Haunted Places in Gettysburg

The battlefield closes at dark and no ghost tour operates on it at night. Here is what the tours actually show you, and where the real sites are.

The battlefield is closed after dark

Gettysburg National Military Park closes at 10pm from April through October and at 7pm from November through March. The roads are gated and the ground is legally inaccessible outside those hours - and no ghost tour is permitted to operate on the battlefield at night. This is the single most useful thing to know before booking: an evening “battlefield ghost tour” is a tour of the town of Gettysburg, and a good operator will say so up front.

Devil's Den, in daylight

The boulder field on the southern end of the field saw close-quarters fighting on 2 July 1863 and is the site most often named the most haunted at Gettysburg. You can walk it freely, for nothing, during park hours - which is when you can actually see it. The famous photograph of a dead sharpshooter in the rocks was staged by the photographer, who moved the body; that is documented, and it is a better story than the ghost.

Jennie Wade, and the town's own dead

Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the three days of the battle, struck by a stray round while making bread in her sister's house on 3 July 1863. The house is in the town, open as a museum, and it is the anchor of most evening tours - which is convenient, because the town is where the tours are legally able to go.

What an evening tour is really selling

Not the battlefield. It is selling the town after dark: the Jennie Wade house, the buildings that became field hospitals, the streets where the fighting spilled in on 1 July. That is a real subject with real history and worth an evening. Judge an operator by whether it tells you the park is closed before you book, or after.

The entry price is cheaper than three quarters of US ghost tours, which start around $25, so this is genuinely cheap for a ghost tour rather than just cheap.

Gettysburg ghost tours

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Questions people actually ask

What is the most haunted spot in Gettysburg?
Devil's Den is the site most often named - a boulder field on the southern end of the battlefield where the fighting on 2 July 1863 was at close quarters. It is free and open during park hours. Note that the park closes after dark and no ghost tour may operate on the battlefield at night, so any evening visit to Devil's Den is one you make yourself, in daylight.
Can you go on the Gettysburg battlefield at night?
No. The National Military Park closes at 10pm April through October and 7pm November through March; the roads are gated and the battlefield is legally inaccessible outside those hours. No ghost tour operates on it at night. Evening tours in Gettysburg are town tours, which is worth knowing before you book rather than afterwards.
Are remains still found at Gettysburg?
Occasionally, yes. Around 51,000 men were killed, wounded, captured or went missing over three days, and burials in the immediate aftermath were hasty and shallow. Remains have surfaced periodically since - most recently in isolated finds during construction and erosion - and are handled by the National Park Service rather than left in place.
Is the Jennie Wade House worth visiting?
It is the only place in Gettysburg directly tied to the death of a named civilian in the battle, and it is in town rather than on the closed battlefield, so it can be visited in the evening. Jennie Wade was killed on 3 July 1863 by a round that came through two doors while she was making bread for Union troops.
How much do Gettysburg ghost tours cost?
Prices on this page come live from GetYourGuide and are shown against the national ghost-tour median. Gettysburg has a deep bench of town-based evening tours, which keeps prices near the median; paranormal investigation formats with equipment cost more and run longer.