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Guide to the Unknown

182: New Orleans Scares Us

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

New Orleans has a rich history and wild reputation...know what else it has? GHOSTS, VAMPIRES, MONSTERS, AND ALL KINDS OF URBAN LEGENDS! We talk about some New Orleans-specific cryptids, a group of women known as The Casket Girls (great name), and the New Orleans-vampire connection. For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu182 Support GTTU and get access to monthly bonus podcasts, a private Discord, monthly livestreams, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/talkbomb Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0

The Tomb of Nicholas Cage.

0:01.2

Oh my God.

0:02.3

You and I both visited it.

0:03.5

Yes, we did.

0:04.3

When we took our trips down.

0:06.0

No.

0:07.0

Yeah.

0:08.0

Hello. Welcome to Guide to the unknown. I'm Kristen and I'm her little brother

0:16.1

William and this week we are traveling once again digging into the haunted

0:21.2

history of a geographical location, this time New Orleans, Louisiana.

0:26.4

This is one of my favorite things that we do.

0:30.4

I love picking a place and then finding urban legends and monsters and stuff from that area.

0:37.0

Yeah, it's awesome.

0:38.0

It's a way, it's a means to find fairly obscure stuff too that people don't frequently talk about.

0:44.8

And honestly I think one of the things I want to say before we even start the show is that obviously

0:50.0

New Orleans, the things that spring to mind are Voodoo.

0:54.9

There are like Voodoo priestesses that live there, like the very famous Madame

0:59.4

Lala-

1:00.4

Well, Marie Laveau.

1:01.4

Marie Laveau, I was getting the two names mixed up. They're very different people.

1:04.4

Yes. The Buddha priestess Marie Laveau. And then there is the story of Madame Lallore who was a nightmare. was caught having killed and mutilated slaves on her property

1:20.0

and then fled. We're not going to be talking about either one of those. They're the big guns, which makes them fascinating. But also I think we've got a lot more sort of like not obscure.

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