Posted by Hunter (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 3:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm a local, but I'm pretty interested :).

Anybody know how much tickets are? I would call the number, but it's 3:45 a.m.

Posted by jch (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 6 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Tickets are $20, my son went on this Sunday night.

Posted by thelorax (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)

JCH,
Did your son say it was a worthwhile tour? I am interested in taking my oldest son for a suprise.
I think this is a neat idea.

Posted by Rami (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)

My husband and I went on this tour Sat. night. We didn't see any ghost but the tour was very interesting. I've been in this area most of my life but I had a good history lesson Sat. night. There is SO much history in this area that locals take for granted. Any time that I have guest from out of town I take them on a driving tour of some of the homes in Natchez. They really think its interesting. After the tour Kings Tavern was packed with fellow tour goers hoping to see Madaline.

Posted by jch (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

thelorax, my son did say it was interesting, he didn't see any ghosts either.

Posted by ijohnson (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I think this is s-o-o-o interesting and I would love to take my daughters on this tour. However, I don't live in Natchez. I guess I'm going to have to find out if these tours are available year round.

My daughters want to spend the night at The Myrtles in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A couple of years ago, we left Natchez and headed south down Highway 61 toward New Orleans. I stopped to let them see The Myrtles. We walked around the gift shop and took a few pictures before heading on our way. Well, right down the road we stopped at the local McDonald's. Guess what???? My passenger side rear window would not go up or close. This has never happened before (or since). It's an electric window and it would not budge. My daughters gripped the top edge and pulled while I pressed the "up" button but nothing happened. Well, we left it down, went inside and ordered our food. Got back in the car but the window still didn't budge.

As we cruised on down 61-South, about 40 or 50 miles outside St. Francisville, the window went up BY ITSELF!!!! Man, I didn't know if I should jump out and run or what! That was a real scary experience. You know what you have experience but you try to rationalize it, too.

Anyway, I really would like to experience seeing an actual ghost but I'm sort of fearful of how the experience may affect me psychologically.

I have another story about The Myrtles that my niece experienced but I would like to know if anyone of you have had any "ghost" experiences?????

Posted by mwhittington (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 10:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I grew up in a house that is over 150 years old. Alot of happenings have occured there. I could attest to several experiences during those years. Some were "real" enough to change a skeptic like myself. Most always happened when each family member was alone, but the episodes were similar when we finally told each other. Luckily, they were far between and never threatening in nature. Just spooky.

Posted by itsawounderfullife (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 10:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

ijohnson I have always wanted to stay the night at The Myrtles. There is a cemetary tour held every November called Angels On The Bluffs, if you havent been you should definatly check into it, your girls would love it. I have been the past 3 years and have enjoyed it every time. You can call the Natchez Visitor Reception Center for the info. I havent had the chance to do the City Tour yet but I do plan to do so, sounds like it might be pretty interesting.

Posted by astrid (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 10:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I knew a girl that worked at Kings Tavern and she said that she was 'encouraged' to tell someone from a National paper that she was related to the original owners and that she had seen ghosts when it was all a BIG FAT LIE.

Posted by mwhittington (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 10:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)

That doesn't suprise me at all astrid....

Posted by ijohnson (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 2:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

O-u-u-u-w-e-e!! It's gotten a little too hot over on the page regarding "Family awarded millions in case". So, I guess I'll pick up where I left off this morning.

Well, my niece paid a visit to The Myrtles several years ago (before Hurricane Katrina) when she was traveling from Natchez back to New Orleans where she lived. They got out and toured the home. They had a nice trip but was in for a pleasant surprise when she got home in New Orleans.

I believe she stated that a day or two later, her young daughter, who was about 3 or 4 years old, mentioned playing with a little girl in her room. She would run out of the run pointing to the little girl. Well, one day, my niece was at home alone. She was in the apartment's front living area and had a clear view of her bedroom at the end of the hallway. While sitting at the kitchen counter using her computer, she saw what appeared to be a child run and roll under her bed (she says she say the little girl as clear as day). Now, she has one of those 4-poster "rice" beds that sits pretty high off the floor. She got up and crept down the hallway to her bedroom, thinking all the way that her daughter was at school and not in the apartment.

Well, she didn't see anything under her bed but they had quite a few more sightings of this little girl. It appears this little girl hitchhiked a ride from The Myrtles all the way to New Orleans! :-)

Since she refused to go home, my niece moved to another place because it was just too unnerving to continue to live there.

Posted by woodvillegal (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 3:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I had two things happen to me while I visited the Myrtles.

The first thing I notice when I walked in was a strong lavender smell. I just chalked it up as being that the girl next to me was wearing strong perfume, well a few minute later as we were in the lady's bedroom I think( by the stairs) I smelled it again. The thing is the girl I thought it was wearing the perfume was standing across the room and there was no way I could smell it from that far. So I asked my friend if she smelled anything and she said she couldn't. After the tour was over I asked the tour guide if she had smelled it because I had been standing close to her and she gave me the strangest look. She asked me if I was sure it was lavender and I told her yes. It turns out that the woman who used to nap there every day used to be really fond of lavender. She would put it on all of her dresses.

If the first didn't freak me out enough the second sure did. As we left my friend and I were the last out of that part of the house. I was standing next to the tour guide as she locked up. Well as I walked to my car I turned to look at the house because we were parked right across from that bedroom's window. As I glanced at it the curtains slowly lifted themselves as if someone was looking out of them. NO ONE WAS there you could see strait into the room!!! Then they slowly moved back down. Needless to say I was more than a little freaked out. When I got home I did some research on that particular woman the tour guide was telling me about and apparently she would wait for her husband to come home in that room looking out of that window for her first glance of him......spooky huh!!!!

I want to go on this tour too!!! It sounds like a lot of fun! I went on the walking tour ran by the owner's of fiedouxs last year and I ended up catching a lot of orbs especially around the old hanging tree. I hope that I can catch something on this one too!!

Posted by ChooseOrLose (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 4:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'm enjoying reading everyone's personal ghost stories! More, more!!!

Posted by woodvillegal (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 5:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

If any one is interested and has the scifi channel they have a show on there called Ghost Hunters. They are a team of paranormal investigators called TAPS. It is a really good show and they did a show on the Myrtles not to long ago. I think it is going to be on again on Halloween night. They caught some pretty cool things. A lot of "hot spots" and a lamp moving on its own.

I wish someone would try and see if they would come and investigate in Natchez there are several places I think they would be interested in the biggest would be Kings Tavern. I think it has to be the owner that does it though. Also they have a pretty cool website if anyone is interested just google TAPS and it should pop up.

Can anyone tell me anything more about Angels On the Bluffs? It sounds like it would be fun and I am interested in going.

Posted by bear45 (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 5:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

well you get tickets for it at the visitors center in natchez and it also leaves from the visitors center... i too went on the angels on the bluff and it is soooo awesome! I reccomend it to everyone.. no real ghosts just people who dress up as certain people buried there and they tell you their stories. Its some of the most interesting history I have found around here because it was made very fun!
Bring good walking shoes though its a lot of walking!!!!

Posted by texasgalalways (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We visited Natchez and went on the Ghost tour Saturday night. It was a great tour & well worth the money. My husband and I and our 3 kids went. The two little ones ( 8 & 6) were excited about the tour and enjoyed it--especially the bank visit. We did take pictures and caught several "orbs" while in the bank. Afterwards, when we went to King's Tavern we got several more "orbs" in the upstairs bedroom and outside. Last year we went to Natchez the weekend before Halloween and went on a walking ghost tour around the town. That was awesome as well. Magnolia Hall really freaked out our 11 yo. She is emphatic that she saw a man looking out of the window while we were outside & was in tears. We did get a picture with LOTS of "orbs" on the side of the house also.

Posted by avoylles (anonymous) on October 16, 2007 at 8:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Angels on the Bluff is wonderful. I have been attending since the first year. There are no ghosts, but lovely tales from the cemetery. Each year the stories of various residents are shared with the visitors through re-enactments. Sometimes relatives of the deceased preform the re-enactments. I cannot encourage everyone to attend enough. Make sure to get your tickets early, they will often sell-out. It is a truly great experience.

Posted by Rami (anonymous) on October 17, 2007 at 8:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Another ghost story for ya'll....
when I was a child my family and I lived on Cherry st. in Vidalia. On many occassions strange things would happen. I was little and aways slept with my mother when my father was out of town. We had an alarm clock that had 2 bells on the top of it and mom would leave the bathroom light on (just in case). Every night for several months the bathroom light would turn off and the bells on the clock would sound as if someone was tapping them. Mom would reach over to feel and see if I was still in the bed with her. Finally mom got tired of being woke in the middle of the night. The next day she rearranged the bedroom, moving the bed and night stand to the other side of the room. That very night again the light went off and the alarm clock was "tapped". I woke up to mom saying " now I moved the bed and clock so you could have that corner. I need to sleep so please behave!" The clock and light was left alone from then on. As I said earlier this went on for several months. Fluke or Ghost.....I believe Ghost.

Posted by destiny (anonymous) on October 17, 2007 at 1:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Another one.....At one time my husband, myself and children lived on Texas ave. in Ferriday. The house had three bedrooms. I also had my two nephews and a niece stay over night with me quite often. The little niece slept in the front bedroom, my husband and I in the middle bedroom, with a crib for my infant son, my older two sons along with the two young nephews slept in the back bedroom. One night after getting them all to bed I sat at the dining table and heard what I thought sounded like dice being thrown against the wall in the back bedroom. Thinking the boys had gotten up into mischief I went to check on them. The room was quiet and the boys sound asleep. I returned to my reading only to hear again, the same sounds. Again I checked the boys, again found them fast asleep. The next day I asked the oldest if they had played the night before instead of going to sleep and he of course answered no. Well, the children were all outside playing soon afterwards, the house was quite and again I was sitting at the table when I heard the noise again, but this time there was more activity. I did not see anything but I heard so much. The dice still rolled against the wall and then suddenly quiet, but only a moment or two, then I heard a gun shot from the room. I was petrified, someone was in my house shooting a gun. I sat very still, not having enough sense to duck under the table, run for the nearest exit or what. Almost immediately there were sounds as if someone was running out of the room through the hallway and out of the front door. Again, not seeing anything but hearing it all, even to hearing the doors open and close and the footsteps, pretty much made my hair stand on end. It took awhile before I settled down. Finally one night when we had company over, (playing cards, Rook was popular at the time) they heard the same sounds. This made a believer of my husband who had doubted my accounts of our 'ghosts' and had a good laugh of my 'make believe ghosts'. He finally had to admit that I was for real. He moved all the beds into the front bedroom and put a padlock on the back bedroom only to find the lock was opened and the bedroom door was ajar. I thought he was playing tricks on me but he denied that assumption, and continued to padlock the door each time we found it opened. This happened only on Thursday nights. Several weeks later I broke my silence and discussed this with the lady living next door and she told me the house was really haunted by the man who was shot and killed during a dice game. She related the story and it matched the sounds we heard each week. She said the house had been empty for a long time before we moved in. I do believe in haunted houses because I lived in one. The house was finally torn down, but what fun it would have made on Halloween nights for the kids had they restored it for that purpose.

Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on October 18, 2007 at 10:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I enjoyed your ghost tales; and an appropriate time of year to hear.

One night about midnight, I was "logged on" to Natchez Democrat, and took the time to write a very long comment. I read the comment after clicking on preview comment and then clicked submit, but then it came back up and said to enter the correct password. So, I re-entered my password. At the same time that I entered my password the lights went out leaving my house pitch black and me sitting in the dark. I started having a panic attack, as the pitch black caused me to have claustrophobia, and I felt like I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think of where to find a match or a candle to light. So, I felt my way down the hall in the blackness and made it to my room where I peeked out the window to see if any lights were on anywhere else on the street. There were none, but luckily for me a car came by and shined light into my room, just prior to my passing out from claustrophobia. Then I went and sat down on the side of my bed, feeling paranoid, while wondering if my logging onto the democrat had anything to do with the lights going out, LOL.

Then I saw a small light in the hall, so I got up the courage to go see where the light was coming from. It was coming from under my daughter's door. I tried to turn the knob, but her door was locked...so I knocked and asked, "Are you awake?" She said, "Yes". I asked, "Why do you have light". She said, "Because I lit this candle". LOL. So she loaned me her lighter and I lit up the whole room with candles and an oil lamp.

The way the weather looks today, now would be a good time to find your lamps, candles and matches...just in case!

Posted by destiny (anonymous) on October 19, 2007 at 6:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hey gang, After long years I am going to break my silence and let you in on the secret of Kings Tavern. I hope I do not hurt any one's feelings in doing so. 30-35 years ago one of the owners of the place was Florence Turpin. She started the rumor about sad, but beautiful Madeline. One day while I visited her at the restaurant she asked if I could pick up any signs of the ghost. (At the time I did dabble in that.) She took me upstairs downstairs, all around . Soon I just stopped and looked at her. She started laughing and told me I had better promise never to reveal her secret. She bought me a nice frozen Margarita for my 'trouble'. Soon it became legend, because I kept my promise. Later, the now owner (Yvonne) I guess she still owns it, bought a picture ( in Jackson) of a woman dressed in a costume of the period that Maddy was supposed to have lived, put out word that this was the real thing. I guess the picture hangs there still, I don't know. But now you know the real story of Madeline. It was great while it lasted. But there have been many ghost hunters there and could never pick up any signs of one.