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Myrtles Plantation, at this haunted house
north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
for you to see a ghost it doesn't
matter whether it's night or even day.
The Myrtles Plantation is a historic home built in 1796
by General David Bradford on a Spanish land grant
and is believed to be one of America's most haunted homes.
It is reported that there are
at least 12 ghosts and 10 killings,
though, historically, only one is documented.
Even so, it's thought to experience paranormal activity
anytime and, some say, all the time.
Mysterious voices, doors opening and closing,
and objects moving around by themselves,
are just some of the poltergeist activity
said to plague the plantation.
Watch the video and remember to tell us
in the comments section if you agree
that this is America's most haunted house.
Whilst the house has its own spooky reputation,
it is thought that there are even
more ghosts in the plantation's grounds.
The house is rumored to have been built on top
of an ancient Tunica Indian burial ground.
And, intriguingly, the ghost of
a Native American woman has been reported.
In this series of photos, taken on rapid succession,
on the veranda during an investigation,
you can see a shadow form of what looks like a young woman.
But, of course, it could be any one
of the reported ghosts at the plantation.
Public records show that the cotton plantation
covered 5,000 acres, just over 2,000 hectares,
and had 500 slaves.
Many of them died on the plantation and were buried on site.
Some believe that their spirits
still linger on the plantation.
And one of these is probably the most well-known
of all the ghosts said to haunt Myrtles.
A story is told set in the early 1800s
about a slave girl named Chloe supposedly
owned by Clark and Sarah Woodruff.
Apparently, Clark had pressured Chloe to be his mistress,
but other versions of the tale suggest
that Chloe had been listening at keyholes
to Clark's business dealings, or for some other purpose.
Nevertheless, she was caught by one of the Woodruffs,
and as punishment, had one of her ears cut off.
Which is why she is believed to have hidden
this by wearing a green turban.
By way of revenge, she is said to have poisoned
a birthday cake by adding an extra toxic ingredient;
a deadly garden plant named oleander.
Clark's wife and children died and Chloe was hanged
for her crime and thrown into the Mississippi River,
supposedly by other slaves as a punishment,
or to escape the retribution
of Clark Woodruff for harboring her.
Nobody quite knows where the tale of Chloe
came from since the Woodruffs,
namely Bradford's daughter Sarah,
and her three children, who inherited the estate,
via Bradford's wife, are recorded
to have died largely of yellow fever.
Somehow this narrative seems to have mixed
with reality or events occurred
that were never documented in the past.
Be that as it may, legend has it that ever since Chloe
and her alleged victims have haunted Myrtles Plantation.
This photograph is believed to show the ghost of Chloe.
If you look carefully, you can make out
a shadowy figure in the corner of the house.
Do you think this could be the ghost of Chloe?
A mirror located in the house supposedly holds
the spirits of Sarah Woodruff and two of her children.
According to custom, mirrors are covered after a death.
But legend says that after the poisoning of the Woodruffs,
this particular mirror was overlooked.
The uncovered mirror reportedly trapped
the spirits of Sarah and her children who
are occasionally seen to leave handprints in the mirror.
Guests often take photos of the grand mirror
in the hall and unexpected ghostly faces
have been seen to appear in the photos.
Handprints also appear on the mirror's surface
and return even after cleaning, but that is not all.
People have also claimed to have witnessed
a young girl in a white dress who some believe
is the slavemaster's poisoned daughter.
In the same mirror a girl is sometimes
seen holding on to the stair's railing.
In this photo, taken by a visitor,
the feet can be seen of a little girl
walking down the stairs.
Do you think this is merely another guest
or something spookier?
Tell your opinion in the comments section below.
EVP was also recorded during an investigation
supposedly associated with the same mirror.
If you listen carefully a voice can be heard,
against the background noise of people talking in the hall,
which says, "Hello, are you seeing me?"
(people chattering)
- [Woman] Hello, are you seeing me?
Hello, are you seeing me?
- [Narrator] You may be skeptical
as the clarity of the voice is so clear.
Who, or what, do you think could
have been captured in the audio?
Tales of hauntings do not end here.
The house was later sold to Ruffin Stirling
and survived the American Civil War,
but was not left unscathed.
The house was ransacked by Union soldiers
and legend says that three people were killed in the house.
Supposedly, there is a blood stain in a doorway,
roughly the size of a human body,
that will not, or would not, come clean.
Other legends say that cleaners have been unable
to push their mop or broom into that space.
The ghost of a man in Confederate uniform
has apparently been witnessed sitting
at the end of one of the beds.
There is also a ghost who reportedly walks,
staggers, or crawls up the stairs
and stops on the 17th step.
Some have said that this is William Drew Winter,
a lawyer who owned the house from 1865 to 1871,
some time after the Woodruffs.
He is the victim of the only verified killing in the house.
He was shot by a stranger on his front porch in 1871
and according to legend, staggered or crawled up the stairs,
but collapsed, dead, on the 17th step.
The plantation is also supposedly 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.
The plantation has witnessed several ownership changes.
But in the 1950s it was sold to Marjorie Munson,
who apparently noticed odd things happening
around the Myrtles, resulting in numerous ghost stories.
The house is now a popular historical
tourist attraction providing bed
and breakfast accommodation as well as mystery tours.
Due to so many stories of paranormal activity
it seems like some of the guests never checked out.
Tell us in the comments section
if you have visited Myrtles Plantation
and if you are brave enough to stay overnight.
The plantation's paranormal reputation
has drawn many ghost hunters in search
of evidence for the supernatural.
It has been featured on Most Terrifying
Places in America and Ghost Hunters.
The show, Unsolved Mysteries,
experienced technical difficulties during filming,
whilst the TV series, Ghost Adventures,
actually captured footage of a lamp
moving across a table in the caretaker's quarters.
Investigators have captured images of orbs,
considered by believers in the paranormal,
to be the spirits of dead people.
But skeptics view them as nothing more
than natural phenomena or light
interacting with a camera lens.
This photo shows a blue orb said to have
been moving erratically through the trees
from the ground to the top of the trees
within the space of a few seconds.
Do you think there is some legitimacy to
these photographs, or are they just dust or insects?
Tell us in the comments section below.
This image of an orb is said to have
transformed into an apparition.
What do you think it looks like?
Does it have a tail?
Are there human-like features?
Is there something connecting it
to the blue light behind the figure?
It has been suggested that the blue light
could be a portal to the world of the dead.
In this area of the plantation
the investigators captured EVPs,
which they couldn't understand,
and making the link between the plantation
and its past as a Native American burial site,
speculate that they may have captured
the voice of a Native American Indian.
Listen and decide for yourself.
(woman chattering in foreign language)
What do you think?
Has paranormal audio been recorded?
Some other sort of anomaly with the equipment
or is there another explanation?
It doesn't sound like someone speaking English.
More EVP was recorded in the house itself.
On the stairs a disembodied scream was captured.
(screaming)
It sounds something like a child's scream.
A similar scream, almost like a wail,
was found on tape that was recording
in the former nursery room and nobody apparently
heard this at the time of investigation.
(screaming)
[Woman speaking]: 'I need some help with this'.
It sounds like the sound comes
from right next to the microphone.
What do you think?
Perhaps these noises can be attributed to the story
of the master's children and their disturbing demise.
Even if there is a conventional explanation
for these sounds, they are certainly creepy.
Perhaps stranger still is the recording of a voice
that says, 'I need some help with this',
recorded immediately after the scream.
(screaming)
- [Woman speaking] 'I need some help with this'.
- [Narrator] Apparently, none of
the investigation team was speaking at the time
this clear and audible sentence was captured.
If you think this is paranormal, what do you think it means?
Having been recorded in the Fanny Williams room,
which was the former nursery and
is also known as the doll room,
it has been suggested that it could be
a mother reacting to a screaming child.
Another eerie EVP was recorded during
the night when the team was sleeping.
[woman speaking] 'Awake the baby'.
It sounds like 'Awake the baby'.
- [Woman] 'Awake the baby'.
- [Narrator] If you agree that that is what was said
it does seem spookily related to
the room's past as a nursery.
Do you think a tragic past event
was recorded into the walls of the room
that continues to play to this day?
Tell us if you can accept these recordings
are evidence for hauntings at the plantation
in the comments section below.
It is thought that dolls in this room mysteriously
change position, as if children had been playing with them.
In the same room orbs have been captured
in photographs, some very bright.
Whether you are skeptical of orbs as merely dust or not,
it is said that orbs appeared suddenly
from one photograph to the next,
which was taken in quick succession.
If you consider them to be paranormal,
then you might agree that they are a creepy phenomenon
considering the EVP recorded in the same room.
Tourists who are brave enough can stay at the house,
but if you check in you are never alone.
Guests who have stayed overnight in the house
have witnessed bedsheets flying off the bed
in the middle of the night and landing
on the other side of the room.
One such story tells of a couple
who experienced this firsthand.
The man left the bedroom and slept the whole night
in their car, whilst the woman somehow managed
to sleep through the experience.
Another story is of a worker who had been cleaning one
of the rooms in the house with a mop
when he noticed baby footprints on the wet floor,
which hadn't previously been there.
He had to clean the whole floor again.
Rocking chairs on the veranda have
been seen to rock by themselves.
On the back porch a spooky image was captured
in the photo of a mother and her daughter.
Having toured the house they took
a photo on the porch before leaving.
She captured a figure that looks like a child dressed
in early 19th century clothing in the window.
The photographer says that the image
is unaltered in any way.
So what do you think?
Is this the image of a ghost?
Perhaps Chloe as a young girl or one of
the master's daughters or is there another explanation?
So, do you now believe that the Myrtles Plantation
is America's most haunted house?
Would you dare spend the night here?
Tell us what you think in the comments section.
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