Confederate Ghost

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Story type: Ghost
Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia 
Source: Form Submission

My Dad bought part of the Civil War battle field in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He built a house on that land and our first night in the house, we heard a man playing Dixie on the banjo. My Dad got up and went downstairs to investigate but there was no one in the house and all the doors were locked. For the rest of the night it was silent and quiet. The following night around 3AM in the morning my Dad woke up with a feeling of someone in his room. He said it looked like a confederate soldier with a rifle in his hand. The ghost pointed the gun at my Dad's nose.

We are originally from Connecticut and we are aware that Southerners don't like Northerners because they lost the Civil War. My Dad said the gun barrel felt real when it touched his nose. It smelled like burnt gun powder. He thought he was being robbed but when he finally got out of bed, the confederate spirit had vanished. I think my Dad's new house is haunted because it was built on land where the battle of Fredericksburg actually took place.