Oak Alley Plantation

Oak Alley Plantation (originally known as Bon Séjour) is a documented historic plantation and tourist site on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana. It is architecturally and horticulturally notable for an approximately 800-foot allée formed by a double row of southern live oak trees, and the site has been designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark for its architecture and landscaping. Historical notes in the supplied sources also record an agricultural innovation associated with the site: the grafting of pecan trees there in 1846–47 by an enslaved gardener. The property operates as a public historic site and has archival webpages for events and staff, indicating organized visitor access. In popular culture and regional folklore, Oak Alley is repeatedly included in listings of Southern haunted places and appears in paranormal media metadata. The supplied sources include entries in regional ghost-guide compilations and paranormal lists, and a Wikidata entry associating the site with an episode of the television series Ghost Hunters (S04 E19). Specific, corroborated primary-source paranormal investigations or widely corroborated eyewitness testimony are not present in the provided excerpts. A single author blog entry names an apparition identified as "Josephine" and states she is "often seen wandering," but this claim is uncorroborated within the other supplied materials. Overall, the supplied materials establish the plantation's strong cultural visibility within ghost-tourism and paranormal media circulation while providing only limited, secondary-source documentation of specific paranormal phenomena.