Ever since my post a few days ago about General Kearny, I’ve had Fort Mifflin on my mind.
Based in Philadelphia, Fort Mifflin has historical significance dating back to the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and WWII, and through all of that history, a lot of very interesting events took place here.
The show Ghost Hunters actually investigated here. You can visit their site and find information on that specific episode by clicking here.
As you can see, I had the place to myself. Thinking about the history while walking around, it was a very humbling experience.
Soon it was time I went to the catacombs….
For those of you who have been following my site for a while, you know I take a serious amount of photographs of the sun, both setting and rising, and out of all of them, I’ve never had a globe or ‘orb’ appear in any of my photos like the one in the picture above, (Booooooo!) but I am serious. Photographic anomaly I’m certain. I think.
Entering the underground maze, I made my way through snapping photo’s with the flash on.
Flash, then darkness. Flash, then darkness, the kind of darkness where you can’t see your hand in front of your face.
Surviving the first round, I made my way across the fort to the other underground tunnels.
Another ‘orb’ above? It’s following me!
Darkness and tight quarters. Standing still in the blackness, listening, feeling, sensing, I wasn’t freaked out by anything in that particular area so I moved on, ‘photo-flashing’ my way towards the exit.
Look long enough at the windows and soon you will start to imagine certain forms, faces, or eyes looking back at you…
And then I found this place, the last of the underground bunkers. I walked around it first. I have to admit, this was the one that kind of gave me the creeps before I entered, and I do not get ‘the creeps’ very often as you can tell by my going there alone in the first place.
Illuminating my path by snapping photographs was the plan of the day. I selected the ones on today’s post out of a couple hundred taken.
Down another hall I walk, and I have to tell you, I did not feel good about being in this particular place, don’t know why, just really wanted to get out of there…
Entering the main chamber, wanting to leave quickly…
One more shot and then I was out of there.
Overall Fort Mifflin is a fantastic destination to visit for history buffs and anyone for that matter. They run paranormal tours, reenact historic battles, even have sleep-overs for the really brave.
For me, I got a kick out of basically having the place to myself. I only felt a little leery of that very last bunker I visited.
Honestly, I’m not afraid of ghosts, its people that scare me sometimes.
But that last building…
Something really interesting about that last building.
Hi Tony, reading your great story and seeing the photo with the “orb” reminded me of my visit to Greece a few years ago..two of my pictures have lots of orbs and very next one only had 1 tiny one…very strange as they were all taken in same dark/ light area. I have uploaded on my blog to share my experience.
Great story, great photos – they made me apprehensive to continue looking at them…
all the best
Desiree
Hey Desiree, yes I read your story on the orb on your site. Very interesting! Thank you for sharing that and stopping by! Thanks again. Tony
Thank you Tony!
Can I ask you something please…where are you located?
How fabulous! I have yet to travel to down to your area. Looking forward to reading more of your blogs!
I live in Canberra, Australia. We are often asked if Kangaroos jump through our streets – they dont in the big cities but they do in my city – we are Australia’s capital city.
Thanks so much for your reply,
wishing you all the best!
Desiree
I always tell my Australian visitors about my Great Uncle who was an Anzac, fought and died in Gallipolli, my proud connection to Australia! He was from Brisbane, originally from Ireland. Yes, Australia is on my bucket list as well! Thank you for your comments and stopping by! Looking forward to more of your posts as well. Tony
Hope you will put Gallipoli on your bucket list too – have
been there (think I have blogged about Galliopoli
already), an amazing place – an amazing resting place
for your Uncle – the ANZAC Digger.
Bye! Desiree
It is in my list. He was one of the few to have his body recovered. Died in the battle of Lone Pine. Would be nice to get there!
You are oh so much more brave than I would ever be! Just reading your comments about the places you entered gave me an anxious feeling inside.
I’m curious…what did they use those bunkers for? Were they a place for the military to hide out or were they used for prisoners? Great post!
Ammunition storage, also protection for soldiers from British bombardment during the Revolutionary War (one bombardment included over 1000 cannon balls landing on the fort), they also served as holding cells for Civil War prisoners which is crazy if you’ve seen the pics, there is no air flow or light, it must have been hell in there.
During WWII ammunition was store there again as well as anti-aircraft batteries to protect the ammo dump and the Philadelphia Navy Yard which is just up the river a bit.
Cool place and a great place to take photos of incoming aircraft to PHL international. They fly almost right over the Fort…scary close! lol
awesome photos, love black and white. There is something timeless, yet creepy about it. We just never know what dwells in some of these old spaces.
I agree. B&W sometimes is just necessary to tell the story correctly, as I think that place needed to be depicted. It a really cool place. Thank. Tony.
I don’t think those are orbs! I often shoot the sun and you just get light refraction in your lens! Often your flash reflecting off dust can be mistaken for orbs!
Yup, I totally agree with you. I was just goofing. Was the first time I got the distortion from the sun though. Just having some fun with the readers. But I do thank you for replying. Have some photos from my old home I need to dig out, every shot in the living room crazy balls of light. Interesting, Tony
I’ve had orbs show up in unexpected places as well. Would like to know what causes them.
I’ll look into that and see if I can get some answers. This is a good explanation as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_(optics)
Thanks. An interesting article. Some of mine have occurred without flash though
I’d like to go back there and do a really long exposure no flash in there and see how that looks. Could be interesting?
I’m pretty sure “orbs” are aperture reflections, but there are more things on…………….. Anyway, I enjoyed your photographs, as I’m not keen on small, underground places.
I have to agree with you, Carol. I’m just messing with my daughter who reads this and is freaked out by Ghosts Hunters. lol. Confined spaces and I normally a problem. :0
Fabulous post! I could almost feel myself there!!
Thanks!
Reblogged this on 41 by Lucy Gutteridge and commented:
Following on from my recent round of Most Haunted…..
I remember that episode of Ghost hunters when it aired. Great photos, thanks for sharing. . .
You are welcome, Sally! Thanks for your reply. Tony
Fort Mifflin is a pretty neat spot. Huge huge history! Nice write-up/investigation! The pics are beautiful, btw…even though some have orbs in them. Haha
Lol.
What a great idea and great post! An adventure, for sure. Will look for more cool things on your blog, and thank you very much for following mine!
You got it, Billy! Thanks for stopping by. Tony