satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

Hi. Actually, having been up close to that fence I can tell you that it’s in proportion to a horse galloping, not lying down. Plus the ground is not completely even either so it’s hard to tell the proportions on just the photo.

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

Heck, I don’t know. When I took that snapshot with my wimpy little point and shoot in 2008 I wasn’t looking for anything. I was there to see the battlefield and it was a cold Wednesday afternoon in April. Ghosts were not on my mind. However, Gettysburg is a very somber place. You can’t help but feel the emotion there.

Jim MacMahon Loc: Central Florida

It isn't all that unheard of for a studio portrait to show a countenance in addition to the sitter. What's so strange to consider humans as being more than a physical body?

Diamond41 Loc: St. Louis, MO

I see two horses also. I see what may be a carriage but looks like cannon carriage. Something that held munitions for cannons of the day. It is just very thin.

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

Agree

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

i don’t see anything in the grass but you got the horses I see.

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

The other thing that happened to me on that same day was when I walked into a place called the Triangular Field, near Devil’s Den. The Triangular Field was an especially horrible part of the battle and apparently well known for paranormal activity. It is not marked on the regular driving tour anymore. I don’t know why. But if you ask the Rangers they will tell you where it is. My brother is something of an historian and he made me promise to bring back photos of that area. So I found it. When I started trying to take pictures my camera would focus initially but would then lose focus and the shutter wouldn’t work. It was frustrating so I went back to the car to see if a new battery would help. As soon as I got back in the car the camera worked fine but I changed the battery anyway and went back into the field and again it would not focus. Meanwhile the person I was with was taking lots of pictures with no problem. I decided my camera was probably the problem and it was time to maybe upgrade when I got home. 15 minutes later I took the photo I posted here of the Wheatfield and the camera was fine for the rest of the trip. It never even occurred to me that it might have been anything “ghostly”. And maybe it wasn’t. But in retrospect, it was a very interesting day overall. And that, as Paul Harvey used to say, is the rest of the story.

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Thanks. I see it better now.

fotobyferg

OK, I love carriage driving and have driven my pair at GB several times...April 2008 being one of them.
I’m not kidding...maybe you shot me! There were three other carriages driving that day with me.

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

I was a hunter jumper rider. Now just a pleasure rider. I would LOVE to have seen your pair ... but nope...no horses in harness or under saddle around where I was that day. Do you ever go down to Aiken, SC to drive? I don’t live there now but it’s my home.

fotobyferg

Yes, I have. I am on the BOD of The American Driving Society.
This is my pair at Gettysburg.

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Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

It would be interesting to take another picture from the same location at the same time of day (and close to the same time of year to get the same lighting) to see if the same image occurs. It is interesting that the horse image appears to be blocking the image of the fence behind it. Was there a bush of some other obstruction that could be blocking the image of the fence at that spot. Our brains tend to find recognizable patterns in images, so more information would be needed to determine if this is just a trick of light and shadow.

Peter Braun Loc: Los Angeles, California

Definitely can see the horses, most likely the park security which travel on horses may have tied
the horses while they were doing something else. it is not imagination it is there and I believe in a simple explanation. No ghost.

Floyd R Turbo Loc: Kingwood, TX

If you look at the color photos, the light colored blaze on the horses face appears to be a tree trunk in the background which is lightened by the sun. The rest of the tree trunk can be seen extending upward at the same angle. The dark shadows of the rider are shadowed areas from trees. The dark horse on the right, I believe is a shadow from the tree trunk just to the left, the tree trunk being in front of the fence.

satorifarm Loc: Stedman, NC

0k I took these when I went back in May of last year. It was about the same time of day but in May, and it was raining. The landscape has changed a little. It's a little more overgrown now. Sorry I didn't post these sooner. They were on another hard drive and I had to search for them for 2 days. Anyway, this is the place, a few years later.

Shannon

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