You'd be amazed how often it happened. Slaving was utterly evil, but it was /institutional/ evil - rather like modern capitalism, or racist policing, or the existence of the Mickey Mouse Club [1]. Most white Americans do not see their own complicity in the murder of George Floyd, or Breonna Taylor, or Trayvon Martin. It's /institutional/ evil. Whereas the LaLaurie-type stories - and there are some from every state in every decade, right through Jim Crow - were the ones where a specific individual 'went too far', where the evil could be disclaimed as Just Being a Psychopath. Thing is, just like my modern examples, that wasn't what was happening at all. It's the power of slavery as an institution that it creates evil in slavemasters; just like the power of aristocracy creates evil in aristocrats like Bathory, or Boris Johnson; just like the power of systemic white supremacism creates evil in men like David Duke, or Chauvin, or Tom Cotton: and just like the power of extreme wealth privilege creates evil in men like Donald Trump. The lynch mobs of the South, then and now, didn't /start out/ evil and thus create racialised terrorism: they were born into a system which taught them that racialised evil was /correct and ordained by god/ - and some of them believed what they were taught, and that's how Dylann Roof walks into a church and shoots 9 innocent black folks while wearing a Confederate flag. [1] If you're wondering how a kids' show got into this list: go look up Cory Feldman, then look at exactly why Britney Spears had her meltdown when she did, and then look at the vast trail of life destruction and abuse trauma that dogs the heels of so many kids who got famous by dancing for the Mouse throughout their adult lives.
Chris Naden Or the institutional evil of socialism. Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, etc. The twisted aspect of the evil of the socialism is that it convinces the naive and stupid that communalism somehow eliminates inhumanity when all it does is change it’s form. Humans have been mistreating each other in every possible system since the beginning of the species.Blaming systems for the frailties of man is an unfortunately common belief these days. Such a logically and obvious flawed point of view needs to be debunked.
@@wolverineeagle buuuuullshit. Every one of those was *authoritarian*. They were no more socialist than Donald Trump is a liberal. If you *really* think that humanity is not a species built around community cooperation... there's no point even trying. We are an essentially community-oriented species. The idea that not being relentlessly selfish and violently competitive is *bad* - ie. the idea that socialism is bad - is either motivated reasoning or propaganda.
"Dude...are you getting hung over a dead slave?" "I may be a slave owner, but even we have some sort of standards. They're low, extremely low, but they exist!"
I think it’s because while as the master they expected obedience and deference, they also had a duty as a more enlightened being to guide, care for, and instruct their slaves. As a sort of condescending, back-handed kindness. So for a master do this to their slaves broke that social contract on top of just being vile.
That joke is my legacy. I came up with it shortly after becoming a NOLA tour guide, and my buddy stole it from me (which is totally fine). Now I walk past the LaLaurie mansion and hear tour guides I've never even met saying it.
Even said it in the original version of the video. and at first I thought he actually didn't know the guys name until he made that shity pun. I love his videos and the content in them but his one-liners really need work
You must be a an uncultured pleb who thinks memes about Nic Cage movies being bad are funny. The only thing here that is comical here is you. One day you will appreciate his movies as the great art that they all are, but until then continue with your reddit memes you childish pleasant.
This doesn’t have to do with this video but I’ve enjoyed your videos about the civil war. I used to believe the lost cause myth, I wasn’t a fanatic about it but I believed it because I had confederate ancestors and I tried to justify their reasons for fighting and to justify that the war wasn’t about slavery because I didn’t want to look at people back then that way. (Especially my Irish ancestor) I used to tell people who weren’t familiar with the civil war that only 3 percent of people had slaves and it was about state rights, although in the back of my mind, it didn’t add up as there were 4 to 5 million slaves so could could 3 percent of the population have slaves if they didn’t each have 1 - 2 thousand more slaves. I realized that most generals in my research did indeed have slaves and were not against slavery but supported it. How I was wrong back then, your videos helped me to solidify in my mind that it was indeed about slavery and they said it themselves. I hope my Irish ancestor wasn’t a slave owner when he immigrated and joined the Confederate army but we will never know. I can only speculate. I hope this made sense.
" it was indeed about slavery and they said it themselves." This is the thing that always gets me. People do get fanatical about it and seem to take it personally, but it's literally written in history. The written causes for secession, newspaper articles, etc, all give slavery as the reason. It's right there for people to see, but they look right past it to see what they want to see.
@@basiltozer9078 Doesn't really matter since even if your male ancestor wasn't your male ancestor, he was still married to a woman in your ancestry which connects them to you historically.
In all likeliness, he probably didn't, as most Irish immigrants didn't really own slaves or even supported slavery. He, like many other immigrants, probably fought for similar reasons as CS Army General Patrick Cleburne, who in my mind was one of the only few "good" Confederates. Unlike many of his Anglo-Saxon counterparts, Cleburne did not fight in support of slavery, but out of a sense of unity with the Southern people that had accepted him as one of their own, which is a much more defensible reason for fighting than wanting to keep slaves, I'll tell you what. So yeah, I wouldn't have too much worry about your ancestor. He was probably a pretty decent guy, at least in that regard.
You should do a video on the "Slaughterhouse cases" - they are big part in the history of Reconstruction and New Orleans and now, sadly, mostly forgotten...
"The most haunted house in America" As someone from GA I can say there's probably a few houses in Savannah vying for that title also. None I ever heard of had a story quite like this one though.
Without a doubt my favorite of all the French quarter legends is this mansion. I must have taken 20 pictures of it while I was visiting. Across the street is however another french quarter legend. .. VERDI MART. I shed a tear daily missing that place 😥
Hearing the soundtrack from Ravenous kick in without warning towards the end was at least as unnerving as the story itself. That music is even creepier in its own way than the themes from Halloween or Friday the 13th.
1.2k likes to 6 dislikes. With some of the content your channel features, that should speak mountains about the quality of your videos. You're Awesome man.
Just discovered this video and I quite enjoyed it. I remember seeing Madame Delphine LaLaurie features on AHS (tv series) so its good to see the real history. You ever thought of doing compare and contrast videos were you compare the tv/movie depictions of historical characters vs their real history? Just an idea since this is a semi topical video.
I have really been enjoying your videos. I am originally from New Orleans and my family has roots there before the Purchase. I have heard some of these tales but often embellished. Good Job! Thanks
I'm from the area, and my family would take visiting friends and family on those Haunted History Tours growing up. I went dozens of times over the years, and can attest to the fact that different tour guides will tell the story differently. But one of the things that I heard a few of the tour guides say, but never been able to verify was that; A family that lived there, relatively recently, had a teenage son that would throw a fake body out of one of the windows as a prank on Halloween, when the Haunted Tours below would get to that part of the story. Any truth to this? Not crucial to the story, obviously... but I won't lie, that's pretty hilarious. Awesome video! Really did the story some justice!
I've heard her name pronounced so many times it makes my head spin. La Laurie. Le Laurie. Lel Laurie. I guess its an American staple, arguing about French pronunciation.
Was referred to ur channel lol awesome thank u so much for the information & ur sense of humor 🍻as iam just learning more of this unbelievable story n lady
7:30 - damn that's brilliant. If I was a famous person, that's exactly what I'd do - buy a piece of supposedly haunted property, stay there one night, then sell it saying I was "too terrified by one night there to ever sleep in it again." THAT RIGHT THERE is how to double the value of your investment.
This story made me cry so much how cruel can people be. Its kind of weird as i listen to a lot of disturbing story yeah they bug me but i dont cry. Maybe because I'm black and it hits me harder
There might be a seed of truth in the Nick Cage story. He is a famously lavish spender. That house may be one of ten he bought and spent a single night in.
I'm a tour guide and tell the facts. I feel like I may be the only one, though. I've heard other guides point to the third floor "attic" where the torture happened. But the third story didn't exist until years after the fire, so... yeah. How tour guides don't know about outbuildings is a head-scratcher. Some of us are historians and some are just entertainers (we should be both!). Many owners stayed much longer than 5 years. My favorite is Fortunato Greco in the 1890s-1900s. He led (paid) ghost tours in the house and opened the Haunted Exchange on the first floor. Dr. Louis practiced "orthopraxy," which sounds like a form of torture in and of itself (correcting the backs of "cripples," which is how Delphine and he may have met, owing to her daughter Jeanne's status as such). The "torture racks" mentioned in the papers were probably such devices. Another detail I am intrigued with is the Bee's report of a "mass grave" found in the courtyard. Of her 30 enslaved people she owned when she moved in, only a third are accounted for in death records. Possible. They retracted the report the following day. Was the retraction due to the report beling false, or was it owing to the Macarty family attempting to avoid further scandal? I have seen enough just outside the mansion to believe it is VERY paranormally active. Maybe she and Dr. Louis did murder some of their slaves -- but we have no evidence of any murders. As soon as I hear a tour guide call her a serial killer, I roll my eyes.
I've heard so many tales of vampires in New Orleans. Although I doubt that they were there before Anne Rice, I'd still like to know is there any truth to any of them?
most of the vampire legends can be debunked (casket girls, Carter brothers), but the Count St. Germaine/Vampire Jack legend has some interesting anecdotal (very anecdotal!) evidence. The main thing to know about Louisiana vampires is that they exist today! They are just people, but they drink human blood.
Given that torture, rape and murder were quite literally the essence of African slavery, it is interesting that she has such infamy behind her crimes. If only people would catch up and realize the man regarded as the father of woman’s health was just as evil and sadistic.
it's possible that this episode was known to robert e. howard, the fantasy and horror writer, who may have drawn upon it to write "pigeons from hell" and shadow of the beast".
Well, well, well, cher--I see you took my advice and corrected some inaccuracies, probably listening to that BBST podcast I recommended! Her family name was McCarty, though, pronounced McCarTAY back then. Also, Mme. LaLaurie is buried here in NOLA, in St. Louis No. 1, I believe, in a tomb with another name.
My great-great-grandfather, Pedro Pons, bottled soda on this same block (about three houses to the right on Royal Street) before the Civil War. For some reason, Minorcan immigrants came to the Gulf Coast in the 19th century and went into the soda business. The first Minorcan to bottle soda at that address was Miguel Piris. He sold the business to my great-great-grandfather, who did business under the name of P. Pons & Co. Some years later he merged his business with that of Sebastian Pablo, also Minorcan. They did business together as Sebastian Pablo & Co. and then as Crescent City Seltzer & Mineral Water Co. in that location for many years.
Say , bra - when were you in the Quarters? I tended bar at O'Flaherty's the spring and summer of 2005. I tended the last night the bar was opened before we shut down for good the Saturday before Katrina. We were a stop off on several haunted New Orleans ghost tours, being as we had an awesome double murder suicide in the 1800s. And were a morgue during the Yellow Fever periods of the early 1900s. AND! A shooting gallery in the 1970s.
Can I ask where you’re getting your real information from? The one that isn’t tainted by folklore? I’m having some real issues finding concrete facts with reliable sources.
Carolyn Morrow Long researched and wrote a very comprehensive book called, Madam Lalaurie Mistress of the Haunted House. She has reprints of articles from the newspapers of the day, interviews, and had researchers comb through records in France to get the details correct. It is not a "light summer read", but I you want factual information, I highly recommend it. I have also attended a lecture she gave regarding the property and it's history. I hope this helps.
being me, off I went to thatwikithingy to see if Mme LaLaurie was in there...yup, AND (according to thatwikithingy) the present building is a rebuild, as the mob burnt the original to the ground...
Wasn't $300 a hell of a lot of money for that time? That's a hefty fine for what sounds like could at the very least been against one slave (not that that should excuse them, I'm saying that's pretty zero-tolerance if so)
How awful does one have to be to the point where even the slavers think you're too cruel
Ask yourself this. Do you really want to know or even think about the answer to that question?
@@oceanberserker fair point
You'd be amazed how often it happened. Slaving was utterly evil, but it was /institutional/ evil - rather like modern capitalism, or racist policing, or the existence of the Mickey Mouse Club [1]. Most white Americans do not see their own complicity in the murder of George Floyd, or Breonna Taylor, or Trayvon Martin. It's /institutional/ evil. Whereas the LaLaurie-type stories - and there are some from every state in every decade, right through Jim Crow - were the ones where a specific individual 'went too far', where the evil could be disclaimed as Just Being a Psychopath.
Thing is, just like my modern examples, that wasn't what was happening at all. It's the power of slavery as an institution that it creates evil in slavemasters; just like the power of aristocracy creates evil in aristocrats like Bathory, or Boris Johnson; just like the power of systemic white supremacism creates evil in men like David Duke, or Chauvin, or Tom Cotton: and just like the power of extreme wealth privilege creates evil in men like Donald Trump. The lynch mobs of the South, then and now, didn't /start out/ evil and thus create racialised terrorism: they were born into a system which taught them that racialised evil was /correct and ordained by god/ - and some of them believed what they were taught, and that's how Dylann Roof walks into a church and shoots 9 innocent black folks while wearing a Confederate flag.
[1] If you're wondering how a kids' show got into this list: go look up Cory Feldman, then look at exactly why Britney Spears had her meltdown when she did, and then look at the vast trail of life destruction and abuse trauma that dogs the heels of so many kids who got famous by dancing for the Mouse throughout their adult lives.
Chris Naden Or the institutional evil of socialism. Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, etc. The twisted aspect of the evil of the socialism is that it convinces the naive and stupid that communalism somehow eliminates inhumanity when all it does is change it’s form.
Humans have been mistreating each other in every possible system since the beginning of the species.Blaming systems for the frailties of man is an unfortunately common belief these days. Such a logically and obvious flawed point of view needs to be debunked.
@@wolverineeagle buuuuullshit. Every one of those was *authoritarian*. They were no more socialist than Donald Trump is a liberal.
If you *really* think that humanity is not a species built around community cooperation... there's no point even trying.
We are an essentially community-oriented species. The idea that not being relentlessly selfish and violently competitive is *bad* - ie. the idea that socialism is bad - is either motivated reasoning or propaganda.
Imagine being so cruel that other slave owners absolutely destroy your house
"Dude...are you getting hung over a dead slave?"
"I may be a slave owner, but even we have some sort of standards. They're low, extremely low, but they exist!"
Idk owning another person is bad period
@@digimonalvatrax2738 No shit. Really?
@@sayvionwashington1939 probably a "they abused their work ox" kind of deal
I think it’s because while as the master they expected obedience and deference, they also had a duty as a more enlightened being to guide, care for, and instruct their slaves. As a sort of condescending, back-handed kindness. So for a master do this to their slaves broke that social contract on top of just being vile.
The "drawing a blanque" dad joke was even better this time around.
That joke is my legacy. I came up with it shortly after becoming a NOLA tour guide, and my buddy stole it from me (which is totally fine). Now I walk past the LaLaurie mansion and hear tour guides I've never even met saying it.
@@AtunSheiFilms That is pretty awesome, good sir!
It gave me a solid giggle, which is high praise. Lol.
That killed me. I was walking a dog while watching and I laughed so hard I legitimately got angry. Like "this bastard who does he think he is!??"
Even said it in the original version of the video. and at first I thought he actually didn't know the guys name until he made that shity pun. I love his videos and the content in them but his one-liners really need work
The guy busting his ass trying to do a kick flip in the background at 5:25 is just too perfect
that's very much the energy of this intersection. typically, things get much wilder.
“He is running is the 2020 Boston marathon”
Me in the future: No he isn’t
Wow, Tony Hawk is in your video. Great video mate
Lol, thanks!
@@AtunSheiFilms Hey Atun-Shei!
@@Rango37 Hey Ringo B!
@@wellthismachinekills3809 hey buddy
You were a tour guide? That’s a nice addition to a history-based résumé.
I was, both here and at Gettysburg. But I think that chapter of my life is behind me.
Nic cage to the ghosts: do your worst.
Ghosts: We will play one of your films.
Oh god no not the bees!!!’
LMAO
Would have thought they would have played Ghost Rider!
You must be a an uncultured pleb who thinks memes about Nic Cage movies being bad are funny. The only thing here that is comical here is you. One day you will appreciate his movies as the great art that they all are, but until then continue with your reddit memes you childish pleasant.
@@CanadianCCP I really appreciated his performance in "Valley Girl".
@@punkwrestle
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Discovered you from Brandon F, and I must say, you are utterly underrated!
Your production value is surprisingly good. Keep it up!
Very kind of you to say, thank you!
I’m glad you mentioned the Code Noir. I started learning about it. You had to be shockingly horrible to violate that one, which was horrible enough.
This doesn’t have to do with this video but I’ve enjoyed your videos about the civil war. I used to believe the lost cause myth, I wasn’t a fanatic about it but I believed it because I had confederate ancestors and I tried to justify their reasons for fighting and to justify that the war wasn’t about slavery because I didn’t want to look at people back then that way. (Especially my Irish ancestor) I used to tell people who weren’t familiar with the civil war that only 3 percent of people had slaves and it was about state rights, although in the back of my mind, it didn’t add up as there were 4 to 5 million slaves so could could 3 percent of the population have slaves if they didn’t each have 1 - 2 thousand more slaves. I realized that most generals in my research did indeed have slaves and were not against slavery but supported it. How I was wrong back then, your videos helped me to solidify in my mind that it was indeed about slavery and they said it themselves. I hope my Irish ancestor wasn’t a slave owner when he immigrated and joined the Confederate army but we will never know. I can only speculate. I hope this made sense.
" it was indeed about slavery and they said it themselves."
This is the thing that always gets me. People do get fanatical about it and seem to take it personally, but it's literally written in history. The written causes for secession, newspaper articles, etc, all give slavery as the reason. It's right there for people to see, but they look right past it to see what they want to see.
@@basiltozer9078 Doesn't really matter since even if your male ancestor wasn't your male ancestor, he was still married to a woman in your ancestry which connects them to you historically.
In all likeliness, he probably didn't, as most Irish immigrants didn't really own slaves or even supported slavery. He, like many other immigrants, probably fought for similar reasons as CS Army General Patrick Cleburne, who in my mind was one of the only few "good" Confederates. Unlike many of his Anglo-Saxon counterparts, Cleburne did not fight in support of slavery, but out of a sense of unity with the Southern people that had accepted him as one of their own, which is a much more defensible reason for fighting than wanting to keep slaves, I'll tell you what. So yeah, I wouldn't have too much worry about your ancestor. He was probably a pretty decent guy, at least in that regard.
Man, seriously, how could people do this. Makes me feel sick
@@jellyfishi_ most of the slavers did. That's why slaves had atleast minimal rights and that explains why the other slavers trashed the house.
You’re videos are very entertaining, funny and interesting. Keep up the good work
You should do a video on the "Slaughterhouse cases" - they are big part in the history of Reconstruction and New Orleans and now, sadly, mostly forgotten...
I had to write about slaughterhouse for my A-level papers in sixth form
"The most haunted house in America"
As someone from GA I can say there's probably a few houses in Savannah vying for that title also. None I ever heard of had a story quite like this one though.
I'm a New Orleans native and I'm enjoying this series of videos. Nice job.
I went on a ghost tour last night and the tour guide even had the same “first recorded cougar attack” joke in his story
I'm kinda surprised Andy didn't mention American Horror Story where LaLaurie is portrayed.
this was a suggested video based on another one I watched that was far less informative and had major gaps in their research. Thanks for the video!
Without a doubt my favorite of all the French quarter legends is this mansion. I must have taken 20 pictures of it while I was visiting. Across the street is however another french quarter legend. .. VERDI MART. I shed a tear daily missing that place 😥
My girlfriend got me an All That Jazz for my birthday this year. Best present ever.
@@AtunSheiFilms right on !! Now that's a birthday gift!👍 she rules.
@@JB-hl1qx She sure does
You,are entitled to your own opinions, but that place is absolute sinister,you can feel the ugliness off that place.
@@lisaellis9749 just because someone is interested in the history of a location doesn't mean they don't recognize the evil history of the location.
Hearing the soundtrack from Ravenous kick in without warning towards the end was at least as unnerving as the story itself. That music is even creepier in its own way than the themes from Halloween or Friday the 13th.
1.2k likes to 6 dislikes. With some of the content your channel features, that should speak mountains about the quality of your videos. You're Awesome man.
Just discovered this video and I quite enjoyed it. I remember seeing Madame Delphine LaLaurie features on AHS (tv series) so its good to see the real history. You ever thought of doing compare and contrast videos were you compare the tv/movie depictions of historical characters vs their real history? Just an idea since this is a semi topical video.
I'm new to this channel, may I ask what the name Atun-Shei means?
Man I’ve just been on a binge you teach so well man you sound like the channel rare earth and the way you film is awesome keep it up man
I have really been enjoying your videos. I am originally from New Orleans and my family has roots there before the Purchase. I have heard some of these tales but often embellished. Good Job! Thanks
Omg the skateboard dude 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m fucking DEAD!!!
I'm loving your videos, been watching a bunch of the new Orleans ones. You do good work💜
I'm from the area, and my family would take visiting friends and family on those Haunted History Tours growing up. I went dozens of times over the years, and can attest to the fact that different tour guides will tell the story differently.
But one of the things that I heard a few of the tour guides say, but never been able to verify was that; A family that lived there, relatively recently, had a teenage son that would throw a fake body out of one of the windows as a prank on Halloween, when the Haunted Tours below would get to that part of the story.
Any truth to this? Not crucial to the story, obviously... but I won't lie, that's pretty hilarious.
Awesome video! Really did the story some justice!
If true then its hilarious 🤣
This is why I’m never going to New Orleans.
Stay safe by the way!
So we're just gonna gloss over "age 13" and "scandalous affair" huh? I mean, this story just starts out f'ed up and goes downhill from there.
This is 18th-Century New Orleans, were you really expecting any better?
I've heard her name pronounced so many times it makes my head spin. La Laurie. Le Laurie. Lel Laurie. I guess its an American staple, arguing about French pronunciation.
For what it's worth, last time I was in New Orleans on a tour, the tour guide (who said he's of Cajun descent) pronounced Jean Lafitte like "Gene".
@@wilsonli5642 Gene? Even I know that's wrong. Foreshame!
Love the music at the end. Makes me feel a might peckish, though .....
Was referred to ur channel lol awesome thank u so much for the information & ur sense of humor 🍻as iam just learning more of this unbelievable story n lady
Just went on a tour tonight and it's fun to rewatch this after just getting another tour guide's story
Probably my favorite youtuber. Your videos are really great
I remember being drawn to that place before I knew what it was. Spooky
I gotta say, hearing Lake Pontchartrain referred to as 'far to the north' is intrinsically hilarious for anyone who isn't from Nola :D
7:30 - damn that's brilliant. If I was a famous person, that's exactly what I'd do - buy a piece of supposedly haunted property, stay there one night, then sell it saying I was "too terrified by one night there to ever sleep in it again." THAT RIGHT THERE is how to double the value of your investment.
In New Orleans, realtors often put "haunted" or "not haunted" on their for sale signs.
This story made me cry so much how cruel can people be. Its kind of weird as i listen to a lot of disturbing story yeah they bug me but i dont cry. Maybe because I'm black and it hits me harder
there is a heavy sadness around the house in person.
There might be a seed of truth in the Nick Cage story. He is a famously lavish spender. That house may be one of ten he bought and spent a single night in.
I'm a tour guide and tell the facts. I feel like I may be the only one, though. I've heard other guides point to the third floor "attic" where the torture happened. But the third story didn't exist until years after the fire, so... yeah. How tour guides don't know about outbuildings is a head-scratcher. Some of us are historians and some are just entertainers (we should be both!).
Many owners stayed much longer than 5 years. My favorite is Fortunato Greco in the 1890s-1900s. He led (paid) ghost tours in the house and opened the Haunted Exchange on the first floor.
Dr. Louis practiced "orthopraxy," which sounds like a form of torture in and of itself (correcting the backs of "cripples," which is how Delphine and he may have met, owing to her daughter Jeanne's status as such). The "torture racks" mentioned in the papers were probably such devices.
Another detail I am intrigued with is the Bee's report of a "mass grave" found in the courtyard. Of her 30 enslaved people she owned when she moved in, only a third are accounted for in death records. Possible. They retracted the report the following day. Was the retraction due to the report beling false, or was it owing to the Macarty family attempting to avoid further scandal?
I have seen enough just outside the mansion to believe it is VERY paranormally active. Maybe she and Dr. Louis did murder some of their slaves -- but we have no evidence of any murders. As soon as I hear a tour guide call her a serial killer, I roll my eyes.
awwww Diilon was running in the 2020 Boston Marathon but 2020 happened.
I like how much you love Boyd's Journey.
Ohhh you meant nick cages house. Sorry I wasn’t familiar with this other lady.
I've heard so many tales of vampires in New Orleans. Although I doubt that they were there before Anne Rice, I'd still like to know is there any truth to any of them?
most of the vampire legends can be debunked (casket girls, Carter brothers), but the Count St. Germaine/Vampire Jack legend has some interesting anecdotal (very anecdotal!) evidence. The main thing to know about Louisiana vampires is that they exist today! They are just people, but they drink human blood.
I wonder what she looked like. I keep picturing her as Kathy Bates but I know they look nothing alike because Kathy Bates is an angel 😇
Given that torture, rape and murder were quite literally the essence of African slavery, it is interesting that she has such infamy behind her crimes. If only people would catch up and realize the man regarded as the father of woman’s health was just as evil and sadistic.
Sometime you get a chance you need to travel upriver to Cape Girardeau and Sainte Genevieve, Missouri...lots of French influence to this day.
it's possible that this episode was known to robert e. howard, the fantasy and horror writer, who may have drawn upon it to write "pigeons from hell" and shadow of the beast".
Look very carefully at the window
Well, well, well, cher--I see you took my advice and corrected some inaccuracies, probably listening to that BBST podcast I recommended! Her family name was McCarty, though, pronounced McCarTAY back then. Also, Mme. LaLaurie is buried here in NOLA, in St. Louis No. 1, I believe, in a tomb with another name.
"Most famous annecdote from new orleans history" *lives around new orleans all my life and never heard of it* yeah totally, all those people who died
My great-great-grandfather, Pedro Pons, bottled soda on this same block (about three houses to the right on Royal Street) before the Civil War. For some reason, Minorcan immigrants came to the Gulf Coast in the 19th century and went into the soda business. The first Minorcan to bottle soda at that address was Miguel Piris. He sold the business to my great-great-grandfather, who did business under the name of P. Pons & Co. Some years later he merged his business with that of Sebastian Pablo, also Minorcan. They did business together as Sebastian Pablo & Co. and then as Crescent City Seltzer & Mineral Water Co. in that location for many years.
I blame Louis. The French were known to be very cruel slave owners
When I do ever become rich, I’d buy and live in it.
Wonderful history - thank you
Say , bra - when were you in the Quarters? I tended bar at O'Flaherty's the spring and summer of 2005. I tended the last night the bar was opened before we shut down for good the Saturday before Katrina. We were a stop off on several haunted New Orleans ghost tours, being as we had an awesome double murder suicide in the 1800s. And were a morgue during the Yellow Fever periods of the early 1900s. AND! A shooting gallery in the 1970s.
I'm just here for the peek into New Orleans night life behind him.
Too intelligent for a million subs...but still deserved, let's call it now, April of '21.
I don't know when this video was made, but American Horror Story used Madame LaLaurie as a character in 2013 (season 3).
2:32 I could forgive you for that joke the first time but using it again is a war crime.
Well the Boston Marathon shout out didn’t age too well
Appreciate the Ravenous music
First pro-wrestling, and now tour guides. Every fun thing in my life just turns out to be out to deceive me...
Shout out to kick flip guy at 5:25
I asked my tour guide about the Crab Girl, who prob'ly ended up in an asylum.
Love the Ravenous music
This sort of makes me never want to spend money on a history tour smh
Can I ask where you’re getting your real information from? The one that isn’t tainted by folklore?
I’m having some real issues finding concrete facts with reliable sources.
Carolyn Morrow Long researched and wrote a very comprehensive book called, Madam Lalaurie Mistress of the Haunted House.
She has reprints of articles from the newspapers of the day, interviews, and had researchers comb through records in France to get the details correct.
It is not a "light summer read", but I you want factual information, I highly recommend it.
I have also attended a lecture she gave regarding the property and it's history.
I hope this helps.
"Fuck youuuuu!"
Damn. Loud ghosts.
Why did you give us the finger? WTF? What a put off...
being me, off I went to thatwikithingy to
see if Mme LaLaurie was in there...yup, AND
(according to thatwikithingy)
the present building is a rebuild,
as the mob burnt the original to the ground...
I went there on a tour
Deja vu?
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Deja vu...?
American Horror Story season 3 was about her
2:31 you're really proud of that bit, aren't you?
I thought the Winchester House was the most haunted house in America?
Um, not for nothing, but what was with the bird flip at the end there? Just seemed a little out of left field.
You Should talk about Louisiana Voodoo or Hoodoo
My grandad works at the mound of poverty point
Read this story sort of in a "Benjamin January"-novel ....
"He died suddenly". AKA was killed.
I) needed a second for the cougar attack XD
Someone's been playing too much Rimworld
Wasn't $300 a hell of a lot of money for that time? That's a hefty fine for what sounds like could at the very least been against one slave (not that that should excuse them, I'm saying that's pretty zero-tolerance if so)
That would be about a workman's yearly salary.
She was probably a repeat offender
She poisoned the bath water!
Funny that you're telling the true history while numerous ghost tours go by in the background.
Oh no was that a jackhammer in the background.
Lowkey thought this was about belle delphine
Her unfollowing Leafyishere is probably not a crime, tho. This Delphine was before the time females could sell their bath water.
@@flyingisaac2186 i didnt know she unfollowed leafyvi stay off twitter
1:12 I can't tell if he's shouting "Fuck you!" or "Fuck Jews!" in the "Actual Audio" segment. Nice video though, I like both versions.
Does she have any relation to one belle delphine
Propably!
Honestly I think the serial killer was her husband. She did try to divorce but in court she refused to say why.
Honestly there of course is no justification of slavery. But a sadistic man with medical knowledge in this circumstance would have his mouth water.
Who else is here from Buck Breaking?
2:16 Your accent is funny. Good pronunciation except for the fact that you're stressing the wrong syllables.
I hate how she’s called a legend....
Those puns....just * sigh* please stop
How is it that you cannot pronounce Jean correctly?
That's how the french say it.
And yal think we aren’t owed for these things that happened?
I have to say nice zoom on the skateboarder I know it’s got nothing to do with the video but nice like thing you but in there