THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Latta Plantation is one of North Carolina's best-known haunted historic sites. Visitors have reported apparitions in period clothing, phantom footsteps, mysterious voices, and shadow figures throughout the plantation grounds. Many believe former residents and enslaved workers still haunt the property.
The Latta family, the former owners of the plantation, are said to still live here in their afterlife. The historic site is the setting for strange occurrences, like the sound of ghostly children playing in the empty attic or slamming doors. A shadowy figure is seen from time to time. It is said that once during a tour, a cane that had belonged to a Latta family member was being shown, and it got up on its own and moved about as if something unseen was walking with it.