Ghost Adventures Filming Location in Gettysburg

We have been to this location several times and filmed the area a few different times, but never released a video about the location. On July 1, 2025, we commemorated our anniversary by finally going to this location again (among others) to make the video about the filming location.

We have been wanting to make this video for some time. We have visited Gettysburg multiple times, and the Ghost Adventures series has inspired us significantly in our work with Our Haunted Travels. This year, during our long road trip in 2025, we made an overnight stop in Gettysburg, which led us to decide that this was the year we would create this video. Despite its briefness, we believe this video effectively captures the location, enabling us to share our discoveries with others.

We found this location after watching Season 4, Episode 1 in 2010. Since then, we have actually investigated the orphanage and Jennie Wade House ourselves, and we had to do some research to find the train maintenance location where they captured the apparition of the Confederate soldier on their thermal camera. In 2015, we found the location on Google Maps and first visited it by going to General Lee's headquarters and walking to the back of the property; however, at that time, the area was overgrown, making it impossible to see anything. This is private property, and we kept checking each consecutive yearly visit until 2022, when they cleared the area.

About the Ghost Adventures Episode

The Ghost Adventures team traveled to Gettysburg to investigate a location often overlooked by tourists—the old train maintenance area tucked behind General Robert E. Lee’s headquarters and bordering Gettysburg College. This site, steeped in Civil War history, once was a highly congested area during the battle. The Confederate command post made it a location soaked in intensity, desperation, and trauma.

Local reports had long whispered of eerie occurrences in the area: shadowy figures on the tracks, disembodied voices, and sensations of being watched. What drew the Ghost Adventures crew here was not only these chilling accounts but also claims of full-bodied apparitions seen darting between the maintenance structures and train cars. Until the episode was filmed for national television, the area had never been thoroughly investigated, which crisscrosses lines of history and death. This area is also private property owned by the railroad, so the producers of the show got special permission for the investigation and filming.

As the crew began their investigation, they immediately felt the weight of the space. EMF detectors started spiking near the old railcars, and temperatures dropped drastically in isolated pockets. Zak Bagans, known for his sensitivity to spiritual energy, described feeling an oppressive pressure in his chest, as if something unseen were trying to keep him away. The team sensed that whatever lingered here didn’t welcome visitors.

They decided to set up the thermal imaging camera near one of the old outbuildings where Confederate soldiers were rumored to have taken shelter during artillery barrages. The camera began scanning the area in complete silence. Minutes passed with little activity—until Aaron Goodwin noticed a heat signature forming down the tracks from the cars and the building. On the screen, a distinct humanoid shape began to appear, crouched low as if hiding or preparing to move.

As the team watched in stunned silence, the figure on the thermal camera rose slowly to a standing position. Its outline was clear, showing the shape of a head, torso, arms, and legs. The strangest part was that it remained cold—darker than its surroundings—suggesting it was not a living person. Zak shouted, asking, “Are you one of General Lee’s men?” In response, the figure turned and walked directly through the woods towards the college, disappearing from the camera's view.

Immediately after the sighting, the crew rushed to the area where the apparition had been seen. No physical evidence was found—no footprints, no movement, no sounds. Yet the thermal camera had recorded it all. Replaying the footage, the team grew more convinced they had captured the spirit of a Confederate soldier. They conjectured that the figure might have been preparing for a crucial battle that would determine their fate.

The sighting changed the tone of the investigation. Suddenly, the location felt more alive, as if the energy had awakened. The spirit box began delivering phrases like “South,” “orders,” and “Lee,” lending further weight to the theory that the entity was a Confederate presence. Aaron asked if the soldier knew the war was over, and a faint but clear voice responded, “Still fighting.” The answer chilled everyone at the investigation.

Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley decided to test for more interaction by using an old Confederate military drumbeat played through a speaker. The empty rail yard echoed with the rhythmic sound, and the audio captured footsteps moving in sync with the beat within moments. The footsteps stopped just as the drum did, as if a soldier were obeying a command from long ago. The paranormal responses were unlike anything the team had experienced at similar Civil War sites.

Zak observed that the combination of historical trauma, the emotional impact of wounded and dying soldiers, and the strategic significance of the area likely created an ideal environment for haunting activity. These elements, combined with the spiritual charge of nearby Gettysburg College and General Lee’s headquarters, made it an epicenter of supernatural energy.

By the conclusion of the investigation, the team believed they had discovered a new aspect of Gettysburg's enigmatic past. The apparition on the thermal camera remained the highlight of the night—a rare, undeniable visual of a ghostly Confederate soldier still patrolling the grounds he once knew. The evidence collected added depth to Gettysburg’s legacy and reinforced the idea that not all soldiers ever truly left the battlefield.