Day #15- Bridge Over Troubled Water

Today more than made up for yesterday!  First on the list was to find a new home.  Succeeding in this task improved Loren's mood 100 fold- especially since we did not get charged for the remainder of our reservation.   Next, we needed to plan our time until we were allowed to check into our new home. 
We got out our lists and found the most haunted places in Gettysburg.   Our first stop was Devil's Den inside the military park.  This is an area of huge boulders where General (Commander? Sergeant?) Hood led the first regiment of Texas.  It didnt end well.  Shortly after the battle, a photographer went to the site which was littered with dead soldiers.  To make, what he thought was a better picture, the photographer moved one of the soldier's bodies and posed it in front of the boulders.  Apparently, this did not sit well with the soldier and he haunts the place to this day.  There were a lot of kids screaming and climbing on the rocks, but I was still able to get some great communication on my device.  I got "you" "hunting" "today" to which we of course replied, "yes".  We climbed a steep part of the rocks and as we went I got "high" "doing" "great".  The soldier was encouraging if nothing else!  Loren asked if the spirit could show himself and my device said "shown".  We sadly missed it.
Next stop was Sach's Covered Bridge.  Sach's is a beautiful old red wooden covered bridge.  The story here is that 3 Confederate soldiers were hung from the bridge for desertion.  During the day the bridge was somwhat peaceful.  At one point I had goosebumps and all the hair stand up on my right arm and the word "spot" when I was asking where the soldiers were hung.  As the bridge is not in the park and had no curfew,  we decided to return tonite. 
It was getting close to check in time so we went to the store for provisions and checked into our new home.  AC works beautifully (at that time) and the room was half the price of the other one.  We napped and slugged around for a few hours and then headed out for our nite.
There were several cars at the bridge when we arrived about 10.  All teenagers.   These teens were awesome, though.  They were also ghost hunting and showed us a few really cool things about the bridge.  They had a pack of cigarettes,  not for smoking, but for the soldiers.   They would light the cigarette,  balance it on a guard rail, and watch as it truly looked like someone unseen was smoking it.  The cigarette balanced perfectly on this rail and every now and then it would burn down some like someone was taking a drag.  We had all of our equipment out and the kids were amazed with it all.  We had voices come thru on the spirit box, activity on the EMF, and just an overall great experience.  
We came back to our room about midnite and tried to settle in for sleep.  All of a sudden we smelled the smell that fills the house the first time the heater is put on each winter.  I went over to the AC unit and it stopped working.  Only the fan would work.  Thinking we were in for another uncomfortable nite and hoping we wouldnt catch fire with the AC, we just dealt with the fan. 
Tomorrow we have a ghost tour of a haunted orphange, so stay tuned!!