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The Myrtles Plantation is touted as one of America’s most haunted places, and arguably the most haunted plantation of them all. It has been featured in several television shows, books, and even movies. Paranormal experts agree that the house easily qualifies as one of the scariest places on Earth.
One such place is the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A silent witness to over 200 years of history in the deepest part of the Deep South, the Myrtles Plantation house is considered one of the most haunted places in America.
Spanish moss hanging from towering oaks, garden statues resembling a woman and children turned to stone, and a grand antebellum home filled with curious antiques, The Myrtles Plantation certainly looks the part of a haunted Southern plantation house.
The True Story of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. How historical research revealed the true story of "one of the most haunted houses in America."
The Myrtles Plantation is a historic home and former antebellum plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States built in 1796 by General David Bradford. In the early history of the property, it was worked by enslaved people. It is reportedly a haunted place, and has been featured in television.
The plantation is also reportedly haunted by a young girl who died in 1868, despite being treated by a local voodoo practitioner. She supposedly appears in the room in which she died, and has been reported to practice voodoo on people sleeping in the room.
There are lots of supposedly haunted places in the South, but Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, roughly 30 miles north of Baton Rouge, may just be home to the region's most alleged ghosts per square foot.
The most popular ghost to haunt the Myrtles is Chloe. According to the legend, in the 1800s Judge Clark Woodruff, the plantation’s owner, had an affair with Chloe, the household servant.
Just outside of Baton Rouge in St. Francisville, about 85 miles from New Orleans, lies the Myrtles Plantation. Now a bed and breakfast, the more than 200-year-old historic estate’s grisly past is tainted with tales of poisonings, hangings, yellow fever, dismemberment and shootings.
The infamous Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is widely considered one of the most haunted places in America. Located on 650 acres of land in St. Francisville, the homestead was built in 1796 by General David Bradford.