Myrtles Plantation in LA

[gottaluvPluto]

Has anyone been there or stayed the night there? What did you think and was it really haunted?

 

[Planogirl]

I've stayed there three times over the years.

The last time I was there was the most fun as far as haunting goes. Let's just say that there was activity I can't explain. It's a gorgeous house with beautiful grounds and you can take regular tours or a mystery tour at night. If you stay there, the best part is relaxing on the big back veranda with other guests in the evening. There is (or was) a restaurant and bar on the premises. I think that the current owner let the place get a bit raggedy for a while but it's been a few years since we've been so I don't know what kind of shape it's in now.

St Francisville is interesting with lots of plantations and other historic sites in the area. Natchez is an hour or so straight north and it has plenty of shopping, restaurants, old homes to tour and a casino boat.

If I've told you too much I apologize! I like the old historic parts of Lousiana and Mississippi and tend to get carried away.

 

[lttlmc3]

Why can't you explain? Explain, explain!

 

[gottaluvPluto]

I've stayed there three times over the years.

The last time I was there was the most fun as far as haunting goes. Let's just say that there was activity I can't explain. It's a gorgeous house with beautiful grounds and you can take regular tours or a mystery tour at night. If you stay there, the best part is relaxing on the big back veranda with other guests in the evening. There is (or was) a restaurant and bar on the premises. I think that the current owner let the place get a bit raggedy for a while but it's been a few years since we've been so I don't know what kind of shape it's in now.

St Francisville is interesting with lots of plantations and other historic sites in the area. Natchez is an hour or so straight north and it has plenty of shopping, restaurants, old homes to tour and a casino boat.

If I've told you too much I apologize! I like the old historic parts of Lousiana and Mississippi and tend to get carried away.

Thank you! I'm thinking about going there this summer, but I can't make up my mind. The pictures of the plantation look beautiful and I love the oak trees that are along the road to the plantation.

The things you could not explain, are they scary things? I'm trying to figure out if I should stay the night or will I be too freaked out.

 

[lucyanna girl]

I haven't spent the night there but I have visited. There are some very strange occurances for sure.

Penny

 

[cajunmommy]

DS's (4th grade) fellow 5th graders took a field trip there earlier this school year. He reported back that several of them were "freaked out". I didn't really get clarification. Not sure how much I could trust the reviews of a bunch of 10 & 11yo who still scream just to hear themselves scream!

It is a beautiful area. Are you considering visiting several of the other area plantations as well? Nottaway's (White Castle, across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge) restoration efforts should be finishing, and Laura's (Vacherie, less than an hour south of Baton Rouge) back from the devastating fire.

 

[EMom]

I wouldn't spend the night there for love nor money, but that's just me. I'd be too afraid of "company." We toured it in the mid 90s. Back then at least, on certain days it was a historical tour and on others it was a ghost tour. They got funding from the government (or some such source) for the historical tour and the rules stipulated that if they gave out "ghost tour" info on the historical tour, they would be subject to losing their funding for those days. So basically, the historical days were strictly historical info only, no ghost info. We toured on one of those. I knew nothing about the place, except I'd heard it was haunted, but half the places in that part of LA are supposed to be.....

We took the tour and I was close to the tour guide. I like to stay up front so I can hear. All of a sudden, we moved to a new area and I got this feeling of severe panic. The kind where you HAVE to get OUT or something horrible will happen. It was like an anxiety attack, but sudden and for no reason. All I knew was, I had to get out of that spot because it felt BAD, BAD, BAD.....very ominous.

I told DH to move and go to the back of the group. Poor guy knows better than to ask questions so he just did it. We had to shove our way out of the tour group. Pardon me, excuse, me, pardon me.....shoving all the while, because I could NOT do this slowly. I was in full flight mode. As soon as I got out of that spot, I was perfectly fine. Breathing and heart rate went back to normal and I wasn't scared anymore. DH asked what had been wrong and I told him. And I avoided that area for the rest of the tour.

A year or so later, we were watching a TV show about America's Most Haunted Homes and they visited The Myrtles. It apparently is haunted in several ways/spots. Sonofagun, if they didn't start telling a story and pan to the EXACT area where I had felt that blind panic. I think they said someone was killed/died on that spot. Whatever. It seems I'm not the only one who has gotten the willies while standing there.

Anyway, that's happened to me before. We'll tour a castle or some old home and walk in a room. I'll tell DH I"ve got to get the hell out and we dash. Later, on the official tour, they tell us that room is the one that's haunted. No duh. It seems I'm a ghost-o-meter. So since I seem a bit tooooooooo receptive, there's no way I'd spend the night in a haunted place. Others could stay there a month and never have one thing happen. Which kind are you?

 

[swandiverpatt]

I just came across this thread -- I'm with you. I've had to leave places we've toured with the same feelings you've described. I've been in other places that I know are haunted, but they have a good feel about them. Once you've had the "bad" feeling, you don't open yourself up to it if you can help it!

 

[Planogirl]

Things that can't be explained?

Let's see... a light on a dimmer switch suddenly dimming even though I was standing by the switch, a lady losing the clothes she had hung in her closet and then finding them back there, a man upset about talcum powder somehow being sprinkled all over the stuff he had on the dresser in his room, a bang on a window I was standing by when I was outside and looking inside and seeing no one....

It's a VERY interesting place at times. I enjoyed our visits and would love to go back.