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What if the most haunted house in Louisiana isn't haunted
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by ghosts, but by historical trauma. In eighteen thirty four,
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firefighters broke into a burning New Orleans mansion and uncovered
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something so disturbing it horrified an entire city. The woman
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responsible vanished in the middle of the night, but the
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house itself never let go. Tonight was stepping inside the
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Laloie Mansion, and the truth behind the legend itself is
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worse than the haunting we do bury true. What's up, everybody,
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and welcome to a brand new episode of Paratruth rebornn My.
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Name is Eric and I'm Justin.
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Now. There are plenty of locations throughout America that battle
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for the top spot of most Haunted, but two of
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those locations reside in Louisiana, and to this day, it's
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a toss up between which is most haunted within the state.
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The first, of course, is the Myrtle's Plantation in Saint Francisville,
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which we will certainly be covering the future episode. But
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the second, which were discussion today, is the infamous the
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Lorie Mansion in New Orleans. Now, Justin and I have
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had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans and visit
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this mansion and hear the ghost tales behind it. It
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was a fun, relative spooky, and spectacular night in learning
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about its history. But I will tell you that even
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on the ghost tours, the history they give you isn't
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nearly as deep as a truth itself. But justin before
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we kind of get into the show, like, what were
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some of your experiences when we visited this location.
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I mean, to be fair, it was a ghost tour.
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We were all just a little bit intoxicated, but I
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think I really didn't feel anything until we walked up
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got the opportunity to walk up to it and touch it.
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Not any like.
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Feelings of dread or anything like that. A little bit
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of heaviness. But we also didn't get a chance to
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actually go inside. It was limited to just the outside,
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and we did take some photos to try and see
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capture anything. The one thing that we caught we had
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debunked right away because there was security cameras there and
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there was like this orb that we saw, but then
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it's like, no, there's a camera there, So that's just
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the ar are infrared ir light from that. So I
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would love, love, love to do an investigation there. But
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had you ever heard of the Lollery Mansion before we
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went there?
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Oh? Yeah, I mean it's truly both infamous and famous
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in its own right, both in the historical context through
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Spanish colonial Louisiana, but also just with the years upon
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years of storytelling regarding the mansion and the hauntings there within.
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So it's definitely come up. And of course, you know,
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many of you know that I've been to New Orleans
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three or four times now. You know, I was down
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there on missions for after Katrina, doing a lot of
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clean up and work down there, demolition things like that,
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but then going back down again last year. It was
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October twenty twenty four that you and I went with
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your wife and that that would play two years now?
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Has there been two years now? Today?
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Is twenty twenty six?
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By twenty twenty six? Yeah, yeah, some think it's twenty
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twenty five. Well yeah, but yes, but you know, back
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in October twenty twenty four, it is my first time
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really getting a chance to explore the area, just go
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out and relax and enjoy it, you know, take it
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all in. It's a little easier to do that. Obviously,
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we're not working. Yeah, but nonetheless, you know, there's been
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a lot of experiences down there, and of course some
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of the most interesting and fun things to do is
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explore the ghost side of it, the paragarmal right, the ghosts,
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the band players, swat and so forth. Now, Justin and
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I we kind of split this up a little bit.
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We we did research in a different way this this week.
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So I'm want to kind of throw some questions over
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to you, Justin, because you've kind of you kind of
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do it, dove into this a little a little differently.
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But why is the Lollery Mansion that considered one of
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the most haunted homes in Louisiana?
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Well, I mean, Andy, see, my knowledge of the Lollery
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Mansion came originally from American horror story.
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Uh that's where I I might have heard it well
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before then, but it didn't like bringing a bellow on fault.
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So to see what.
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A lot of research was showing through pretty disturbing.
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But it considered one of the most haunted places.
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Moving on to the ripat Slaves, Oh all right, Now,
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Mullery was culminated in a fire which was set to
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the culminating pretty four and revealing a gruesome discovery in
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the attic.
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It's since then been before that the.
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Home the book The Spirit of Whom with missiles saying
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you've been on occasion fear screamed as well.
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It has also been required that there have been numerous
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setting apparitions and August taken them home.
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As well as reports of a dark and personnenty four
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by Ayant who was living aw in the buried apartments
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then department, who was early the the The tenant, prior
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to his death, had shared with a friend that he
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had believed he was being haunted by a team that
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wouldn't rest until at.
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Now we've talked about a similar situation that you had
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had with the client, right but tormented by something, So
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this one is kind of really near and dear to
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my heart because it is there's very similarity in many
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just the fact that Weed, you know, someone.
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You had mentioned justin at the beginning here a little
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bit about uh, your real first introduction to the lo
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Lor Mansion, and that was through American horror story. So
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you know, one thing that we notice within the paranormal.
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We talk about this type of thing here and there
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throughout the life span of our show, but the media
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tends to stretch things a bit in terms of the truth.
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So when we think of media, we think of pop culture.
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And so my question is how has pop culture shaped
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the modern myth of the Low Lower you I magine.
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Well, the one first and foremost. The first thing I
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really have to say about them stretching the truth is,
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although they do that, it does get people interested in it.
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So and that's what really interested me in the Lollery Mansion.
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But pop culture, I mean shape the Lower Mansion haunting
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in significant proportions. Not only have the hauntings been perpetuated
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by ghost tours in general tourism, but it has been
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established as a focal point of supernatural storytelling since eighteen eighties.
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I do believe there was even a video game made
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about Madame Malvarry. Many of those stories, however, became exaggerary
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over time, you know, predominantly extending the fact of finding
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seven mutilated salay you've got I cannot talk tonight within
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the home to pop culture narrative claiming hundreds of victims
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or very specific, gruesome and unverified acts which transferred the
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lore of the home. On top of that, the home,
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like I mentioned, was a central character in the show
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American Horror Story Season was coven in twenty thirteen and
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cemented the attic torture Chamber and popularized the fiction fictional
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between Lotry and Marie Leveow.
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We've kind of.
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Mentioned Marie Levo before, just to give just a very
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brief if you're in Louisiana, I apologize. I know you
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you already know a lot of this. But Marie Leveau
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was a voodoo priestess, some color of the voodoo queen
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of New Orleans, and there's a lot of history to it.
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But they thought she lived for over hundreds of years,
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but it was actually Marie LeVaux, and then her daughter
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took over the role afterwards, still calling herself Marie Levo
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to give the illusion that she was immortal.
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Interesting, But you know, that's like just a little bit
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of hoocus pocus, if you will. It makes people think
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something isibally true. Yeah, we see that a lot throughout
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history too, people who take the name of their respected parent,
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maybe not necessarily to make that person seem to live
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longer than a normal person would. But you know, these
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stories of individuals who share the same name one generation
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after the next kind of expand to this almost immortality
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like nature within the stories of these individuals, especially those
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who are famous. Yeah for sure. Now, so this was
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basically how pop culture more or less influenced the modern myth.
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But what do people tend to think happened at the
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mansion itself? Like, if you were to ask or just
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a random person on the street, what is most likely
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something they would consider we're talking about the mansion.
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over the years, leading many to believe the tales that
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are told. For example, some people believe that during the fire,
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the slaves were falling from the third floor of the home. However,
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the third floor didn't exist in eighteen thirty four. Instead,
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the mansion was a two story home with a peaked roof.
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It was also believed that upon further investigation after the fire,
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the theories found a buried burial ground on the property
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where they found numerous bodies, including the body of a child. However,
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in reality, there was no burial ground found, not any
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bodies found, and the property on the property. In fact,
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the closest cemetery was across the street from the Lotalerry
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mansion and was owned by ursuline nuns. Now today there
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is no cemetery by the house there. It's been populated
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and built over.
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But I think, you know, a lot of people tend
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to get that tend to be mistaken when it comes
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to those certain things, because you know, they think of
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the original context of the area, of the original layout,
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and these are the cemetery across the street, and so
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people naturally think, oh, cemetery, mansion, horrific events. They bound
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this cemetery on the mansion in the courtyard in particular,
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which just was never the case. And I think that's
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a lot of what I think it's important when it
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comes to these stories. It's fun to enjoy the idea
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of the fabrications, but the more we kind of dive
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into the fabrications that accept them, the further away from
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the truth we get of the original story and the
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full context of the haunting, which I think, at least
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in my opinion, I think it discredits a lot of
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the lives lost there during the years that matching was
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you know, I'll say, in its heyday, you know, back
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in its prime.
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Right well, and like you mentioned earlier, there was only
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seven slaves that were killed there. Now that's still a
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lot for back then and in this particular day and age,
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that would make her a serial killer. But you know,
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if there was a cemetery across the street and and
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people found out about this story, that's where the rumors fly,
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and just the fact that was it was next to
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a cemetery would have perpetually perpetuated the rumor that there
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was actually burials on the property itself, because back then
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it was a huge property. It wasn't this small thing
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that it is today. And my small thing, I mean
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more more property there than what is the house of
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sitting on now. You know, we're talking about Madame Lallery.
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This is her home. But who was she socially compared
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to privately?
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Yeah, so, in public she was described as a gracious
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and even captivating woman. In fact, people often mentioned how
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she was very polite, both in general to strangers but
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also to the slaves in her care. Privately, however, if
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you guys told a lot of the story already from
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what we've already shared, she was quite the opposite. She
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was cruel and secretly engaged in sadistic torture and even
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murder of the enslaved people that were in her care. Yeah, And.
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I mean slavery was bad in and of itself, but
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to add that torture to just made it even more
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dehumanizing to the slaves. Now, what was her public reputation
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and wealth?
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So yeah, So Madam Little Ree was born into a
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wealthy and well connected family. She was brought into this
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life as Marie Delphine McCarty on March nineteenth of seventeen
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eighty seven in New Orleans, which was then a Spanish
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colonial Louisiana. A quick little interesting note I would like
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to add here is that her cousin, Augustin Dee McCarty
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or Day McCarty, was actually mayor of New Orleans from
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September eighteen fifty to May of nineteen twenty. I think
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to the eighteen fifty, I believe mateen fifty Eslexia, you
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know how well.
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And that's one thing that they didn't put in pop culture,
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especially the American horror stories, is it was just she
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was a wealthy, well known person.
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just despite being born into the family. She also married
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three times just kind of added to her well connectedness.
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So the first marriage that she had was to Don
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Rumone de Lopez Elangelo in eighteen hundred, and the second
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time was to Jean Blanc I believe it, how with
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the last name was pronounced and Inspye. That's the last