Well folks this is it. We're now down to the last two episodes of our season on

Haunted New Orleans. We've spent 17 episodes of our fourth season delving into the dark side of a city that we believe is the most haunted in America.

It's been season filled with history, mystery, spirits, scandals and sins hosted and produced by Cody Beck and

written and performed by Troy Taylor. That's me. We hope you're ready for these

new episodes as we hunt down the strange and mysterious killer that terrified all of New Orleans

with a series of murders that remain unsolved to this day. So turn on all the lights, put some

jazz records on the Victrola, and discover what happened when the real life

boogie man came to haunted New Orleans. New Orleans was becoming a different kind of town.

Storyville, the city's first regulated district of Vice, had been closed down. The Jim Crow laws have been put into place

regulating where African Americans could eat, sleep, drink, and even congregate.

By closing Storyville and oppressing the black residents of the city, the reformers had also

forced jazz music, what some called, quote, musical vice, underground.

They wanted to be rid of it altogether.

Well, needless to say it didn't work since it went on to be hailed as the first truly American artwork, but they tried.

The newspapers didn't approve of it, and judging from the unusually high number of letters sent in after

editorials against jazz appeared in the papers, neither did most of the readership.

The editor had referred to jazz as, quote, a departure from proper music.

Of course that's what made it great.

But not to the city's privileged white elite.

They saw jazz, vice, blackness in general and don't forget the Italians that have been flooding into the city since late 1800s

as forms of contamination. These things were all part of in New Orleans that found expression in crime,

drunkenness, lewdness, and corruption.

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