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All battlefields are haunted by the memory of what occurred there. Some, however, are haunted by more than remembrance, memorialization, and heritage events. There are American Civil War battlefields that remain active with the ongoing manifestations of past military behaviors. A theory of American Civil War battlefield hauntings is presented here, tied to mid-19th c. concepts of (and belief in) a good death and the importance of home and family. Fieldwork exploring these ideas shows, in many battlefield manifestations, a direct relationship between these concepts and battlefield interactive hauntings.

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John Sabol is an archaeologist, cultural anthropologist, actor, and author. As an archaeologist, he has documented and recorded the manifestations of past soundscapes at haunted ruins. As an actor, he has appeared in more than 35 movies, TV series, and educational TV programming, including the Sci-Fi classic, Dune (1984), and the A&E TV series, Paranormal State. He has written 22 books on his fieldwork, methodology, and his personal experiences on location filming, and his work at haunted ruins around the world. He has also worked on international educational documentaries (in Spain). He is the director of several documentaries that are accounts of immersions into past ethnographic soundscapes at historic sites now in ruin. In these ruins, he has recorded manifestations of past cultural behavioral fields, including the culture of war on several Civil War battlefields and, most recently, coal-mining cultural vestiges and traces of past presence at Centralia, Pennsylvania. He has organized (and played a role in) theatrical stagings and ghostings (site-specific performances) at haunted locations which recorded spiritscapes at these haunted locations. He has developed numerous scripts and storyboards for these documentaries, as part of a ghost excavation series of mediated venues. He has presented video clips and audio tracks of these documentaries at various scientific conferences and popular culture expositions in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Recent speaking appearances include, but not limited to, Popular Cultural Conferences in Washington, D.C. and in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; the G.H.O.S.T.S. Conference in Ontario, Canada; several conferences in England including with the Royal Geographic Society (Britain's premiere exploration Society), Seriously Strange Conference in Bath, England; at the University of Kent, Canterbury; CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory), University of York, York, England, and TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group), at the University of Berkley, California and at the University of Buffalo, respectively. He can be reached via email at cuicospirit@hotmail.com. His IMDb site is: http: //www.imdb.com/name/nm1254777/ . The website is: www.ghostexcavation.com. He can be found on Facebook ( Ghost Excavations with John Sabol , John Sabol, The Ghost Excavator , and Beyond the Paranormal ).

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