There was much to see and learn upon entering New Orleans. The biggest learning experience I have had thus far is through the Haunted History Tour. Ina, our tour guide took us around the city for over two hours looking at the different buildings and telling us the stories of the supposed "ghosts" and how they came to be. We learned that there was a slave owner living in the French Quarter named Madame LaLaurie and her husband who tortured slaves so roughly to the point of killing them, so in order to make what was happening known, the chef in the kitchen who was also a slave set fire to the kitchen so that the authorities would come and figure out their wrongdoings. Pictured below is the photo of the house now and the window frame that is now a wall is where the original torture room was located. They ended up killing roughly thirty-two people that we know of that were on the slave registry of slaves whom she had purchased. I learned that it is not known if she had more than that due to slaves being sold on the black market. There were many other stories told as well, but this one I found most interesting. Also interesting is the fact that unexplainable misfortune comes to anyone who had owned or does own that house, period. At one point in time when Nicholas Cage was still acting in movies he owned this house and him and his family lived there for a couple of years. Nowadays, he is no longer acting in any big time movies and he has gone bankrupt. The question that this history tour begs is "Are you a believer, and if not, are you now?"
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