The Haunted Magnolia Lane Plantation: A Quick Informal Tour With The Chigg

1/4 of Magnolia Lane plantation it's called Magnolia Lane was the lane of magnolia trees down the driveway called the hanging tree far be haunted ah yeah in back here graveyard pulling at delivery with my grandmother at first she's a midwife and cook other than that for all sleep in pine box is it haunted very long have to do that right yeah well that's a thunderstorm we're in February what is this something something I'm in a thunderstorm imagine that oh yeah the John's here looking at the trees you look at the vegetation right yeah I'm trying to determine a portal yeah what naturally grows under them it may be symbiotic okay so the urban area they plant all these exotics that compete with the Lavo so I'm looking at native plants that may have a positive effect on the tree in verses introduced plants see anything yet no no they got a lot of naturalized exotic that's an old silo long yeah it used to be gasps oh really there we go original back stairs the original back stairs I built this way underneath the canopy of the house so they don't get wet so you can walk out and walk in without getting wet like you just did coming up those stairs you see I do see Oz it's a mud moss and deer hair there's eight inches of mud moss and deer hair in every wall of the house haunted no doubt so that's that's the mud that you're talking about so many 863 original hand-blown window panes shipped in from Germany the cross on the top and the open Bible on the bottom I've never heard that term they go straight up they pretty much go straight up to conserve space see extra people in America it's a mosquito net bed and it's got the matching arm on dresser because with it a lot more each time you tell you but you're on the bed the dresser and all moral match as well in this 30 years this was called the dining room they were coming here to die my great-great grandparents my great grandparents and my grandparents all died in this room really there's two fireplaces that hold this house up the front of a wood-burning the backs are coal burning in the fireplace is morning they'll drop some off the mantle pieces are identical in this room in that room and the dining room table come from Mayor Maestri of the ones he was my great-great oh wow that's a door right there that is a door this is the front worth watching stuff right right yeah the house never had a totally wraparound porch because the kitchen that's in the house now we have an inside kitchen with the storage room but no it was it was in the kitchen the original kitchen was out back and forth but uh it always stopped over there because that room stopped it from going all the way around now you dad were saying that the house was originally like pink they think different colors but these shutters ma'am when we get hurricanes we shut these shutters to put these locks on them Wow look at those walks and look we're good to go if the original electricity right here that's knob and two bare wires knob-and-tube no maintenance so work it's held up by twelve by twelve Cypress beams underneath it built in 1784 so you look over here these date palms or 150 years old this is just female ping-pong and here Wow and that's the male date palm over there 150 years old yep from bowling baseboards all inside and outside of the house same exact inside and outside call all hand-carved by slaves I still have the sprouting tools that they made them with I still have him on the to you really I don't think they'll be metal detecting Oh Larry I'm telling you about 863 our original handle a window pane so you see you can see the bubbles in oh oh it's interesting the like a dental mold yeah I've never seen themeboy like that this is the front porch of Magnolia Lane plantation it's called Magnolia Lane cuz the lane of magnolia trees down the driveway though Mississippi is right there into my driveway right there this is nine mile point right here the river starts over here and it's Talton on my point but has this nine miles to Canal Street by River what's going all of the bottles on the trees down there's a bunch of bottles the bottles in the trees that's the spirit tree the spirit tree is supposed to be the good spirits pass through the bottles evil spirits a curious evil spirit so in the bottom and gets traps but most of my father's are broken so we have a lot of critters running around you know was kind of curious I was gonna go there look at them but they're broken thrown safe right kind of I like that that's the spirit that's my cat that is friendly he's done ladies look stealing stealing Lebanese I mean what is it that rat did he he's pretty acidic right there this is cold how shallow that is that normal Bernie mr. UCF you see ice cream struction there's answers of mud moss and deer hair it's like cement no that's only that's like on the house that's inside of that is Cypress beams so termites know nothing can take yeah yeah it takes about 18 hours I hadn't took my time to look for cannon on the way down I didn't find it yeah someone told me a story about a cannon and a swamp I've been looking for it it's my second trip looking for it but that part there's a lot of those stories up there they're outside heroes for banks on this side of the river and you can't parapet there's on the other side of the river right now I'm not point so Nathaniel banks of the Union troops came in took this house over kicked the fort a family out of the house and use this house as his command post he could see both boards from here before taters came back and a few years later my great-great-grandfather someone across it in 1867 and bought it from them and started our nursery at the same time who first citrus for strawberries the first st. Augustine grass in Louisiana a booth and planted all the oak trees on st. Charles Avenue Ottoman Park Alton all came out these boy traineeships mother over his own barge and planted all this is a bottle trees a spirit or a plane in the video is that the good spirits a weave through two bottles and the bad spirits would get in the bottle but since most of things can make a lot of beds how do they get broken when a long time oh okay yeah they probably hungry I mean throughout the whole history it's at a tradition of boo-boos those bottles have companions is like 1971 so you say the there was actually some German POWs kept there no we missed the neighbors egg woke up when he was like seven eight years old and they had like 50 or 60 journey filled up as he said that was on the the long waiting to go shift to the powa camp so that's incredible basically what you're saying is on the riverfront at 600 feet of riverfront for access to the river mm-hmm by my house alone yes little sliver land that lots of farmland though yes that's the way it was up and down the river because everyone wanted a piece of that river for yes and it was nothing could get up maintain the frontage the river it didn't put a burden on one landowner this is a banana Grove lookey and bananas that gorgeous so people backed by the hanging tree where we've seen the banana trees yeah that was back there for a movie they wanted to destroy it and he's like no I'll take it and he got a tract and slid it all over the back and put it here party nursery and then he got this one ginger called [ __ ] from James I don't know but then boom right now but it looks like a pine cone like a green pine cone but it's orange bright orange and you know before the cone when it's green it's a very hard dense cone well it looks exactly like that but this home Anna ginger is spongy in us and when you squeeze it it's full of water and it smells exactly like shampoo Marilyn it's called shampoo ginger it's a John Deere I think we should go digging what do you think yeah I've been sitting in the truck for two days I'm ready to get my fingers in the soil

Channel: Aquachigger

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Id: gbbM4SoBlvI

Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 20 2020