New Orleans Legends

I thought I'd end my triple set postings of what I'd like to see in film and stories with some talks about New Orleans legends. I am not talking about ghost stories from New Orleans, or vampires, or voodoo - those elements have been done to death (no pun intended) in places like the History channel, Preacher, and the thousands of vampires series out there.

I am talking about the really weird stuff that gets whispered about in New Orleans on the Haunted History tour. Stories like a family throwing wild parties that would be so loud that it would overcome the screams of torture in the house. The story about a family whose own slaves were trapped beneath floor boards in the home and the screams were heard - only locals thought the house was haunted so the locals never freed the slaves. The story about a family where the father was a doctor and cracked the bones of a captive and reshaped the person until he looked like a human spider.

The story that the family escaped New Orleans and was never heard from again.

That is the scary stuff in stories. The stories of the ones that got away.

New Orleans has a thousand stories like that. Where pirates fight battles for the city. Where New Orleans surrenders the city without a shot and lets the British continue upriver where they are subsequently mowed down by people with more accurate shots.

It is an amazing city that has way more tales than ghosts, vampires, and voodoo.

Wayne