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myrtles Plantation (Louisiana bayou)

Actively promoted by its owners as one of the most haunted places in America, The Myrtles combines romantic ambiance with the story of a murderous slave, Chloe, to send chills down the spines of visitors and overnight guests. Various phenomena are reported, and TV's Ghost Hunters
filmed an eerie event in the plantation's slave shack. A lamp glided eerily across a table behind the show's stars, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

Actually, the slave "Chloe" is fictitious, and the tale of her murders is not folklore but fakelore. Strange phenomena at the site can be explained without invoking
the supernatural, as I learned by spending a night investigating there (courtesy of the Discovery Channel). For example, a mysteriously swinging door proved simply to be hung off center, and banging sounds at night were
attributable to a loose shutter. The "slave shack" is of recent vintage and never held a slave. As to the lamp, it was clearly being pulled by its cord. Television Week noted that the cord apparently extended "from behind the table to Mr. Wilson's hand" while his partner suggested Wilson might have accidentally snagged the cord with his foot.

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**Yoyodyne**

Been there before. Cool place. Lots of great old supposed haunted places in Louisiana and Mississippi. I use to have a big 7br house built in 1890 on some acreage south of Jackson, MS. Lots of strange things happened over the years in the house, the carriage house, and out in a field where free slave shacks use to be.

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Yoyodyne Wrote:

Been there before. Cool place. Lots of great old supposed haunted places in Louisiana and Mississippi. I use to have a big 7br house built in 1890 on some acreage south of Jackson, MS. Lots of strange things happened over the years in the house, the carriage house, and out in a field where free slave shacks use to be.

oh, that sounds fun, why did you ever move? Popcorn