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BELLEVUE - THE LONGFELLOW PLACE

3401 Beach Blvd Pascagoula, MS

THE HOME OF A FORMER slave trader, Bellevue is reportedly haunted by

the ghosts of slaves abused and murdered there. Legend states that the mistress

of the house was particularly cruel to the slaves and would often beat them to
near death, and more than a few would later succumb to their wounds. The

doomed slaves stay on, causing mischief in the form of slamming doors, items

being thrown about and other ghostly happenings.
Legend also has it that later, after it had been turned into a hotel, Henry

Wadsworth Longfellow rented a room there where he wrote “The Building of

the Ship” but there is no evidence to support this and it appears to be nothing
more than a clever bit of marketing.

Local legends say that the culprit behind the paranormal activity in the
house is the spirit of a slave who once worked in the house. It has been suggested

that on one occasion he was beaten almost to the point of death before being send

off into the woods to die. It seems that this brutal treatment from his employers