog was weird, it was only in one patch, not dispersed. Then we saw these shapes moving in the darkness, they were the size of humans, one of them ran right through the cannon. It was scary, it was crazy. My uncle got so scared he rolled up the window.”
It was all caught on the car’s dash cam (video below).
The clip in question appears to show ghostly figures in the area of two cannons on the battlefield.
Some people aren’t convinced.
The New Jersey Paranormal Research Organization posted to their Facebook page about the clip saying water droplets are likely the culprit.
“It’s an illusion,” the organization said. “The entities are actually just the light being distorted by the streak on the windshield as the background elements move into the streak.”
The group suggests that people are seeing ghosts because of the battlefield’s history. It’s easy to believe the spirit of a dead Civil War soldier would be wandering the grounds at night.
British tabloid The Sun spoke with Yuelling, who said his family started hearing weird noises before they spotted the figures on the battlefield, and for the people in the car, the figures were the size of humans.
After watching the videos back several times, Yuelling said he is now convinced that ghosts exist.
Watch the video below: