Gettysburg: Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt by Jack Roth

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

It’s hard to go to Gettysburg and not run into someone who has had a “strange” experience there. From true believers to outright skeptics, everyone reacts to these experiences with a sense of uncertainty, and the one thing they all have in common is the fact that they can’t confirm what happened to them. Maybe a compelling photo was taken. Perhaps an EVP recording was captured. There may have even been multiple witnesses to the same event, but in the end, everyone is left to interpret the experience in their own way. Inevitably, doubt eventually creeps into the psyche. “Did I really see what I think I saw?” “Maybe what I heard was really a wild turkey and not a ghostly manifestation of the rebel yell.”

Paranormal research can be thrilling and rewarding. The rub? You can never truly verify anything. A few years ago, I remember talking to Andrew Nichols, Ph.D., a parapsychologist and director of the American Institute of Parapsychology, about the challenges associated with dedicating your ...

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