The Myrtles Plantation, claimed by many to be one of the most haunted places in the United States, is famed primarily for the ghost of a young enslaved woman named Chloe. In this episode, Matt provides a few different perspectives on how the ghost stories of the Myrtles developed and what they mean to visitors.
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Sources:
Monster Talk Myrtles Plantations Episodes (part 2 is here)
The Myrtles Plantation Website
Crockett, I’Nash. 2018. Twentieth-Century Voodoo – Black Culture, Cultural Geographies, and the Meaning of Place. In The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History, edited by Dennis Waskul and Marc Eaton. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
Miles, Tiya. 2015. Tales From the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC.
Pirok, Alena. 2019. Goodwin’s Ghosts: Colonial Williamsburg’s Uncanny Legacy. The Public Historian, Vol. 41, No. 3 (August 2019), pp. 9–30.
Pirok, Alena. 2022. The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past. University of Massachusetts Press, Boston, MA.
Vaughan, Holly Ann. 2012. A critical ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville,
Louisiana with ruminations on hauntology. PhD Dissertation, Louisiana State University.
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