Saturday September 20, 2013
Mr. G's Ice Cream Parlour
Henry was live on location in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from which to broadcast, but as Kat and Barbara Duncan indicated in the live chat room, Skype was being characteristically uncooperative. They had each been connected and been Skype-booted before Henry had even tried calling me.
At just over ten past, Henry was able to connect all of us, then try to start the show.
Henry introduced Craig Rupp and store owner Mike Gladfelter as well as Patrick McCormack and Doug McReynolds of GhostSoldiers, as well as Kat Gatsch, who never really did get on the air.
Mike gave some of the history about the Twin Sycamores house, aka the John Winebrenner house, now Mr. G's Ice Cream, that it was occupied by Confederate forces in July, 1863, it is one of the best known houses from the Battle of Gettysburg.
They purchased the home January 2010, 192 years old, it was built in 1819; in the original brick on the south side of the home is retained bullet holes from battles in the war between the states. Mike described the muskets being used at the time.
Also brought on was the comical radio show host and DJ Steve Shockley.
Henry played an EVP from an investigation which, they claimed, called Mike, but it was really garbled.
Pat seemed to snag the mic to speak about some experiences he and Doug had had, including but not limited to with an elusive little girl ghost.
They all joked about various colliding events going on the same weekend, such as the Boy Scouts and a dog convention of sorts, and it would seem either WWII veterans... or WWII cosplayers.
Pat and Doug spoke about the great EVPs they've caught at Mr. G's. They went up into the attic, where the recorder was running, and they got an EVP of someone pointing out "at least they're fun," which Henry played.
Henry played several of their EVPs.
Pat explained about the activity focused in the building's attic, as well as history of the fighting of the famous battle/s.
We went really late to break, so we only took the one, after which CC reported out having listeners in the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, and Costa Rica.
They discussed various aspects of history, a legendary Lady in White (about whom Craig explained), around Spangler Spring on Culp's Hill. Patrick spoke about General Hazlet and General Weed being shot and killed within seconds of each other, as well as history of other officers' experiences.
Kat brought up that the mournful melody Taps was created during that period.
Mike was brought back to discuss experiences some of his workers have had, in the store and the living quarters. CC asked after there being a cellar, which there is, at four foot hight, it's close to being a crawlspace. CC suspected it may have originally been a root cellar. Mike indicated their once getting a response from a Ghost Box, but that they "don't spend a lot of time down there."
Henry spoke about the night before his wife notified him that their basement had flooded from a water softener filter.
Our guests were all thanked as we wrapped up the show, and whilst an Ovulus kept chirping away, they all laughed merrily during the end "credits" outro.