This is loosely based on the false legend of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In that falsehood, Mr. Woodruff, the plantation owner, owned slaves, one who was named Chole. He was supposedly brutal to her, and she took her revenge. None of that story is true, and a good man's name was sullied. But this movie is based on that legend, even fashioning the ghost to look like a supposed ghost photograph of Chloe.