256: A Haunted Historic Tour of Antietam National Battlefield.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today we go to the national park that preserves the bloodiest day in American History. During the civil war, 23,000 people were killed or wounded in a single day. Now, the area contains the spirits of those who lost their lives.

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0:00.0	Not all days can be labeled equally. Some are good, some are grand, some are sad, and others are boring and easily forgotten.
0:16.4	But some days are so horrificly ingrained in our history, like that of the Battle of Antietam.
0:23.0	It's so horrific that it cannot be forgotten
0:26.0	and lives in the remnants of land, buildings, writings, and inspired poems.
0:31.0	Landscapes turned red by Stephen W. Sears paints a vivid picture of what that deadly day was.
0:39.0	Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought. The most terrible by almost any
0:44.9	measure was September 17th 1862. The battle waged on that date close to Antietam
0:52.0	Creek at Sharpsburg in Western Maryland, took a
0:55.4	human toll never exceeded on any other single day in the nation's history.
1:00.8	So intense and unsustainable was the violence.
1:04.0	A man recalled that for a moment in his mind's eye,
1:07.0	the very landscape around him turned red. Red.
1:45.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. You're going to do. Well, well, well, a story I have nothing and no idea about.
1:48.6	I don't know anything about this battle. Nothing at all.
1:49.6	No.
1:50.4	It's really interesting that you say that
1:52.2	because this battle is very reminiscent of Gettysburg and that one is so popular
1:58.7	Yeah, popular
2:00.1	Remember well known. Yeah, yeah remembered. Yeah I'm remembered yeah I definitely don't know much about this and I know you're doing a
2:08.9	paranormal angle I sure am it's spooky season. Hello everybody and before spooky
2:15.8	season there are so much that has happened with the Battle of Antietam and
2:19.6	there are so many stories so many avenues that you can go down but for this one because it's October I
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