Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 31, 2014 15:24:09 GMT -6
Q. A few Halloweens ago, you wrote about the ghosts that haunt Gettysburg. Have there been any sightings at Little Bighorn, where Custer made his last stand?
A. Yes, literally thousands of sightings have been reported in and around Montana's 1.2-square-mile Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument since Gen. George A. Custer and 263 of his cavalrymen were slain by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors there in 1876. Many reports were made by park rangers and other staffers, giving credence to their stories.
Employees who live in the park's simple on-site apartments tell of shimmering images that often appear at the foot of their beds after nightfall. Strange lights frequently float throughout the cemetery, where many of the cavalrymen and thousands of soldiers from later conflicts are buried.
The ghost of Custer himself has been seen, in full military regalia, roaming various parts of the battlefield. It also has been spotted at nearby Fort Abraham Lincoln, where he and his men departed for their ill-fated fight; the spirit of the blusterous general is believed to be giving one last inspection of the premises before retiring for the night.
One of the creepiest, most recent reports came from a Little Bighorn park ranger who lived in the "Stone House," a building made of rock in 1894 -- smack in the middle of the battlefield area. The two-story building originally served as the home of the cemetery's caretaker, with the bottom floor occupied by the corpses of soldiers who had died in battles that followed Custer's Last Stand and were awaiting burial.
The park ranger awoke on his first night of duty, feeling that someone was sitting at the end of the bed. He quietly reached for his pistol in the darkness, but there was no reason to fire it: The shadowy figure of a torso dressed in an 1870s Calvary shirt and jacket but missing its head and legs, drifted through a solid wall and into the darkness.
Source: www.dailyherald.com/article/20141031/entlife/141039970/
A. Yes, literally thousands of sightings have been reported in and around Montana's 1.2-square-mile Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument since Gen. George A. Custer and 263 of his cavalrymen were slain by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors there in 1876. Many reports were made by park rangers and other staffers, giving credence to their stories.
Employees who live in the park's simple on-site apartments tell of shimmering images that often appear at the foot of their beds after nightfall. Strange lights frequently float throughout the cemetery, where many of the cavalrymen and thousands of soldiers from later conflicts are buried.
The ghost of Custer himself has been seen, in full military regalia, roaming various parts of the battlefield. It also has been spotted at nearby Fort Abraham Lincoln, where he and his men departed for their ill-fated fight; the spirit of the blusterous general is believed to be giving one last inspection of the premises before retiring for the night.
One of the creepiest, most recent reports came from a Little Bighorn park ranger who lived in the "Stone House," a building made of rock in 1894 -- smack in the middle of the battlefield area. The two-story building originally served as the home of the cemetery's caretaker, with the bottom floor occupied by the corpses of soldiers who had died in battles that followed Custer's Last Stand and were awaiting burial.
The park ranger awoke on his first night of duty, feeling that someone was sitting at the end of the bed. He quietly reached for his pistol in the darkness, but there was no reason to fire it: The shadowy figure of a torso dressed in an 1870s Calvary shirt and jacket but missing its head and legs, drifted through a solid wall and into the darkness.
Source: www.dailyherald.com/article/20141031/entlife/141039970/
