The house at Slate Shoals

Texas · USA · Manor

The old plantation house at Slate Shoals near Paris, Texas affects people before they go anywhere near it. What they describe is the house appearing to look back at them, and the sense of being watched from it.

A woman is reported in the attic.

Sounds are heard in the building, and a wheelchair has been seen moving across a room.

The wheelchair is the detail that sets this apart. It puts the last occupant of the house somewhere in the twentieth century, which is much closer than most accounts from a building of this kind, and it points to a long illness rather than to any of the drama usually attached to houses like this.

North east Texas plantations were worked by enslaved people until 1865, and the wealth that raised this house came from them. Their names are not in the local accounts.

The property is private.

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Hvor ligger The house at Slate Shoals?

The house at Slate Shoals ligger i Texas, USA.

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