137 - Madame Delphine LaLaurie: How Evil Was She?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Did Madame Delphine and her Dr. husband really torture their slaves in the most horrific of ways at the now infamous LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal St in the French Quarter of New Orleans? Or are the stories of firefighters walking into a burning structure in 1834 and finding horribly mutilated bodies just part of New Orleans ghost tour folklore? We do our best historical detective work as we examine the lives of one of the most infamous women to ever live in one of American's most interesting cities. We head back to NOLA on another historical true crime edition of Timesuck! THE GATHERING 2019 - Tickets are on sale HERE NOW! Only 55 tickets total! Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: May 1-4 San Francisco, CA Punchline Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 9-11 Boston, MA Laugh Boston Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 19th Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK Click HERE for tix! May 30th-June 1st Jacksonville, FL The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! June 7-8th Omaha, NE The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by Away Travel! Head to awaytravel.com/timesuckUse promo code TIMESUCK for $20 off a suitcase Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/6qp33n5siiE Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 4500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	If you've ever gone on a haunted tour of New Orleans like I have, you are bound to stop at the
0:04.3	former residence of one Madame Delphine La Lourie. Q the spooky haunted house music. Located
0:12.5	1140 Royal Street, the La Lourie mansion, as it's now known, is just one short block off the
0:18.0	Bourbon Street of New Orleans, Mardi Gras, Infamy, Breast and Beads, Alcohol and Carpe Diem.
0:24.1	La Lourie mansion is a swanky look and structure in the French quarter. It currently is a private
0:28.4	residence that no one has believed to actually live in. Its emptiness certainly adds to its eeriness.
0:33.8	It's had its fair share of owners over the years. No one seems to stay long. Actor Nicholas Cage
0:38.8	recently owned and then lost it to the bank during a bankruptcy proceeding and current anonymous
0:44.4	owner bought it at an auction for around two and a half million dollars back in 2010. I initially
0:50.8	wanted to say it's a really creepy looking place but I think it only appears creepy to me because of
0:55.1	what I've heard has happened inside its walls. Some say like my ghost tour guide that the La Lourie
1:01.5	mansion is the most haunted place in all of New Orleans, a city known amongst ghost hunters as a
1:06.5	land of many, many haunted. New Orleans consistently makes or tops various internet lists of the most
1:12.4	haunted cities in America. Over the years there have been numerous supposed paranormal sightings
1:16.9	in the La Lourie mansion, such as one document claiming to have been attacked by a naked black man
1:21.4	and chains who then ended his mysterious assault by just abruptly vanishing. Others have claimed to
1:26.6	have heard the sounds of animals being butchered inside the house. Children have been allegedly
1:30.7	attacked by a phantom with a whip. Strange figures wrapped in shrouds have suddenly appeared inside
1:36.0	the home. One occupant, a young mother, was once terrified to find a woman in elegant evening
1:40.5	clothes bending over her sleeping infant before vanishing into thin air. And there have been all kinds
1:45.7	of claims of hearing screams, groans, and cries throughout the night. Our tour guide told my wife
1:51.9	Lindsay and I that he himself had seen apparitions appearing in the windows several different times.
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