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BunkieLA
BunkieLA
1901, New Orleans, "Spooky Places"
Nov 4 2009, 12:43 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 4 2009, 12:43 PM EST
There are possibly ghost and orb images in some of these photos from 1901. Decades ago, as curator of the photo collection of the New Orleans Public Library, I had no idea as to what I was actually seeing. Thanks to the education I have received from P&M, I now definitely know that what I'm looking at has nothing to do with mistakes in the printing of the photos or damage caused by a century of mis-handling! I am going to focus in on each picture to emphasize the esoteric/paranormal details. Do you find this valuable?    
2468Cecile
2468Cecile
1. RE: 1901, New Orleans, "Spooky Places"
Nov 20 2009, 4:44 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 20 2009, 4:44 PM EST
In the 1930s, the griminess in the French Quarter actually gave the place a certain character and charm that you won't see in the cleaned-up, Disney-style, tourist trap, extended food and souvenir court that the area has turned into today.
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In the 1930s, in the matter of ghosts, you possibly could say that you had a feeling that someone invisible was watching you and everyone else from a window or even a roof top. When you would touch a cast iron gate, you would have the impression that someone's hand had just touched it seconds before you did -- and there was no one in sight.
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Do the same feelings exist today? Oh, a few books have been published on ghosts in New Orleans, but they are few and far between. The real onslaught that has chased many a spirit from the Quarter is the never-ending presence of tourists -- tourists in Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirts, floppy-brim hats, and sandals. And that is men and women!
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Perhaps it is only in the cemeteries that you may sense the presence of a few staunch hold-outs from among the spirits of the dear departed from long ago. I believe that it is the excessive presence of the internal combustion engine in the narrow streets of the Quarter that is causing changes in the atmosphere as nothing else possible could.
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Nice catch with the photos, Bunkie! Do you find this valuable?