Behind the world famous Mardi Gras and the inspirational accomplishments of the New Orleans Saints, lie the remnants of a demented past that the city somehow managed to survive.
The carnage and bloodshed that stain the hallowed, cursed grounds of the city have given birth to ghostly creatures that rise every night, enveloping the city in a darkness that has always emanated from the depths of its most haunted and legendary buildings.
Prepare to undertake a journey into the mystic and the unexplained, the violent and the opulent, the terrifying and the chilling— where the supernatural has always ruled a city where death and destruction was part of everyday life. Before being named after the national hero, Andrew Jackson, Jackson Square was the site of public executions that date back to the s.
There was even a town executioner — Louis Congo, an Afriacan slave who was granted freedom in exchange for his service. For over a decade, Congo tortured and murdered somewhere in the thousands of people. There are even reported sightings of the executioner himself, begging the theory that he never quite obtained his freedom. Hear the horrific stories of the Spanish military carrying out the execution of three slaves from the German Coast Uprising whose heads were then displayed on the city gates.
Then-General Andrew Jackson would go on to defeat the British, delivering the speech that would end the War of right in this very spot. Visit the otherworldly Beauregard-Keyes House and uncover its sorrowful past that continues to rear its ugly head.
