The Ghost of Chloe at the Myrtles Plantation

Record summary

The Myrtles Plantation is associated with a tradition that an enslaved woman named Chloe was punished, poisoned a household, and later appeared as a ghost in or around the house. The site’s ghost narrative developed through twentieth-century historical and tourism writing and is now one of Louisiana’s best-known plantation hauntings. It matters because it raises questions about how slavery, family history, racial memory, and commercial heritage interpretation become fused with apparition reports. The story’s chronology, Chloe’s identity, the poisoning episode, and the evidentiary basis for the haunting are all disputed.