Creepy Tales Of American Civil War Ghosts

In 1866, the Children's Orphanage opened in Gettysburg. While it was home to only 22 children to begin with, it was just two years before that number rose to around 60, and by the following year, overcrowding was a serious problem. Additions were built, but by 1870, public awareness had moved elsewhere.

And that, says Paranormal Warehouse, is when Rosa J. Carmichael took a position there, and she was, to put it mildly, not a very nice person. Tales of abuse started to get out, and by 1876, she was arrested for cruelty. But, the good old days being what they were, she was found guilty but only had to pay a fine and was then back at her post. Her abuse, it was said, grew worse: Children were subjected to beatings, they were locked in the outhouses on freezing cold nights, they were shackled in the basement, and those chains and shackles? They're still there. 

It's no wonder, then, that the spirits of the children are still there, too. Visitors to the site — now the National Soldiers' Orphans' Homestead – have reported seeing apparitions of dirty, disheveled children and hearing the sound of children giggling when there are none about. Others describe a feeling of extreme sadness that weighs upon the shoulders when going into the basement. Remnants of the emotions of distraught children, or simply empathy?

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