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By Sharon Keating
Of all the haunted houses, in America's most haunted city, the LaLaurie House
has surely endured the most gruesome history, and its reputation for
otherworldly visitations is well-deserved and well-documented. In 1832, Dr. Louis LaLaurie and his wife, Delphine, mov..."
By Sharon Keating
Of all the haunted houses, in America's most haunted city, the LaLaurie House
has surely endured the most gruesome history, and its reputation for
otherworldly visitations is well-deserved and well-documented. In 1832, Dr. Louis LaLaurie and his wife, Delphine, moved to their splendid
quarters at 1140 Royal Street. They were wealthy Creole socialites who
entertained on a grand scale, and Madame LaLaurie was reportedly both
beautiful and intelligent. Louis, a native of France, was her third husband.
New Orleanians who attended affairs at their home were wined and dined with
the choicest food and wine, on the finest china, linens, and silver
imaginable. What was unimaginable was the horror behind the facade of
gentility. While the institution of slavery is indefensible, it nevertheless existed
in the antebellum south, and certainly in New Orleans.
Madame LaLaurie, it is told, had a particular fondness for the practice, and
owned many slaves who were methodically brutalized to keep them "under control."
There were many rumors, reportedly fanned by the "jealous Americains" who were
systematically excluded from all things truly Creole. Among other things,it was
said that in the LaLaurie household, slaves disappeared on a regular basis. A
neighbor reported seeing Delphine chasing a slave girl onto the roof of the
house with a whip. The child jumped to her death. It appeared that Madame
LaLaurie enjoyed her many luxuries at the cost not only of her slaves' freedom,
but also of their lives. On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the LaLaurie home, and when the
volunteer fireman came to the scene, they discovered the horror hidden inside
the facade of gentility. Dozens of slaves were reportedly chained to the wall in
a secret attic. Some were in cages, and body parts were strewn about
haphazardly. Horrible mutilations had been perpetrated, and some slaves cried
out begging to be put out of their pain and misery. The monstrous and insane
experiments carried on by Madame LaLaurie were beyond anything imaginable,
either before or since...
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