#lalaurie mansion

[geeknik]

31 Days of Halloween: Day 14, The Dark Secrets of the LaLaurie Mansion

Welcome to Day 14 of our 31 days of Halloween series. Today, we journey to the heart of New Orleans to explore the enigmatic and infamous LaLaurie Mansion. Known for its dark history and alleged hauntings, this mansion carries a chilling reputation as one of the most haunted locations in the United States. Prepare to uncover the disturbing secrets and paranormal tales that shroud this haunted house.

Historical Background

The LaLaurie Mansion, located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, was the residence of Delphine LaLaurie and her wealthy husband, Louis LaLaurie, in the early 19th century. Delphine LaLaurie was a prominent socialite known for her elegance and charm. However, her facade concealed a dark and horrifying secret.

Dark Secrets and Haunting Tales

The LaLaurie Mansion gained notoriety when a fire erupted within its walls on April 10, 1834. It was during this incident that the horrors hidden within the mansion were revealed. Firefighters discovered a secret chamber in the attic, revealing a gruesome scene of torture and cruelty perpetrated by Delphine LaLaurie. The discovery shocked the community and forever tarnished the mansion's history.

The Torture Chamber: Inside the secret chamber, authorities found enslaved individuals who had been subjected to unimaginable acts of violence and torture. Torture implements and evidence of mutilation filled the room, showcasing the horrors inflicted upon those unfortunate souls. Delphine LaLaurie's cruel treatment of the enslaved has left an indelible mark on the mansion's legacy.

The Curse of the LaLaurie Mansion: Legends suggest that after the discovery of the atrocities committed by Delphine LaLaurie, a mob descended upon the mansion, seeking vengeance. However, Delphine and her husband managed to escape, leaving behind a curse on the house. Many believe that the spirits of the tortured souls remain trapped within the mansion, seeking justice and tormenting those who dare to enter.

Paranormal Encounters: Over the years, numerous reports of paranormal activity have emerged from the LaLaurie Mansion. Visitors and residents have claimed to witness ghostly apparitions, hear disembodied screams and cries, and experience unexplained cold spots and feelings of unease. Many attribute these phenomena to the tortured souls whose lives were tragically cut short within the mansion's walls.

Exploring the Haunted Mansion

While the LaLaurie Mansion is privately owned and closed to the public, the allure of its dark history and ghostly reputation draws paranormal enthusiasts and curious visitors to its doorstep. Guided ghost tours of the French Quarter often include eerie tales and accounts of the mansion's haunting, allowing participants to experience the chilling ambiance from the outside.

Conclusion

As we conclude Day 14 of our Halloween series, the LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans stands as a haunting reminder of the horrors that can hide behind closed doors. Delve into the dark secrets and chilling tales surrounding the mansion, but approach with caution. The tortured souls and the curse that linger within its walls continue to captivate and terrify those who dare to seek the truth behind its haunting facade.

#ko-fi #kofi #geeknik #nostr #art #blog #writing #halloween #all hallows eve #samhain #31daysofhalloween #31 days of halloween #lalaurie mansion #new orleans #delphine lalaurie #haunted #torture

[labradoritedreams]

Vintage image from inside the infamous LaLaurie Mansion at the corner of Governor Nicholas and Royal Streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Said to be the most haunted building in a city of haunted buildings, this is a private residence and as such is not open to the public.

It is my goal in life to get inside this home.

#lalaurie mansion #vintage #haunted #new orleans #i put a spell on queue

[rh35211]

alexandre dumas looks a lot like leonard louis nicolas lalaurie or is there a mix match in pictures

#alexandre dumas #LaLaurie Mansion #leonard louis nicolas lalaurie

[strange-doll-child]

Shadow Pianist and one of the Dualists holding hands? (Genderbend)

Yesss <3

Etiennette and Lottie <33

#i was originally gonna do “Lottie has two hands” but the canvas is too small hshdjhdjd #ask #anon ask #thanks for the ask #haunted mansion #hm genderbend #genderswap #genderbend #duelists #dueling ghosts #etienne lalaurie #shadow pianist #attic pianist #phantom pianist #crackship

[licncourt]

Okay I was doing fic research and it's important to me you all know that Rue Royale (the Gallier House irl) is right next door to the Lalaurie Mansion, which means that Loustat and Claudia were canonically neighbors with famous NOLA serial killer Delphine Lalaurie in the 1830s.

Thank you for your attention.

#lestat still doesn't believe that louis wasn't behind the 1834 lalaurie mansion fire #he'd been in a disagreement with the lady of the house and the fire department said it was arson after all.... #vc #the vampire chronicles #loustat #flora.txt

[letsgethaunted]

Episode 60: Madame LaLaurie’s Haunted Mansion of Horrors & New Orleans Black Magic Voodoo Photodump

*TRIGGER WARNING* In this historical true crime episode, Nat gives Aly all the graphic details of graphic human torture inflicted by serial killer Madame LaLaurie aka The Savage Mistress of New Orleans. Additionally, we explore black magic Voodoo of New Orleans and even learn Nicolas Cage’s darkest secret... yes, you read that right- Nicolas Cage’s darkest secret.

Swipe through see key images from this week’s episode! Image 01: Madame Lalaurie was a 19th century European Creole socialite and serial killer who for tortured and murdered her slaves. Image 02 : The Lalaurie Mansion is now known as the most haunted building in New Orleans. AND NICOLAS CAGE BOUGHT IT AND LIVED THERE !!!!!!! Image 03: Although Madame Lalaurie was polite in public and even manumitted 2 of her slaves, rumors throughout New Orleans speculated that the Madame was harboring a dark secret in her attic. Image 04: After a slave tragically “fell” to his death from the attic window, the third story window was cemented shut. You can still see the cemented attic window today. Image 05: Madame LaLaurie in the Attic. A scene from the Musee Conti Wax Museum, New Orleans. Image 06: Although Madame Lalaurie fled New Orleans after the discovery of her torture chamber, in the 1930s a tombstone with Madame Lalaurie’s maiden name on it was discovered in a New Orleans cemetery. Did Madame Lalaurie continue her torturing in New Orleans under a different name? Image 07: This fish shaped Voodoo doll and black magic ritual box is responsible for 3 deaths. Notice the burned photographs and pins in the doll. Image 08: The Ultimate Revenge (tm) kit is sold on a Voodoo website. If you buy this you are an idiot. Image 09: A Chicken Foot Hex you can buy to “scare” your enemies. Bro I would eat that chicken foot hex for a snack like a crunchy salted chip. Image 10: Nicolas Cage’s purchased his future burial site in the most famous cemetery of New Orleans. He built this giant pyramid tomb. Wtf.

#Madame LaLaurie’s Haunted Mansion of Horrors & New Orleans Black Magic Voodoo #Let's Get Haunted #Madame LaLaurie #Nicolas Cage Pyramid tomb #photodump #Instagram

[llatimeria]

today i learned that nic cage owned one of the most haunted houses in new orleans which sounds very kitschy and funny at first but the reason it's so haunted is because the woman who lived there in the early 1800s tortured and killed her enslaved people so fucking violently that when she was caught the rest of new orleans basically charged in and tore the house down into a pile of rubble. like . imagine how awful you'd have to be to Enslaved Black People in 1830s Louisana to make the General Public get that angry, and then imagine about twice the amount of that evil, and you'd be imagining how bad Madame LaLaurie was. It isn't a funny spooky haunted mansion, that place is legitimately a tomb and we'll likely never know just how bad shit got in there. jesus fucking christ

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

This probably isn't news to anyone but but me, but AR chose the Gallier house, situated between the Lalaurie Mansion and reputed vampire St. Germain house at the opposite ends of the block, as a home for her vampires? With the Ursuline convent and its tales of the vampiric casquette girls around the block? She really chose New Orleans vampire central with that one.

#iwtv

[forthegothicheroine]

The Lalaurie Mansion is larger than many of the houses in the French Quarter, its facade stretching down both streets. It’s been a part of New Orleans’s tourist industry for more than a century; by the 1890s the mansion was already being advertised as a haunted house...In an 1895 guide to New Orleans, Henry C. Castellanos wrote that while “no spirits wander through its wide halls,” there was indeed a curse on the house “that follows everyone who has ever attempted to make it a permanent habitation. Every venture has proved a ruinous failure.” That curse may explain why actor Nicholas Cage, who bought the house in 2006, lost it to foreclosure only three years later.

That last sentence hit me like the proverbial custard pie to the face.

#ghostland

[witchyfashion]

50 States 500 Scary Places to Visit: On the Hunt to Uncover America's Most Haunted Places

50 States 500 Scary Places to Visit takes readers on a spooky tour through the scariest haunts in every state.

Organized by state, discover America's famous haunted mansions, hotels, parks, cemeteries, lighthouses, and theaters.

Includes creepy locations like the House of the Seven Gables, the LaLaurie Mansion, the Winchester Mystery House, the Bell Witch Cave, and many more.

Features full-color photos of the country's scariest places.

Hardcover, 144 pages

https://amzn.to/48e5RZP

#haunted #haunted houses #winchester mystery house #bell witch cave #house of seven gables #ghosts #spooky

[starrysnowdrop]

What is your favourite ghost story?

Well, I’ve always loved ghost stories and hearing about haunted places, especially because I am from New Orleans, which is supposedly one of the most haunted cities in the world. As such, I’ve heard many ghost stories growing up, but one that always stuck with me was the LaLaurie Mansion.

This was a mansion owned by Madame Delphine LaLaurie located in the French Quarter, and you can still see the mansion on ghost tours of the city today. I won’t go into a ton of detail, because it gets incredibly graphic, but she was a slave owner that tortured and murdered her slaves. The mansion is now allegedly haunted by the slaves that were killed there, and there are some locals that don’t even like walking by the mansion for fear of encountering a ghost.

This is a really famous story that has sat with me for most of my life, and I’m still not sure if I do believe in ghosts, but if they were real, I’d bet that there would be some in that mansion.

Thank you for the ask @ainyan!! 🥰💖

#asks and replies #munday asks

[vanteguccir]

hi doll 👋 i have send you a request I don’t know how long ago (as anon) but I don’t know if you were open for requests at that time. was it ok for you ? it was a matt x medium!reader at the lalaurie mansion request <3 love ya

hi pretty!! I've seen it, and I didn't do it yet bc I didn't have the creativity on how to write it 😔😔

I'm not the type of writer to just pick a request and do it in any way just bc I have to, I usually go through my requests according to my creativity, so it can take some little time, I'm sorry 🥺🩷

#vante asks

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

The day Loui found out Mass deals with survivors guilt, Loui just sits with him for a long time. Mass isn't in a talking mood that day, just glad that Loui's there.

Awwwwww that’s so cute 😭😭😭

Loui just sits with Mass and talks to him, though he doesn’t force Mass to say anything back. He’ll tell Mass about spooky sh!t that’s happened in his state, and adding in his own sense of humor in hopes to get some laughs out of Mass, even if they’re concerned laughs (LaLaurie Mansion im looking at you-). And in my AU, Loui has a few wolf traits as his Cryptid/Animal form (cuz of the Rougarou), so he’d probably let Mass play with his fluffy lil wolf ears cuz they could end a world war with how cute they are and Mass loves them.

#welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #ben brainard #wttt #wttsh #wttt louisiana #wttt massachusetts #wttsh louisiana #wttsh massachusetts

[cybermuses]

salem, do you believe in ghosts? do you think you've ever seen one?

“i fully believe in ghosts actually! my grandma is super into the paranormal and took me on one of those haunted tours at the lalaurie mansion in new orleans once. i didn’t actually see a ghost but i felt the presence of all these spirits and i had to sage myself afterwards it was really intense. i also have a theory that imaginary friends are just ghosts that are only visible to small children but that’s another conversation.”

#salem clam down ur scaring the hoes again sjdkkff #˖ ✶ ˙ ˖ ✶ ask meme

[strange-doll-child]

I don't think I ever shared my original dueling ghost genderbend pic whoops

but here they are! Based on the portraits from the ride ofc

#fanart #fan art #genderbend #genderswap #hm genderbends #the duelists #dueling ghosts #etienne lalaurie #antione germaine #haunted mansion #the haunted mansion #disney haunted mansion #tw guns #just for safety

[licncourt]

03.10.2023, New Orleans, LA

Royal St and Ursuline Ave // St. Louis Cathedral // Royal St // Gallier House Parlor // Gallier House // Gallier House Front Room // Café du Monde // Royal St // LaLaurie Mansion

As requested by anon, day one trip pics that represent the city how it actually looks! The biggest thing that's different from the professional photos (aside from the tourists) is all the street parking!! There really isn't any room for garages or parking lots in the French Quarter, so all the residents plus the tourists are parked along the street. I understand why, but it makes it very hard to get a nice picture. The historic 18th-century townhouses all have someone's Honda Civic in front of them.

Also this whole city is terrified of being sued by Anne Rice so it's all off-brand and public domain vampires with absolutely no acknowledgement of VC, which is pretty funny. 100% vampires, but no one will say the Lestat word.

The Gallier House is stunning, staged beautifully with period furniture and decor and as faithfully as possible. Our tour guide was lovely and extremely knowledgeable about the family, the historical context, and the house itself. (If you ever plan to visit, you do have to book a tour. They don't make that very clear on the website).

It was super exciting to see, but I was surprised by how small it really is as well as by the details of the facade. The "stone" pillars are actually wood and the metalwork is painted green, it's not brass or bronze patina. Tbh we agree that it's a great house but it would not be up to Loustat standards.

The LaLaurie Mansion was cool to see, but a bit underwhelming since it's privately owned and not accessible to the public. It looks like the other houses on the street, you would never know it has any special history to it. The upside is that all the houses really do look like that!! Everything outside the French Quarter is very much a normal city, but I was surprised at just how New OrleansTM it is when you're inside of it.

Café du Monde was really fun, but it's almost laughable that AR had Loustat going there regularly. It was 100% tourists and clearly not catered to locals. The beignets really were delicious though and I had a great café au lait. If you ever visit, absolutely do what we did and go after 9p. The morning line was around the block but we waited less than five minutes to order at night. I also suggest sweetening your coffee with the extra powdered sugar in the beignet bag. Beignet flavored coffee.

I can't speak for the summer months, but as of now we can say that the stories about the smell of NOLA are not true. It smells like nothing or like weed except for Bourbon Street which smells like weed and also fried food. No sewage but also no jasmine. Equal parts a relief and a disappointment. Don't worry though the Mississippi River is just as ickynasty as everyone says if, like me, you'd never seen it before.

We had lunch at Stanley's of New Orleans and even though it was right at Jackson Square, the food was fantastic and not bland touristy stuff at all. Frog legs taste very mild and a little fishy fyi. The Vampire Café was kitschy as hell but we had fantastic blackened alligator, great desserts, and really fun cocktails served in blood bags! Also recommend. The Boutique du Vampyre is right behind it, but, just like the whole city, it's only store brand vampires.

@sofipitch @hedonisticgene

#flora.txt #nola trip 2023