LaLaurie Mansion - Ghosts
After the Lalaurie's had left the mansion numerous reports of screams of agony were heard emanating from the house at night, ghostly images of the slaves who died there were seen walking among the grounds and on the balconies of the house. The house passed through several owners' hands but know one stayed there long in was empty for nearly forty years. In 1890 mansion was converted into an etiquette school for girls. The school was open for 9 months then closed because of poor attendance.
The girls that did attend the school said that they often saw the ghost of what is now thought to be Madame Lalaurie. The woman had black hair and pale skin her apparition was seen in the corridor after dark, sometimes she would be screaming. The girls that stayed at the school overnight said that they felt as though they were being pinned to the mattress or being strangled by an unseen entity.
One visitor to the property saw the ghost of Madame Lalaurie throw a baby from the stairs but both her and the baby vanished before it touched the floor. The next owner only stayed a couple of months, he told neighbours that that he kept seeing the ghost of a black man covered in blood and chains at the end of the hall when he approached it would vanish. He was also seen in the bedroom at night walking through the walls.
In the 1930's the building was converted into apartments, when they were renovating the downstairs kitchen the workman started to find human remains 16 skeletons were eventually removed, these were all victims of Madame Lalaurie and her husband. The mansion's next owner turned it into, appropriately, the "Haunted Saloon." Later, it became a furniture store, which did not last because the owner kept finding all of his furniture ruined inexplicably by a dark, stinking liquid. He thought it was vandals and stayed in the building one night with a shotgun, but when no vandals showed up and he examined his merchandise, it was once again ruined, the building was once again closed down. A physician then bought the property and restored it to its prior grandeur, a sitting area in the front and five apartments at the back.
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