#lalaurie

[lozero-jv]

Nicolas Cage: L'histoire vraie de sa maison maudite 😱

[lunasazuladas]

Nuevo video sobre Mandame Lalaurie, una mujer que maltrató a sus esclavos y algunos de ellos fueron asesinados por ella misma.

[strange-doll-child]

MOAR

[marzipanandminutiae]

Having read your House of Hunger posts and broadly agreed (and I was so disappointed because the concepts/worldbuilding around bloodmaids is so cool), have you read Blood Countess by Lana Popović? If so, do you have any thoughts?

I have not! I’ll have to look it up. I will say that if it’s about Elizabeth Bathory, I might have a very petty reason not to read it – I am part of the contingent that thinks she didn’t do what she was accused of (though it seems like she probably was a somewhat violent asshole to her servants at least, but that was not uncommon at the time in that area) so I don’t really enjoy stories where it’s all true.

(Come on, people. Confessions under torture are no longer considered admissible in court, and a lot of powerful men owed her money. Too many people had reasons to want her neutralized. Furthermore, the owners of her castle won’t allow an archaeological digs to try and see if there are any bodies on the land, which seems pretty damning to me – if there was any serious reason to believe it really happened, why not let those poor 600 girls, or however many they always say, rest in peace?)

[myhauntedsalem]

Lalaurie Mansion

New Orleans, LA

Dr. Louis Lalaurie and his wife, Delphine moved into their fancy new mansion in New Orleans. They were respected by everyone. They had a lot of money, power and influence. Ms. Delphine was greatly admired for her beauty.

They threw lavish social parties that would be the talk of the town for weeks to come.

Their house was extravagant and they had dozens of slaves to take care of it.

It was the neighbors who first began to suspect that something was not right.

There were whispered conversations about how the Lalaurie slaves seemed to come and go quite often. Parlor maids would be replaced with no explanation or the stable boy was suddenly just disappear… never to be seen again.

Then, one day a neighbor was climbing her own stairs when she heard a scream and saw Madame Lalaurie chasing a little girl, the Madame’s personal servant, with a whip. She pursued the girl onto the roof of the house, where the child jumped to her death. The neighbor later saw the small slave girl buried in a shallow grave beneath the cypress trees in the yard.

It was rumored that she treated the slaves horribly. But how horribly exactly, no one knew.

A terrible fire broke out in the Lalaurie kitchen. Legend has it that it was set by the cook, who could endure no more of the Madame’s tortures. Regardless of how it started, the fire swept through the house.

After the blaze was put out, the fire fighters discovered a horrible sight behind a secret, barred door in the attic.

The information you are about to read is from the embellished part of the event. The authors who wrote about it in the book didn’t source these events:

They found more than a dozen slaves here, chained to the wall in a horrible state. They were both male and female…. some were strapped to makeshift operating tables… some were confined in cages made for dogs…. human body parts were scattered around and heads and human organs were placed haphazardly in buckets…. grisly souvenirs were stacked on shelves and next to them a collection of whips and paddles.

It was more horrible that anything created in man’s imagination.

According to the newspaper, the New Orleans Bee, all of the victims were naked and the ones not on tables were chained to the wall. Some of the women had their stomachs sliced open and their insides wrapped about their waists.

One woman had her mouth stuffed with animal excrement and then her lips were sewn shut. The men were in even more horrible states. Fingernails had been ripped off, eyes poked out, and private parts sliced away.

One man hung in shackles with a stick protruding from a hole that had been drilled in the top of his head. It had been used to “stir” his brains.

The tortures had been administered so as to not bring quick death. Mouths had been pinned shut and hands had been sewn to various parts of the body.

Regardless, many of them had been dead for quite some time. Others were unconscious and some cried in pain, begging to be killed and put out of their misery.

The fire fighters fled the scene in disgust and doctors were summoned from a nearby hospital.

There were a few who still clung to life…. like a woman whose arms and legs had been removed and another who had been forced into a tiny cage with all of her limbs broken than set again at odd angles.

Madame Lalaurie and her family were never seen again.

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The house remained vacant for many years after that. It then became an all girls school and then apartment buildings.

During the time when the mansion was an apartment house, a number of strange events were recorded. Among them was an encounter between a occupant and a naked black man in chains who attacked him. The black man abruptly vanished.

Others claimed to have animals butchered in the house; children were attacked by a phantom with a whip; strange figures appeared wrapped in shrouds; a young mother was terrified to find a woman in elegant evening clothes bending over her sleeping infant; and of course, the ever-present sounds of screams, groans and cries that would reverberate through the house at night.

Today the house has been renovated again and serves as luxury apartments.

[eyestrain-addict]

The LaLaurie house was very briefly up for sale but it's bought now. Which is a shame because I was gonna make a post saying Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid now have the opportunity to make the funniest possible purchase

[letsgethaunted]

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1140 Royal St, also known as the LaLaurie Mansion is perhaps the most popular home in New Orleans and just hit the market at $10,250,000. The antebellum style mansion has a 2k bottle wine cellar, spiral central staircase, double parlors, billiards room, wrap around balconies and unparalleled 360 degree views of the city from the private French quarter rooftop deck. Also a two car garage. Also, Nicolas Cage apparently once lost it it to foreclosure. Follow @zillowgonewild to never miss a haunted I mean wild mansion!! Link in bio for the full listing $10,250,000 New Orleans, LA 8 bd, 8 full 2 half baths 10,284 sq ft Built in 1832 #zgwmansionmondays Currently listed via Patrick Knudsen / Latter & Blum | Compass

[themuselesswriter]

American Horror Story Thoughts

I did a whole thing about it, so enjoy suffering through my ranking and favorites.

[the-girl-who-didnt-smile]

Alastor Rips Apart His Grandmother's Soul

[ghostlytales]

Possible Ghost Sighting at the LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans

[rorykillmore]

my rp friend (an excellent michael langdon) has me rewatching ahs and i swear to god this show makes me insane. every time a few years pass and i revisit it, it grips me like a vice but it also becomes progressively more absurd to me every time

[blodeuweddschild]

Ryan Murphy fucking die challenge

[simplysummers]

I finally finished Roanoke, so this is my current ranking for those who care ✨

[strange-doll-child]

Gwa, I haven't drawn the duelists in a hot minute <3

[yung-griffyndork0]

AHS fans. Delphine’s Mansion in New Orleans. Our guide watched them film half the season with Kathy and they kept stopping because they heard noises and it messed with their filming.

[bezkinechnanudga]

OK I've watched ahs coven and then I found out that Delphine Lalaurie is actually a real historical person???

I mean I liked her a lot as a character, it's very refreshing to see that people do realize that even the worst human is still a complex person with their worldview that can change depending on circumstances. It's such a nice thing that they didn't romanticize nor demonize her as a character, and every her action actually makes sense in the context of her life and worldview, especially her regression after Queenie's betrayal. I would've been completely satisfied if the show gave her a chance to repent, but also, I can understand and kinda respect the decision to send her to hell.

Shortly speaking, I am pleasantly surprised to see a character of this type, but it feels weird that she was real, not bad, but weird, I can't yet tell why I feel like that.