It was August 31st 2001 and it was a full
moon that just happened to be on my birthday . We had reservations for two
nights at what is listed as one of America's Most Haunted Houses . . But first
a little history on This haunted place . The Myrtles Plantation was built
in 1794 by General David Bradford and is an excellent example of ante-bellum
architecture . The hauntings began when Sara Matilda who was the daughter
of David Bradford .She married Judge Clark Woodruffe and they moved into the
Myrtles . Sara gave birth to two daughters . She was also carrying what was
to be their third child . Her husband had the reputation for being promiscuous.
Woodruffe started an affair with one of the slaves named Chloe . Chloe was
what was known as a house slave and would basically do anything not be sent
to the fields . When Judge Woodruffe started sleeping with another one of
the slaves , Chloe became jealous and became worried of her status as a house
slave . Chloe began eavesdropping on the Judges private conversations . When
she was caught at this act , the judge had one of her ears cut off . Chloe
began to wear a turban around her head pulled down on one side to cover her
mutilation . Chloe's plan to return to the good graces of the family went
horribly aerie . The plan was that the family would get sick and Chloe would
nurse them back to health proving her place of importance in the household
. Chloe ground Oleander leaves and put a small amount of them into a birthday
cake . It was the oldest daughters birthday . Sara Matilda and the two children
ate slices of the poisoned cake but not the Judge .By the evening all that
had ate the cake were deathly ill . All three died that evening . The other
slaves afraid for their lives dragged Chloe from her room and hanged her from
a tree near the house .They cut down her body , weighted it down with rocks
and then threw it into the river . The Judge a few years later was also murdered
. Chloe has been reported at the Myrtles endlessly haunting the bedrooms and
grounds . She tucks in visitors to the now Bed & Breakfast as they sleep
. The children also haunt the home running up and down the stairs and hallways
. They are commonly seen jumping on the beds in the guestrooms . The children
have been seen by the current owners children hanging from the chandelier
. There is a ghost that comes out before rainstorms and a Native American
woman who dances nude by the gazebo . The house was built over Indian burial
grounds . In the gameroom it is reported that four people to date aside from
the Woodruffe's have been murdered in the downstairs and front porch .
Both nights I caught incredible phenomenon
on video and still cameras . The room we were to sleep in was the John Leeks
bedroom and is referred to as the epicenter of the home for ghostly activity
. I filmed on video over fifty occurences of entities flying out from under
the bed and into my feet while I stood filming behind the camera . I awoke
on the first evening to see up in the right corner of the ceiling a series
of twinkling light dancing about as if no one was watching . While walking
across the bridge to the gazebo a beautiful female like entity graced my video
camera with an incredible display of flight . I also captured ectoplasm later
that evening on the still camera near the same spot . We went into town and
visited the historic city cemetery next to the church . After returning from
town , I wanted to take pictures of the front wrap around porch . I quickly
clicked off a few pictures while walking the perimeter of the front yard adjacent
to the house . In the first two pictures the camera captured two seperate
apparitions . The first was a woman looking straight at me , the second is
what appears to be a gentleman in a civil war soldiers uniform . What is so
amazing are the time stamps on the pictures . They were taken within the same
minute . They are also some of the most solid apparitions I have seen . Only
in a small spot on the woman you can see the window pane through her . I have
lightened these two photos so you can easily view the apparitions . Below
you can view the pictures and videos from one of the best birthdays of my
life .
The video clip below is looped to show one
occurence twice.
