Are Spirits Roaming New Orleans?

[Alpha]

Seems that many are noticing increased activity in New Orleans post Katrina.

CBS even covered this report.

From: Drudge

Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence In New Orleans



The presence of the supernatural and the influence of voodoo long have been synonymous with New Orleans.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the U.S. military are saying that there's something spooky going on and it's not just images of death and destruction that's haunting them.

By all accounts, the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans sits empty and evacuated except for military personnel who have taken over the campus as a staging site for missions around the battered city.

But the men in uniform have the feeling that they're not alone. It prompted a chaplain to utter this directive: "In the name of Jesus Chris, I command you Satan to leave the dark areas of this building."

Said Sgt. Robin Hairston of the California National Guard: "I was in my sleeping bag and I opened by eyes and in the doorway was a little girl," . "It wasn't my imagination."

Hairston wasn't the only one seeing things. Spc. Rosales Leanor had her own close encounter.

"I was using the restroom and I just saw a little shadow," Leanor said, "kind of looming in front of me."

Another member of the Guard unit said that she saw and heard a little girl laughing when she opened a closet that contained cleaning supplies.

At a Baton Rouge marina, boats were strewn like trash, but not a shred of paper could be found. Except for the pages of a Bible, which was found by a soldier. It was open to the Book of Revelations.

At a nearby church, nearly destroyed, another Bible was found, showing the exact same passage from Revelations.

Like the power of nature, there is a power at work in New Orleans that defies explanation.

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Check out the CBS VIDEO HERE where people tell their recounts of what they saw.

Free streaming and pretty interesting stuff for a place reknowned for it's paranormal activity under "normal" circumstances.

[Captain Kundalini]

I knew that this was going to happen!
A friend of mine out in LA was warned that this would happen and that there would be angry ghosts about. I sensed it, too.

[Sean]

Very creepy Alpha, but i'm not surprised. Many people died very badly there.

[ShardsOfNarsil]

Good story, Alpha. Let's also not forget all the above-ground graves that were disturbed in the storm as well.

[Delphine]

GHOST HUNTING AFTER KATRINA....


What HAS happened to the hauntings in New Orleans since THE hurricane? I'm not finding too much information, yet. It may take years for those of "other side" to settle in again...who knows?

I did find the following, which evidently was even printed in the "Washington Post" early in September of 2005, a week or so after Katrina hit.


Barthelemy, a feet-on-the-ground sort who commandeered school buses to evacuate residents before Katrina struck, talks about the spirits.

On the night before the storm, Barthelemy says quite seriously, a good friend of his walked home with a whole pack of ghosts. Barthelemy asked him if he was scared, and the man replied, “What they gonna do? The dead can’t hurt me.”
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Lynell Williams, born and raised in Plaquemines Parish, felt a sense of foreboding around the same time. She says she saw two lines of ghosts–”bright people,” she noted, invoking a local colloquialism for whites–marching over the levee. The ghosts were getting out of Davant. That was all she needed to see. She left, too.

So ghosts were evacuating?????


And then, there's the legend of multiple copies of the Bible found floating in the flood waters and in homes opened to the same page in Revelation (10 and 11)


And from Texas...

I’ve been hearing about weird vibes affecting people on South Padre Island, Texas in the aftermath of the last two hurricanes. Ghosts and orbs have been captured by some photographers taken by the shore. Are these possibly displaced souls who died suddenly and are lost? Are other places on the Gulf Coast experiencing anything similar.


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The Hollow Hill staff reports that since Hurricane Katrina in mid-2005, the hauntings in the French Quarter have increased dramatically. And, the French Quarter was barely touched by Katrina and its aftermath. But, there is renewed paranormal energy.

Now, the French Quarter's hauntings are so intense, it's difficult to tell the myriad of real orbs from fog or rain. In any other setting, these orb photos would be dismissed as false, caused by moisture. Now, researchers are not sure what to think about the hundreds of orbs in French Quarter photos.

They are saying that it's vital to take two photos in a row, at each site. If the orbs are from humidity or reflective surfaces, the orbs will appear in both photos and be fairly similar. If the orbs are paranormal, you'll see orbs in one photo but not in the other one. The photos will be dramatically different.


At Pat O'Brien's there are a lot of orbs. Before Katrina, two or three orbs in a "good" photo might be seen.

Pat O'Brien's is known for a haunted ladies' room (I can remember being told to be prepared for this, but never have seen anything personally), an "eerie feeling" on the third floor, and unearthly footsteps wandering around the attic. A happy, inebriated visitor--dressed in slightly old-fashioned clothing--appears and disappears just outside the front door of this popular bar. You won't realize that it's a ghost until it vanishes. This is one of many haunted sites that is reported to be more wonderfully eerie now.

Since the storm, ghost hunters report that the Quarter's ghosts have so much more energy, it's easier to identify truly haunted locations.

Most good hunters were skeptical about the Lalaurie Mansion--though the folklore is part of New Orleans' rich history. Many say it is not nearly as haunted, and believe, especially not as compared to the nearby Ursulines convent (See below) and the Beauregard-Keyes House.

(You may remember my story of the Lalaurie Mansion, owned by Delphine Lalaurie, where slave were supposed to have been chained in the lower rooms. See the Thread: New Orleans Haunting.



This is the story of the hauntings at Ursuline convent, as it was before the storm. It is said to be more haunted now.


Legend has it that in the 1800s, in an attempt to help populate the then somewhat seedy French Quarter with more educated, well bred denizens, French families were enticed to send their daughters here to marry.

These families were much misled to believe handsome, deserving gentlemen were waiting here for them. The nuns of the Ursuline convent intercepted the girls at their arrival and put them up at the convent. The girls had arrived with their trousseau which were shaped unusually very much like traditional coffins. So mockingly, the girls acquired the name of casket girls.

Their trousseau were placed in the third floor attic of the convent, and were not retrieved until a proper suitor was found for each girl. When the trousseau were retrieved they were mysteriously found empty. Superstitious individuals of the time claimed that the girls had smuggled vampires here to the French Quarter.

Well, that's the legend, but if this is just a legend, then why does the convent to this day seal each upstairs window with 8000 blessed screws? And every so often one of the windows will shoot open for no apparent reason, and immediately the convent once again seals it shut.
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I will have to keep looking; as the City returns, things may change.

Delphs

[Dera]

Thanks for another great story, Delphs! I love this stuff.

[Judee]

There is nothing boogety-boo about spirits, or souls lingering around the earth plane. I do not doubt, given the intense energy that went on during this horrific natural disaster, that there are souls walking around feeling lost. We are all energy, and our energy does not dissipate when our earthly body ends. Great post.

[Delphine]

Here's a post I found just this evening.......

Ghosts after Katrina


Everyone knows New Orleans is one of the most haunted cities in America. There are several companies that give haunted tours around town. I've never been on one personally, but I've absorbed plenty of tales and legends by living here all my life.

I have heard enough stories from enough credible witnesses to have no doubt that there's something to all this haunting business. Recently though, it seems I may have a ghost of my own...

Several months ago, I took in a friend who's been homeless since Katrina. He's also one of the people I've heard the most compelling ghost stories from.

Shortly after he moved in, weird things started happening. It began with a mysterious leak -- water pouring down from the bathroom into the laundry room below. A plumber was dispatched, and after a thorough inspection he diagnosed that there was nothing wrong and there was no reason for a leak.

Next, some things went missing and some things turned up where they had no reason to be.

A closed, unlocked door opened and shut immediately, somehow locking itself in the process.

The night before last, there was the clear sound and feel of footsteps in my hallway.

My friend believes he's got a ghost that's been following him from apartment to apartment; he's even seen her. But another friend had a different theory. Katrina destroyed so many homes in the city leaving thousands of residents homeless. Wouldn't there be homeless ghosts too -- looking for a new place to haunt?

[Topper]

Here's another way to look at the above examples, that little girl may have been
an ultra dimensional being who transformed herself into something you could identify giving you a warning to use your higher spiritual powers of awareness
during the cleansing time on Earth.

[Delphine]

So ghosts were evacuating?????

When I saw that tonight's show concerns ghost hunting, I realized that (in some other thread) I had mentioned that both the former resident and her daughter had once asked me if I knew the house where I'm living was haunted. I had seen the filmy image pass by in the same place in the hallway several times. Every time I saw it, I explained it as "just seeing things."

I've also posted somewhere that I haven't seen "our ghost" for a while now. It made me wonder if he/she had evacuated for Katrina and was living somewhere else now.

I wonder, but I'm glad "the ghost" has gone elsewhere.

[Dera]

When I saw that tonight's show concerns ghost hunting, I realized that (in some other thread) I had mentioned that both the former resident and her daughter had once asked me if I knew the house where I'm living was haunted. I had seen the filmy image pass by in the same place in the hallway several times. Every time I saw it, I explained it as "just seeing things."

I've also posted somewhere that I haven't seen "our ghost" for a while now. It made me wonder if he/she had evacuated for Katrina and was living somewhere else now.

I wonder, but I'm glad "the ghost" has gone elsewhere.

You are far braver than I! Your ghost would have seen my trail dust long before Katrina! Yikes!