home of at least 12 ghosts. The house has been featured on numerous television shows, historic and paranormal. Paranormal shows include Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures and Ghost Lab. Black Raven Paranormal would travel to Louisiana in February of 2015 to investigate and spend the night at this historic location. at the time. General Bradford lived there alone for several years, until President John Adams pardoned him for his role in the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion. He then moved his wife Elizabeth and their five children to the plantation from Pennsylvania. Bradford died in 1808and in 1817, one of Bradford's law students, Clark Woodruff married Bradford's daughter, Sara Mathilda. Clark and Sara Woodruff managed the plantation for the Bradford widow, Elizabeth. Sara Bradford Woodruff and two of her three children died in 1823 and 1824 of yellow fever. In 1834, Woodruff sold the plantation, the land, and its slaves to Ruffin Gray Stirling. Woodruff died in New Orleans in 1851. Stirling and his wife, Mary Catherine Cobb, undertook an extensive remodeling of the house. When completed, the new house was nearly double the size of the former building, and its name was changed to The Myrtles. The Stirlings had nine children, but five of them died young. Stirling died in 1854 and left the plantation to his wife. In 1865, Mary Cobb hired William Drew Winter to help manage the plantation as her lawyer and agent. Winter was married to Mary Cobb's daughter, Sarah Stirling. Sarah and William Winter lived at the Myrtles and had six children, one of whom died from typhoid at the age of three. In 1871, William Winter was shot on the porch of the house, possibly by a man named E.S. Webber, and died within minutes.Mary Cobb died in 1880, and the plantation passed to Stephen, one of her sons. The plantation was heavily in debt, however, and Stephen sold it in 1886 to Oran D. Brooks. Brooks sold it in 1889, and the house changed hands several times until 1891, when it was purchased by Harrison Milton Williams.
location in Febraury of 2015. A 9 hour investigation would be followed by investigators sleeping in the historic landmark touted as America's Most Haunted House! Weather -- Partly Cloudy, Temperature 41.0 , Humidity 87%, Winds 3 MPH North-Northwest / Moon (Lunar Phase -- Waning) Evidence -- Audio -- EVPS / Spirit Box Clips (Click Here) the Judge Woodruff Room.
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