On January 12, 1981, a mysterious fire destroyed the historic Prothro Mansion, an imposing antebellum plantation home that had stood along Louisiana's Red River for more than 150 years. Long before the blaze, the mansion had earned a reputation as one of the region's most haunted properties, with caretakers and visitors reporting unexplained footsteps, strange apparitions, and other unsettling encounters within its walls. But behind these ghost stories lies a troubled history of tragedy, violence, and long-buried secrets that raises an intriguing question: Could something from the mansion's past have been responsible for the fire that ultimately destroyed it?
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