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Touted as "One of America's Most Haunted Homes," The Myrtles Plantation has a reputation for strange happenings but the most frighteningly tragic story may be the actual poisoning of two children that occurred at the home.
Built by former General David Bradford who had earned the nickname, "Whiskey Dave" thanks to his participation in the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion, the palatial estate was finished in 1796. The estate was an actual plantation, complete with slaves. It was one such slave, named Chloe, whose tragic story would spark the site's reputation of hauntings.
As the story goes, Chloe was banished from the main house for some minor transgression. In order to regain her position among the family Chloe decided that she would attempt to cure two of Bradford's grandchildren who had fallen ill. To this end she baked oleander leaves into a cake for the kids, thinking that the holistic cure would fix them right up. Unfortunately the leaves poisoned the kids as well as their mother and all perished. As punishment for this tragic accident, Chloe was hung from a tree in the yard, and subsequently thrown into the Mississippi River with some bricks to weigh her body down.
As the plantation shifted owners down the years a number of the owners' children ended up passing away from disease and other ailments that were not out of the ordinary for the time. However the legend of the house being cursed began to grow. In the 1800's a man was actually murdered at the site, dying on the steps.
Today the site is operated as a bed and breakfast that claims to have dozens of ghosts and that it is possibly built on an Indian burial ground. The ghosts seem to be fairly benign, with the figure of Chloe, a seemingly friendly presence, figuring large in the plantation's mythology.
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