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Need to borrow some dentures? How about some roses with a hidden message? This week, the girls go to their favourite city, New Orleans (LA), to chat about one of it's many haunted locations. From a potential hellhound to a love story from beyond the grave - there's something spooky going on at Saint Roch Cemetery #1 & #2. Tune in to hear more about this reportedly haunted location, and why the dead may still be trying to connect with the living. Need a distraction? We got you!
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Resources:
Nola Catholic Cemeteries website
The History Engine website (historyengine.richmond.edu).
CDC website – Yellow Fever (wwwnc.cdc.gov).
New Orleans Historical website article – St. Roch Cemetery, Plagues, and Germans in New Orleans – by: Madison Roxanne White, Kelsey Lacourrege, Robert Daemmrich, Karen Snyder & Kathryn O’Dwyer.
New Advent website – St. Roch – newadvent.org
NOLA Very Local website article – Haunted NOLA: The plague, the promose and the ghost dog of St. Roch Cemetery – by Michael Democker – May 26th, 2020
Ghost City Tours website – The Ghosts of St. Roch Cemetery
NOLA Weekend article – The Ghosts of St. Roch Cemetery, a haunted city of the dead – By: Shan Bailey
Haunted Nation - St. Roch Cemetery - New Orleans, LA (The Shrine of Prosthetic Limbs!) – Posted by Duplechien – October 4th, 2016
Monster Wiki – Hellhound (Folklore)
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