Mystery in St. Francisville, Lousiana

Hello all....
Welcome to my new post...
This time i want to tell you about one of the famous hotel in California...

The Myrtle House......

Do you know it???
maybe, you ever hear it....
this building is very beautiful, but many mystery make this building more interesting.....
now...
let's follow this scary story....

before i begin tell you about this story...
Look this video....

ghost at The Myrtle House and Plantation

First, i tell you about History of The Myrtle Plantation....

     The myrtle plantation is located in St.Francisville, Lousiana, near Baton Rouge. This house listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This place offers history tours and mistery tours. 

     The Myrtle plantation was built in 1796 by general David bradford and called Laurel Grove this time. In Pennsylivia Bradford lived for several years, but at 1799 rebellion happened there.President Washington told this guard to killed him. Then he moved with his wife, Elizabeth and their children to myrtle house. One of Bradford's students, Clark Woodruff married with his daughter named  Sara Mathilda at 1817. On 1808, David was die. And then, the House was managed by Clark and Sara. They had 3 children. They are Cornelia Gale, Yakobus, dan Maria Octavia.

    When David's wife was die,1930, Clark and his daughter moved to Covington Lousiana. they left one a guard to keep the home and their plantation beside their home. In 1834, Woodruff sold the plantation, the land, and its slaves to Ruffin Gray Stirling. Woodruff eventually in New orleans in 1851. Stirling and his wife, Mary Catherine Cobb, renovated the home bacause the home damaged. When it was completed, the new house was nearly double the size of the former building , its name was changed to The Myrtles. They began imported fancy furniture from Europe. Stirling had 9 children, but five of them died . Stirling died in 1854 and left the home and plantation to his wife.
       In 1865, Mary Cobb hired William Drew Winter to help managed the plantation as her lawyer and agent. then, he was married by Mary Cobb's daughter, Sarah Stirling in winter. Sarah and William Winter lived at the Myrtles and had 6 children, one of whom (Kate Winter) died beacuse typoid on 3. in 1686, winter's family  were forced to sell the plantation, but they were able to buy it back two years later. 
         In 1871, William Winter was shot by a suspected man named ES Webber on the porch of the house and within minutes died. Sarah remained at the Myrtles with her mother and siblings until 1878, when her mother died there.  Mary Cobb died in 1880, and the plantation passed to one of her sons, Stephen.  The plantation was heavily in debt. However, and Stephen sold it in 1886 to Oran D. Brooks.  Brooks sold it in 1889, and the house changed hands several times until 1891, when it was purchased by Harrison Milton Williams. 

This place was provided generation to generation....
and when it was managed by Harrison Milton Williams, strange incident began happened.....
What actually happened..? 

next...
this is the story....
  
The legend of Chloe.....   
          According to the story, the troubles that led to the haunting began in 1817 when Sarah Mathilda married Clark Woodruff.  Sara Matilda born 3 child and carryed a third child, when an event the place haunted them.
       Woodruff, had a reputation in the region for integrity with men and with the law, but was also known for being promiscuous. While his wife was pregnant with their third child, he intimated  relationship with one of his slaves. This girl, whose name was Chloe, was a household servant , while she hated being forced to give serve  to Woodruff's sexual demands. she realized if she didn't it, she could be sent to work in the platantion, which was the most brutal of the slave's work.
       Eventually, Woodruff  tired forced Chloe and chose another girl with whom to carry on. Chloe feared the worst, sure that she was going to be sent to the fields, and she began eavesdropping on the Woodruff family's private conversations, dreading the mention of her name. One day, the Judge caught her at this and ordered that one of her ears be cut off to teach her a lesson and to put her in her place. After that time, she always wore a green turban around her head to hide the ugly scar that the knife had left behind.
      What actually happened next is still unclear.  Some claim that what occurred was done so that the family would just get sick and then Chloe could nurse them back to health and earn the Judge's gratitude. In this way, she would be safe from ever being returned to the fields.  Others say that her motives were not so pure though and that what she did was for one reason only - revenge Woodruff!!!!!!        For whatever reason, Chloe put a small amount of poison into a birthday cake that was made in honor of the Woodruff's oldest daughter. In with the flour and sugar went a handful of crushed oleander flowers. . The two children and Sarah Mathilda, each had slices of the poisoned cake but Woodruff didn't eat one of it.  Before the end of the day, all of them were very sick.Chloe patiently attended to their needs, never realizing (if it was an accident) that she had given them too much poison.  In a matter of hours, all three of them were dead.
     The other slaves, perhaps afraid that their owner would punish them also, dragged Chloe from her room and hanged her from a nearby tree. Her body was later cut down, weighted with rocks and thrown into the river.  Woodruff closed off the children's dining room, where the party was held, and never allowed it to be used again as long as he lived. Tragically, his life was cut short a few years later by a murderer.  To this day, the room where the children were poisoned has never again been used for dining.
       Since her death, the ghost of Chloe has been reported at the Myrtles and was even accidentally photographed by a past owner. The plantation still sells picture postcards today with the cloudy image of what is purported to be Chloe standing between two of the buildings.  The former slave is thought to be the most frequently encountered ghost at the Myrtles. She has often been seen in her green turban, wandering the place at night. Sometimes the cries of little children accompany her appearances and at other times, those who are sleeping are startled awake by her face, peering at them from the side of the bed.
    
MORE MURDERS!
   Turn out,  In addition to the deaths of Sarah Mathilda, her daughters and Chloe, it was alleged that as many as six other people had also been killed in the house. One of them, Lewis Stirling, the oldest son of Ruffin Grey Stirling, was claimed to have been stabbed to death in the house over a gambling debt. However, burial records in St. Francisville state that he died at the age of 23 in October 1854 from yellow fever.
 

According to legend, three Union soldiers were killed in the house after they broke in and attempted to loot the place. They were allegedly shot to death in the gentlemen's parlor, leaving bloodstains on the floor that refused to be wiped away. Once fanciful account has it that years later,  after the Myrtles was opened as an inn, a maid was mopping the floor and came to a spot that, no matter how hard she pushed, she was unable to reach. Supposedly, the spot was the same size as a human body and this was said to have been where one of the Union soldiers fell. The strange phenomenon was said to have lasted for a month and has not occurred since. The only problem with this story is that no soldiers were ever killed in the house. There are no records or evidence to say that there were and in fact, surviving family members denied the story was true. If the ghostly incident occurred, then it must have been caused by something else. Another murder allegedly occurred in 1927, when a caretaker at the house was killed during a robbery. Once again, no record exists of this crime and something as recent as this would have been widely reported. The only event even close to this, which may have spawned this part of the story, occurred when the brother of Fannie Williams, Eddie Haralson, was living in a small house on the property. He was killed while being robbed but this did not occur in the main house, as the story states.

The only verifiable murder to occur at the Myrtles was that of William Drew Winter and it differs wildly from the legends that have been told. . As described previously, Winter was lured out of the house by a rider, who shot him to death on the side porch.  It is here where the stories take a turn for the worse.  In the legend, Winter was shot and then mortally wounded, staggered back into the house, passed through the gentlemen's parlor and the ladies parlor and onto the staircase that rises from the central hallway. Then managed to climb just high enough to die in his beloved's arms on exactly the 17th step. It has since been claimed that ghostly footsteps have been heard coming into the house, walking to the stairs and then climbing to the 17th step where they, of course, come to an end.
     While dramatic, this event never happened either. Winter was indeed murdered on the front porch by an unknown assailant but after being shot, he immediately fell down and died. His bloody trip through the house never took place  that was easily found in historical records.

The house mirror where the spectral images of the Myrtles' “murder victims” are said to manifest.

    Another "haunted highlight" of the Myrtles is a large mirror that, according to some of the owners, is said to hold the spirits of some of those who have died in the house. Those who photograph the mirror will often find that the developed picture holds the images of handprints of a number of people, seemingly inside of the glass. When these spectral images first appeared, the mirror was thoroughly cleaned but the prints remained. Perplexed, the owners then tried replacing the glass, thinking that perhaps they were flaws in the mirror itself. Strangely though, the handprints returned! 

    Those who studied the mirror have suggested that perhaps the handprints (or images like them) are in the wood behind the mirror and not in the glass at all. In this way, lights (like a camera flash) pass through the glass and pick up the marks on the wood. This would cause the "handprints" to appear in every mirror that hangs in this location, no matter what glass is used. 

    Believers disagree though and not surprisingly, so do the tour guides. And while the subject is certainly open for debate, I believe that the "weird" images belong not in the category of ghostly phenomena but rather in that of the imagination instead. 

a lot of mysterious happenings in the house and its surroundings. from unpleasant odors, noises to apparitions that have been seen by people ynag visit the place.
But the mystery in this house is not caused by another family ...... 
but because his own family ......
but some people will not believe it ....
because in fact they never saw the apparition as told by others to them.....

and...
this is my story about  The Myrtle house and platantion....
thank you for your attention.....