This 220-Year-Old Louisiana Estate Is Listed at $997,500 — and It Comes With a Vampire Trunk

Reddit titled this one "Comes with a vampire trunk (for sleeping)!" The top comment declared the house "100% haunted" and noted that vampire cohabitation would be non-negotiable. The house in question is Hickory Hill — a Greek Revival estate in Jackson, Louisiana, built in 1804, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and currently asking $997,500. The vampire trunk is, apparently, included.

220 Years of History

Hickory Hill was built in 1804 from materials harvested directly on the property — hickory, ash, hard pine, and butternut from the surrounding woodlands, with red bricks baked on-site in wooden molds and assembled using square-cut wooden pegs instead of nails. The walls are 18 inches thick. Eight rooms each have their own fireplace with hand-carved mantels. Tiger oak lines the doors and walls. Four towering white plastered brick columns rise to a fan-lighted pediment in the Doric order — the outer two square, the inner two round — a considered architectural distinction that speaks to the care with which the home was conceived. The home survived the Civil War despite lying directly on the path of heavy skirmishes in East Feliciana Parish, one of the more contested stretches of Louisiana during the conflict. It has stood for 220 years. The listing notes that the pit-sawn, hand-hewn beams beneath the home, along with substantial trusses, provide additional structural support — evidence, as the listing puts it, of its meticulous construction. This is understating things considerably.

The Vampire Trunk — and Everything Else

The listing itself makes no mention of vampires. The photos, however, include what appears to be a trunk designed for sleeping — the kind of item that, in a 220-year-old Louisiana estate with 18-inch walls and eight fireplaces, reads as entirely plausible and only raises the property's overall appeal for a certain kind of buyer. The 13.33-acre grounds feature mature camellias, azaleas, wild olive, crepe myrtles, and tung oil trees growing in natural abundance. A three-room bonus space connected by covered walkway sits at the rear. Two modern Trane HVAC units have been installed. The listing suggests the property is well suited for use as a private residence, bed and breakfast, hunting lodge, equestrian estate, Airbnb, or farm and ranch property. It does not suggest it as a vampire residence, though the infrastructure appears to support that use case as well. Listed at $997,500 on 13.33 acres, it is priced at roughly $458 per square foot — for a building that has been standing since Thomas Jefferson was in his second term.

The Internet Has Thoughts

Naturally, this listing caught the attention of Reddit's r/zillowgonewild community. See what people are saying about it here.

Eight fireplaces, 18-inch walls, 220 years of history, and a vampire trunk. Louisiana delivers again. View the full listing here.