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 | Cold Bluff battlefield is the site of one of the Civil War battles between the North and the South in Richmond, Virginia. Ulysses S. Grant’s army experienced unprecedented futility on the bloody fields of Cold Harbor. Though his army was there, Grant himself never visited Richmond. In the overland campaign of 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant with the Army of the Potomac battled General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia for six weeks across central Virginia. At the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna and Totopotomoy Creek, Lee repeatedly stalled, but failed to stop, Grant's southward progress toward Richmond. The next logical military objective for Grant was the crossroads styled by locals, Old Cold Harbor. Midway between two shabby crossroad taverns - Old and New Cold Harbor - the Confederates dug in on June 1-2, 1864 to await Grant's attack. It came on June 3, a frontal assault on a narrow section of the line, and it cost the Federals 7,000 casualties in 30 minutes.
Now a park in Mechanicsville, on Anderson-Wright Drive, I visited this place Saturday night, April 12, 2008, with the Ghost Girls of Southern Paranormal Investigations, LLC, Laura and Lynn to investigate the paranormal there. Though thousands of Confederates who died in Richmond battles were buried in Hollywood or Oakwood cemeteries and the Northern soldiers were buried in one of five National Cemeteries: Richmond, Cold Harbor, Seven Pines, Glendale or Fort Harrison, it seems at Cold Bluff the War Between the States is still going on.
We arrived at the park at 7:50 PM and parked by the Center to await the ranger who was coming to take us on the one mile walk around the park. He arrived not long after. After we made sure we had the equipment we would need, we followed him as we began our tour and investigation.
At the beginning of the gravel trail, Laura, Lynn, and the ranger left me as I remained to take some more pictures. Then I began walking, taking pictures along the way when I heard a distinct set of footsteps right behind me! I halted, the other footsteps stopped too. Just to make sure they didn’t belong to someone alive, I looked around and saw no one. My heart beating, I decided to catch up with the others. I didn’t hear the other footsteps joining me.
The ranger would pause and tell us some Cold Harbor battle stories. He also told us about some paranormal happenings in the park that others mentioned, though he said he couldn’t confirm or deny anything. It was when I was taking a picture of the woods on the left of the trail that my recorder came on, my voice asking for anyone to speak into it. The shocker about this was it had been turned off after I used it earlier and I had it zipped up in my bookbag. Laura who stood next to me, turned to me with a shocked look on her face and we stared at each other. I unzipped the pocket the recorder was in and took it out, then shut it off and replaced it back in its pocket. Later, the recorder came on again, the same part of my voice asking the ghosts to speak into it. This time, I was taking it out of the bookbag to switch it on when my voice blared out.
More things happened. Laura’s camera clicked a picture by itself when she was just setting it up to take one. I saw a flash, like a lightening bolt, zip down into the main battlefield. After the second incident of my recorder coming on I felt something go up and down the back of my neck like a finger and when I told it, “Stop it!”, it did, but began to play with the back of my hair, so I snapped at whoever it was to stop it again. This time, it quit bothering me. We smelled sassafras when none was near, plus I breathed in the odor of mint at one point. Laura smelled tobacco later on and no one was smoking, plus though there were homes around the park, not near enough for the odor to carry. At one point on the trail something seemed to step into me and my hands and body began freezing. I walked quickly to rejoin the others farther up the trail. As I got to them, the cold left me.
We finished at ten o’clock that night, leaving the ranger after thanking him and went home. Monday, I met Lynn and Laura with the team from Crossroads Paranormal radio show at the El Paso Mexican restaurant, as we were going to investigate Wrexham Hall which was nearby. Laura told me she got rifles shooting on her recorder and when she listened to mine, thought she could hear footsteps that were not our own.
Investigating Cold Bluff was cool and even scary. And there’s no doubt the War Between the States is still actively going on there.
Want to read more about the ghostly goings on in Richmond Virginia. Click here to learn more about the book Haunted Virginia
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