Sources from Episode 150

  1. “Artwork hidden under Picasso painting revealed by x-ray,” The Guardian, Feb 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/17/artwork-hidden-under-picasso-painting-revealed-by-x-ray.

  2. Adam King, “Mississippian Period: Overview,” Georgia Encyclopedia, 8 June 2017, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mississippian-period-overview.

  3. “Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Bourbon Orleans Hotel, https://www.bourbonorleans.com/bourbon-orleans-hotel-history.

  4. “Bourbon Orleans, New Orleans, LA,” Haunted Rooms, https://www.hauntedrooms.com/louisiana/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans.

  5. “Can I Go Inside the LaLaurie Mansion?,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/tour-inside-lalaurie-mansion.

  6. Carolyn Morrow Long, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015), p. 272. 

  7. “Mistress of the Haunted House,” 64 Parishes, https://64parishes.org/mistress-haunted-house.

  8. Cindy Ermus, “The Good Friday Fire of 1788 in Spanish Colonial New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer 2013): 292-331.

  9. “Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death,” PhD diss., Duke University, 2008. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/707/D_Baker_Courtney_a_200808.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

  10. “The Duelling Oaks,” Duelling Oaks, https://www.duellingoaks.com.

  11. Fred R. Darkis, Jr., “Madame Lalaurie of New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 383-399. 

  12. “Four real New Orleans legends that put ghost stories to shame,” The Historic New Orleans Collection, 15 October 2018, https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/four-real-new-orleans-legends-put-ghost-stories-shame.

  13. George W. Cable, Strange True Stories of Louisiana (Project Gutenberg, 2004), p. 346.

  14. “The Ghosts of Le Petit Theatre,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/le-petit-theatre.

  15. Grace Elizabeth King, Creole Families of New Orleans (New York: Macmillan, 1921), p. 465.

  16. “The Most Haunted Places in the United States,” National Geographic, 22 October 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/the-most-haunted-places-in-the-united-states.

  17. Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel in Three Vols. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), pp. 120-160.

  18. “Haunted Bourbon Orleans,” Haunted Hocking, https://www.hauntedhocking.com/Bourbon_Orleans_Haunted_New_Orleans.htm.

  19. “The Haunted Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans-hotel.

  20. “The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion.

  21. “Indigenous Tribes of New Orleans & Louisiana,” American Library Association, 13 April 2018, http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/nola-tribes.

  22. “Ghost At New Orleans’ Secret Horror Chamber,” Skeptical Inquirer, 23 November 2016, https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber.

  23. “Vintage photos of Le Petit Theatre: 99 years later, a new vision for the French Quarter gem,” 3 September 2015, https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_627b30d9-ee30-5f95-bfbd-50cc326a2f2e.html.

  24. “La Madame et la Mademoiselle: Creole Women in Louisiana, 1718-1865,” Master’s thesis, Louisiana State University, May 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20110807152536/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042005-171447/unrestricted/Morlas_thesis.pdf.

  25. “The Sinister Story Behind This Popular New Orleans Park Will Give You Chills,” Only In Your State, 6 September 2017, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/louisiana/new-orleans/sinister-park-new-orleans.

  26. “Dueling Oak,” New Orleans Historical, https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/109.

  27. “LaLaurie Mansion,” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion.

  28. “The Lalaurie Mansion: New Orleans’ House of Horrors,” NOLA Ghosts, 11 May 2018, https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion.

  29. “Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures: An Overview,” Folklife in Louisiana, originally published 1997, updated online to reflect new information, http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Maidas_Essay/main_introduction_onepage.html#tab2.

  30. “Marie Delphine Lalaurie,” Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lalaurie-delphine.htm.

  31. Michael Democker, “Haunted NOLA: Duels for ‘Pride and Honor’ Left Behind Hundreds of Ghosts at Duelling Oaks in City Park,” 29 October 2019, https://nola.verylocal.com/haunted-nola-duels-for-pride-and-honor-left-behind-hundreds-of-ghosts-at-duelling-oaks-in-city-park/89807.

  32. “New Orleans’ LaLaurie House Has Gruesome Past,” Forbes, 23 October 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2013/10/23/new-orleans-lalaurie-house-has-gruesome-past/#597299c9df48.

  33. “The History,” Bourbon Orleans Hotel, https://www.bourbonorleans.com/the-hotel/history.

  34. “New Evidence -- Jean Blanque,” Hancock County Historical Society, 3 May 2010, http://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/new-evidence---jean-blanque.

  35. “The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana,” in Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, edited by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao, 61-89 (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006).

  36. “A Voudoo Tree: Haunted Sycamore of Congo Square,” Louisiana Digital Library, 1 August 1891, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A5157.