(TAN): A tourist has claimed he saw two ghosts on a trip to Gettysburg war memorial site in Pennsylvania, reports said. Gettysburg was the home to the biggest civil war battle in the US in 1863 which killed more than 10,000 people and left more than 50,000 soldiers injured from both sides, the Union and Confederate troops.
The incident has sparked theories they were the lost souls of two fallen soldiers.
Greg Yuelling, 46, who claimed he saw the ghosts, told The Sun: “We just went there as tourists, to learn more about the history of the Civil War and see the old battleground… then we saw these shapes moving in the darkness, they were the size of humans, one of them ran right through the cannon.”
However, the New Jersey Paranormal Research Organization has reviewed footage and believes that the sighting is nothing but optical illusion. The team said the “ghosts” are actually more likely water droplets trickling down the screen.
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They wrote on their Facebook page: “It appears there’s what appears to be a water droplet on the windshield, and a streak of water it left behind as it rolled down the window.”
The organisation was quoted by the media as saying that, our brains will automatically try to make something familiar out of a visual anomaly. Most people already know about the history of Gettysburg. Probably that is why in this case people are seeing a ‘ghost’ in the form of a dead civil war soldier.
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