New Orleans:
This is considered to be the most haunted city in all of the US, and its history includes murders, voodoo curses, duels and tales of Revolutionary War Pirates.
The city was such a cultural melting pot when it was first being settled that fights would break out easily and accidents would happen and murders would be plotted. Visitors have recalled seeing ghosts or feeling unsettled in various parts of the city with the LaLaurie House being one of the most haunted buildings in the city.
It was in 1832 when Dr. Louis LaLaurie and his wife Delphine moved in to the house in the French Quarter. They were very well respected and their house was admired by all who were lucky enough to visit. However, as much as Delphine was admired by all who met her, she was brutally cruel to her dozens of slaves that she had; even keeping her cook chained up in the kitchen so that she could call on them whenever she needed.
Rumours started to circulate that something was happening to the slaves as some would just disappear and the changeover would be rather rapid. When the authorities took the slaves away from the LaLaurie House, Delphine managed to get her relatives to buy them back for her.
In April 1834, a fire broke out in the kitchen and when firefighters looked through the remains they found a door in the attic with at least a dozen bodies all chained to the wall and operating tables, confined in cages, and dismembered with parts all around the room. Not all of them were dead at this point.
It appeared that they were all tortured so as not to provide a quick death, with some being cut open but clearly still being able to stay alive. It is believed that Delphine was responsible for all the torture. She managed to escape the city with her family and was never seen again.
The stories of hauntings and ghosts around this house continue to this day. Today the building is luxury apartments.
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Haunted New Orleans
by Holly Sendy in Paranormal, March 15, 2009
New Orleans is the most haunted city in the United States. Here are some of the cities haunted places.
As I had mentioned in a previous article, New Orleans is the most haunted city in the United States. The history is stronger than anyone can rhetorically create. New Orleans was created on a vast swamp that once was a sacred Indian burial place. The French saw New Orleans as a profitable trading city due to its location on the Mississippi. The rich, though, had no taste with living in this city so the King of France sent over the extra laborers from the prison to build the city so it can grow and prosper and become the city of dreams.
Those who were among the first to populate this city included murderers, thieves, rapists and common criminals. The living conditions were deplorable. Harsh elements, quick sand, alligators, venomous snakes, mosquitoes and disease were rampant. The murder rate was high. Major fires devoured the city, numerous hurricanes, wars, and yellow fever epidemics over hundreds of years created excellent conditions for ghosts and haunting.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, is considered the number one haunted city in the United States.
We’ve all heard about numerous haunting around the United States, but we can’t help but wonder which of the many cities is the most haunted. New Orleans, Louisiana, is considered the number one haunted city in the United States. With over 200 years of ghostly legends involving Voodoo curses, Spanish moss draped oak encircled duels, cold-blooded murders, stories of Revolutionary War Pirates and Civil War soldiers; New Orleans has earned a serious reputation as one of the most haunted cities.
It all started hundreds of years ago when the port of New Orleans was melting cultures together. Everything came there to blend and be adapted through variety of cultures. New Orleans was among the earliest settled cities of the new world. It was held by French and Spanish, threatened by the British, and governed by Abraham Lincoln’s Army during the Civil War.
One could spend a lifetime in the city and still not know all there is to know and never get enough. It is said that the city casts a spell on all those who visit, will eventually come back. The magic is found in the unique architecture and the very air that flows through the city. Changing in a moment to become anything desired this city will definitely draw you in.
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Once in the Congo Square, slaves beat the rhythm to the Old Lady’s heart to an African frenzy under the watch
of Marie Laveau, the greatest Voodoo Queen to ever live. The well-to-do built mansions uptown, while immigrants and natives packed into the ramshackle row houses of the burgeoning French Quarter, where the true soul of this old city can really be found. Jean Lafitte and his pirates plotted in a blacksmith shop that is still preserved on Bourbon Street. While blocks away the great priest Pere Antoine seem to resonant from the walls of the St. Louis Cathedral. All around the humid air is filled with memory and thoughts of days gone by.
New Orleans is an experience you will never forget.
