Gettysburg Investigation by Patsy Posey
On May 15, 2004, Patsy Posey joined an investigation at Gettysburg, stepping into the echoes of history at Devil’s Den. She connected with a ghostly soldier, Geoffrey Koft, a young deserter abandoned to die with a head wound. Patsy felt his pain—literally—on the left side of her face and uncovered his story: a sister named Lillie, her life marked by loss. The spectral whispers also hinted at Kentucky, tragedy, and unresolved sorrow. Though no evidence confirmed the encounter, the weight of Geoffrey’s grief hung like a fog over the battlefield, leaving Patsy haunted in more ways than one.
When I went along with the Gettysburg ghost investigation on May 15, 2004, I experienced a number of surprising events. I picked up paranormal information when I was at Devils Den. I don’t have proof of what I sensed, but it felt very real to me. I picked up the name “Geoffrey Koft,” and the word North. I felt pain on the left side of my face. I picked up that he had been wounded in the head. I felt that he had a bandage on his head.
I asked him what side of his head was wounded. He let me know that he was wounded on the left side above the ear. I picked up the word deserter. I picked up that he had been deserted by his comrades and left to die. I picked up that the man was very young and he was crying. I saw a girl in my mind’s eye and asked who she was. He said it was his sister. I saw her wearing a fancy dress in my mind. She had long golden curls. He said that she was his much younger sister who had never married because she didn’t want to lose her husband like she lost her brother. I picked up the word Kentucky.
Was Kentucky on the north or south side? The name Lillie and Laura came to me, and Edmondison. When I went home that night and went to bed, I was laying there and thought of his name again. I got pain again in the left side of my head. I hate that I don’t have any validation for what I experienced. I need to find someplace that I can check the names.
SOURCE: v6 MGSA Oct 2006
