The Cottage Plantation + ghost stories
by jocko500
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This is a little diff than the first one. The clouds shadows moved ove the land to change the lighting.
I did not post this one for I thought the other one was better. I am posting now for I got a lot of inforation on it as i posted a tread on another site. I was surprise to get feed back that was so helpful. here is the link
http://www.city-data.com/forum/baton-rouge/1051109-what-old-house-use-river-road.html
here is another link they give me. This one shows how the house look like before the fire in 1960.
http://historicalbatonrouge.blogspot.com/2009/09/burning-of-steamer-princess.html
There is ghosts around here as people seen them. I did not see any and did not take any photos of one. I will not tell the stories here for the space and time here is limited. I will tell you on this link you fine out two movies had use this plantation as for they movies with Clark Gable. The movies was
Cinerama Holiday and Band of Angels
here the link to this page.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/baton-rouge/1051109-what-old-house-use-river-road.html
In some of the photos you note after the fire there are some brick walls standing. they gone now. My son sent me the reason for this. "I cannot find the link now, but I had found a story about a "brick reclamation" project in which some bricks from there were used in another building in BR in the 1960's
here another link to what happen there and I think ghosts too. In another link i read of the ghosts and red blood sheets and flour riseing to this day.
link to the ghost stories
http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/cottage-plantation-ruins.html.
THIS IS WHY I POSTED THIS ONE FOR ALL THE INFORMATION. WOW SO MUCH HISTORY. i GOT A LOT ON THE GRAVEYARD TOO LOL I POST THAT TOMORROW.
LOVE HISTORY BUT SOMETIMES IT HURTS TOO TO READ THE HORRORS STORIES. BUT AT TIME IT WONDERFUL LIKE READING ABOUT THE MOVIES MADE THERE.
I BE BACK TO THIS PLACE TO ASK THE OWNER IF I CAN TAKE MORE PHOTOS AT DIFF. POVS. THERE IS A ELECTIC FEACE I MAY HAVE TO CROSS.
Comments (51)
jocko500
sorry i could not post all the information from the other sites but they are copy rights and all. plus a lot of information. You can find ever thing on the web
jocko500
http://day-lab.blogspot.com/2007/09/cottage-plantation-ghost-story.html this link too reports of ghosts people hear and see. I did not. I do not believe in them...but that another story is it not
carlx
Gorgeous story and capture, Jock!!!
flora-crassella
great picture!!!!!!
angelbearzs
that is beatiful:)
mgtcs
Very beautiful and peaceful, great shot!
jocko500
why they put flour on sheets to put the wounded on?? I do not understand this???
alessimarco
Fabulous capture Jocko!
Star4mation
Super photo Jock! It was a very fine house before the fire :)
wjames
Wonderful shot of a beautiful place and great info!
unstart
Great photo and history lesson!!
daggerwilldo
Wow, I am a ghostly kind of person so I will greatly enjoy the link. Thank you. Really nice vantage point.
claude19
SPLENDID story Jocko, wonderful shot really and awesome observer you are !
durleybeachbum
Most interesting!!
MrsLubner
good heavens, glad you are asking for permission to cross that electric fence. I tried hopping one once and it wasn't a pretty sight. :-) There are always stories with these old houses. In the old house I lived in for nearly 20 years, there were stories told about it. A friend was supposed to be able to channel spirits and came to see what was up. We did find out a few things that wasn't in the stories told already and from that day on, strange things went on. My daughter used to claim a strange man in a postman's uniform would walk her to school each day - a few feet behind her and then wave her into the school yard. He'd be there to walk her home in the afternoon. Years later, my grandson sat talking to this same man in the livingroom - so he claimed by description - and he was only 2 1/2 years old then...had not heard the stories yet. I'll check out your links, and thanks. BTW, I like this photo better. the change in light put a nice haze over the ridge.
sazzart
Verry cool historical facts. (History was one of my fave minors in college) Thanks so much for the entertaining links Jock!
jocko500
that haze may be the white flour people see riseing from the ground lol
sandra46
fascinating and creepy place! thanks for sharing and the tips on ghosts
annie5
That's a great spot for a picture! Excellent lighting and capture :)
Chipka
What a shot! This has a really wonderful quality to it and like its companion, looks incredibly ancient. I will check out the links after I comment, but I wanted to comment first. I really like this shot. And I wonder if the flour on sheets has anything to do with what we'd now call Voodoo customs. Flour is often used as a part of an offering to the loa (spirits) and is sometimes used in order to invite possession. Voodoo, as we call it, mixes a number of West African belief systems into something new, and it was very, very popular among the slave population in the USA for a time...so I wonder if the flour custom managed to spread out. Anyway, this is a wonderful and moody shot! I like it quite a lot and I'm going to follow the links you've provided. I'm sure I'll find out a lot of interesting stuff!
flavia49
interesting and intriguing place!
gojira
Thanks - that's a lot of awesome stuff, there . . . !
Faemike55
Great shot and wonderful & exciting information
babuci
Great capture and good story.
shadownet
Very nice capture! Shame a ghost or two did not put in an appearance. Maybe camera shy. :O)
kbrog
Great capture and really fantastic info Jocko! That was some grand plantation house.
goodoleboy
Cool photo and information, Jock. The ghosts came from that cemetery/graveyard you posted a week or so back. And, is there anything MrsLubner hasn't experienced?
Richardphotos
I was thinking I was seeing things as I thought I had seen this already in your gallery, so I went back to look.just as good the second time around the plantation
renecyberdoc
you are really digging out history bro. and a great shot.
magnus073
This is fascinating Jock, as I love to read about ghosts too. Thanks for the links as I am going to check them all out.