The Haunted Plantation
By Kaiti


I visited the Myrtles Plantation (it's suppossed to be haunted) in 
Louisiana and heard this story - The master of the house caught the 
cook eavesdropping on a conversation, and so cut off her ear.  To get 
revenge, the slave decided to poison the master by using Oleander 
leaves in the baking of the birthday cake for one of his daughters. 
What the slave didn't know was that the master was out of town, and 
so his wife & eldest daughters were poisoned and died. The slave was 
executed. I also know there were some other "incidents" in the history 
of the house, including the still-unsolved murder of a former resident. 
I highly recommend their evening "Ghost Tour" through the house. I also
have another story. I was working in a gift shop in New Orleans' French 
Quarter.  The building that housed the gift shop is known to be haunted, 
although accounts of how it came to be haunted vary. The shop didn't 
open until evening at that time, but one morning the manager was letting 
someone in, when she noticed a number of books that had apparently 
fallen from the bookcase lying in the middle of the floor. It didn't
strike her as odd, she just picked them up and put them back. Shortly 
thereafter, as she & the customer were talking, the same books flew off 
the shelf, landing in the middle of the floor. What makes this unusual, 
is that, rather than just falling from the shelves, they FLEW halfway 
across the room. In addition, the only thing behind the bookcase was a
brick wall. Any force that could have caused the bookcase to throw the 
books across the room would have a)affected the wall as well, b) been 
noticable to the people in the room, and c) knocked the other books off 
the shelves. None of the other books were touched, nor was the wall, 
and neither person saw anything unusual. That evening, shortly after I 
had opened the shop, the manager brought in a parapsychologist. He 
noticed nothing particularly unusual, and took some pictures of the 
inside of the shop, showing where the books had landed in relation to 
the rest of the room. In one picture (taken with an instant camera),
in the background was a map of Ireland. Evident in the picture, 
apparently superimposed over the image of the map, was the face of 
one of the gentlemen known to haunt the premises!

Several of us saw the face in the picture and were present when the 
photo was taken and developed), and as a map of Ireland looks more 
like a plate of scrambled eggs than a human face, there's no way 
that it was merely a trick of the light. In addition, the face 
appeared in other photographs taken on other cameras. That is my 
story.  I am 23, and fascinated by ghosts & the paranormal, 
particularly those stories coming from New Orleans, Nebraska, and 
Virginia.