Episode Details

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Paige, who called in with a true ghost story that begins with a middle school field trip to Gettysburg and ends somewhere considerably darker than any school permission slip prepared her for.

Gettysburg is one of the most extensively documented paranormal locations in the United States, and the reasons are not difficult to understand. In three days in July of 1863, more than fifty thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing on that ground. The sheer volume of violent, sudden death concentrated in one place over seventy-two hours created a paranormal landscape that researchers have been investigating and documenting for over a century. Gettysburg is not haunted in the way that an old house or a hotel is haunted. It is haunted in the way that a wound is haunted, pervasively, historically, and with a weight that visitors describe feeling before they know what they are standing on.

Paige was a middle school student on a field trip. She was there to learn about American Civil War history. What she encountered on that battlefield went significantly beyond the curriculum, and what she brought home with her afterward made clear that something on that ground had decided to come along.

The question the original description asks is exactly the right one for this episode. What could go wrong on a middle school field trip to Gettysburg? The answer is that Gettysburg has been answering that question for visitors for a hundred and sixty years, and Paige became one of them on a Tuesday afternoon with her classmates and a packed lunch.

One caller. One true ghost story from the most haunted battlefield in American history and a middle schooler who did not go looking for anything and found it anyway. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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