{"id":1378,"slug":"loyd-hall-plantation-cheneyville-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Loyd Hall dates to about 1820 — the Cheneyville plantation house whose owner William Loyd, the legend holds, was a double agent in the Civil War, hanged by whichever side discovered him first, his body swinging in front of his own house.","The file's documented spine is the house and its restoration: an antebellum plantation on the bayou country, kept and restored, the legend of its owner's treacherous end attached to the front yard's hanging tree."]},{"heading":"Harry's violin","paragraphs":["The lore records a phantom violinist called Harry — the file's named ghost being the musician himself: a fiddler reportedly still playing in the plantation's rooms, the music the house's most specific haunting.","Loyd's legend is the file's second register — the double-agent's hanging the story the house tells, the executed owner's presence reportedly among the mansion's dead."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Loyd Hall is the archive's double-agent file — an 1820 plantation keeping a violinist's music and a hanged owner's legend. The documented house is the record; Harry's fiddle and Loyd's rope are the lore of a house that holds its traitor and its musician.","A plantation that kept a traitor's legend keeps his musician too — the file's suggestion being that Loyd Hall's rooms still play Harry's tunes."]}],"name":"Loyd Hall Plantation","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_INN","type_label":"Historic Inn","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic inn in Cheneyville; research record.","full_desc":"Loyd Hall Plantation is a historic inn in Cheneyville, Louisiana, built in 1820. Historic inn in Cheneyville; research record. The name the accounts keep returning to is Harry. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":"292 Loyd Bridge Road","city":"Cheneyville","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":"71325","region":"South","lat":31.010995,"lon":-92.290112,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.loydhallplantation.com/","phone":null,"year_built":1820,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Bed and breakfast","research_notes":"Construction date approximate. Current operator offers bookings; individual restoration areas may be inaccessible.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":621,"type":"PHANTOM_MUSIC","description":"Louisiana Life records a phantom violinist called Harry. The reports concentrate at Second-floor balcony. The reports at Loyd Hall Plantation are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana? '. The sounds are the site's most consistent claim — the one detail witnesses agree on.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Harry","where":"Second-floor balcony","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":"A 1982 owner denied family paranormal experiences; a 2005 manager repeated soldier-ghost traditions. Third-floor stain stories assign conflicting deaths.","source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The owner dates the house to about 1820 and describes ongoing restoration. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Loyd Hall Plantation'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Loyd Hall Plantation","url":"https://www.loydhallplantation.com/","publisher":"Loyd Hall Plantation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Louisiana Life records a phantom violinist called Harry. The reports at Loyd Hall Plantation are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?' keep the claim in circulation. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Harry","claimed_identity":"Harry","verified":null,"summary":"Louisiana Life records a phantom violinist called Harry. Second-floor balcony is where the sightings cluster. The reports at Loyd Hall Plantation are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account appears in 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Louisiana Life records a phantom violinist called Harry.","area":"Second-floor balcony","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},{"name":"Loyd Hall Plantation","url":"https://www.loydhallplantation.com/","publisher":"Loyd Hall Plantation","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Loyd Hall Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Hall_Plantation","desc":"Historic house in Cheneyville, Louisiana, USA","extract":"Loyd Hall Plantation is located in Cheneyville, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1977.","img":null,"score":108,"lat":31.03444444,"lon":-92.355},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}