You're going to 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 want to welcome you to our fourth season, Haunted New Orleans.

In the many weeks ahead, we'll be revealing the history, mystery, spirit, scandals, and sins of New Orleans,

a city we believe is the most haunted in America.

Each episode will turn a page of New Orleans historical record

and will shine a light on the darkness that lurks within,

whether it be a ghost story, a horrific crime, or an unsolved mystery.

We hope you'll enjoy the new season of the podcast that are many strange tales waiting for us

in a place that some call the Big Easy,

and we're willing to bet you'll be listening to a lot of these episodes with

the lights on. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, you. You're going to. New Orleans is a city that was literally born and sin. From the original charters that were based on fraud to the emptying of the French prisons to provide the first settlers to the region, it started off on a bad foot.

Those problems were followed by widespread government corruption, the highest murder rate in America, rampant

prostitution, frequent lapses in any civilized moral code, and as a couple of local historians put

it, more ghosts and there are wrought iron balconies in the

French quarter. To put it bluntly, New Orleans has a very long and very colorful history

of crime, vice, spirits, and sin.

And this seems to be a very appropriate reason

for us dedicate an entire season of the podcast to it.

New Orleans began as a hot waterlogged settlement of mud and mosquitoes in the early 18th century.

The first colonists were French.

The entire region had been claimed for France by the Explorer LaSalle a couple of decades before, but no one really knew what to do with it.

Aside from controlling the mouth of the Mississippi River, there was little to offer the crown, but the rights to a large wet piece of land. But conquering the new world was not all

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