GHOST of Bayou St. John - History and Horror along popular New Orleans neighborhood!
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Bayou St. John is one of the more beautiful locations to explore while in New Orleans. Many boats would pass along the bayou back in the day. For more history and horrors SUBSCRIBE to our channel and our Patreon channel!
Host: Kyle Crosby
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Subscribe for more horror, baby! Jose Planas was a Spanish merchant who was known around New Orleans as “The King of the French Market”. He owned the land at the mouth of Bayou St. John and there wasn’t a boat that passed by that Jose didn’t know about. He would eventually become a victim of paranoid locals, who were distrustful of Spanish people during the Spanish-American War, and returned to Spain BUT oddly enough, there have been reports that Jose or one of his customers are still partially around.
A neighborhood resident was walking his dog one evening and heard a splashing sound as he approached the bayou. He was astonished to spot a paddlewheeler as his dog began to bark. The paddlewheeler vanished before hitting the bridge, leaving no wake. There are other reports of barges, some empty or full of cargo, drifting by and sounds of ghostly voices calling out for rigging and anchors.
Ghosts on the banks of the bayou, ghosts on boats (tshirt idea), pirogue ghosts, all kinds of sites and sounds but we are more concerned with what events happened that caused these paranormal stories in the first place.
In the early 1900’s, Jose Planas was taking the family houseboat out on the lake with his family. Tragedy would strike when a young girl’s long, red hair became entangled in the paddlewheeler. The woman was pulled under and her body jammed the paddlewheel mechanism. Boatmen retrieved her as soon as they realized what had happened, but she had already drowned. It is said that sometimes the grisly accident, houseboat, paddlewheel and all, is reenacted in the exact spot it happened, at the north side of the Esplanade Avenue bridge.
In a more recent event, a horrible car crash near the DeSaix Avenue bridge occured, some residents reported hearing the accident repeat itself, over and over including the splash of the Bayou waters.
Come take a walk along the beautiful and historical Bayou St. John on your next trip to New Orleans. Don’t forget to subscribe to our CZcams channel and visit our website. Also find us on Instagram and TikTok. I’m Kyle Crosby and this is Louisiana Dread.
cool channel, visiting New Orleans this week, doing research. cheers to you. 🍻
Happy to help! Hope you have a good time on your visit!
Amazing
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I have been to Back Vacherie.
I’d like to take a metal detector out there. I’m sure you can find tons of interesting things.
that's exactly how our airport is haunted
Didn’t know the airport is haunted
MSY or the Lakefront?
@@LouisianaDread The Frontier Ghost.
Do you have any information on the grave of the Spanish captain sancho pablo at ft St. John at the mouth of bayou St. John? He was murdered by an Indian chief after it was revealed he was romantically involved with the chiefs daughter. This is a fantastic folklore legend of bayou St. John and the grave is still there but it’s very difficult to find any details of what really happened
It’s a fascinating story! I’ll do more research and make a video on it near the grave once I can locate it. Thanks for bringing this legend to light!
@@LouisianaDread awesome man! Appreciate your stories. The grave is right by the fort at the corner of Allen toussant and wisner. It’s a really old ruins. Definitely a mystical place in the city. I love bayou St. John!
@@XenojinX Awesome! I can’t wait to go check it out!
@@XenojinX Awesome! I can’t wait to go check it out!
He is buried beneath the Park Esplanade building at Esplanade and Moss. That was the site of the first burials of Bienville’s expedition into the area. It was at one time connected to St. Louis No. 3 but it was built over in the late 1800s/early 1900s. First homes were built, and some of the oven vaults remained, then the area was razed and later developed into the Park Esplanade. Relatives of mine lived in some of the homes, and they were haunted as hell.
Hey, Kyle. Can you please credit the author of these stories? That would be ME. I wrote the story of my ancestor Jose Planas, the King of the French Market; it appeared first on a website and then in the book “Purloined Stories and Early Tales of Old New Orleans.” The “woman” who drowned was actually my great-aunt and she died playing hide and seek as a child when her hair was caught in the paddle wheel of the family house boat while it was moored in the bayou at the foot of Esplanade Avenue - not out on Lake Pontchartrain. And it wasn’t Jose who went back to Spain. My Planas ancestors ran the Spanish docks along the bayou from De Saix up to the Old Basin Canal. I also wrote about the car crash at the De Saix bridge because I knew the family involved and they let me write about it. These stories keep getting used without my knowledge or permission. Please credit me at least. Search the book on Amazon, if you don’t already have it, and I have others. I think you might have sourced “Mona Lisa Drive” from me as well.
I’d love to, but nowhere did I see your name or the name of the author when I read this story. If these are actual historical events, no one needs to get permission from you to post because history is public domain. If these are your fabricated stories, then I can source the book if I can prove you’re the author.
@@LouisianaDread The stories are not fabricated; but they are part of my family’s history, and not every family story qualifies as an “historical event” because it is not by nature widely known. As for the supernatural side of the stories, we do believe our ancestor’s spirit remains attached to the area where he worked most of his life, and we have personal experiences of encounters that affirm those beliefs. However, not everyone believes in the supernatural, so this part is dependent upon the reader’s own subjective beliefs about paranormal phenomena. My ancestors, especially the Planas line, have been in New Orleans since the end of the 1700s. As for the story about Jose Planas that you related here, it is copyrighted material, having been published by me, Alyne Pustanio, in the book “Purloined Stories and Early Tales of Old New Orleans,” copyright 2013 by Creole Moon Publishing (ISBN-10: 1484167977). I don’t know what your source was or where you found the story, however it was cited previously in a successful plagiarism lawsuit that also included online publication without permission that was brought against another publisher and the plagiarist. I have not reported you or asked you to remove the content; I have merely asked you to deal fairly and credit me as the author of the story.
@@LouisianaDread Further, if you will kindly provide me with information about where you found the story, I’ll be happy to contact that source as well. Thanks!