Episode #4: Legends & Hauntings of Louisiana

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12/10/20 • 44 min

Tonight’s trip takes us into the city that really never sleeps. No matter what you call it, NOLA, the Crescent City, the Big Easy...we all know about the secrets and legends that New Orleans holds. It’s a city full of diversity, vast cultural experiences, and a lurid history that takes us back almost to our beginnings as a nation. The city is known for its lavish parades during Mardi Gras and its countless Voodoo shops and ghost tours, its creole and Cajun ancestry, the food and the music. Just going to the city is an experience itself, but all of that is surface level beauty that houses a dark past: a history of murder, strong magics, vampires, and plenty of spirits to haunt the city and beyond.
BONUS: Can you figure out where I effed up royally in this episode? Besides tripping over my words and talking to fast :P
The Occult Archives theme song by JunkFood2121, background music by Purple Planet Music (www.purple-planet.com)
New Orleans Informational Links:
'Voodoo City,' Episode 6: The blood-soaked history of Jackson Square Louisiana's hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner
Vampires in New Orleans? Here’s one theory behind the folkloreThe Casket GirlsHistory of the Casket Girls of New OrleansMarie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New OrleansMadame LaLaurie’s Most Sickening Acts Of Torture And Murder

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The Occult Archives - Episode #4: Legends & Hauntings of Louisiana

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I want to give a little content warning to this episode before we get started tonight. Quite a few of these stories involve events of an extremely graphic nature. The history of New Orleans is full of violence and, as it tends to go with ghost stories, this episode has no shortage. A lot of the violence revolves around slaves in the early years of the American South, so if you are a sensitive or if anything of this nature bothers you, please be forewarned and maybe sit this one out.

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