Maci
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Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Hi Ghosties, I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. The lively sounds of jazz fill the streets day and night, and people from all over the world flock here to take in the interesting architecture, the amazing food, the unique festivals, the laid-back culture, and the incredible history. But New Orleans is also known for something much spookier.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
i am what you orleanians and your foolish police call the axeman when i see fit i shall come and claim other victims i alone know whom they shall be i shall leave no clue except my bloody axe besmeared with blood and brains of he whom i have sent below to keep me company if you wish you may tell the police to be careful not to rile me of course i am a reasonable spirit
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I take no offense at the way they have conducted their investigations in the past. In fact, they have been so utterly stupid as to not only amuse me, but His Satanic Majesty, Francis Joseph, etc., but tell them to beware. Let them not try to discover what I am, for it were better that they were never born than to incur the wrath of the Axeman.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I don't think there is any need of such a warning, for I feel sure the police will always dodge me, as they have in the past. They are wise and know how to keep away from all harm. Undoubtedly, you Orleanians think of me as a most horrible murderer, which I am, but I could be much worse if I wanted to. If I wished, I could pay a visit to your city every night.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
At will, I could slay thousands of your best citizens, and the worst, for I am in close relationship with the Angel of Death. Now, to be exact, at 1215 Earthly Time, on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to you people. Here it is.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned. If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then so much for the better for you, people.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
One thing is certain, and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it out on that specific Tuesday night, if there be any, will get the axe. Well, as I am cold and crave the warmth of my native Tartus, and it is about time I leave your earthly home, I will cease my discourse." Hoping that thou wilt publish this, that it may get well with thee.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I have been, am, and will be the worst spirit that ever existed, either in fact or realm of fantasy, the Axeman. Oh my god. Isn't that just insane?
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Well, I mean, look at him over there. He's a little weird. Jack the Ripper went unsolved for a very, very long time. It's supposedly solved now. They think they've solved it. Who was like someone that has been suspected since the times of the murders, but they have not solved the Axeman. That is crazy. So, the manifestation of darkness got his wish.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah, we got home at like nine or ten o'clock.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
People all over town hired musicians and filled their homes with jazz music for most of the night. No murders occurred that night, and the last took place in October of that year. America's own Bayou Jack the Ripper, so they called him, was never found or linked to another crime after that.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
He probably stopped because he was arrested, sent away, or died himself. Which I think a lot of serial killers are like that.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Just because it was a long drive.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Jazz artists like Louis or Louis Armstrong aren't the only artists who felt they had a home in New Orleans. The city attracted many well-known American authors like William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Tennessee Williams, as well as artists Ellsworth Woodward and the birthplace of Caroline Wogan DeRoe.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Also, Anne Rice was born here and her family tomb is here, if that's something you're into. You like Anne Rice? For many years, like most port towns, New Orleans had a thriving underground of brothels.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And from 1897 to 1917, a quasi-legal red-light district called Storyville, satirically named after the man who wrote the guidelines and regulations for what they originally called the district, was established. You can imagine some of the criminal and horrible things that may have happened in and around these establishments, like in most places.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
There was even a supposed female serial killer who worked as a prostitute in New Orleans in the 1850s and 60s named Mary Jane Bricktop Johnson, or some called her Bridget Fury. There were a number of brothels and sporting houses in New Orleans history, and if that's something you're interested in, highly recommend you look into it. It's interesting.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
There are spots today that still remain and have some ghostly remnants attached to it. We have a lot to get to today, so I sadly decided to leave that information out. It's there for you to look into. Really recommend it. It's cool.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Another very important aspect of the history of New Orleans was the massive amount of disease and death in and around the city, including malaria, cholera, smallpox, and particularly yellow fever epidemics. Between the years of 1817 and 1905, tens of thousands of people met their end because of yellow fever.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
At the time, people didn't know that mosquitoes carried the disease, and the swampy topography of New Orleans and surrounding areas were literally breeding grounds for the insects. Every summer, those who couldn't afford to escape to cooler climates and away from the outbreaks were left to fear who in their family would still be there in the fall.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The summer of 1853 was one of the worst to hit the city, with nearly 8,000 people dying from the breakout.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It's like a thousand a week, almost.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
i hate mosquitoes me too we've talked about it before someone commented because i was like tell me their reason tell me the reason they're here someone's like they help pollinate but we have bees for that save the bees as you can imagine the city civil services were not prepared or equipped to deal with the massive amount of death they were facing like in some other places that we've talked about bodies were collected in masses and were taken to buildings or mass graves nobody was allowed to enter while they prepared them for burial
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I know. I needed a couple days just to walk around. And we stayed in the French Quarter. So there's much more of New Orleans to see than just what we saw. We saw a very small portion of the older portion of New Orleans. There was so much more to explore. And I'd love to go back another day, spend a week there, honestly. Me too. We tried to vlog.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
i read of one story of like one of the churches that they they only used for burial and nobody outside of clergy injured it for like a whole year because they feared that the yellow fever would still be yeah they could get it yeah they didn't know how it was spread bodies were piled into cemeteries in new orleans cities of the dead as mark twain had called them were filled to the brim with victims of this horrific disease
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It wasn't until 1905 that the city was finally able to get a hold on their mosquito problem and stop the outbreaks from wreaking havoc on their population. So they stopped the epidemics in 1905. There hasn't been a big epidemic since. Now we're almost finished with the history portion of today's episode, but I would be remiss if I left out this important aspect of the city.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
New Orleans' close proximity to several bodies of water were definitely good for trade and the economy, but it also meant that it was, and still is, susceptible to great natural disasters.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The city has suffered its fair share of flooding and hurricanes that have destroyed the city a number of times since its founding, but one of the most recent and most devastating disasters was the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I remember it too. And us being so close to Louisiana, it's just like... We were also living semi-close to a major highway too. And just so much traffic. Everybody just pouring out of Louisiana, specifically New Orleans and surrounding area.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
remember watching the news i remember the whole thing on august 29th 2005 hurricane katrina category 5 hurricane made landfall just east of the city of new orleans it was originally thought to hit the florida panhandle but shifted dramatically towards louisiana last minute efforts were made to evacuate all who could including opening up highways to only go out of the city there like no one could come in on the highways anyway
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
But the strong winds aren't what caused the most damage. The heavy rains dropped massive amounts of water into the man-made canals surrounding the city, breaching federal levees and flood walls in multiple locations. Multiple. It has been called the, quote, largest civil engineering disaster in the history of the U.S.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Eighty percent of the urbanized East Bank flooded with waters reaching depths as high as 25 feet. Tens of thousands of people were trapped in the floods. By the end of it, hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from greater New Orleans. More than 1,500 people perished in Louisiana alone due to this tragic disaster.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Many people who evacuated who had lived in New Orleans their whole lives never returned to rebuild. It was just so devastated. Some of them just could not afford to rebuild their entire home.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah, one of our tour guides was talking about that too.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. No, leave it. Leave it. I don't even know if it's always just purposely switching things up. No, yeah. It's just bringing their own customs and cultures into a place that already has some and it's always going to change a little bit.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
So we got new mics and our mics weren't turned on for like parts of our videos. So it's just like a lot of wind and occasionally you'll hear a word from us. And... Yeah. We tried. We tried. There's no full vlog. Maybe next time.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Now, I was going to talk about the history and explain Mardi Gras in New Orleans for people who don't know what it is, but this is already getting pretty long. But if you're interested, I found a cool video that explained it well to me from the perspective of someone who is from New Orleans. It's called What is Mardi Gras by Neutral Ground spelled N-E-W-T-R-A-L. G-R-O-U-N-D-Z.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I'll also link it in our description if you're interested. The video is from like five years ago. It originally was like a Catholic holiday and the first Mardi Gras celebrated was like on their arrival. They got there on like that Tuesday and had a feast and celebrated. Carnival season starts I think in January. I think so. And goes all the way through to Fat Tuesday, which is right before Lent.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It's this like giant party and celebration. Each day has significance and it culminates into the day of feasting. Yeah. Before you give things up for Lent.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
New Orleans very much has a culture of death. In many aspects of their traditions and celebrations, the dead play a role. And the bodies buried beneath the city, or above the city, the tragedies faced by many, and the heavy culture of voodoo and witchcraft all may have a hand in the fact that the spirits of those long gone can still be felt, seen, heard, all throughout the city.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It is known as one of the most haunted cities in the United States. There is a ghost story for every street corner, restaurant, hotel, and cemetery. And those are the stories we will be telling you today. Ah! With Mardi Gras being celebrated this week, we thought it would be very apropos to explore New Orleans and tell you all about it.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I said it in the beginning, but it's as if there isn't a building in the city that hasn't been touched by death and subsequently remains haunted today. It is a part of daily life there in New Orleans. You'll even find on many business websites, they have a page dedicated to their own ghosts and hauntings and strange things that happen in their establishment.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And as I also said in the beginning, we just can't possibly get into every single location that holds significance or great ghostly energy. I could research and talk about the city for the rest of my life and still not get to everything, but we'll give you a little taste before you have the chance to make your way to the Crescent City and experience it for yourself.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Find me a hotel in New Orleans that isn't haunted and I'd be shocked. It was a really hard choice when I was planning the trip for us to decide which place to stay because every hotel has a rich history, even richer legends of paranormal activity, and it's just beautiful. And the place we ultimately landed on was the Bourbon Orleans in the heart of the French Quarter.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It's a beautiful hotel with a classic New Orleans look located right in the middle of everything you want to see if you're really looking to explore the French Quarter. And it has several resident spirits.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
We were going to explore at night. And Natalie changed her mind. We explored a little in the day, but mostly just like walked around and I told Natalie what the deal was before we left. Yeah, I didn't want to know before. I wanted to do it at night, the night before we left, so that Natalie could sleep on it. But that didn't happen. No.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It was built in 1815 as the Theater de Orleans and was said to rival the most ornate of opera houses at the time. But just a year into its operation, the theater was burned to the ground. Suspected arson. Hmm. An entrepreneur named John Davis believed in the importance of and the investment of owning the theater and rebuilt it. Architect Henley La Trobe, designer of the U.S.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Capitol, was brought in to design the new building, and he was proved right because almost immediately after reopening, it became internationally known and a great success. The Salle d'Orleans, or the Orleans Ballroom, was soon added directly next to the theater. There was also like actually a balcony that lead connected the two.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The theater and ballroom hosted many prestigious operas, masquerade and carnival balls, and even state legislative sessions. It was a hotspot for Creole society. Young unmarried women, who were a quarter African, were greatly admired by the rich Creole men in New Orleans, and these balls were a place for them to meet.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And we'll try it again. Also have a connection to Louisiana besides our grandma that lives there. But part of our dad's family immigrated here a few generations ago. And before they moved to Texas, our great grandparents lived there. We actually have relatives buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. We went and saw their grave and it was really cool to see that too.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I don't know if it was at this point yet or not, but it was kind of taboo to marry them. But they still found them intriguing and beautiful. So they would have these balls. And it's where I think it's called a placage was arranged. Basically, these men would take on the duty of caring for and housing these women without being married to them. A lot of them were just mistresses.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Dare I say? A little bit. A little weird. Because they, I mean, these women needed a man to support them at this time. Most of them did. And so they went to these balls to find someone who would care for them. And their children, a lot of them had children with these men. And these men would just put them in houses and apartments. They'd be their houses and apartments.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
But the women would live there and be taken care of.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. The man was legally obligated to take care of them. Most of them had contracts saying like, we are setting up this business arrangement, basically. And the relationships were pretty exploitative and unsettling. By the time of the Civil War, business began to wane. And in 1866, the theater was once again burned to the ground by a large fire in the area. Lots of fire. Lots of fire.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Leaving only a damaged ballroom. The land was bought by the Sisters of the Holy Family and used as a school, orphanage, and convent for the next 83 years. So the Sisters of the Holy Family were the first African-American convent here in New Orleans. They created the first all African-American convent here. and necessary steps were taken to fix the damage and rebuild what they could.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
They operated the first Catholic all-African American girls' school in New Orleans and provided a real need for the people in the area. A lot of children were losing their family because of yellow fever and other disease and things like that, so greatly needed. There were several orphanages or orphanage-adjacent businesses and buildings in New Orleans. Yeah.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The school and convent quickly grew, and in order to expand, they purchased adjacent lots and built out their operation in order to fit their needs. By 1964, more than 400 nuns and 1,300 young girls were living in and utilizing the building every day. They had outgrown the space, so the property was sold to the Bourbon Kings Hotel Corporation.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The building was restored and built upon, turning it into the hotel we know today. And they took great care into restoring it and making it look great.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
like the rest of the the french quarter there are a lot of rules in place when you buy a home or a building in the french quarter you can't change the outside it has to look the same thank god could you imagine a millennial gray house being plopped in the middle of that it would be sad i would be so angry But more than just the walls and ballroom remain from its long past. So here we go.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Something that many people who work and stay here claim to hear are the sounds of children playing through the halls. There were plenty of young girls who called the orphanage home, and there's no doubt that yellow fever had its hand in the convent and school.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Young girls' laughter and the sounds of feet echo through the halls, and many guests have claimed to feel a tugging on the back of their shirts. But when they turn around, they're all alone. I even read of one story of a guest seeing a young child rolling a ball down the hall on the sixth floor,
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
spooky the children aren't the only ones seen and heard walking through the halls it's been said that a confederate soldier still bloodied from battle before the city was captured wanders the halls his sword dragging behind him as he searches for help he's been heard in the halls between rooms on the third and the sixth floor and down in the lobby his sword scratching the marble floors as well as standing at attention pale-faced and reaching out for help
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
That would horrify me. I know. So there are several. And I told Natalie, like, that's the worst one. I didn't like that one. Him being like bloody is what gets me. Yeah. Bloody and battered and bruised and all scratched up and torn up. Yeah. Yeah.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
One of the most spooky hauntings in the building outside of this bloodied soldier. Seems to come, once again, from the sixth floor, room 644 to be exact. It's in this room that many guests have claimed to hear the mournful cries and screams of a young nun who took her own life. Now, none of this is confirmed, and the Sisters of the Holy Family still refuse to discuss it to this day.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
They don't confirm or deny it. Could be. It's known to be a nun because guests have also seen her, still wearing her habit, standing over them in bed with a watchful eye on the sleeping guests. So some believe that she's just praying over them. Yeah. Because she was a nun. But still, to see anybody hovering over your bed at night is not it for me.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Because I wouldn't have been able to sleep. First night, I kept waking up all night and I kept expecting to see someone there. We stayed on the fifth floor. So we weren't in the danger zone. But still, I was like, please don't see anything. Please don't see anything.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Before you even had the chance.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Not purposefully. Too much. We also walked on the sixth floor. And so the night before, when Natalie didn't want to go, me and Jake went. As soon as I got out of the elevator on the sixth floor for some reason, I felt lightheaded. I felt short of breath.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
not not even because i knew because i had researched before we went but that wasn't even it i went to the third floor and i didn't feel that just the sixth floor felt heavy and i didn't really tell natalie any of this until we got to the sixth floor and i asked her how she felt and she felt the same way i did it was very weird and ryan did too and he's like not one to get into these things and he was like freaked out because it just felt there was a shift there was definitely a shift yeah sorry to interrupt you no it's okay
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Is that weird? A little bit. Yeah. I felt more, I wouldn't say joy, but yeah, like a contentment and a connection.
Ghosteas
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Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
But we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed making it, being there, seeing it. It was so much fun and we're so thankful, grateful that we were able to go. Before we get started, as I stated before, we are focusing on the French Quarter because if we were to do all of New Orleans, it would be like I could sit here and talk for 10 plus hours.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Thank you. There are many stories behind Armand's death, all tragic, but he remains today, waking guests in the middle of the night with his laughter and even pushing people from their beds on some occasions. He has been known to pull on covers at night, and the feeling of a cold touch on the skin of guests has been reported more than once.
Ghosteas
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it'll be a full side quest podcast on its own i love that don't get me wrong it's just too much for what we've got today so we're breaking into two parts all french quarter not even all of the french quarter our tea today is david's tea brown sugar bourbon in honor of new orleans in our new orleans mugs very cute very very cute all right let's go
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Lights flicker, faucets turn on and off, and items move across the room. He has never been described as aggressive, but it seems he likes to play with his visitors.
Ghosteas
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Oh my gosh. Some guests have run down the stairs to the front desk in the middle of the night hoping to switch rooms because they're not up for a night of playful spirits in their pajamas running down like, please get me out of here.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
There is one other spirit in the hotel that isn't that of a young boy, but rather a suspected housekeeper. She is known to straighten towels, fluff pillows, and reset furniture arrangements to her liking. So it doesn't matter how the hotel has arranged it. She'll put it back how she thinks it should be. Then just leave it. Yeah. Why don't they just leave it?
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Many guests and employees will walk into a room and notice things have been moved or even swapped around completely with no known earthly cause. The spirit is often spotted in the lobby or on the second floor. Like the hotels in the French Quarter, most of the restaurants and bars also have their own ghost stories, so we'll talk about a few. This isn't even scratching the surface.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Anyway, the land first contained a small cottage built by a French-Canadian man named Claude Trappinier. He was awarded the land for his efforts in the expedition to New Orleans in 1718, but the property eventually ended up in the hands of Jean-Baptiste de Trahan in 1745. He was very wealthy and powerful at the time and built a grand home for himself and his family.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
The home was passed down to his son and was auctioned off to Pierre-Philippe de Marnier in 1776 after Jean-Baptiste's family kind of ran out of money. It was his city home when he wasn't staying at his plantation right outside the city. So like most rich people did back in the day. A portion of the home was burned in the 1788 fire.
Ghosteas
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It was then sold to a man named Pierre Antoine Lepardy Jourdan, who rebuilt the home to restore it to its former glory. The owners of Muriel's even found some of the original charred walls and beams when they were doing renovations and restorations in the building. That's crazy. Jourdan loved and adored his home. It was his pride and joy. But he also had a bit of a gambling problem.
Ghosteas
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In 1814, during a game of poker, he bet his home and lost. It was devastating for Jordan and led him to commit suicide on the second floor.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Very, very tragic. The home passed to Julian Poitras, the president of the Louisiana State Senate and director of the Louisiana Bank. I know I'm murdering these names. It's okay. So he passed in the home a year later, but his family remained in the home until 1881. They used the home as their city home while away from their six plantations. Wow. Very, very rich people. Bad people.
Ghosteas
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It was sold in 1881 to Theodore Laveau, then sold again in 1891 to a man named Peter Lepari. Lepari remodeled the building to look as we see it today and then converted it into a series of commercial businesses.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
From there, it changed hands several times and served as a site of a variety of businesses and restaurants until 2000 when the current owners purchased the building and began restorations to open up Muriel's Jackson Square.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. He's not getting to eat there. Yeah. Guests and employees have witnessed objects being moved around. The owners of the restaurant believe wholeheartedly that this spirit is Jordan and even leave a table set for him every night with bread and a glass of wine. So he has his own table in the restaurant.
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I like it. It's sweet and interesting.
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Yes. There is another spirit in the courtyard that roams the property. This one is more mischievous. Glasses will fly from behind the bar no less than 12 feet across the to shatter against a brick wall.
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There have been many paranormal investigations of the restaurant and they have reported seeing strange shadows, hearing unknown voices, and hearing distinct knocks on the brick wall, mostly coming from the seance lounge. So I said that the pirate Jean Lafitte lived in and around New Orleans in the early 1800s and his name is everywhere.
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Right across the street from Lafitte's Hotel or Lafitte's Guesthouse is Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar. It was built between 1722 and 1732 by a man named Nicholas Touze and is the oldest structure to be used as a bar in the U.S. It survived the Great Fires because of its slate roof and still sits here today in pretty good condition.
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It is believed to have been used by Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre for their smuggling operations because it was owned by the family of a couple of men who worked for and sailed in Lafitte's fleet. It is thought that it may have been a place that Lafitte and his brother set up meetings, but not where they stashed any of their goods.
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A lot of people will say that this place was used for the smuggling and they stored some of their goods here.
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But actually, it's believed more so that it was at a warehouse that has been demolished over time. And this may have just been a place that they frequented.
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Even still, Lafitte is claimed to be spotted here by patrons often. He is seen lurking in the dark corners of the bar, staring out and watching people, but will disappear as soon as you see him.
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Yeah, maybe he's like bopping around.
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I don't know. I don't know. Someone let us know. There are also claims that the ghost of a woman calls the upstairs home. She is heard whispering, particularly your own name into your ear. Most frighteningly, people also claim to see glowing red eyes in the bar occasionally. These eyes will make eye contact with you and slowly fade out, oftentimes in the fireplace.
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And it's thought that these watchful eyes may belong to something much darker than the ghosts of New Orleans past.
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immediately be sober immediately i'm going home i think all of the blood would drain from my body probably i went to lafitte's blacksmith shop bar with jake uh the night before we left too and it was really really neat yeah the building that houses new orleans creole cookery is yet another home turned business that has a sordid past and ghosts that haunt the halls the tragic story really begins in 1803 when a man whose name i cannot pronounce moved to new orleans in
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Do your best. Guillaume Marre. Okay. Or Marre. Sure. Moved to New Orleans with his new wife, Mary Wheaton. Mary was widowed before she married her second husband and was happily rebuilding her life in a new city. Well, I assume happy. He opened a feed store on the ground floor and they lived and worked in the building together. That is until he died less than three years into their marriage.
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mary inherited the building after her husband's death and married again in 1806 to another local business owner joseph baptandier joseph wasn't completely faithful to his new wife however and entered into a secret passage with another woman named angelique things were going well for joseph but angelique began to feel frustrated at the arrangement
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It's an interesting flavor. So we're just going to dive straight into the history. I'll keep it as brief as I'm capable. There's so much. It's a lot. I'm just hitting the high points. I'm missing a lot. There's a lot of nuance to the history here, too, that you could dive into and really talk about because there's a lot of tragedy and sadness involved, like most histories. A lot.
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She needed more from him, and the room she was given was a small attic room, and she was jealous of the comfortable and richer home that he and his wife had shared. In 1810, she threatened to tell Mary about their affair, and that's when Joseph saw red. He attacked Angelique and choked her until she fell unconscious and proceeded to throw her from the second floor balcony down into the courtyard.
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Angelique lost her life that day. Joseph, realizing what he had done, raced to hide her body so as not to be found out, but a young enslaved boy saw what had happened and was already running to get the authorities. Feeling as if he had no other option, he went to the third floor and ended his own life.
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Mary was left to clean up the mess of her third marriage and remained a widow until 1817 when she passed away at the age of 35. Oh my gosh. Tragic. All around tragic life for Mary. That's so sad. Very, very sad. Only 35?
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Mary's home passed from one person to another, uses various types of businesses throughout the years, including a quarantine house during the yellow fever epidemic of 1853 until it was purchased by Danny O'Flaherty. He opened an Irish pub in 1885. Called O'Flaherty's, and that year people began to talk of seeing Mary, Joseph, and Angelique still milling about the residence.
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Angelique would be seen mingling with handsome men. They claimed to feel a hand gently caressing their hands and necks, but she had a temper too, throwing bottles around the bar, only calming if Danny sang the Irish tune, Red is the Rose.
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Mary was spotted often making sure people were behaving themselves, getting annoyed at rowdy patrons and sternly shoving them in the shoulder if she didn't like what they were doing.
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Me too. That'd be nice. I don't even go to bars. Me neither. I don't care. I was about to say, when was the last time I went out? She would also be suspected of throwing books off the shelves if a pretty young woman entered the establishment, like still harboring negative feelings about Angelique. Joseph's angry and dark energy was often felt on the third floor.
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And this time we really mean explore because rather than just having internet exploration, we had our boots on the ground. We were boots on the ground. We were in it and we saw everything.
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People would report feeling a push or getting scratched by unseen hands, and one even claimed to feel hands trying to strangle them. Oftentimes, people would simply feel the intense negative energy upon stepping up to the third floor and even hearing the voice of a man telling them to leave.
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People have also claimed to hear the sounds of coughing or sniffling, thought to be the remnants of the people who spent their last moments inside as they were dying from yellow fever.
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O'Flaherty's closed after Hurricane Katrina and is now occupied by the restaurant New Orleans Creole Cookery, and they continue to hear and see strange paranormal activity often, including, according to their website, the sight of Mary sitting on the balcony, the feeling of Angelique stroking their hair, and the angry spirit of Joseph if too much attention is given to Angelique.
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Lights will turn on all on their own, objects will be knocked over or shifted, and the swift shadows darting across the restaurant from the corner of your eyes in the courtyard are seen often.
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so the last restaurant and the last place we'll touch on today is one we actually ate at the napoleon house has a mysterious past and curious backstory that may or may not be true it was first built sometime in the early 1800s maybe by new orleans mayor nicholas gerard with the intention of it being quote the finest building in the city the rumor is that he along with jean lafitte and other conspirators
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were planning to help Napoleon Bonaparte escape his island of exile and bring him to a safe house in New Orleans. Napoleon never made it out and supposedly died a mere three days before they were set to make their attempt. Wow. The building's history following this thwarted plan isn't too clear, but it shifted hands from residence to business over the years.
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I just I didn't have time to really dig in. And you can do that on your own if you like, if you're interested. Plenty of resources out there, but hitting high points, glossing over several points to get to the hauntings.
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It was thought to be used as a civil war hospital and rumored to be owned by the mafia after that. There were claims that if you were seen being walked up to the second floor, that that would be the last anyone would see of you. By 1900, it was a grocery store until 1914 when the Impostato family purchased the building.
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J. Impostato, or called by most Uncle Joe, continued the grocery store, then opened a tavern during Prohibition and created the Napoleon House, turning it into the beloved restaurant that sits here today. The restaurant still plays opera and classical music in honor of Uncle Joe. So if you walk by, you'll still hear the classical music rather than the jazz that's heard in most other places.
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It has a new owner now, but the charm and intention behind the establishment remains. So they made sure that they sold it to one. I can't remember what his name is. It's Ralph something. But he is like a very established like hospitality man in New Orleans and his family's well established in New Orleans for hospitality. Yeah. And he is keeping true to Napoleon House's history.
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love since napoleon never made it here he is not the ghost haunting the rooms of the napoleon house and it's said that a sailor has been seen drinking in the bar late at night or even walking up the second floor balcony on occasion if you listen closely you may be able to hear the sounds of sweeping as you walk by believed to be an old woman still sleeping the balconies from beyond so she's just up there tending to her toys cleaning up the house this is a spirit encountered most often so this this assumed old lady
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One spirit that even our server claims to have seen proof of is a man in a reflection in the window upstairs. She claimed that a young girl was taking graduation photos upstairs, and in the photo, you can see the face of a gruff man staring back in through the window, though no one was outside that window, and there wasn't anyone matching that description there for the photo shoot. Insane.
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It's very crazy. I asked her and she was like, I think so. I mean, I've seen proof.
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It's believed by some that opening the shutters upstairs will unlock the evil spirit living beyond those blinds. So like, I don't know, he's looking in to get in. Oh, no. I don't know. That's the belief. I don't like that. A group of paranormal investigators at Napoleon House claim to have contacted a woman who was murdered near the second story courtyard.
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We don't know her background or even a name for her at this point, but the hauntings will remain as they have for decades. Each night after close, the spirits will continue to come out and sweep their floors and walk about the old house and mill about all of these places that we've spoken about today. They will be there forever. Wow. We are here for it.
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I didn't bring it, so I have a little purple baby. It has butt cheeks. It's really, really funny and cute.
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Something. I just wanted to try it because it had a bunch of, like, really sweet flavors in it. I didn't even drink a quarter of it.
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I really like it. I've been keeping it in my purse. But yeah, it was cute. This is where we will leave you today, but we have plenty more to return to next week, including the St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, Marie Laveau. We're going to dive into her a little bit. The Sultan's Palace, the Lawlery Mansion, the Pharmacy Museum, and Vampires of New Orleans.
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There's a lot more history that we're going to get into next week, too, but more so regarding these people in these places.
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I'm really, really excited for part two. And I hope you guys are, too. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Let us know. Like it if you liked it. Share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. And subscribe to see next Monday's episode of New Orleans part two.
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And Thursday, we'll have another listener stories episode.
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If you have a story, if you've been to New Orleans, if you've seen a ghost of any kind, if you've seen Bigfoot... If you just want to chat, send us an email. It's ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's G-H-O-S-T-E-A-S-P-O-D at gmail.com. It's also in the description down below. You can also follow us on Instagram at ghostiespod. We posted our teas for this week or this month.
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You have seen, if you're on our Instagram, that we're drinking this tea and you can drink our other teas with us for the rest of the month if you're interested in any of them.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I left them out today. No, it's okay. I'm excited. Just making you wait. Yeah, I'm ready. A little anticipation. I'm very ready. Come back for part two next week, and we will see you on Thursday. Goodbye.
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yeah okay so real quick our first tour was a supposed to be haunted cemeteries tour and it was a nice tour but it was mostly about architecture of the cemeteries and burials in louisiana or new orleans specifically interesting not what i thought we were getting it was very sad our tour guide's name was toast which was his government name he showed us his id very cool guy Yeah, he was.
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Anyway, we'll dive in. New Orleans has always been an important city in Louisiana, long before it had the name Louisiana. Pre-colonization and pre-habitation, the land that New Orleans now sits on is believed to have been formed around 2200 BCE from the Mississippi River depositing silt and creating the Delta region that we know today.
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There is archaeological evidence that the land was settled dating back to at least 400 CE. Mississippian people, similar to cultures that built the mounds near Alton, so... that region of the world too, lived and flourished around the Mississippi River in the Midwest, East, and Southern US.
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More native tribes began using the river and its proximity to a large lake, Lake Pontchartrain, and the Gulf of Mexico for portage and trade. The land was referred to as Bulbancha, meaning place of many tongues in Choctaw. The odds of it being pronounced how I just pronounced it are probably low, but you tried. I did. And I'm sorry.
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A lot of things. A lot of things. We honestly could have stayed for a week and a half, and it wouldn't have been enough. I know. I needed so much more time. So in case you are interested, they have a World War II museum, and the Higgins boats that were used to navigate shallow waters when they stormed the beach of Normandy on D-Day were made and created in New Orleans.
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It was an important location for a whole host of Native American tribes for the same reasons the French sought to take control of it centuries later. There were plenty of resources and it was a convenient location for navigation up the river. So, when Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville sailed down the river in 1718...
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He settled on La Nouvelle Orleans to be France's next big city, allowing France full control of, and in turn the ability to make money off of, the use of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The French Quarter is the oldest neighborhood in the city and became the capital of the French colony of Louisiana in 1723, though it was replaced by Baton Rouge in 1846.
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I kept singing in my head that song from Princess and the Frog.
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I'm sorry. In the early days, the population consisted of mostly trappers, gold hunters, and deported galley slaves. It was essentially a penal colony with prisoners being sent to help settle the land. For a while, the city was built up and governors sent requests to the King of France, Louis XV,
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for more people to occupy their city especially women since there were not many among the frenchmen who took control so they did this in canada too so when they settled canada then they wrote to france and were like hey we need ladies and they sent in young brides brides to be people they dubbed worthy i guess of becoming a bride the king obliged and opened up french prisons to send off mostly women who had been arrested for things like prostitution the other days were a
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Pierre-Francois Xavier described New Orleans in 1721 as, quote, Jesus. To get a good vibe of what it was like when they first arrived. Why are people showing up? Pretty intense. Oh my god.
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By 1764, France gave Louisiana to Spain to keep it from British control after the Seven Years' War, and Spain was slow to take control of their new lands, but it's evident the Spanish had control for a time by some of the architecture that still remains in the French Quarter today.
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The city was built up, sadly, mostly using slave labor, from simple wooden structures to more buildings made out of brick and less flammable materials after a large quantity of buildings, over a thousand combined, were destroyed in two fires occurring in 1788 and 1794. That's one thing that really...
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I mean, a lot of places in the U.S., older places particularly, pre-Civil War was built.
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And they have this massive museum, and I wanted to go see that, among other more spooky things, less nerdy things.
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Yeah, because there's, I mean, there's several colleges in and around New Orleans.
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I mean, you can't. Yes, it's horrid, horrific and tragic, but you have to live your life, you know? Yeah. I mean, I agree. Almost all of history is horrific. Yeah. And to some somebody.
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It does. It does. The Spanish are who we can thank for the iconic wrought iron balconies you see on all the buildings throughout the neighborhood today.
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The architecture and just seeing the pretty.
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we just say look at that and go in yes yes louisiana was given back to france in 1800 and then by the end of 1803 new orleans was sold by napoleon to the us along with portions of over a dozen present-day states for 15 million dollars in the louisiana purchase french culture though still remained a huge influence on the people and culture of new orleans for many years french or at least some dialect of french is still spoken by many who live in new orleans and other parts of louisiana today
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The city's proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and ease of access through the Mississippi River really influenced how the city evolved over time and attracted many different people of all cultures and professions, including someone we have talked about before, the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre.
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Both the city of New Orleans and Jean Lafitte were an integral part of winning the War of 1812. Lafitte, a partner with Andrew Jackson, along with a coalition of other pirates, formerly enslaved people, and volunteers to defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Jean Lafitte helped them win and helped the U.S. to a victory there.
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Which we talked about that in Galveston because after he did that, the U.S. was kind of like, okay, thanks for the help. Get up. Here's Galveston. Yeah. New Orleans was a place of vast wealth. The highest concentration of millionaires in America lived between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in the mid-1800s. And during its Spanish control, they had more liberalized policies governing slavery.
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The city's population of free people of color was on the larger side. In fact, by the 1840s, New Orleans had one of the largest populations of free people of color in the South, nearly a quarter of their population. But none of this changed the fact that slavery was still a big part of the city and its economic growth.
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A plethora of plantations sat just outside the city, with most of the larger mansions in the French Quarter being owned by plantation owners. They used these as their party houses in the city, and their wealth was grown on the backs of these enslaved people. Though the plantations produced a massive amount of wealth, this wasn't the only booming sector at the time.
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New Orleans also had one of the busiest markets for selling enslaved people. There were over 50 companies in the business in New Orleans alone, and there were attempted uprisings and revolts. The biggest in U.S.
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history happening in 1811 coming near New Orleans, which amassed somewhere between 200 and 500, depending on whose account you're listening to, enslaved people burning five plantation houses along the way, amongst other things like some sugar houses and other things like that.
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Now obviously, and unfortunately, they didn't get very far, and I don't want to get too into detail about this particularly, but I just wanted to demonstrate to you the environment New Orleans was in at the time. Slavery remained a large part of New Orleans' wealth, though tensions continued to rise until the Civil War. Mm-hmm.
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We only had like a basically one day to be there because of work. Like we left when Jake got off of work late Friday and it was a like seven, eight hour drive. Mm hmm. Then we had to leave early on Sunday because we also wanted to see our grandma because she lives there and then to get back home because work Monday.
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sat in a white's only car to purposefully get arrested and challenged the laws i don't even think you could tell that he was even an eighth black and he alerted the people like hey actually i'm i'm a black man and they're like oh arrested because you're not supposed to be in here just to get this case to the supreme court unfortunately it culminated in the 1896 supreme court decision that enshrined the separate but equal policies across the u.s horrible horrible and we i think we saw his grave didn't we yes and we'll talk about that next episode oh okay
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New Orleans has been a place that held many fights for civil rights throughout the years, and the emergence of jazz music played a role in that as well. New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz music, and it still overwhelmingly has a place in the city and its culture. Walking along the streets, you hear jazz all the time.
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It doesn't feel real. It has been so influential and popular that it even played a minor role in the antics of a New Orleans serial killer dubbed the Axeman. What? Between 1918 and 1919, an unknown man broke into several houses under the cover of darkness and murdered at least six people, injuring six others, and leaving the bloodied axe behind at each scene. I did not know this.
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The majority of those attacked were Italian grocers, leaving some to believe there could have been some mafia connections, if not simply a product of ethnic prejudice alone. But of course, there were many who believed him to be a demon or dark entity who sought out to terrorize the people of New Orleans.
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The Axeman was never found, but on March 13th, 1919, it is believed that he wrote a letter to the editor of the Times-Picayune with very particular requests for the people of New Orleans. Do we have that letter? We do. Oh, thank God. So it was dated, hell, March 13th, 1919. Esteemed mortal of New Orleans, they have never caught me and they never will.
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They have never seen me, for I am invisible, even as the ether that surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell.