Louisiana Paranormal Investigators

hi there,

i was wondering if someone on the forum had any information that would be able to substantiate whether this is based in fact or legend...

when i was on a tour in new orleans in 2003 i remember hearing a story about 2 tourists down for a paranormal investigation in 1978 setting up a video camera outside the ursuline convent to try and catch a glimpse of the vampires rumored to be nailed in on the 3rd floor of the ursuline convent. the tourists who in most recounts of the tale are women, are abducted, and then later found outside st. mary's church drained of 80% of their blood. their footage found on the camera at the scene of the abduction is indicated as non eventful until someone knocks the camera over around 4am. what happened between 4am and 7am is unknown according to legend...

now a couple of things about this strike me as odd..

the only websites that mention the unsolved murder are ghost and vampire sites...there are no online 'reputable' sources to validate this

also, in some instances, the tourists are interns for a paranormal investigation team...in others, they're male...in another version i heard, they were down for mardi gras and decided to test the lore as a lark....so, given that most lore and legend is based in some semblance of fact, what actually happened and is there anyone who knows if there are actual police or coroner reports available to substantiate these claims that are available to the public? i'll be going back to new orleans in february and i'd like to compile a video travel blog segment on strange and haunted history of new orleans...right now, i'm trying to compile some facts.

if you aren't sure but can point me in the right direction, i'd really appreciate that too

have you got any information on this story yet? I am doug wouldl like to help

lomochic82 at November 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM

hi there,

i was wondering if someone on the forum had any information that would be able to substantiate whether this is based in fact or legend...

when i was on a tour in new orleans in 2003 i remember hearing a story about 2 tourists down for a paranormal investigation in 1978 setting up a video camera outside the ursuline convent to try and catch a glimpse of the vampires rumored to be nailed in on the 3rd floor of the ursuline convent. the tourists who in most recounts of the tale are women, are abducted, and then later found outside st. mary's church drained of 80% of their blood. their footage found on the camera at the scene of the abduction is indicated as non eventful until someone knocks the camera over around 4am. what happened between 4am and 7am is unknown according to legend...

 

now a couple of things about this strike me as odd..

 

the only websites that mention the unsolved murder are ghost and vampire sites...there are no online 'reputable' sources to validate this

 

also, in some instances, the tourists are interns for a paranormal investigation team...in others, they're male...in another version i heard, they were down for mardi gras and decided to test the lore as a lark....so, given that most lore and legend is based in some semblance of fact, what actually happened and is there anyone who knows if there are actual police or coroner reports available to substantiate these claims that are available to the public? i'll be going back to new orleans in february and i'd like to compile a video travel blog segment on strange and haunted history of new orleans...right now, i'm trying to compile some facts.

 

if you aren't sure but can point me in the right direction, i'd really appreciate that too

Hi sorry to get to you so late. With my job sometimes comes unanswered emails until later. I took a tour in New Orleans one year in regards to vampires. What I came to understand is and not what the tour told me, is that you have to understand the amount of voodoo priestess' that populated New Orleans. I stay away from voodoo as nothing good comes from this. From what I understand there were voodoo people that helped in many ways of good, then you had those of bad. Could this have been the result of blood draining of certain people? maybe so. But i have no information for you on this. I have searched many things on this but the same as you, come to only internet stories and not real news paper articles or anything like that. If you go to New Orleans your best bet is to go to the library and research or court records. Most of things like that including some paranormal are very sketchy. Not alot of people around here talk alot of what goes on. They consider this bad mauvais presage or bad luck. I apologize for I wish I could help you further. Please keep in touch with me on how it goes for you.

Jill Wilder

doug at December 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM

have you got any information on this story yet? I am doug wouldl like to help

Thank you Doug. Any help on this matter for them would be greatly appreciated as I have no information to give but what is on the internet.

Jill Wilder