Do Multiple People Ever See the Same Ghost?
Question of the Week #3
Hello again, Travelers! I am the Reverend Victor S. Johnson here as a Paranormie giving hard-hitting answers to those of you normies. Today we have a bit of a simple one, but at the very least, it’s not a question about bodily functions or getting high.
This week’s question comes to us once again from Quora. Have multiple people ever had the same spiritual sighting? The answer to that is both an official and unofficial yes. We’ll start with two documented examples and move into my personal experiences.
The Miracle of the Sun (Portugal, 1917)
How this account all started ironically begins with a completely different vision shared by three children, Traveler. In 1916 the children told anyone who would listen that an angel appeared to them, and then in 1917, the Virgin Mary would appear. According to Wikipedia, Mary told them there would be a miracle that would bring about the end of the First World War.
The miracle was scheduled for October 13th, 1917.
The day of the 13th brought ugly rain as tens of thousands gathered in Cova Da Iria for the event. When the rains slowed and the clouds parted, all these people marveled as the sun began to dance.
That’s right, it danced. The sun grew large as if it barreled towards the spectators and then shrank as if it ran away. Allegedly it also turned several different colors, including orange, purple, red, and silver. The miracle lasted for an estimated ten minutes.
The modern skeptic cites this as a case of mass folie a deux. Take that as you will, Traveler.
The Sheppton Mine Disaster, August, 1963
On August 13th (huh, the 13th again, Traveler), three miners were trapped in a mine in Sheppton, Pennsylvania, after it collapsed. Rescue attempts began with drilling a borehole down into the mine until two men, Henry Throne and David Fellin, were in a narrow chamber in shock, but alive. According to Wikipedia, several more holes were drilled, including the most enormous and final hole, thanks to financial efforts from Howard Hughes.
To date, the third miner, Louis Bova, has never been recovered.
In subsequent interviews, Thorne and Fellin relayed similar stories in which they were visited while still trapped in the mine by Pope John XXIII, who had died that same year, before the collapse of the mine. They had also reported stairways to Heaven and crosses in their shared vision. Once again, skeptics refer to this as a case of folie a deux.
Second-hand tales
Time for more stories from Gettysburg, Traveler!
Mr. G’s is a delicious ice cream parlor in Gettysburg off of Baltimore Street a few blocks south of the town center, Traveler. Way back when during the battle, it was a tannery. It’s allegedly haunted, like many of the buildings in this area, which might come with Gettysburg’s reputation as a hotbed of spiritual activity.
However, there’s a story that I was told that alleges a mass vision of an apparition. Ironically it involves a ghost tour group.
Most of the ghost tour groups in town used to gather at Unity Park, which has a marker dedicated to the former Superintendent of Exhuming Corpses, Samuel Weaver. Eventually, they all spread out because tour groups would end up on the wrong tour several times over. Now I’ll do my best to relay this to you as it was relayed to me by another guide.
Before the popularization of the cellphone, it started when one of the guests looked over at Mr. G’s and saw a sickly green light emanating from one of the windows. The only issue was that Mister G’s had closed about half an hour before this. The guest slaps a friend on the shoulder, who, in turn, looks at the same window.
And then, they told everyone in the group, an estimated dozen or so, about the window, and everyone looked over.
From that green light, a Confederate soldier crouched into view from inside the ice cream parlor. He was translucent, but his features were still very detailed. The soldier peered through the window for two or three minutes and then vanished into the green glow, which dissipated.
With the worst timing in the world, the guide finally showed up to give the tour. I wasn’t informed how the tour went from there, Traveler, but I can always speculate that it paled in comparison.
My other story comes to me from a guide at the Jennie Wade house farther south but still on Baltimore Street. Jennie was the only civilian casualty of the battle when a bullet struck through two doors and hit her in the back while she baked loaves of bread for union army soldiers.
Her killer was never found.
The house is a hotbed of spiritual activity, some of which I can confirm. But this guide told me that once, as she gave a tour outside, which would have been the same spot at which the photo above was taken, a group of tourists began to shout at her and begged her to stop.
In the upper windows, according to the guests, a woman in Victorian-era clothing looked out from the window on the right and down at them.
No one else was in the house at the time, allegedly.
So again in answer to the question, Traveler, yes, multiple people can have the same visual spiritual encounter. In some cases, it’s documented, and in other cases, it’s just an old ghost story.
I’ll let you be the judge.
Until again,
Safe Travels!
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