The Real Story of The Most Haunted House in New Orleans: Lalaurie’s Mansion on Royal St - Full Story

You’ve heard the legends and seen the American Horror Story version. But what really happened at 1140 Royal Street? Was Delphine Lalaurie a madwoman? Or is she a victim of a long running smear campaign? Or was she simply a product of her time behaving like all the other “high society” women around her? And why is that window bricked up…? In honor of the thinning veil, let’s dive in.

00:00 Introduction
01:36 Louisiana Civil Law
02:14 Louisiana Catholicism
03:00 The Legend
06:08 The Real Story
07:34 First Marriage - Ramon Lopez y Angulo de la Candelaria
08:25 Second Marriage - Jean Blanque
11:45 Third Marriage - Louis Lalaurie
12:49 Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era by Tiya Miles
17:47 The Townhouse
19:23 The Day of the Fire
20:45 Urban Enslavement
22:21 The Viral Story
22:53 After the Fire
23:06 The Bricked Up Window https://noladeeptours.com/2024/07/10/...
23:35 The Escape
23:48 St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
24:28 The Fate of Her Children
25:03 So it wasn’t a furniture store? 1834-2023
27:59 Conclusion

Sources:

Long, Carolyn Morrow. Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House. University Press of Florida © 2012.
Miles, Tiya. Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era. University of North Carolina Press © 2015.
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“To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documen.... [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 260–262.]
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