Day 4, January 6th

Madam LaLaurie's House

Day 4, January 6th

The sun was going down, streets lights starting to come on, everything slowing down as Sunday Night was approaching. Bears and Eagles fans sitting in the bar on the edge of their seats as the big game approaches. This was the scene outside of Tujague’s, the beginning of out haunted history tour. We walked to the Ursuline Convent where we learned of the legend of the vampires in the attic. We stood on the opposite side of the street while our tour guide spoke, listening to the story of the girls of the old world being shipped to the new world to be married. When she finished, she told the story of two ancestors forever walking around the garden in the same pattern. When she began, we all turned suddenly, not knowing what to expect of the garden, let alone that the haunted garden was right behind us in the first place. What we saw was not what you imagine as haunted though, it was beautiful. Through the wrought iron fence w could see the garden. It was filled with green hedge bushes that were trimmed neatly. The trees, because it is January, were brown and dead, but along with the red brick walk ways and the 2-tiered fountain, the garden was still very elegant looking. As we moved along, the sky got darker and the streets began to crowd again for the first parade of Carnival. We went to the house of Madam LaLaurie, among many others. By this time the sun was getting low enough that we could not see it over the houses and needless to say, as our guide talked about Madam LaLaurie, it was setting the mood. We were all staring at the houses as she told stories, 100% expecting the drapes to move or a random light flicker in an abandoned house. Scary not only because of the stories, but because the people of New Orleans do not think they are myths, and some of these stories ARE recorded historically.

The haunted garden

The haunted garden