This week we have part 2 to our Haunted New Orleans exploration! This week we're talking about St. Louis Cemetery #1, Marie Laveau, The LaLaurie Mansion, The Gardette-LaPrete House aka Sultan's Palace, The Pharmacy Museum, St. Louis Cathedral, and Vampires of New Orleans!This week's Tea: David's Tea Lavender Early GreyVideo about Mardi Gras: What is Mardi Gras?WE HAVE MERCH!!! You can check out our store athttps://ghosteas.com/Shipping only to the US at this time.Got questions, stories, or spooky encounters of your own? You can also send us an email at [email protected]. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode! 👇🗣️If you're craving more ghostly goodness, remember to check out our YouTube @ghosteaspod Stay haunted, stay curious, and stay tuned for more Ghosteas! 👻🍵 Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube (@ghosteaspod)Ghosteas PO Box:1106 Main StPO Box 576Bastrop, TX 7860200:00 Intro00:59 Cities of the Dead15:10 Marie Laveau28:50 The LaLaurie Mansion41:35 The Gardette-LaPrete Mansion aka Sultan's Palace49:28 The Haunted Pharmacy Museum55:06 St. Louis Cathedral57:02 Vampires of New Orleans01:04:20 OutroMusic from #Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/theo-gerard/wistful-waltzLicense code: QMAHG1FFRPNJUAPX
Chapter 1: What cemeteries are considered 'Cities of the Dead' in New Orleans?
Well, I liked the, yes, it was, it was good. All right, cool. Well, Well, in part one, we gave you a little history lesson in the city of New Orleans and told you all about the hauntings in some hotels and restaurants well known as paranormal hotspots in the French Quarter. And this week, we're diving into even more haunted locales and more of the places that Natalie is most interested in.
So if you want to know more about the history and like a deep dive into that, a few notable hauntings, go back to part one. Otherwise, let's get going. What's our tea? Our tea today is David's Tea Lavender Earl Grey.
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I mentioned this in the first episode, but New Orleans has a multitude of cities of the dead, or so they're called. The cemeteries in New Orleans have their own unique charm, and most of them contain all above-ground burials, which makes them not only a staple of the city, but also a big tourist attraction.
The first known cemetery appeared on a map in 1725 of today's French Quarter, though it was closed in 1800, literally since day one.
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Chapter 2: Who was Marie Laveau and why is she significant?
And you would think it was like 30 years from all the stories.
Made an impact on New Orleans.
And as much as we talked about it... I don't know why I'm so bothered. I'm not a Nicolas Cage hater. It was just like, talk about this again.
I don't know about like history. I have a hot take. What? That is a history of New Orleans.
Well, I want more important history.
Hot take. My favorite Nicolas Cage movie is National Treasure. That's not a hot take. It's not? Not to me. I've heard others say like, no, but. Hey. Hey. You haven't seen. I just watched it the other day. I love that movie.
You haven't seen Long Legs.
No, I have not. So maybe it'll change.
No, I don't think so. Oh, no. He was scary. He gave me a chill. He really did. It was. Yeah. You need to watch that.
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Chapter 3: What are the legends surrounding The LaLaurie Mansion?
There were also two instances of people coming in the night, possibly the same people over and again, over again, and painting her entire tomb pink. Why? Just why? I don't know. Just leave things alone in general. Everyone just stop everything you're doing. Marie Laveau is said to not enjoy all who make a visit to her tomb.
If you are heard disrespecting her or the voodoo practices she has claimed to have partaken in, she has been known to pinch, scratch, push, or even slap you. Though some believe this could also be the work of her daughter, Marie II. Okay. Marie Laveau was thought by many New Orleanians to have been immortal. People claimed to see her walking the streets for many years after her death.
One such story came from a man named Elmore Banks in the mid-1930s. He was shopping at a drugstore near the cemetery when he saw a woman walk into the store. The owner of the store got a frightened look on his face and ran to the back room, leaving Banks in the store alone with this mysterious woman. She turned to him laughing and asked, "'Don't you know me?' When he said, "'No, he did not,'
she approached him slapped him across the face and proceeded to rise into the air and levitate out of the store i wish i could do that just like i really yes as she passed over the cemetery she seemed to vanish suddenly banks was frightened beyond belief and passed out in the middle of the store and as he came to the store uh store's owner was now with him as he helped him off the ground the owner turned to face him and said that was marie laveau diva
I love it. If I can come back as a ghost and, you know, roam around and cause mischief, I will be doing that. I never thought of that. I will be slapping people and then floating away. Like, don't you know who I am? Yeah.
Now, it's thought that the legends of Marie's immortality and walks about the streets of the French Quarter may just be a case of mistaken identity. Her daughter, Marie II, looked just like her and dressed like her too. Some of the stories of seeing young Marie still walking about as she'd had in life could just be exaggerations coming from people who actually spotted her daughter.
And also, there was already a little bit of mystery surrounding Marie Laveau, especially amongst the white population of New Orleans.
Yes, I was hoping you were going to bring that up because I have opinions. I'll let you say and then I'll tell you my opinion.
I wanted to tell you a little bit about Marie Laveau's life. She's an interesting person as it pertains to the history of New Orleans and Louisiana voodoo. And I think it's important that if we're talking about New Orleans, we all should know who she was.
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Chapter 4: What makes Sultan's Palace in New Orleans haunted?
Haters in the 1800s is crazy. They straight up were.
which our tour guide in the cemetery where she's buried was saying that she you know made medicines and things and it was actually just people that are i guess wanting to sell their medication or what they believe in we're like oh she's doing it wrong this must be voodoo but really it was like the actual remedy for the things it's very possible i believe that i really do
Marie's childhood home on Rue Saint Anne is a notable location, not only for the rumors of her ghost still haunting the area, but also for one of the many legends and bits of lore surrounding the voodoo queen Marie Laveau.
Rather than the story of Galapagos purchasing the home after Laveau's grandmother passed away, the rumor says that Marie used her power of voodoo to help an affluent man survive. free his son from murder charges. It is claimed that she held three peppers in her mouth, infusing them with her intentions.
She placed the peppers under the seat of the judge presiding over the criminal case, and then nailed a cow's tongue under the seat of the prosecutor, preventing him from speaking and presenting his case. The prominent man's son was found not guilty, and for that, Marie was given her home. Hello? That's one of the rumors, one of the legends behind her power.
An interesting one. Where does one acquire a cow tongue? Well, I guess now, I mean, you could probably buy one.
Yes. As a quick aside on the home, this is where Marie lived and eventually in 1881 died. It was torn down in 1903, or really the year varies, but new structures were built upon the foundations. And this is where people claim to still see her, though it very well could have been Marie II. They claim to see her walking down St. Anne in a long white dress and her signature turban around her head.
Some practitioners are said to still perform voodoo rituals near the grounds of her old home in honor of her and to call upon her, just kind of like invoke her in their rituals. But still, it was silent. Oh, we saw that. Yeah. As soon as he walked back through the doors of the home, the sound became loud again. It seemed as though they were coming from the living room.
So knowing there was no way they were going to be able to sleep that night, they immediately left. And when they returned the following morning, in the center of the living room was a perfect single feather. All the windows and doors were shut. No birds were in sight.
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Chapter 5: Why is the Pharmacy Museum in New Orleans considered haunted?
John's Eve, a celebration of the summer solstice and St. John the Baptist that Marie Laveau is said to have begun in the 1830s out at Lake Pontchartrain. Celebrations are still held in New Orleans, bringing out voodoo practitioners and locals to celebrate and honor Marie Laveau's memory, as well as St. John's. Love. She's a very influential woman in general for New Orleans.
I love that. And I love that we learned so much about that and were able to share that because as far as I knew, the only thing I knew was the voodoo. That's the only thing I had ever heard. So I like this.
I'm glad you do. I was worried it was getting a little too heavy, but I was really interested in her and this.
I'm interested and I like to share facts about people that I think are, you know, kind of misrepresented all the time.
Yeah. As far as we know.
I mean, hey. We could be wrong.
Again, would you say we're just like some person on the podcast? I'm just a nobody on the internet. A nobody on the internet?
Hey, what are you going to do?
There are plenty of residences that remain in pretty great condition throughout the French Quarter, and I'd bet any amount of money that they too are haunted.
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Chapter 6: What ghostly tales are associated with St. Louis Cathedral?
i'm gonna assume it's not leonard so leonard we'll call him dr laurie and he and she inherited and amassed great wealth from both of those marriages prior by the time she met and married dr laurie in 1825 she was very wealthy and influential And in 1832, she and her husband had the home in the French Quarter built as a city home away from their plantation.
Like all homes built in the area, there was a portion of the home separated by a courtyard in the back that housed the enslaved people who took care of the home. These were small and often very tight quarters, as you can imagine. But Delphine Lalaurie took it to the extreme. Most homeowners would house six to eight enslaved people in these slave quarters.
But Lalaurie had dozens and dozens of enslaved men, women, and children living in this small area behind her home. Hers was a little bigger than some of the other houses have, but not near enough bigger to have that many people in one space. That alone, horrible, horrible conditions.
She was known for throwing extravagant parties, but she was also known to be extremely violent and cruel to her servants. As I said, in this time, there was the Code Noir, which were the laws governing slave owners on how they were supposed to treat their enslaved people. They very specifically govern the slave owners themselves and not the handlers that most plantation owners hired.
So all of this like quote unquote goodness that they were trying to provide to their slaves, it didn't matter because it wasn't the slave owners doing most of the horrid things. Yeah. So there were some. Like this lady here. Like Delphine. All in all, the owners were not to be violent or unnecessarily cruel to their servants. Definitely not injuring them in any way.
So they weren't allowed to hit or punish them unnecessarily.
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Chapter 7: How are vampires connected to the history of New Orleans?
And this is only the owners, quote unquote.
Yes. So it's not that they did not experience this. Yeah. No, no. They definitely experienced it. Just not always at the hands of the people who owned the plantation. Yeah. Yeah. Delphine Lalaurie, though, did not care to follow these rules, and everyone knew it. People all over town had known of her cruelty. Whispers around town would tell of the cries that came from her home day and night.
Party guests knew of some of the horrors she would inflict upon her servants while visiting her home, though no one knew the extent of the terrors. The police had been to her home more than once, offering warnings to her about her behavior and temperament towards the enslaved people. Of course, like many of great power and influence, nothing ever came of these admonishments.
Until one afternoon, several witnesses living nearby her city home watched as Delphine chased after a young enslaved girl somewhere between the ages of 8 and 12 named Leah. She was wielding a whip and running after the girl and watched as she fall to her death from the second story balcony. She was charged for the death of the young girl and forced to give up nine of the slaves in her home.
But unfortunately, a family friend bought them back and just sold them right back to her. That's disgusting. So they all just ended right back up in the horrors that they came from.
Disgusting.
This was just the beginning of the cruelty and downfall of the LaLaurie family. The lid of how cruel she really was was blown off in April of 1834 when a fire broke out in her mansion. Firefighters raced to her home to the rescue, and upon entering, they found that the fire had been started by a woman who was chained to the stove.
The cook had started the fire because she couldn't take the torturous abuse any longer. She alerted the firefighters to the second floor, claiming more people would need help there too. Delphine LaLaurie refused to give them the key or allow them access to what lied beyond that door. Eventually, the door was broken down, and what was seen was beyond anything they had ever witnessed before.
The smell alone was enough to bring some of the men to their knees, but what they saw was much worse. Enslaved individuals were chained up all over the room, sectioned off by form of torture. In part, it was described by the New Orleans Bee the next day as follows.
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