Haunted New Orleans : St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 | The Graves of Nicolas Cage (Yes) and Marie Laveau
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest and most famous. It was opened in 1789, replacing the city's older St. Peter Cemetery (French: Cimetière St. Peter; no longer in existence) as the main burial ground when the city was redesigned after a fire in 1788.
It is 8 blocks from the Mississippi River, on the north side of Basin Street, one block beyond the inland border of the French Quarter. It borders the Iberville housing project. It has been in continuous use since its foundation. The nonprofit group Save Our Cemeteries and commercial businesses offer tours for a fee.
Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis No. 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights. Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans was interred there in 1989. Subsequently, Morial's family built a new family tomb at St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, and Morial's body was reinterred there in late 2014. Notable creole author and educator Alexander Dimitry is buried at Saint Louis Cemetery Number One. Most of the Dimitry family is interred there including; Andrea Dimitry and his wife Marianne Celeste Dragon. Marianne Céleste Dragon was the subject of a famous portrait painted by José Salazar.
The renowned Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole aristocrat and politician who founded both the Faubourg Marigny and Mandeville, Louisiana; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess. Delphine LaLaurie, the notoriously cruel slave owner, is also believed to lie in rest here. Architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe was buried at St. Louis No. 1 after dying from yellow fever in 1820, while doing engineering for the New Orleans water works. In 2010, actor Nicolas Cage purchased a pyramid-shaped tomb to be his future final resting place.
The cemetery spans just one square block but is the resting place of many thousands. A Protestant section (generally not vaulted) lies in the northwest section.
Effective March 1, 2015, the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Orleans, which owns and manages this cemetery, has closed it to the general public, ostensibly because of the rise in vandalism there. However, in a controversial move, the diocese is now charging tour companies for access ($4,500 per year, or lesser amounts for short periods). Families who own tombs can apply for a pass to visit.
My friend and I went to a cemetery at night that was way out in the middle of nowhere. You easily got the goose bumps getting closer to it. There were no other vehicles around. We both literally heard someone say, “Get outta here”. We never told anyone we were going there. It was spur of the moment. We looked all around and didn’t see anyone. Needless to say, we left in a hurry. It scared both of us.
The tour guide is a whole mood🤣🤣I loved this
He was nuts and I loved it
It is as if you were transported back in time there. Cemeteries are always full of stories and the tour guide brought them to life.
This was one of the most FANTASTIC cemetery videos I have EVER seen! GREAT job with this one, and the tour guide was so wonderful!
The rumor of hauntings was contrived to sell the tours, guys.
@@LoriKasprzak-yk6nc If it makes you feel safer to say that. HOWEVER, the history of the hauntings goes WAY back, before anyone even thought of having paid tours.
If you ever come back to Louisiana, you gotta check out The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, La. It's haunted. Thanks for the tour!
That guide you had was freaking great. Informative, personable, and humorous. Hope he gets paid well
The Glapion is my cousins. He pronounced it different. My father Arthur Vigne was the oldest living Zulu King. He was King in 1988. He pasted away in July, 2019. He buried in Mt. Olivet Mausoleum cemetery in Gentilly. Thanks for coming to our city, enjoy!
😲 Wow
Jeff looks like he needs a vacation from the cemetery biz. Nic Cage was pretty great in Leaving Las Vegas.
Is there such a thing as (pretty) which means almost great?
I agree Jeff needs a vacay..
This is one of your most interesting vids to date. I learned things that I never would have known, unless you did this. Great job Scott!!!
100% agree 👍
Totally agree!
Your energy in the beginning 😩🤣 I love it
Had this tour and had Jeff as our guide today. He did a fantastic job and kept the interest of my 9 year old daughter. Highly recommend the tour and him.
We have a lot of celebrities who have homes here. They love our food and culture. When we see them in the street, we treat them as regular folks.
The saying on Nicolas Cage's pyramid is "everything to one", like the pyramid, all sides meet up at the top in a single point
My dad was born in New Orleans. I've been to New Orleans 2xs but definitely going back. I live here in Louisiana 4 hours away from New Orleans.
This video was so fascinating! Loved-it Scott! Crazy things happened in there for sure. Wow interesting! Thank you for this one scott
Scott! So, so interesting and educational on the history of New Orleans! I never knew. Thank you for taking us with you on this tour of the cemetery. If those walls could talk!!!! WOW 😮 UR FANTASTIC ❤ 30:45
Nice one Scott. Keep up the great videos 100k soon come on!!!!
The tour guide made me feel like we were on a safari thanks jungle jim 👍
OMG would be a great place for a EVP session!! Loved this tour
Awesome tour! That zoom into the sunken crypt almost gave me an anxiety attack.
I was nervous. I didn't know what we'd see.
Scott my dad lives in Metairie, Louisiana and just last week I was telling him I want to see Marie Laveau's grave when I visit him in the summer! Awesome video!!!!
This tour guide is crazy
I love this guy! "I'm a freak where I come from"
No!!! You're my kinda people, Jeff!!
SCOTT! When you put that camera down in the hole did you not see the eyes looking at you!?
No I didn’t that’s crazy!
Awesome video! You can tall Jeff really enjoys what he does. I love to see that-there's not enough of it in this country, especially right now. And BTW Scott, your Cage impression was actually pretty darn good, IMHO lol!
Wow! That was an amazing tour! Jeff was very informative and the cemetery was eerie. I really enjoyed this video & love the story of Marie Laveau!
Had me looking up to see if Nicolas cage died lol. I was about to say I don't remember him passing away.
I said the same thing to myself.
Awesome video. When he said they open the crypt take out the body put the bones in a bag put it back in and put a new body in, that's just creepy. Thanks for sharing ❤ stay safe Scott.
Nicolas Cage also has two homes in Nola, one is the historic home of Delphine LaLaurie, Kathy Bates played her in American Horror Story: Coven. I have been in that home and it is haunted. Brad and Angelina had a home not far from Bourbon Street too.
Cool 😎
He lost that home due to not paying his taxes.
Thanks for the tour Scott.
I was there just after Katrina. Some of the tombs got washed out!@! There were issues..wish he had of talked about it...excellent work as usual!!!
Very interesting video. I'm actually going to New Orleans in October. For the first time and the first thing I said I want to check out the cemeteries LOL
That was an incredible tour. I feel so bad for the crypts that are decaying and the stories of the fake tour guides. I've never been to a cemetery where the crypts are above ground and the reason in New Orleans for it. Truly interesting video Scott. Have a great night. Blessings - Judith 🎭🎵
Just a guess but I'd say the crypts are above ground because new orleans has a high water table?
@@themodsify That's what I'm assuming. Have a wonderful weekend.
@@themodsify you are so correct. Too many years before they learned that. In the beginning before the levys, (yikes even after) too many buried folks were floating by to say hi after floods.
I just started watching your channel and i love it. This one was very interesting,. You are amazing thank you for all you do❤
My husband and I were enthralled with this vlog! Awesome work, Scott!
Tour guide Jeff. Definitely has the gift of gab. Some of those Mausoleums/fence cement walls are very black. That area must be creepy as heck at night.⚰️😱Well done! Scott.
Great video Scott! Most haunted cemetery in America's Most Haunted City. Hope no one attached itself to you...😱
Elvis presley while filming king creole in 1958 went here with his mom and dad just to visit this cemetery.
Love this video Scott 🌹
Alot of awesome information about the city itself that I learned - Civil vs Common Law's etc - Your tour guide was fantastic, Scott. Great video!
Love it!! I'd definitely do a tour with you, bro!!
I've been wanting to see this cemetery for years now, I absolutely loved the tour you went on and now I can't wait to see it even more in person someday. Very enjoyable!!
Very interesting!! Jeff knew a lot about the cemetery!! Love your videos Scott!! Much love!! 🙏🙏❤️❤️🥰🥰😇😇
Been here several times since I live a couple hours away!! This was amazing an never gets old!!!
We went here while we vacationed in New Orleans. The tour was awesome and so is your visit.
This is ONE OF YOUR BEST! Sooooo cool and interesting, Thank you! XOXO
This cemetery looks SO interesting. I could spend a lot of time there learning history, etc. I hope I get to go to 'Nawlens' someday. Thanks Scott, this was AWESOME!!!
Jeff what a treasure. Thank you @scott on Tape
You’re welcome thank you for watching !
That was very cool and I enjoyed it a lot! Thanks for taking us with you!
The grave desecrater’s name is: Walter Ross ! Awesome video Scott !
Just wanna say about an hour from New Orleans and I’m really glad u enjoyed our city. Someday I hope to enjoy Canada 😁
Very interesting!! Always learn alot from you scott!!!
Hope ur keeping safe and well. Enjoy ur travelling love Carol 🇬🇧 x
Awesome tour guide the way he dresses he is like Cajun Steve Irwin 🤣
Wow such a great vid. Sooo much info in one vid. LOVED the guide. Wish I could have gave more than one thumbs up. One of your best!!!
Thanks Scott for another awesome vid, im a massive Nic Cage fan & love all his movies. If you havent watch willys wonderland, its a strange film where Nic says nothing at all. But still a great film. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
awesome!!! that nick cage impersonation was on point!
My goodness. I didn’t even know he passed away. So young😨
I never thought a cemetery could hold so many interesting stories😊
Thank you ❤️
Love Louisiana so much. Lived there back in the 90s. Would love to go back to live there one day.
Hi Scott 🙋🏽. I'm loving this 💗💜❤️💯. It's really sad how there's no upkeep of the tombs/grave's. Everything is so deteriorated and dirty. There's open tombs. Really sad.🤔
Wow Scotty this is the first time I have seen a cemetery like this one. For me it was so bizarre. Looking at you going through all those crypts make me feel really claustrophobic. It felt really eerie as the tour never seemed to end. Not sure how you felt but I didn’t like that feeling. As for Nicholas Cage’s pyramid I am not surprised. I wouldn’t expect any different from him. He is a great actor. I loved watching the movie Face Off. Well once again superb job done by you with a lot of patience. I have said this to you many times and I have to say it again. Take care Scotty, Be safe. As always. Much love from us. ❤️🤗✌🏼💕
I have family in St. Louis #1, 2 and 3. Besides the tombs being desecrated there were statuary being stolen. Before Katrina the cemetery was surrounded by projects and the crime rate was horrible. People touring on their own were being robbed in there. All these reasons contributed to the fact that now you have to go in with a guide. Also all the markings on Laveau's tomb were getting out of hand. Fun fact, right next to Marie's crypt is the family tomb of Morial, former mayor of New orleans.
Hi Scott, that was quite a tour, and the Tour Guide was terrific. Yes, you sounded just like Nicholas Cage! He hasn't said anything to the press about Lisa Marie Presley's passing. I know they were engaged. Married? RIP Lisa Presley.
Scott, great video!!! I was born in Louisiana and lived in New Orleans, just to let you know Gov Claiborne is in Metairie Cemetery with another woman thought to be his 3nd wife! Lost of famous people there. Worth a visit!! And soon Anne Rice
Cage used to own the LaLaurie Mansion
He is a great actor I love ConAir one of my favoite movies he played in. Hi Scott hope you are doing good . Be safe. Thank you for this video.
Great video Scott, being in the funeral industry I knew about this Cemetery, it's amazing the history, the rules , the way to place works , pure legend .thanks again Tom
Funny tour guy! Really enjoyed this video!
Thank you for a very interested video Scott 😉👍 Love it 🤗
This was an Awesome video Scott! I need to visit on day.
I learned something I wondered about for almost 25 years! I was in a New Orleans cemetery just like this near the French Quarter, and there was a tomb from the early 1800's that had a big crack in it. I looked in it and could see a whole skeleton. But, there was no skull and one arm bone was missing. I wondered "Did this person get decapitated and lose their arm? Why didn't they bury the head with them?". It never dawned on me that someone most likely stole the skull and the arm bone. Durr! Horrible thing to do. Super interesting tour/vlog.
That is the classic line of “Face Off”
This was freaking incredibly awesome. Thank you Scott
Totaly awsome!
At first I thought Nicholas Cage had passed away😱 no way, when did that happen...
He was just preparing ....
Great video!
great impression of nick cage love it!
I did that tour wrestlemania weekend..it was very interesting. Enjoyed it alot
Omg this was the best...you do sound like Andy doing Nicolas Cage... I now have the quote ringing in my head...the added footage of Vince and Nicolas fighting was the best. Great job.
Cool video! Jeff was wonderful.
I found this so interesting. I’ve never seen a cemetery like that. Thanks for showing us! Love your videos and have started watching them daily. Be safe out there!
Thank you so much
Very interesting I have never seen a cemetery like this in my life its very creepy and dilapidated. i wouldn't like to be buried there. Thanks for sharing love from West Yorkshire UK ❤️ 🇬🇧
New Orleans is my kinda city!! I myself am strange and unusual. I hope you got a voodoo doll Scott I gotta get down there💜💜💜 love this video
We should all go!! Taper trip!!❤
@@mynameisvna hell yes!!
This was great Scott. Your tour guide was awesome. He has a very animated personality.
Great impression very interesting video I am a huge Nickolas Cage fan
Nice 'Nick Cage' impression, priceless. Wow Scott you hit pay-dirt in this video. Capturing the tour guides' narration complete with his personal thoughts and local experiences. The dude is a righteous 'rock and roller'. An absolute capitalist in the true sense. While his delivery, narration and questionable attire is speculate to his purpose, this video is a great 'inside job' of New Orleans history by you. Something the majority of your fans would never have experienced or known on their own.
WOW! First things first: I loved but the tour guide, but at the beginning when he started in on "human compost" and "Holding Ovens" or WTF ever, I was like, "this is about to go off the rails lol Also, I noticed the Charles Trudeau grave you captured. You should look him up. He has quite the history, and his ancestry is Canadian. Safe travels, Scott.-Joe from Joplin MO
Very cool I love these beautiful cemetery! " Shut up Bus" LOL nice Nick impression, haha🙄😂🤣 Thanks Jeff, great tour!I like the mention of Valley Girl! Another great vlog Scott👍
The graveyard tours are the best!! If I hadn’t already done it, it would have been #1 on my bucket list. It’s back on the list because it is unbelievable and beautiful. Love everything creepy. I’m still here Scott, just a little late. 💀
This was really interesting. Thanks Scott.
Hey Scott you are amazing and are my favorite Vlogger by far. Have you ever considered doing a Doc Hollywood or Groundhog Day filming locations Vlog? I love your sense of humor so much! It makes my day 10×s better! 😍 your Nic Cage impression made me laugh so hard I almost got in trouble at work! Keep up your great work! Happy Holidays!
One day I’ll do those! I actually did Doc Hollywood but never put it up
That second painting of Marie Laveau was really of Angela Basset who portrayed her in the third season of AHS (American Horror Story: Coven).
This Place looks scary WOW!😳
Very cool. The guide definitely knew his stuff. I would go there one day.
My grandpa's mom side of family is buried in STL one. They came up the Mississippi to New St.Louis Missouri.
Awesome video Scott !! Thanks for putting this up ! 👍🏻
Brilliant video, very interesting Cemetery and very old, Nicolas cage in a pyramid, very strange but different. That tour guild Jeff was such a nice guy. So friendly. Thank you Scott. Xxx
Honeymoon in Vegas….omg laughed my ass off!!! Nobody could’ve done that role better, NOBODY!
Scott that was very interesting, thank you always for your dedication. 🤟😎
Wow that cemetery is very different and interesting. Thank u for sharing this. I would never see any of these places so really appreciate u doing it x
Scott Wow this was incredible. I love Jeff's personality. He is very knowledgeable. I could have done without the peak inside the grave. I wasn't sure what we'd see. I learned alot.
Love this Reminds me of my Dad confused why people wanted to live below sea level We both visited at different times and loved it. I don’t remember the street but I remember he told me that looked at a certain street and you could see where a blockage of some kind was holding the water back. Such an awesome place. I hope the levee never breaks again. Really cool video thank you Scott
Great video but very creepy place and very run down .tour guide was fantastic but just wish he talked a bit slower i didnt catch everything he said but still very interesting .thankyou Scott ..