Plantation House

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: Wayne County, North Carolina
Source: Form Submission

There is this old, run down plantation house that is located on this old road with roughly 10 residents on it. My boyfriend's family used to live there. It was an old plantation house with stables, barns, and slave quarters. Throughout all of the inside, there are hidden quarters and passages where I suppose the "masters" hid the slaves when the authorities arrived.

My boyfriend told me that he recalled an event that happened when the entire family was home. His mother was upstairs vacuuming his little sister's room and the rest of the family was watching t.v. downstairs.

His mother had turned the vacuum off to straighten out the shoes in the closet. The vacuum was an old-timey one with the hose attached to that heavy base that follows behind. Anyway, while she was bent over, the vacuum cut back on and was moving toward the hallway. She figured it was just one of the kids playing games. She went downstairs and asked the family who did it. While she was downstairs it cut back on, this convinced her that it wasn't any of the children.

My boyfriend also says that he experienced a couple of things like someone walking around the house while he was alone. Personally, that'd freak me out. His family has been moved from there for several years now, so no one lives there anymore.

Me, and a couple of my friends decided to go in the house one night. I will never forget it.

We went in through the back door. It was pitch dark in there and I had no clue where anything was. We went through the kitchen and the cabinets began to shake. We just decided to come to the conclusion that the floors were just weak. We walked in through the hallway. There was a large antique mirror set up against the wall. We stopped and stared. I swore I had seen an image. It was a blurred, dark, fuzzy image. I didn't know what it was. I couldn't ask them because I was afraid they'd accuse me of being high or something.

Then we went upstairs. This is where I really got freaked out. We went into this one room where the ceiling was falling out, floors weak, and trash of all sorts everywhere. My friends had walked out ahead of me and I suddenly felt a warm whisp of air go past my neck. It couldn't have been a breeze because it was the middle of February. I turned around and saw nothing but there was some strange noise coming from the corner. It was as if something was approaching ME! I freaked out and ran down the steps and never returned.

I've told my boyfriend about it and he backs me all the way. He claims to have experienced similar occurences. I don't know what did happen, all I know is I never have and never will go in there again.