The Lalaurie Ghost Story - The Most Haunted Mansion in New Orleans

[JesRayes]

it was owned by Nic Cage for a few years. but not any more

[Spiderweb127]

They didn't say what happend to the slaves? What did she do to them? Its so vague. I mean what could've happend?

[beatlesfan4127]

@Spiderweb127 you don't want to know beyond what they already said. scares me.....

[2zitzit]

@Spiderweb127 Some of the slaves they found include a woman with limbs removed and flesh sliced off to look like a caterpillar, another woman with her limbs broken and reset to resemble a crab, and a man who appeared to have undergone a forced sex change.

[Soulshroude]

@2zitzit Some of that is misinformation... all myths and legends. None of it can be proven beyond old police records. The main myth is the human in a box. The joints were broken and set again in offbeat places to make the person inside the box look like a human crab. The only real story that happened was the fact that Madame Delphine did chase a young slave girl down a balcony, who leaped to her death trying to get away from Delphine. That one is caught on camera in the form of an orb.

[2zitzit]

@Soulshroude LAME!!!! I was hoping for a real life human centipede! My source was a serial killer list I googled real quick, so it's not reliable. Thanks for the facts!

[Soulshroude]

@2zitzit Don't get me wrong, half the "facts" are compiled from the old police reports. Who is to say what happened that night in the attic. The Haunted History Tour guides add good information at that site. If I were this audience, I would take the Haunted History Ghost Tour and hear for yourself... while taking pictures of the now bricked up attic window.

[Soulshroude]

@Spiderweb127 She put the slaves in a tiny nook under the floor boards before she fled to St. Francisville. Their moans and groans were heard for about a week after, which could have been the cause for the "ominous" sounds coming from the mansion itself, designating the first "haunting" of the mansion...

[Goodiesfanful]

The Lalauries sound like precursors to Dr Mengele and those sick Nazi experiments in the death camps.

One thing that made such crimes possible was that Nazis believed they could do what they liked with the death camp prisoners because they were "Untermenschen" (sub-humans). The Lalauries probably thought the same with their victims because they were slaves.

[Soulshroude]

@Goodiesfanful Your not far off, Dr. Mengele took some of Dr. Lalaurie's experiments and used them for his own experiments, or so it is still rumored.

[Goodiesfanful]

@Soulshroude I don't know if Mengele ever even heard of La Laurie. Still , it would not have been surprising if he did get some inspiration there.

[Adarvuli]

nice :)

[VictoriaRosification]

I love my city.. voodoo, jazz, vampires and pirates.

[mannamo3214]

i went on a tour for that when i was in new orleans. it was heaps cool! i want to go back

[ILuvStAugustineFL]

I heard Johnny Depp is the current owner.

[Soulshroude]

@ILuvStAugustineFL Mr. Depp is not the current owner, that rumor has been debunked. It is owned by a texas oil tycoon who bought it for a "party house".

[ILuvStAugustineFL]

@Soulshroude for a party house, are you serious? Ugh, I wish the Johnny Depp rumor would have been true :(

[hmoorencs15]

@Soulshroude Nicolas Cage owned it, had to sell as part of his bankruptsy. Not sure who owns it now...probably a bank.

[witchblade11]

would love for the rest of the parts to get avaliable.

[HistoryTours]

I now own the Halloween decorations that adorned the home as of Last Week while owned by actor Nicholas Cage