Comments on: The Myrtles Plantation Ghosts

By: trish

trish — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:29:57 +0000

I live in Louisiana and have had visited The Myrtles. The first time was on Halloween many years ago. Prior to the tour of the home I saw what I thought were bubbles floating in the air. I inspected the area closely but could not find a source of the bubbles. Later I learned that they were orbs. My friend and I took the last tour of the home. Afterwards we decided to walk across a bridge to the gazebo on the little island in the middle of the dry pond. This is not near the house. It wasn’t part of the tour. There were faint lights behind the gazebo. As we approached, the lights went out. My friend saw a figure in a long skirt at the entrance to the gazebo. We turned and ran. The second time I went to The Myrtles was to spend the night. My 14-year-old son and his friend slept in the 4-poster bed while I slept in the nanny bed in the adjoining room. During the evening, we left the room to go downstairs to sit on the patio. We locked the door. When we returned it was unlocked. There is only one way to get to the room and we were sitting in front of that door downstairs. I fought with the lock and couldn’t lock it. The boys attempted to lock it and failed. When we came back to the room after visiting with the other guests who were from all over Eastern America, the door was locked. The next morning we met the guests on the patio downstairs. No ghosts had visited us during the night but the others had tales to tell. One woman woke during the middle of the night feeling that someone was holding here down on the bed. She was unable to scream. A man said that he was awakened by something that caused a depression on the mattress beside him like a child was sitting there.

By: clair♥

clair♥ — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:46:35 +0000

1 time at 1 of my birthday parties people started telling me that the swing was moving by itself and there was NO wind not even a breeze and wen we went back in the jumper we heard a sound coming from the swings direction and all of a sudden the swing started swinging dramatically with no one pushing it or nothing

By: DeAndrea Stockton

DeAndrea Stockton — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:15:52 +0000

I have read in many books (one being “The Haunting of America” by Troy Taylor) that no slave named Chloe actually existed and that judge Woodruff and Sarah Mathilda had 3 kids, Cornelia Gale, James, and Mary Octavia. The story goes that Sarah Mathilda died in 1823 of yellow fever which spread to their son James and daughter Cornelia who both died from the same illness in 1824. Judge Woodruff and Octavia moved to Laurel Grove with Sarah Mathilda’s mother, and Octavia lived to be fairly old. I have no doubt that the Myrtles Plantation is haunted though. And the story is great. in my opinion, maybe the Chloe story was cooked up for publicity or dramatic effect?