<p>In 1858, an entire family of seven persons disappears suddenly and unaccountably from a plantation house in eastern Kentucky, leaving all its possessions untouched — furniture, clothing, food supplies, horses, cattle, and slaves.
About a year later, two men of high standing are forced by a storm to take shelter in the deserted dwelling, and in doing so, they stumble into a supernatural room lit by an unaccountable greenish light and having an iron door which cannot be opened from within. In t...