The EVPS Paranormal Group conducted a paranormal investigation on June 13, 2010 from 3:00-5:30 p.m. at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Civil War Battlefield. This fighting was fittingly referred to as the "Bloody Angle" for the number of casualties lost and the savagery of fighting.
It has long been a place associated with paranormal and ghostly phenomena; ghosts and spirits having been seen and heard as well as much orb like activity.
In this paranormal investigation, we used a digital photography camera and a video camera. The video camera sound recording yielded an interesting amount of unexplainable static in response to some questions asked. We could not hear voices, but the sound we received in response to our questions was a cross between the sound you might get by brushing a hand across a microphone and the sound you might pick up on a very windy day. There was not even a slight breeze at this point. It was at this spot that Lora thought she heard people talking although nobody else was around.
Over two hundred photos were taken, and one yielded a fascinating orb near the Michigan Regiment Monument.
We can eliminate the following: 1)Reflection, since the orb is situated in front of a tree we can assume it wasn't a light reflected on a surface. 2) Sunlight, the sun was behind us. 3) Flash, No flash was used
Another photo, although not as clear, has a shadowy face to the left of the South Carolina Regiment Monument
It was this location that Lora again thought she heard people talking. Although nobody was in sight, there were other people around at this point - so they may have been out of sight, but not out of reach of voices carrying. But, when videotaping in this area, we experienced the same static problems
We plan to make several trips back to this battlefield and the numerous others surrounding the area. The amusing thing is this was not our plan for this to be our first paranormal 'investigation', we were scoping sites out for 'proper' investigations later and were just doing a little homework. Snapping a few pictures and improving video technique. Driving back after looking at the photo's we were disappointed from those collected, it was only later, after more careful examination that we noticed the orb and black shape.
 
Paranormal Spotsylvania Court House Area and Bloody Angle Sign
 
Spotsylvania Court House Battle Scene and Cannon
 
Spotsylvania Campaign Notice and Confederate Trench Sign
Paranormal Spotsylvania Notice
A Brief History of The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania, was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was fought in the Rapidan-Rappahannock river area of central Virginia, a region where more than 100,000 men of both sides fell between 1862 and 1864.
The battle was fought May, 8-21, 1864, along a trench line some four miles (6.5 km) long, with the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee making its second attempt to halt the spring offensive of the Union Army of the Potomac under the command of Lt. Gen. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. Taking place less than a week after the bloody, inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, it pitted 52,000 Confederate soldiers against a Union army numbering 100,000.
The battle in the Mule Shoe lasted for an entire day and night, as the Confederates slowly won back most of the ground they had lost, inflicting heavy losses on the II Corps and on the reinforcing VI Corps in the process. The fighting was characterized by an intensity of firepower never previously seen in Civil War battles, as the entire landscape was flattened, all the foliage destroyed. Both sides, fighting from back and forth over the same corpse-strewn trenches, engaged in hand-to-hand fighting somewhat reminiscent of battles fought during ancient times, and there were many descriptions of the field as a morass of corpses, piled so high that wounded men buried underneath them were pressed down into the mud, where they drowned. The 'angle' between the Union II and VI Corps became known as the "Bloody Angle of Spotsylvania", where perhaps some of the most savage fighting of the whole Civil War took place.
Paranormal Spotsylvania Court House Civil War Battle Notice
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