This Louisiana Plantation Is Among The Most Haunted Places In The Nation

What was once a working plantation is now quite the popular B&B.

Ruffin Gray Sirling purchased the house from Woodruff and began an extensive remodeling job, most of which is still visible today. It was during this time that the plantation name was changed to "The Myrtles" after all of the crepe myrtles that grew in the area.

She hired William Winter to help manage the plantation. Winter was married to Winter’s daughter Sarah, so the plantation stayed in the family until the family lost the majority of their fortune in the Civil War and they were forced to sell the plantation in 1868, although they managed to buy it back two years later.

Allegedly by a man named E.S. Webber. As the story goes, he was shot on his porch and stumbled inside, attempting to make his way up the stairs, but collapsed and died on the seventeenth stair.

Afterwards, ownership of the plantation changed around a good bit until Harrison Milton Williams purchased it in 1891.

Chloe was a slave who was owned by Clark and Sarah Woodruff. According to legend, Chloe was eavesdropping on the Woodruffs when she was caught and as punishment, one of her ears was cut off. To hide the injury, she wore a green turban.

Afterwards, Chloe decided to get revenge. She baked a cake that contained the extract of boiled oleander leaves, which are extremely poisonous. Her plan was for Mr. Woodruff to eat the cake, but her plan backfired. Instead, Sarah and her two daughters ate the cake and died from the poison.

There’s a mirror in the plantation that is believed to house the spirits of Mary and her children. It was believed that after a death, mirrors should be covered but this particular mirror was forgotten about and supposedly now houses their spirits. There have been reports of people seeing figures in the mirror as well as mysterious handprints.

There are also reports of someone (or something) staggering up the stairs, stopping near the top. These noises are believed to be that of William Winters, who was shot and crawled up to the seventeenth step where he died.