Haunted Places in Gettysburg, PA

Explore 11 haunted places in Gettysburg, PA — inns, haunted houses, parks and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Cashtown InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1797 as a stagecoach stop on the turnpike west of Gettysburg, the Cashtown Inn took its name from an early innkeeper who accepted only cash.
• Daniel Lady FarmHouse · Gettysburg, PADaniel Lady bought this stone farmhouse and 146-acre property in 1840, and in July 1863 it was swept into the Battle of Gettysburg, serving first as a Confederate staging area and headquarters and then as a field hospital during the fighting for Culp's Hill.
• Devil's DenPark · Gettysburg, PADevil's Den is a real maze of massive boulders on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg National Military Park, where on July 2, 1863, roughly 3,100 Confederates under John Bell Hood overwhelmed some 2,400 Union defenders in one of the battle's most savage infantry fights, leaving over 1,800 casualties among the rocks.
• Dobbin House TavernRestaurant · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1776 by the Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a family home and classical school for boys, the stone house is the oldest standing structure in Gettysburg, later sheltering freedom-seekers in a hidden crawl space on the Underground Railroad and serving as a field hospital for wounded soldiers of both armies after the 1863 battle.
• Farnsworth House InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt as a log house around 1810 with a brick addition in 1833, the building sat squarely in the line of fire during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, when Confederate sharpshooters climbed into its attic garret and fired toward Union positions on East Cemetery Hill — leaving more than a hundred bullet scars still visible in its south wall today.
• Jennie Wade HouseHouse · Gettysburg, PAOn July 3, 1863, twenty-year-old Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade was kneading bread in her sister's brick home on Baltimore Street when a stray Minié ball passed through two doors and struck her dead, making her the only civilian killed directly by the fighting at Gettysburg.
• Pennsylvania Hall (Gettysburg College)Landmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1837 as the first building of what was then Pennsylvania College, the Greek Revival "Old Dorm" was the largest structure in town when the battle reached its doorstep in July 1863.
• Sachs Covered BridgeLandmark · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1852, this 100-foot Town-lattice covered bridge spans Marsh Creek on the outskirts of the Gettysburg battlefield, and in July 1863 it carried Union corps toward the fighting and, days later, much of Lee's defeated army back south in retreat.
• Soldiers' National CemeteryCemetery · Gettysburg, PAEstablished just four months after the three-day battle of July 1863, the Soldiers' National Cemetery was laid out by landscape designer William Saunders in a sweeping semicircle of graves grouped by state and radiating from a central monument, the resting place of more than 3,500 Union dead.
• Spangler's SpringPark · Gettysburg, PASpangler's Spring sits at the south base of Culp's Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg unfolded on July 2-3, 1863, and where thirsty soldiers from both armies are said to have drawn water during the lulls; the War Department capped the spring in stone in 1895 after years of heavy use.
• Triangular FieldPark · Gettysburg, PAOn July 2, 1863, this small, sloping triangle of stone-walled ground behind Devil's Den became one of the bloodiest patches of the second day at Gettysburg, where the 124th New York "Orange Blossoms" charged into wave after wave of Confederate fire before the Union line was finally crushed.