New Orleans Vampires Attic

New orleans legends reveal that the casket girls smuggled vampires over from europe in their caskets.

New orleans vampires attic.

Some stories say they were empty some say they contained the undead. Day 1 new orleans june 2014. At the heart of it all is the french quarter which has seen it s share of vampire incidents since becoming home to jacques de saint germain hundreds of years ago. My first night in new orleans i took the vampire tour since i mainly write about vampires i thought it would be interesting to hear the stories they tell in nola.

The ursuline convent claims there is nothing stored in the. Our hot male tour guide told the most fascinating story about the ursuline convent on chartres and ursuline streets built in 1752. In the crescent city beauty and darkness go hand in hand and history steps forward to make itself known in the present day. You ve probably heard of anne rice s book turned feature film interview with the vampire and the ever popular true blood which took place in louisiana.

One such strange individual called new orleans his home in the early 1900s and by some accounts was more than merely an eccentric but also an immortal vampire. The shutters are always closed but they say late at night the shutters open and the vampires come out into new orleans seeking their prey. This is the name given to some of the early women of new orleans girls of good families lured across the ocean to a wretched hive of scum and villainy called la nouvelle orleans. And to this day the original caskets are still stored in the attic at the ursuline convent.

Vampires in new orleans date back to the 1200 s from tales rooted in eastern european superstition where gypsies told stories of horrid undead creatures that returned from the dead to visit their still living families. Do vampires still live in new orleans. The heavy shutters are of an unique style not seen anywhere else within the french quarter. Their legend lives on in some of the oldest european inspired vampire stories of new orleans and the mystery of what was in the boxes that the court of france issued.

If vampires existed in our modern age it would be easy to imagine them in new orleans creeping from the shadows of the crypts in the st. As a matter of fact many other members of the vampire elite society have and still do find haven in new orleans. So to the dismay of the men of new orleans all that arrived in new orleans were 300 of these coffin like suitcases. Louis cemetery or prowling for victims in the unlit alleys of the french quarter.

There are many stories about how vampires came to new orleans but my personal favourite is about the casket girls or casquette girls of new orleans. These suitcases were reportedly stored in the attic of a convent in the french quarter where they still sit behind windows that are nailed shut because they. Vampire stories and possibly vampires run rampant throughout new orleans. Or so the folklore goes.