Ormond
A house in Destrehan, Louisiana, Ormond is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1789 plantation—where the flag still flies. The presences in its file go unnamed: the ormond dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.
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Is Ormond haunted?
The record holds 2 claims, 2 legends, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed local folklore. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Ormond is the vanished master's house — the 1789 Trepagnier plantation on the German Coast, the French Colonial that grew indigo and then sugar. The 1798 disappearance is the mystery — d'Trepagnier called from dinner by a Spanish official, never seen again. The slave uprising is the violence — the 1805 rebellion's leader whipped, the curse he allegedly laid on the house.
Butler renamed it — the 1805 purchase, the Ormonde Castle namesake from Ireland. The colombage is the construction — the brick-between-posts walls, the 1825 enlargement that made the present house. Ormond is the River Road plantation — the house that survived the mystery and the rebellion, the sugar estate on the German Coast.
The file keeps Ormond: the 1789 construction, the 1798 disappearance, the 1805 uprising, and the Butler name.
Ormond is the archive's Destrehan file — the plantation where the master vanished.
Why this file matters
Ormond is the archive's Destrehan file — the plantation with the disappeared owner.
A house keeps its mystery — the file's suggestion being that Ormond's hold is the absence: the master who left dinner and never returned, the rebellion's curse, and the house that stayed.
The record of claims
Reported figures in the plantation. Ormond wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Ormond' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Ormond dead. Ormond in Destrehan, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Ormond'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
Reported figures in the plantation. Ormond in Destrehan, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Ormond'. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.
The dead are reportedly seen. Ormond wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Ormond'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.
Alleged entities
The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Ormond dead. Ormond wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. Sources including 'Ormond' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. The file stays open on it.
Documented history
The 1789 plantation is documented. Ormond's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Ormond'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The report keeps its place in the record.
Sources on file
- 01OrmondWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
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