The Haunted Mirror Of Myrtles Plantation
You can find Myrtles Plantation in the outskirts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Down the years this 10-acre, 200-year-old plantation has served as a family home but nowadays it's run as a bed and breakfast — and is a paranormal tourist hotspot. A total of 15 ghosts come out to play every night, at 3 am. Four of these ghosts come from a tragic tale — that of the Woodruff family and Chloe, a young slave.
Sara Mathilda inherited her father's plantation in 1817. She and her husband Clark Woodruff moved in, along with their three children. Clark decided to take one of his slaves home with him — Chloe. When Clark caught Chloe eavesdropping on one of his private conversations one evening he cut off her ear. Chloe would wear a green turban from that day on, to cover up her mutilation. Chloe, in order to win back her owner 's trust so that she would not be sent to the fields , hatched a plan. She made a birthday cake for the eldest daughter of the Woodruffs but spiked it with leaves of oleander – a poisonous plant found on the plantation.
The family would get sick and Chloe would be on hand, knowing the antidote, to nurse them back to health and get back into her masters good books — or at least that was the plan. In fact, Chloe got her dosage wrong and the wife of Clark and two of his kids died of poisoning. Chloe, overwhelmed by her actions, confessed to the other slaves who were panicking, believing that they would be blamed for hiding the guilty they hanged Chloe and threw her lifeless body into the Mississippi River.
According to fable there is an old Southern tradition stating that when a family member dies, all the mirrors in the home must be covered up so that the deceased 's soul passes on to the next world and does not become trapped in this world's reflection. As was the norm, all the mirrors in the house were covered up — except one — on the night of the tragic poisonings. Apart from witnessing a 'dark-skinned' ghost with a 'turban' on her head wondering at the plantation, visitors to the bed and breakfast are also shown an ornate mirror inside the home where the mother's and children's souls are said to be trapped.
Some claim to see handprints, others claim to see children's faces but one thing is for sure, it's not the mirror you 'd like to do your hair regularly in. On a side note, when Clark learned of his family's fate he surrounded the house with myrtle crepe trees, hence the name of the plantation.
