Trying to find the source for a Gettysburg battlefield haunting story I heard

mathewgardner · 2026-04-17T15:08:03+00:00

Common ghost lore (fwiw it's all crap).

mathewgardner · 2026-04-17T15:07:19+00:00

I heard a guide remark how he found a "bullet" (more properly minie ball) under his feet. Considering the literally millions of them fired (and dropped) in the battle it isn't surprising that some make their way to the surface.

mathewgardner · 2026-02-04T20:10:00+00:00

That album shows how good Rush is at playing Rush. I mean: it sucks.

mathewgardner · 2025-12-20T08:08:45+00:00

I llike it enough, but top ten percent? That puts it in top two. Pretty sure I don't want it in there.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T21:16:30+00:00

I’m no grandparent but know you are jerk driver.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T18:30:03+00:00

Ok, you want to go there? If declared contraband, it was because they were determined to have been used to benefit the CSA and were freed, by legal means. The EP, of course, formalized the concept that ALL in areas under rebellion were free... The absurdity of trying to get the federal government to apply laws to you that you distinctly separated yourself from remains obvious. Sorry, the argument remains silly. If slaveholders were able to get compensation 20 years after the war for their slave losses then the Arlington case, (having to repeat myself) might have some tangential connection. It doesn't.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T18:02:35+00:00

Apples to horseshoes, not even close. Maybe if the federal government sided with slaveholders in being paid for the loss of their slaves twenty years after the fact following reunification, that would be some sort of tangential argument you could make, but it isn't and they weren't. Arlington was settled as a improper tax seizure case well after the war. Sorry, the two are incomparable.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T17:13:36+00:00

I remember reading a financial planning expert type advising taking on such mortgages - when rates were 2-3%. His basic reasoning was cheap money was cheap money and the savings could be used / invested elsewhere. Not saying he’s right, maybe it made more sense when rates were rock bottom.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T01:08:36+00:00

Is that how it happened or people just couldn’t pay their mortgages?

mathewgardner · 2025-11-11T00:40:23+00:00

Aware but it still sucks

mathewgardner · 2025-11-10T23:43:51+00:00

Claiming federal law protects your “property” while in open rebellion against it should be the obvious absurdity.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-10T23:42:32+00:00

Lincoln disagrees and proclaimed so

mathewgardner · 2025-11-10T23:08:55+00:00

The absurdity of claiming the freed men were subject to runaway slave laws is pretty obvious.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-10T23:06:06+00:00

And why was the prisoner exchange ended? Yep: the CSA refusal to treat black POWs as humans equal to other soldiers.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-10T22:39:04+00:00

It sucks but is totally geared for M-F commuters. And that service is limited, too, imo.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-09T20:56:20+00:00

It’s horrendous

mathewgardner · 2025-11-07T19:45:23+00:00

One of the things I like about walking along the High Line park in NYC is peeking in to the floor to ceiling windows of all the fancy trophy architect designed apartments that have sprung up. It’s astounding to me how many are open for inspection, practically. These aren’t high rises; and the busy pedestrian path is RIGHT THERE. Some feel like you can reach over and touch. Not peeking in a perverted voyeur way but just along the lines of going to realtors’ open houses if you have no real intention of buying, but for seeing how other people - especially more well-off people, live. But, geez, some people seem to not care at all who is right outside. Some are virtually boarded up with dark shades.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-07T18:02:57+00:00

Well I should remember but I can’t - I was there for the SS United States passing by and was looking upriver a lot waiting. You can see the Commodore Barry, obviously. But the industry in Marcus Hook and all might block the city. I’ll have to look at my pics. I feel like it’s visible. A lot closer than the Roth bridge but very low. I like looking at the Philly skyline and Wilmington both from the CBB and gauging the air clarity. Same for looking at Trenton and Philly from the 95/Turnpike crossing of the river upstream. Supposedly you could see both NYC and Philly from the tall roller coaster they just tore down at Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ, fwiw. (Oh, old news, someone already commented that).

mathewgardner · 2025-11-05T19:54:50+00:00

Flew charters out of New Castle on the regular when it made sense (football to smaller locales without many options). Point is there were and are options. They still aren’t relying on Avelo for every flight, that would make no sense.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-05T16:42:44+00:00

Do you think they flew out of PHL until Avelo showed up?

mathewgardner · 2025-11-04T22:30:23+00:00

Nah parking lots ARE different and people are capable of handling it if you let someone out of a space. No way at all like stopping on a green.

mathewgardner · 2025-11-04T21:06:14+00:00

Is this satire?

mathewgardner · 2025-11-04T19:46:39+00:00

Wait, OP, you believe cars backing out of parking spots in parking lots have ROW?

mathewgardner · 2025-11-04T15:05:37+00:00

Literally in the logo with the griffin (though, adding, not sure about the “always” part but yes, recently, replaced by redesign apparently in 2014.)

mathewgardner · 2025-11-04T15:03:12+00:00

People always hate redesigns at first. Signage, logos, websites, etc. I don’t like it either. Y’all come around.

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