In an area near Baumstown, Pa, there used to stand the Old Birdsboro Bridge. The bridge has a ghost story attached to it. For over 100 years, a woman in a veil appeared to buggy and horseback riders. She seemed to be lonely, and some say she would tell them the truth of her life after death. 
Now, she seems to have taken being lonely too far. The bridge was torn down quite a few years ago. However, according to more recent travelers, she now appears and waves to them trying to get them to come out on the bridge that only exists in the past. Maybe she just wants a friend.

Ruth Lownes Simmons life didn't turn out the way she wanted it. She was engaged to a man named Francis Simmons. Unfortunately, he fell in love with another woman after he was already engaged. His word was his bond and so he married Ruth. They never consummated the marriage. Francis was angry at Ruth for marrying him and he never forgave her. In time, he moved to another house and left Ruth alone as a bitter woman.
She never moved past this moment and she now haunts the alley where her home used to stand. Her loneliness and bitterness keeps her stuck there. She is still felt to this day.

Marilyn Monroe's ghost still haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Her ghost has been seen all over the hotel which was almost like a second home to her. 
So, the next time you're in Hollywood and you get tired of the fakes, go to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and maybe you can see one of America's best known Bombshells.

This is a brilliant article by Steve Marshall. He talks to Rupert Sheldrake about Science and the paranormal. Sheldrake has some interesting ideas about where ghosts may come from. Its heady stuff but a great read. Check it out at the Fortean Times: http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/6421/the_science_delusion.html.

From ghoulies and ghosties and
Long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

The Battle of Chicamauga took place on Sept 19-20, 1863, in Georgia. The battle was hard fought and ended with a Confederate victory and 18,500 Confederate and 16,100 Union casualties. It was obviously one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
Now on both nights after the battle, the soldiers would fall back behind their lines and doctors would make their way into the fields to take care of the dead and dying. The moans of the wounded would fill the night air and everyone did everything they could to end the suffering. Making their way around the battlefield at night was dangerous and unnerving. You never knew who else was out there. That point was proven when soldiers from both sides began to report a creature walking among the dead. At first it looked like a man, but something was off. He was tall and thin. He was dressed in a long coat and he has long hair down his back, but it was his eyes that gave him away. They were a green color that actually glowed in the darkness. He would kneel down over the dead and he seem to be doing something to them. Nobody wanted to find out what. 
Now this creature was reported in the area by Native Americans years earlier. He was dressed like them but still had the green eyes. He was doing something to their dead too. 
The creepy thing is visitors to the parks over the years also report Ol' Green Eyes. He walks along the roads at sunset and you pass him by thinking he is just another visitor, but something makes you look back and then you see it......those green eyes.
http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm

On the early morning of Sept 20, 1777, one of the most brutal acts of the American Revolution took place. 5,000 British Red Coats led by Gen Charles Grey plan a sneak attack on Gen "Mad Anthony" Wayne and his small unit of American Colonials.
So as not to have their attack ruined by noise, Gen Grey orders his men to use only swords or bayonets and kill the colonials as they sleep in their tents that were placed along a tree line. By the time the attack was finished, nearly 200 Americans were dead. This act of cowardice and cruelty enraged people around the world. It keep America fired up through the rest of the war and actually led to the British defeat.
As a matter of fact, "Mad Anthony" earned his name by never showing fear and attacking with a savagery that surprised the British during his attack on their fort at Stony Point on the Hudson River.
A short distance from the massacre site is an inn. It was here that the British planned for the attack. The inn is now named the Gen Warren Inn. Reports have come in since the attack of seeing soldiers in the inn. There are also reports of the sound of soldiers running through the inn. Are these ghosts the Red Coats who planned the attack, or, as many people believe, the ghosts of those unfortunate Americans who went to sleep and never woke again?
The Paoli site itself is a sad place, and of course rumored to be haunted. If you are in the Philly area, it is worth a trip.  
http://www.generalwarren.com/

Poltergeist is a German word that literally translates to "noisy ghost". It comes from poltern which translates to "to make a racket" and geist which translates to "ghost" or "spirit". 

The most famous story from the Antietam Battlefield was told to me by Mark Nesbitt. Years ago, a group of students from a school in Baltimore had visited the battlefield. As they ended their day, they visited the Bloody Lane. The students were instructed to spread out and take some time to think about the battle and the casualties and what it meant to them.They were told to write down their feelings for a history project. Some of the students drew pictures, wrote poems or just quick notes on their day. 
However, the comments that got the most attention from the teacher were written by several boys who walked down the road to the observation tower, which is located where the Irish Brigade charged the Confederate line. The boys described hearing strange noises that became shouts, coming from the field near the tower. Some of them said that it sounded like a chant and others described the voices as though someone were singing a Christmas song in a foreign
language -- a song like "Deck  the Halls". They said the words sounded like a Christmas carol or something. It sounded like "Fa-la-la-la-la". The impression came strongly and then faded away.
Now the Irish Brigade was one of the most famous units of the entire Civil War. Both sides had Irish Brigades and both units had one thing in common. They were among the units with the heaviest casualties in the war. The reasons were because they lacked training. Many were taken right off of the boats from Ireland when they had a uniform and a gun slapped into their hands and were sent to places they had never heard of before. The Irish Brigade at Antietam was a Union unit. They rode with their priest, Father Corby. The man showed no fear as he would minister to the dead and dying. They also rode with their Emeral banner. During the battle, the flagstaff was actually shattered in a man's hands by gunfire. The Irish Brigade would arrive with the sounds of drums and a battle cry that sounded like "Fah-ah-bah-lah", which is Gaelic for "Clear the Way!" and is spelled Faugh-a-Balaugh. Of course, the cry would grow softer as they passed away. As a matter of fact, they lost 60% of their unit in Antietam in a few short, bloody hours.
So, its safe to assume that the singing the boys heard wasn't a Christmas song at all, but the sound of the Irish Brigade trying to clear the way.

150 years ago today, the bloodiest day of the Civil War was fought in western Maryland. The Battle of Antietam began on a foggy morning and it only lasted 12 hours. At the end of the battle, over 23,000 soldiers lay dead or wounded.
Since that fateful day, people have been drawn to the Antietam battlefield. Many of those people have had an encounter with the unknown. Soldiers have been seen all over the battlefield. Sounds of gun and cannon fire have been heard over the empty fields. Cold spots, the smell of blood and gunpowder have been reported everywhere.
The areas of the battlefield with the largest amount of encounters are the Burnside Bridge and the Sunken Road. I am planning a trip here soon.