Outer Journey
Yesterday our class did several things. I got up around 6:30
to make sure I was able to get to Jackson Square on time. I went downstairs to
eat some breakfast with my classmates before the day started. I didn’t eat much
because I didn’t feel like I had enough time to eat a full meal. I had a
blueberry muffin and a glass of apple juice to get me going for the morning because
I was still very tired. The first thing we did was the cemetery tour. There we
learned about all the history of different people in some of the stones. I got
to see one of the three burial sites for Marie Laveau. Marie Laveau was supposedly
the queen of voodoo. She was burned at the steak for all of her voodoo actions.
Marie also had a daughter and her name was Marie Philome. She married a man
that wasn’t really approved by her family because the man she married was black.
Interracial love was not a thing back in the day. She did it anyways and when
she died she wanted him to be with her and her family so he was buried there
with her. The cemetery we were at was called the St. Louis Cemetery. IT’S one
of the most famous cemeteries in all of New Orleans. After we experienced the
cemetery tour we ate lunch. At lunch I had a big burger and french fries that
were to die for. After eating we headed over to the Pharmacy museum. There we
learned about what they did back in the day with our modern medicine they didn’t
have. The tour guide informed us that they used to use heroine daily. Heroine
received its name from a man that tried it and said he felt heroic after using
it. It was recommended once a day at least because it was thought to help the
body, but now today we know that is definitely not the case. After the Pharmacy
Museum we ventured our own ways to check out some of the local art galleries.
There is one pop artist that recreates old pop art and makes it his own and it
was beautiful. There is one painting of Audrey Hepburn that is said to be sold
for over $27,000. I would have loved to purchase that but you see why I couldn’t!
The final and my highest ranked even for that night would have to be the
haunted ghost tour. I got to see the most haunted house of New Orleans! I also
got to see the second most haunted. There there was a couple by the name of
Mary and Joseph. They were so in live and lived in the 4 story house together.
One day a woman by the name of Angelic moved onto the 4th floor.
That’s when things between Joseph and Angelic started happening. Neither of the
two woman knew what was going on but shortly after it began angelic found out.
She poisoned Mary and she nearly died from it. Joseph confronted her and she
said it was time to take matters into her own hands and so they fought and
fought. Angelic tried running away and made it to the second floor. On the
balcony they both tried strangling each other but Angelic lost her balance and
fell over the balcony and broke her neck. Joseph tried hiding the body but
Angelic chad a 12 year-old boy on her floor and saw what happened and called
the cops on him. Before the cops could get him he went up to the balcony and
hung himself. His wife Mary was devastated and she sat on the balcony every
day. Eventually she was found dead up there and some say she died of a broken
heart and others will say she died of a cold but no one really knows.
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| Marie Laveau |
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| Marie Lava's daughter and son-in-law |
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| Old Medicine |
Inner Jouney
I live in a very small town of only 3600 people. There are
no ubers, not very many placed to eat, and there is not a wide variety of
people. I am not used to the fact there here in New Orleans there is literally
everything to do and more. The streets are always busy and I’m used to two
whole stop lights in the town of Havana, Illinois. While I have been here I’ve
been challenging myself because I am trying so hard to remember where I’m at or
how to take a street car but I honestly have no idea. I usually just follow my
group because they seem like they know what they are doing so I just roll with
it! I learned that I am very directionally challenged and I should never try to
tell anyone where to go while I’m here. In Peoria I could tell anyone where
places are and what direction to go, but here, absolutely no. I can’t do it for
the life of me. All I remember is if I passed certain places on the strip. I
still can’t get over the 2nd most haunted place of New Orleans.
There is said to be the ghosts of Joseph, Mary, and Angelic. Our tour guide
showed us a photograph that someone took by a lantern and in that photograph
there was the outline of a man and there was absolutely no way that shape could
have been made by a shadow. There is also another picture Ina showed us of this
older couple and in the background you can see plain as day a picture of
someone coming down the stairs running and there was no one behind them. This
kind of things interest me because I have experienced ghost activity. I used to
live in a small house in town and there were ghosts everywhere, so I am very
thankful I don’t live there anymore, but I have experienced activity in the
house I live in now. Another interesting part of last night was that the most
haunted house of New Orleans was a part of the season of American Horror Story
Coven. I already knew that but the history behind it I didn’t know. There were supposedly
over 10 owners of that house and whoever bought it, something bad happened to
it so people quit trying to purchase it. To me personally I think you have to
be nuts to try and purchase a house that is said to be the most haunted house
of New Orleans. No thank you. I would rather live in a ghost-free house where
nothing bad happens to me.
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| Haunted House |
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| Haunted House |
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