Visit the Haunted French Quarter in New Orleans

Sidney Smith: Hi. My name is Sidney Smith. I'm the owner of Haunted History
Tours here in New Orleans.

Tonight, we’re going to be taking The Haunted History Tour with
your tour guide, Rene Laizier.

Rene Laizier: Hello my name is Rene Laizier.

Today we’ll be taking a walk-in tour of the French Quarter, the
sites of the actual documented haunters.

Folks, we’re here at the number one most haunted building in the
French Quarter.

This behind me right here is the Lalaurie Mansion also known as
the Blight of New Orleans.

In 1830’s, a woman by the name of Delphine Lalaurie inherited $3
million from her grandparents. She used that fortune apart as this
mansion moves in with her doctor husband, Doctor Louis Leonard
Lalaurie.

So gray was her taste that she had the entire first floor gutted out
and converted to ballroom complete with an Italian marble floor.

Over the years during her parties, people know she likes to
disappear then shock in entirely new dress. I heard last night in
New Orleans it would be revealed why she was having to change
her dress.

Midway through a party, a fire breaks down in the kitchen which is
now the parking garage. The fire department enters and they
quickly put out small grease fire but they overhear the slayers
talking about the atrocities going on inside.

The end of the kitchen and to the ballroom and all the party guest
out into this sidewalk much like you all are standing right now.

Of course the firefighters, they entered this building and make their
way up to third floor.

There they make a very ghastly discovery. One room, several
victims in various states of torture first to which is a woman faced
down the floor. Her arms and legs have been surgically removed
from her one by one.

Found, a woman inside of a box. They had to take this box apart to
get her out of it. That’s when they realized that her bones and
joints have been broken and dislocates so she could be folded up
and put into that box.

Two men are shackled against the walls both their face horribly
disfigured. The only thing keeping them alive — maggots. The last
person found is a woman, no cuts and marks or bruises but dizzily
shaking.

The firefighters unlock her. Instead of her thanking them for
setting her free from these people, she takes off running, comes
crashing out that window which you now see bricked up on the
third floor. On her way down, her neck hits the gallery really
snapping her neck, flopping her dentistry in front of all the party
guests.

I can’t wait for Halloween.