Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Minky. Listener discretion is advised. Years ago, I found myself investigating what was once a Civil War battlefield in the middle of the night, and it was freezing to be clear. Outdoor investigations of wide open spaces are difficult to do, especially at night. If you're using cameras with infrared light. There's nothing for the light to bounce off of, so your cameras just see inky blackness
all around. Also, sounds, Sounds are hard to pinpoint. Sure, you may hear voices in the distance, but with no way to determine where it's coming from, how do you know they're not you know, living people talking. So I wasn't expecting much, but we had to give it the old college try. But I was definitely jealous of my teammates who were investigating inside the cozy inn that was
also located on the property. But my shivers and frustration were about to be rewarded in my world anyway, because as I swooped my flashlight behind me after hearing a small noise, I was met with a face, just a face, the face of someone who was clearly a Civil War era soldier. He had his cap on, his scruffy beard was a tangle against his face, and his brown eyes were staring straight at me. Did I mention it was just a face as in nobody, just a floating face
in the darkness that disappeared right before my eyes. And that, my friends, was just one of the many experiences I've had over the years in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Let's visit one of my favorite haunts in the area, the cash Town Inn. I'm Amy Bruney, and welcome to Haunted Road. If you were to visit the cash Town Inn today, you might be surprised by the decor. It doesn't look like a stereotypical haunted hotel. The cheerful red exterior looks a lot like it did when the two story inn was first
constructed in the late eighteenth century. A bright white sign displays the hotel's name in blue lettering. The front porch is lined with leafy bushes and trees and rocking chairs welcome weary travelers. In the summer's American flags in red, white and blue bunting hang from the balustrades. In the autumn, pumpkins and gourds line the walkway, giving it a cozy feel.
The interior is equally comfortable. The lobby boasts blue and white armchairs, and the restaurant's seating area is sandwiched between the bar and a brick wall with a fireplace. If you drop by for their Sunday morning brunch, you can order coffee muffins and French toasts sprinkled with powdered sugar. You might feel like you've disc covered a heartwarming historical gem, but if you were to stay in the inn overnight, the experience could become unsettling. There's an uneasiness here with
ties to the boarding house's history. It was first built in seventeen ninety seven. At the time it was a modest wooden structure where stagecoach drivers could stop to take a break and get something to eat. There were no overnight accommodations. Within a decade or two, proprietor Peter Mark rebuilt the stop as a sturdier brick building, and in eighteen fifteen he secured a tavern license so he could run it as a hotel. It had four rooms in a cellar with two ovens, so they'd always have freshly
baked bread. When the lodge first opened its doors, it didn't have a name. It was just an anonymous inn near a rural Pennsylvania crossroads. As reported on George S. Scotch's On the Road to Gettysburg, Peter didn't let guests pay for their rooms, goods, or cover the local tolls on credit, nor was he opened a barterer. His insistence on cash alone eventually earned the building the name the
Cashtown in the Moniker stuck. Just as nobody consciously decided to name the Cashtown in the village that sprang up around it appeared more or less unintentionally also called Cashtown. The community slowly grew to accommodate the through traffic the hotel brought in by the eighteen hundreds Cashtown. Both the inn and the town had earned reputations as getaway destinations. Scotch wrote of the hotel's healthy neighborhood, pure mountain air, and daily bath in fine waters from a natural spring
flowing through the cellar. But it wouldn't remain an idyllic vacation spot forever. In the summer of eighteen sixty three, the Civil War was tearing the United States apart, Although Pennsylvania's Cashtown Inn spent most of the conflict far from the battlefield, event vitually fighting practically reached its front door. The Franklin Township's history web page, written by Craig A. Hartley, says Confederate soldiers were marching through town. On June twenty sixth,
eighteen sixty three. At ten o'clock, a m Union fighters launched a surprise attack. One of the soldiers, a man named Henry Han, fired on a mounted trooper, knocking him from his horse. The gunshot may not have killed the soldier, but the fall certainly did. After a full day of suffering, he died that night. It's been speculated that at the time the soldier was the only wartime casualty in Pennsylvania's
Adams County, but it wouldn't remain that way. Around the time of the skirmish, the Confederate army was camping in Cashtown. Generals ap Hill, John d Imboden, and Henry Heath slept in the inn's rooms, and they occasionally met with Robert E. Lee in the on site barroom to discuss strategy. Fatefully, the Cashtown Inn stood on a major road there Confederate Army used to transport supplies, and they were in dire need of new provisions. Many soldiers didn't have sturdy shoes.
So one day, when Hill, Heath, and Imbuden gathered in the bar room, General Hill gave Heath permission to march into Gettysburg, just eight miles away. There he could search for provisions, including footwear. Famously, on the road, Heath's men clashed with Union troops and the Battle of Gettysburg erupted on July first, less than a week after the scuffle where Henry Han killed the mounted man. Called the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Gettysburg would result in an
estimated fifty thousand casualties. Now, I don't have the time here to talk about the many hauntings that have been reported across Gettysburg, which is considered a massive hotspot for ghostly activity. In ghost Stories of America's National Parks, author Joe Sills calls it one of the most haunted places in America. The cashtown in it saw its share of action during the three day battle. The Confederate Army continued using it as a base and helped themselves to the
supplies that owners kept there. They reportedly seized chickens, apples, liquor, a wagon, a horse, and a cow. According to Mike Kendra on Civil War Talk, they also used the facility's bread ovens and bathing facilities throughout their stay, and converted the basement into a hospital where countless amputations were performed While the soldiers ransacked carshtown, the inn's owner and his
family hid in the attic. They must have breathed a sigh of relief when the enlistes finally moved on, or at least the living ones did, following the Battle of Gettysburg. The Cashtown in cell on hard times. It had a stint as a library and allegedly as an illegal distillery During Prohibition. The construction of new highways meant the road that passed the lodge wasn't the major thoroughfare it had once been. This diminished the traffic to the inn, which
hurt their bottom line. Around the nineteen fifties, the hotel was in serious disrepair. Between nineteen eighty seven and twenty twenty one, the Cashtown Inn changed hands a number of times, undergoing numerous renovations to restore its two hundred year old features, all the while it continued to operate as a hotel,
and guests reported strange supernatural sightings at Cashtown. When visitors took photographs of the inn from the outside, the developed photos often showed faces peeking out the windows, as reported on the Cashtown in Gettysburg page on the Occult World web site. One very famous photo shows the proprietor standing outside the building near a second person in what looks like a Confederate uniform. This figure is slightly blurry, as if the Civil War era subject moved while the picture
was being taken. The proprietor doesn't seem to notice his companion, and the photographer claims there was no second person to be seen when he snapped the picture. On other occasions, people have encountered light anomalies, or as reported by Stephen Coleman, there have been sightings of what he calls glowing areas. People walking through the building will encounter cold spots or see spirits in Civil War era clothing pacing the halls.
Numerous guests have heard footsteps in unoccupied spaces, or they'll step into an empty room to find the furniture has been moved around. Visitors hear horses outside or a voice repeating hello. Multiple people have felt someone touching or grabbing them. This even happened when they were trying to sleep. Doors have a way of walking on their own, television sets
and lights turned themselves off and on. The Haunted Room's website explains that on more than one occasion, visitors have stepped into their rooms to find their suitcases fully packed, like the spirits are urging them to move along and get out. Beyond that, it can be challenging to determine what the spirit in the inner trying to say with their disturbances, It seems that the time two forty five am is important to them. Multiple visitors have reported that
instances happen at that precise hour. For example, one couple booked a room at the Cashtown Inn sometime in the nineteen nineties. During the night, they woke up to the sound of someone pounding on their door, but when they got up to answer, no one was there. The brave husband and wife ventured into the hallway, only to see
a shadow pass over the stairs. According to Dave and Sharon Oaster's Ghosts of Gettysburg, they also heard a whistle coming from above them, like the sound was coming from the room they'd just emerged from, except they hadn't seen anyone else spook. They both ran back to their room, only to find their watches had stopped at the precise second they heard the knocking around two forty five am. In the Robert E. Lee Swede, a woman in an
old fashioned white outfit is often spotted. Her identity is unknown, but some believe she's the daughter of them man who owned the inn during the Battle of Gettysburg. This makes sense. While the room in question is a swee today, it used to be the attic where the owner's family hid
throughout the battle. When the attic was converted into a residence, many visitors said they heard furniture being moved around in it even when it was empty, and Rosemary Ellen Giley's Ghost Hunting Pennsylvania says people who step into the suite sometimes hear something scratching at the window or heavy breathing. A rocking chair in the Robert E. Lee Suite sometimes moves on its own, so does the swing on the front porch, even on still nights with no wind. Similarly,
a rocking chair often rocks without being pushed. In the ap Hill room, where the eponymous General Hills stayed during the battle. People who have booked this room say they sometimes feel a present or something unseen touches their legs while they're trying to sleep. In the basement, which served as the makeshift's hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg, people
have seen spirits tending to injure comrades. According to Rosemary Guiley's Ghost Hunting Pennsylvania, it often smells of cigar smoke. All these reports have drawn ghost hunters and investigators to the cash Town Inn. On one occasion, a rider was staying in the room known as the Henry Heathroom, which is said to be haunted by the spirit of the man who fell from his horse before the Battle of Gettysburg.
The smallest room in the inn, it holds a bed and an armchair, and it's where many people have spotted a spirit in a Civil War era uniform. The writers said that throughout the night he heard someone knocking on the door, only for the hallway to be empty when he answered. Another time, in the same room, paranormal investigators set up a night vision camera that was pointed at a teddy bear and some stuffed balls. If they hoped
to capture ghostly footage, they'd end up disappointed. As the story goes in Mark Nesbit and Patty Wilson's The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories, the investigator fell asleep. When he woke, he found the camera on the floor. It wasn't broken, like if it had fallen. Instead, it appeared that it had been set there. As for the Teddy Bear, it had been turned around so it was looking out the window, and the balls were strewn throughout the room.
The Civil War Ghost's website describes another occasion where a couple at the inn heard knocking and footsteps. Unlike in the earlier stories, this pair chose to ignore it. While they laid in bed, they heard the footsteps draw nearer. Now the sound was coming from inside their room. It drew closer and closer, continuing right up to the foot of their bed. The couple was too terrified to move as their mattress began to shift like an invisible visitor
had climbed onto it. Finally, something unseen clutched the woman's shoulder.
No thank you.
Given accounts like these, it's unsurprising that so many guests flee their rooms in the middle of the night. Rather than spend another minute among the spirits. In an interview with Washington Post reporter James f. Leek, the Cashtown Ends owner Jack Palladino noted that some of these terrified visitors are in such a rush they leave their keys hanging in the doorknobs. And it's no wonder as some of
these incidents have the potential to be dangerous. Most alarmingly, one guest reported that when he fell asleep one night, his heart medicine was sitting on a table. It was missing when he woke up. This all goes beyond a simple spirit prank. It seems like the specters are trying to get rid of unwanted guests. Most seem to be from the Civil War era, and supernatural activity tends to spike around July first through the third, the anniversary of
the Battle of Gettysburg. Perhaps some of the animosity of the war lives on in the spirits that remain here. I've investigated the Cashtown in and so has my guest today with me. Actually, that's right, mister Adam Berry is joining us after the break so we can share all the experiences we had at the Cash Town Inn. Stay tuned all right, I am now joined by one of my favorite guests in the whole wide universe, mister Adam Berry. Welcome to the program.
Hi, Amy Bruney.
It's so nice to have you once again. You know, there's so many of these places that I cover that we've investigated, and we've had so many great experiences at them. I'm like, I'm just gonna have Adam on so we can talk about it.
You know. I love to talk about ghosts, and I love to talk about how crazy we are investigating.
This is our life at this point. Yeah, it's funny. I wanted to investigate the cash Town in for so long. I feel like I saw it well, I'd heard about it for years and I'm pretty sure I saw it on Ghost Hunters like way back in the day, like pre either of us, and I was fascinated by it, and so it was so exciting when we got to go because we were there for three nights with Kindred
and it was just us, which was amazing. So it's like a bed and breakfast hotel kind of situation and we had full access and they cooked for us too, which was kind of amazing.
Yeah, the food was good. I was like, at first I was like, are they going to make a silvil war like you know, Gettysburg grub. Maybe it's going to be like mutton and like beans. But it was not. It was actually really good.
No, they made me like amazing salmon and they had a really good pasta. Like I was kind of like any requests and so every day and the chef was great. And I have a great story about the chef, but I'll tell at the end of our interview. I mean, I've seen his wife a few times since, so I think it's okay if I tell the story. It's just kind of emotional. But anyway, So we did some pretty interesting things there. We stayed there, and so we got
some activity at night. I know, we heard a lot of sounds at night, and that's what it's known for. There was a lot of bumping and banging and voices, and so I think people need to be aware of that if they decide to stay there.
Yeah, for sure. I mean it's I feel like when we were investigating, it felt like we even though we were alone, right it was just the two of us, it felt like there were other guests, right, Like there were other guests staying with us that we could not see like literal ghost guests, ghost guests that were kind of wandering around having their own moment in cash down, which was so crazy to me.
Yeah, it's never a quiet building. And what I think is interesting is that so it has sold since we were there. So the gentleman who owned it when we were there, he was great, and he was swore up and down he was never going to sell the place. He was like, no, I'm dying here. But then he sold it.
Yes, I know. I was like, you know, I never say never, I guess, but like I really felt his passion for that location, you know, I really Obviously I don't know what happened. You know, obviously maybe there was a reason why I had to sell it, But I could feel his passion and his commitment to that location. Like it was almost like he was drawn there by some unseen force, you know, very shining esque but like but like also really into the history and into the preservation.
And yeah, so I hope the new owners are just as cool.
Apparently they're great. Apparently there were like total non believers, you know, they bought the property not based on any ghostly things, like they just were all about the history. It has really interesting history, which I covered in the first half. But now I'm hearing that they're actually really open to the ghost thing. So I'm not sure if since they've purchased it they've had experiences and they need answers, Like I haven't gotten the lowdown, but suddenly I've heard
they're like, yeah, we could maybe have some people in here. Yeah, maybe a bit off more than they could chew for sure.
And you know, we are going very soon. I don't know when this is going to drop, but we're going very soon with as strange escapes, So we go ask.
We are, well, I think we will already have gone when it's hers, but people should know that we go to Getty's for restrained escapes usually at least once a year.
Yeah, maybe we'll ask them.
I would like to know. So one thing that I think is so interesting is that basement. You know, most basements, especially in those old buildings, you go down, it's like a dirt floor and there's rocks and things, but like this one, it's a body of water. Like what do you remember about that?
First off sketch, very sketchy, like how like one wrong move in the dark for a ghost huntter and you are in a pool of water. Okay, first and foremost. Two, it was wild because that space really hasn't changed since the Civil War. I mean it is bare walls, it's bricked, brick and stone. Right, there's like a concrete walkway. There's water running through it. It's not just stagnant, stale water. It is literally like an underground river of some kind.
And I just remember being transported back to the Battle of getty Burg, immediately entering and thinking of the amputations that were done there, like the horrors basically the horrors of war and what was actually going on down there because it is so well preserved, you know, from that time period.
Yeah, I remember watching our crew thinking, you guys are going to fall in that amputation water. Yeah, like that, because they just kept talking about, like the history, they're very clear that two things that just really really stood out to me is that A that water ran red from all of the amputations they did in that basement or in that area, and that b the limbs stacked so high that it covered up the basement window, like
it was just a pile of limbs. And I just could not shake that visual the whole time we were down there, and then on top of that, there was just there's a very oppressive feeling in that basement. I don't know if that's why, but it just felt very odd. And I know we did like set up a whole psychomantium using that water as well, which I thought was really interesting.
Well, we had to use I mean, the water's been there, right, so the water's flowing in and out like it's always been something there. And we had done the psychomantium in Gettysburg once before and it worked for us, and you know, why not we had a whole body of water. I think the setup for that was tricky. We had to like hang things over the water, and our crew helped us. It was very brave. They helped us because we were like, I don't want to fall in, and they were like,
we don't care. Here we go because they loved the idea so much. And you know, I do remember sitting there in the dark with the psychomantium and like we could both kind of see the reflection of the water in the mirror, just waiting for something to happen. And it wasn't until we started doing the Estes method, the spearbox experiment that it really jumped off for us, like it really started getting very active.
It did. And what was strange is that, you know, this isn't this happened to us when we investigate the Farnsworth House too. We weren't necessarily in contact with someone who died during the Battle of Gettysburg. You know, even though there are thousands of people who died in that area in that timeframe. A lot of these places, you know,
other history has happened since then. You know, there's been hundreds of years of history since then, and if I remember correctly, we kind of tuned in on someone who might have actually worked there at some point had died in like a car accident or something.
True true. Downstairs in the basement, it was very much like Grand Central Station for ghosts. It felt like nobody was really staying sticking around. It was like they were coming oh right, like they were coming in and going out, which makes sense because the Cashtown was that kind of place, like it was used as a stagecoach stop, right, and so people would stop there and they would stay there and they would eat there and then they would kind
of move on. And that was the vibe. But it wasn't until we got upstairs to where the bar was where we started talking to this spirit, this person who is non living, and it didn't match the vibe of like old timey Gettysburg. And we started right right and we started.
All coming back to me now.
Yes, Selene, but we like we started getting modern day speech and almost like a casualness about the conversation. And you know, you had to dig into the research to figure out what it was after they gave us their name, you know.
Yeah, Well it's strange because it's such a it's a very rural area right there. You know, it's very easy to think about the troops like marching down that street, but there's really not a lot around and so other than that, not a lot had happened. But then I did find out about this former employee who had died in a car accident. But yeah, just like back to
the basement really quick. I totally forgot about that. How there were just all of these spirits kind of coming in and out, and just your personal opinion, you know, it is weird that there is a stret like running through there. Do you think that has something to do with that?
So I think there might be something to that whole running water theory about charging an area, you know, possibly, right, But I think it's more about a familiarity in my opinion, because that's always been that way, right, It's always been a river. It's always flowing in and out like it's
always been that, and so it seems familiar. If a spirit didn't know what time period it was and they wandered into that space and they saw it and they had seen it before, they would immediately be like, oh, I know what this is, Like it's this cashdown right. So I think in a way it's a familiarity, and I think it attracts spirits. Maybe it's comforting, right, Maybe it's recognizable. Maybe it's something that they can always rely on because it's always there, it always looks the same.
I don't know, but we just got a lot of activity for sure down there with that right right.
And I think about people staying there because they you know, obviously we experience activity, but you and I tend to it's funny. I think it's kind of ironic, like what we stay in haunted locations because we're around so many ghosts, like nothing wakes us up, weird. It is literally like waking the dead, like we are. We're so exhausted. We've been investigating all night and like we I put on my little fan you use scroll TikTok till the week
hours and then we go to sleep. And so we're like the worst people to try to observe activity in like an inn, Like we should actually start outsourcing that job to someone who's a lot more scared than.
We are, right, you know what, I feel like we should put our crew in that position, right because they don't they're not they're into ghosts in a way, but they're mostly filming us and when they have activity, they turn white, yes, and they're like, oh my god, what's going on. We'll just put them in the space because then people will be like, oh, that makes sense. You should definitely be sleeping there because we pass out. Yeah, like head, we don't care pillow. I mean, there's only
been a couple of times. This is what's weird. So there's only been a couple of times something has happened while we've stayed at these locations. For me, and one was literally the Farnsworth House in Gettysburg, which is you know, down the road, and I felt the covers being tugged on my feet, but of course, of course the camera placement where it was focused on me didn't get that side of the bed, so you couldn't see anything.
Yeah, that's how that works exactly.
No.
I heard footsteps at cash Town for sure. In my room that kind of like teetering, like yeah, like someone kind of shifting their weight. Yeah, And I can't remember if I think I was like, hello, is anyone there, like hoping I would get some more activity, But it was kind of this more like oh, they probably were looking at me and going, she's not scared enough, like this is no fun.
Or for us, Like we've spoken to them all day, right, like they've been talking, Yeah, they know, okay long And so once we get up there and we're trying to sleep, it's almost like, oh, they're sleeping what we should be sleeping, you know, or something. It's like, oh, no, give it, let's give them a break.
They're just being polite. They're like, oh, they're asleep, let's all be really quiet.
We're like, actually, no, quiet, don't really wake them up.
They're like nice ghoes. Well, apparently people when they stay there, it happens quite often that they are woken up by voices pounding on the walls footsteps, and so I think maybe it was us, But I know that, like I guess if you go in with an open mind, it should be okay. I don't think it's enough that like people are running out in the middle of the night, but I mean it is very well known to be haunted.
We were talking about the bar area too, like obviously we got in touch with that more modern spirit, but people see apparitions of like soldiers in uniform in that area as well.
Right, I think, well, look, we know where the Cashtown was before, even though it was used sort of like as a like a facility, you know, where there was wounded soldiers, and there was amputations, and there was a lot of you know, a lot of death. But also it always has been and still is a bed and breakfast.
So I feel like the activity is in line with that sort of thing, right, Like, yes, there'll be Civil War ghosts for sure, but like you said, there could be anyone someone from the nineteen fifties who stayed there that wanted to wants to go back there as a ghost, Like it's a familiar spot. They know where, you know, and so they show up. It has that vibe I mean it is. It can be kind of screepy, obviously, but it's a very lived in and very well traveled environment, I think.
Absolutely, And it's one of those places where a lot of memories have been forged.
You know.
I'm sure people have gone on their honeymoons there. I'm sure people have been married there. I think that that kind of goes for a lot of hotels. We've long speculated that in death, you're not necessarily tied to one location, Like maybe you do go back and revisit at places that made you happy at some point, or that were nostalgic for you, and maybe that's part of it, you know.
I mean, as you could tell by the owner then he was so connected to the place, like he talked about it like it was like family to him, which is why I'm so surprised he's sold, So there has to be something else going on. But he really was like just just completely wrapped up in that place. And so if that's how the owner is, imagine people visiting it's special. It's a really special place.
It is, and you know it's not it's not your ordinary Gettysburg haunt stop either, because everything else is really downtown right, right, every like Jenny Wade Orphanage goes tour Barnsworth, it's all sort of Gettysburg Hotel. It's always it's all sort of like contained. And then you have the cash Town, which is almost like the last point a spirit or a person will see before they go to their travels, and it's the first place they counter before they get
into Gettysburg. It's like a mile marker, it's a milestone kind of thing.
It's not even technically a Gettysburg. It's cash Town.
So it's right, that's right.
Yeah, it's just so associated with what happened in Gettysburg. But I will say, so I have time to tell this story. I had a very I had a very weird and spiritual experience at the Cash Town. In to this day, people asked me to tell this story, and I'm going to tell it here so everyone knows. You know the story, so love it. Okay. So basically, anyone who follows me on social media knows that I'm kind of like a vintage car nut and I have a couple. I'm not like, I'm no Jay Leno by any stretch,
but I have a couple. And so at this point I was looking for a convertible Volkswagen Beetle like Super Beetle Buck like a seventies version. They stopped making them in seventy nine. The super Beetle anyway for car buffs listening to me. So, I was looking for this particular car, and I've been looking all over the place and I just could not find one in the show shape that
I wanted for the price that I wanted. And so we were sitting there the first day we were shooting and suddenly this man just flies into the parking lot and this little red convertible Super Beetle and I look at it and I'm like, oh my god, that's the car I want. I looked at it, I could see it was in great shape. He goes inside. It's the chef that's cooking for us. He works there, and so I go up to him and I'm like, is that
bug for sale? And He's like, it could be, and I said, And so we kind of over the next few days while we were there, we discussed terms. I got my mechanic on FaceTime, you know, mister X was there, Jimmy was there. We went through the whole car. It was in great condition, runs really well, and so I made him an offer and he said he's gonna go he's going to go talk to his wife about it. So the last day we're there, he texted me that
the offer was good. They were good with it. So the last day were there, he shows up with the car, but he's very emotional, like tearing up, and he says, I need to tell you a story about this car. And I'm like, in my brain, I'm like, oh, he's not going to sell it to me. Like I could tell he was really torn up about selling it. So we walk across the street away from everybody, and he tells me how I think it was like twenty years before he and his soon to be wife or no,
they had just gotten married. They went on their honeymoon in Salem, Massachusetts. She had been begging him to buy a red convertible Beetle and he kept saying, no, it's not in the budget. We can't. You know, he's very frugal. He's like, we can't afford this, like it's not going to happen. But they're on their honeymoon and they're driving down the street and they see this red convertible Beetle with a for sale sign on it, and she's like, please,
can we call the number please? And he's like fine, So they call the phone number from a payphone and the guy shows up and he gives them the keys and he's like, just take it for the day and joy have fun. And they're on their honeymoon. So they take the Beetle and they drive it all over Salem and they have the best day and they're like, we have to have this car. So they like, I think they said they had either train or plane tickets. They
cash those in. They took out advances on their credit card and they bought this car and it was like their dream car. And they drove it back, drove it back to Gettysburg and they'd had it all this time.
And as they were getting older, though they just did it's a manual transmission, they couldn't drive it as much, and so they just it was sitting more than they wanted it to and they really wanted it to go to a good home, right and so you know, he said, so I'm going to sell it to you, but I just need you to know that, like this this vehicle has like personified our marriage, Like I love this woman more than anything and this is the hardest thing I've ever done. But we know how much you want this.
We saw how much your daughter loves the carcas. Charlotte was there and he's like, we know she's going to the right owner. And it was like, oh my gosh, well thank you, and like, so we do the transaction and everything, and I get Jenny and I called the bug Jenny because I named her after Jenny Wade because I got her Getty's verg So fast forward. You and
I are on our next case. We're in New Hampshire, right, We're investigating a bed and breakfast and as we're sitting there, Jenny's getting delivered to my house in Newport, Rhode Island, and Jimmy sends me a video of her coming off the delivery truck, right, and he's like, look who's here. And so We're sitting with the owners of the bed and breakfast and I'm like, oh my gosh, look, and I'm showing them the video. I'm like, I just got this car. I found it in Gettysburg. You won't believe
the story. And I tell them the story about the man and his wife, and the guy looks at me and he says, hold on a second, you're not going to believe this, and I'm like, oh. He leaves the room and he comes back with a cookbook and he opens it and it says, thanks for a wonderful honeymoon's day. You were fabulous love Brian and Mary. It was the couple,
the guys that we were investigating. They had owned a bed and breakfast in Salem, Massachusetts, years before, and the couple had honeymoon at that bed and breakfast and got in the car and they remembered the story. So it was the weirdest thing.
That ever so wild. I mean, that's the craziest story because when you talk about like synchronicities and like weird things that happen in our lives, like, yeah, coincidences or coincidences, But that is out of all of the people that we could have met at Cashtown, you met the guy who's making this wonderful food, who like drives up in a bug, And of all the places that we could have gone to investigate right after, it's the couple that owned the bed and breakfast in Salem that they say
that that is literally mathematically impossible.
To me, it was insane, and they were like they kept in touch with them even and so he knew exactly. He's like, you're not going to leave this. He's like, they stayed at our bed and breakfast. This happened at our bed and breakfast. So it was just like, holy crap. And so since then, I've actually met the wife. I've done I did a show in Pennsylvania and they came out and I got to meet her. So it was lovely. It was just such a lovely story. So now every time I look back at the cash Town, like I
have that to remember it. Every time I look in my driveway and I see little Jenny the Bug, I think of our wonderful time we spent there, and how you know, the world is just so connected, you never know how.
After all these years, the cash Down is still making memories for people who visit for all, and that is part of the haunt. I mean, that's part of its legacy.
I think. So so well, it's been lovely to have you. I know you've got a lot of things going on. You have a book that recently came out. Tell us all about it, please.
I My book just came out. It's called Goodbye Hello, Processing Grief and understanding death through the paranormal. It's a great read spooky stories, but also great conversations on the afterlife and near death experiences and dream visitations, which I know you contributed a beautiful story to. So hopefully everybody can go out in and snag a copy.
Yes, and we're always doing things too, so people want to catch up with us, sometimes together, sometimes separate. So I love that. I'm so happy about your book. It's lovely and it's nice to chat with you. And hopefully, Oh, I will see you in person very soon.
Yeah, I'll see you very soon.
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