Myrtles Plantation (St. Francisville)

Built in 1796 and commonly attributed to General David Bradford, the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, is an antebellum-era house listed on the National Register of Historic Places (since 1978). Historical summaries note the property was worked by enslaved people in its early history. In contemporary usage the site is presented as a historic house museum and operated commercially as a bed-and-breakfast, with visitor access and tourism promotion. In popular culture and paranormal literature the Myrtles Plantation is frequently described as "reportedly haunted" and has been featured in books, podcasts, and television coverage (including a cited Ghost Hunters episode). Secondary sources collect and retell a body of ghost stories and legends associated with the house; these retellings are widespread in paranormal and tourism media and have contributed to the site's reputation as one of the better-known allegedly haunted houses in the United States. The supplied research notes do not include primary witness transcripts or a verified list of specific named apparitions; many well-known named characters from popular retellings do not appear in the provided excerpts and therefore are not inventoried here. Scholarly and critical commentary is mixed: while construction date, builder attribution, NRHP listing, and the plantation's reputation in paranormal culture are corroborated across multiple sources, at least one critical source characterizes parts of the site's folklore as dubious or disputed. Other elements in secondary accounts (for example an alternate historic name "Laurel Grove" or a specific street address) appear in single sources in the supplied notes and are therefore uncertain.