Case file · Haunting
Myrtles Plantation
A 1796 plantation house in St. Francisville, Louisiana, worked by enslaved people, now promoted as one of America's most haunted houses.
1948 CE · 30.80, -91.39 · status: claim
The account
One of the first published accounts of hauntings there was in Clarence John Laughlin's 1948 book Ghosts Along the Mississippi. It has appeared on many TV ghost shows.
The sceptical view
The ghost stories are promoted as part of a tourism business, and none rests on more than anecdote.
Connections in the atlas
- Myrtles Plantation
- Winchester Mystery House