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How Does the Ghost Take Her Eggs at This Haunted Bed-and-Breakfast?

A charming inn in Saint Francisville, LA, is on the market for $975,000, and comes with 10 beds,10 baths, and quite possibly one ghost.

“Almost every house has its own ghost story,” listing agent Anthony Posey says of the local real estate. This historic property is no exception.

Built in 1880, the house was originally owned by Morris Wolf. According to the current homeowner, Laurie Walsh, Wolf eventually passed on the place to his employee Aaron Schlesinger,

The home stayed in the Schlesinger family for decades until it was abandoned, Walsh explains. In the 1980s it was bought by a family who restored it.

Walsh purchased the home in 1990 with her husband, a retired petroleum engineer. She had family in the hotel business in New Orleans, and the couple decided to try their hand at running a bed-and-breakfast. They’ve operated the St. Francisville Inn for 27 years now with minimal problem save for the occasional haunted happenstance.

Now they’d like to pass the inn over to someone else. The property, which “oozes charm and romance,” includes the B&B operation, a restaurant, and gift store. It has “all the necessary licenses,” according to the listing.

There’s also a commercial kitchen, formal dining room, library, wine parlor, and private living quarters for the innkeeper.

All the guest rooms open to a picturesque inner courtyard and swimming pool.

As for the pesky ghost sightings, Walsh notes that the spooky experiences mainly came from her children’s interactions. “The kids used to talk about a little girl upstairs with pigtails who they called Darlene,” she says.

Once when the Walsh family had friends over, a friend’s child, about 3 years old, went looking for Walsh’s children. “He came down by himself, we asked him who he was talking to, and he said, ‘the little girl Darlene who lived upstairs, you know the girl with the pigtails,’” She says. But there’s “no Darlene here.” Spooky!

More recently, repeat guests of the inn have mentioned “a ghost in Room 2 who messes with the water.” Plumbing issue or apparition intervention in the pipes? That’s for a buyer to decide.

Either way, it’s a popular place to stay around Halloween. And if you do buy the place and get a glimpse of Darlene, ask her nicely to stop fiddling with the water pressure in Room 2.

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