re: Post some pictures of the best houses from your hometown

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I lived in Mount Holly for a few weeks in the mid-90s. Eerie as hell.

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That place is haunted as frick. I went in there late one night and was upstairs in the main hallway and heard 3 loud footsteps right behind me and then felt a hand grab my arm. Turned around and nobody was there then started downstairs and had the kitchen door slam shut behind me when I walked out the back veranda.

There's an interesting history to the house i did an extensive research on it. The woman who built it was sympathetic to the slaves and the Union but lived a double life to save face, pretending to be on the CSA's side. She hosted generals from both sides to dinner parties and even the President once.

There was controversy over her death, because 2 different accounts don't have the date matched up right, or even where she is buried. One says in rolling fork, the other says in Kentucky. Some think she was murdered once it was found out she was sympathetic to the slaves. I think her name was Margaret if I remember right...it's said she haunts the house.

I've been in it a few times, the only time anything weird happened was when I had a girl with me. I've gone in by myself and nothing ever happens.

It's not even close to the most haunted places in the delta..I can take you to some really creepy shite.

Well witch of Belzoni..place where a group of teenage boys raped and killed a woman in the 1800s and threw her down a well out by Wasp lake. If you drive your truck over the levee in one area it'll die on you and won't crank till the next day. Once we saw a woman with a long white dress and red eyes standing on the levee

Gates of Hell - Place on Yazoo River (Yazoo means river of death btw) by Satartia where a tribe of Indians drowned themselves rather than give up their land to Union soldiers. If you go after Midnight, park between 2 old oak trees that they used to hang black people from, you'll see blue and red strobe lights flash, the temperature will rise and fall drastically, you'll hear screams from hell and smell rotten flesh and the river will boil yellow under a spot where there is always a mist floating over it. I refuse to go back there..frick that place I've never felt such a feeling of death and dread it'll make you want to cry. We went once and a friend of mine curled up in the fetal position on the floor of my truck and pissed himself. It's an evil place, I don't think I could go back there..you can actually feel the presence in your head telling you to leave, you shouldn't be there. You don't audibly hear it, but you feel it. It's hard to explain

Then you have Democrat Lake outside of Swiftown where farmers used to dump bodies of black laborers from their farm. Nothing grows there..trees, grass are all dead. Nothing but sand dunes and dead trees. Real eerie place

Louisville, KY

St. James Court (also includes Belgravia Court) is a neighborhood tucked away in Old Louisville that was built in the late 1800s on the plots where the 1883 Southern Exposition stood. It's all old mansions, with greenery designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (same guy who designed NY's Central Park and lived in St. James for a time). Belgravia is strictly a "walking court" with only street access from behind the buildings.

The original gas lamps that lit the walkways are still in use today. There are a ton of houses from that area that are just beautiful. Don't know that I could pick just one.

The iron fountain from the middle of St. James Court:



Walking access to Belgravia:



Probably one of my favorites of the area is one of the mansions that sits at the end of Belgravia that they've renovated into apartments.





Always liked this one as well.



The most well known from the area is The Pink House. St. James Court Art Fair is usually set up right outside of this one in the spring all around the court/area.



From inside one of the homes just outside of the court during their Old Louisville Holiday Tours (around Christmas several of the houses open their doors to area tours).



Outside of St. James, Locust Grove is another (former home of George Rogers Clark)



There's a house down by Seneca Park right now that if I was OT ballin' I'd probably throw down the $1.5 million on. Dat porch.





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That is seriously a creepy building. They should just tear it down. Too much bad karma there.

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Not sure if you were being sarcastic but that is the actual name of the lake.

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Yes and no. I know it's the official name but I've heard it with a more, shall we say, offensive term sometimes.

BTW, my dad swears that when he was in high school he saw a UFO when he was on the way home to Belzoni.

He said they were on that long strait stretch of road in between Itta Bena and Belzoni one night and a light came down from the sky and rode beside them for a minute. He said that he and his buddy that night saw it and there was another person that went to school with them that said the same thing happened to them.

I've been down that road before and it is creepy at night time. It's about 20 miles long and completely dark except for your car lights. I've never seen anything out of the ordinary though. You can see every star in the sky on a clear night.

gorgeous.

Elvis Presley's birthplace.

That was probably it. Was it south of some catfish farms?

I had never heard about the Gates of Hell though. That shite is scary.