Southern Byways

Goat Castle - A Mississippi Haunting

by SP on September 27th, 2006

“Located in the southern city of Natchez, Mississippi is a charming subdivision of elegant homes called Glenwood. It is a quiet neighborhood, nestled close to an antebellum home called Glenburnie, the only remaining structure from a time now since past. Years ago, Glenburnie was separated from the land where the subdivision now stands by the same thick stand of forest that still darkens the nearby landscape. It is in these woods where legends say the spirits of the past still linger.

More than five decades ago, the land now occupied by the neat homes of the Glenwood subdivision was the location of a plantation house from which the neighborhood now takes its name. The main house was surrounded by outbuildings and a sprawling piece of land and as time passed, and bloody events unfolded, it was no longer called Glenwood but known as “Goat Castle” instead. The murderous events that took place here were tinged with insanity, terror, eccentric wealth and wretched squalor. These dark happenings of the past have created a legend at Goat Castle — one that still lingers today.”

Okay, there’s nothing quite like a ghost seeking vengeance for her murder, even after all of this time. And the woods, I think that chances are very good that I would be keeping my distance… even during the daylight hours. But, then people have said that I have quite the imagination… Who knows??

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