The Backstory: Nicholas Cage and New Orleans's Most Haunted Mansion

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Haunted houses usually have a story that’s been embellished over the years or even just made up. But a mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, once owned by Nicholas Cage, has a documented history that’s absolutely horrifying. And even he was terrified of the place!

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0:00.0	All right, do you love a good haunted house?
0:02.9	We're launching into October, the month of Halloween.
0:06.1	You're not alone.
0:07.5	There's a mansion in New Orleans with a terrifying past,
0:10.4	as well as a connection to an eccentric movie star.
0:13.9	I'm Patty Steele.
0:15.0	What Happened at the La Lurie House?
0:17.1	That's next on the backstory.
0:21.6	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:25.9	Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast.
0:29.9	Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only Madonna.
0:34.1	When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint, I was robbed.
0:40.2	Always horrendous things happened to me.
0:42.0	I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was.
0:47.7	So I'm not going back.
0:49.7	Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:55.5	podcast.
0:56.9	People called them murderers.
0:59.1	Ten years later, they were gods.
1:01.7	Today, no one knows their names.
1:04.2	A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment who risked everything
1:08.7	to invent open heart surgery.
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