Haunted Places from @vacationinfo

It's Halloween!  Yeah!  While the kids are getting ready to do their annual rounds looking for candy, I usually get on the web and search out new Haunted Stories from around the globe.  I found the following through a link on Twitter posted by @vacationinfo and it reminded me of a visit to New Orleans a couple of years back and how eerie and haunted the city really is. 

This story was posted in a list of the most haunted places to visit.  I recall this vividly as my travel partner was feeling a very cold breeze within the proximity of the address noted.  A feeling of being watched.  Very creepy.  You can feel the energy from the home any time of the day.  Although a big attraction on the local walk-a-bouts and ghost tours, the house today is nothing more than a residence for locals.  One thing the story failed to mention, and you can't really see it in the picture provided, is the window in the upper left of the building.  This is supposedly the room where the un-speakable experiments happened.  It has been bricked in out of respect for the victims and for the purpose of history as we were told.  People that pass by the building often comment on how strange it is that a window is cemented over.  Incredible story.  Here is the write up from BootsnAll Travel.


The LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA



Vampires, Voodoo queens and spell-casting witches are enough to make any thrill-seeker head to the Big Easy, add in a few Civil War ghosts and a Turkish sultan and it is easy to see how New Orleans claims the title of “Most Haunted City in America.”

One of the most famous haunted houses in the city sits at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter. The mansion was owned in the 1800s by Madame LaLaurie and her physician husband who purchased slaves and conducted unimaginable medical experiments on them.


These gruesome acts continued for many years until a fire led investigators to the home. Inside the attic they found people chained to the walls, many with exposed internal organs. The LaLauries fled New Orleans and although their home has been sold several times, occupants still report seeing ghosts of murdered slaves roaming the attic. Haunted New Orleans tours cost around $20.00 per person.




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