You're going to be. Welcome to the new episode of American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history,

hauntings, legends, and lore of America's past.

Show is hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor and we are now deep into our fourth season,

Haunted New Orleans. If you're tuning into the podcast for the first time, we suggest you start listening to the haunted New Orleans season with episode 53, which is where this season begins and where we set the stage for the many dark tales ahead.

In each episode of the season, be revealing the history, mystery, spirits, scandals, and

sends of New Orleans, a city we believe is the most haunted in America.

So hoist the main sale, sharpen your broadsword, and raise the

black flag for the next episode of Haunted New Orleans. You're going to be here. In January 1815 the final battle of the War of 1812 was fought in New Orleans.

At what was then a backwater disease-ridden den of iniquity that had only been the property of the United States for a handful of years.

New Orleans had been run by the French, then the Spanish, French again, and then became part of

an American territory, thanks to President Thomas Jefferson.

It was a city born in sin. Most of the initial settlers had been

convicts and prostitutes flushed from the Paris jails and sent to the steamy

mosquito-ridden swamps of Louisiana, and it maintained that reputation with

Bordello saloons and a reputation as the wickedest city in the new world.

It was a haven for lawbreakers, outlaws, gamblers, ne'erdoels, and horrors and respectable citizens, well, they

seemed few and far between.

When the War of 1812 broke out against the British, the same people we had just won

our freedom from a couple of decades before.

It looked as though this was one we were sure to lose.

America was outmaned, outgunned, and the British had rallied Native American forces

against settlers in the Western regions

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