A very well-known haunted cabin lies in Fort Worth at a place called the Log Cabin Village. Among the various historic log cabins in the area dating from between 1843 and the 1880s the most infamous is the one called the Foster Cabin, once owned by a man named Harry Foster and his family and now the location of the village staff’s offices and the gift shop. Built in 1853 near Port Sullivan, Texas the Foster Cabin is one of the few surviving plantation homes in Texas and one of the largest log houses dating to the mid-nineteenth century.

According to the lore, Harry Foster’s wife died here in childbirth, after which he went on to marry the nanny, a woman named Jane Holt, who would also die in later years. It is Holt that is said to still remain in the cabin, and one of the biggest signs of her presence is the heavy smell of lilac perfume, which she had been rather fond of in life, which appears from nowhere and dissipates just as quickly. There are also reported mysterious roving cold spots, objects that disappear to turn up in strange places, and anomalous footsteps often heard, especially emanating from the attic above the second floor.

It is unknown why this ghost should be the one to remain tethered to this place, but she has become a rather popular curiosity for people visiting @logcabinvillage off University Drive.

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