Well researched Alex!! If you get a chance to visit the French Quarter, make sure to add to your list: 1) Pat Obrien's-2 steel pianos where the pianists take requests (requires a tip) and if you don't mind alcohol, they advertise their "World Famous Hurricane" drink. 2) Brennan's-World class dining, world class. It is next to impossible to get lunch or dinner reservations, but I did have breakfast there and it was a five course breakfast (reservations needed). 3) Preservation Hall-pure jazz, pure, exactly as it was over 100 years ago and the building has been kept "as is" from 1900 (give or take).
My wonderful Italian Mama was raised by the Ursaline Nuns as a child in New Orleans during the Great Depression 1930s, she had many vivid recollections and stories to tell about her time and experiences with the sisters, but absolutely nothing about vampires, haha. She was a small child when she entered the home (about 3yrs), and 14 when she aged out and went to live with local relatives. She often mentioned that with school lessons and daily chores, the nuns never gave the children any idle time for getting into trouble, they kept the kids busy or occupied from sun up to sun down... Interesting story though. :-)
Thanks for the story John! The Ursulines had a separate facility on the other side of the French Quarter for the children, so that probably explains why she didn't hear of vampires.
My mother was born and raised in NOLA so I spent several weeks each summer there with my grandpa. It’s like home to me even though I grew up in another city in La. Once when my sister and I went back for a visit, after we were both married and had kids, we went to the French Quarter and Market. We were walking down one of the streets trying to decide where to eat lunch and we stopped to look at the menu outside of this restaurant. I looked up and there was a guy standing on the sidewalk who I thought might be the famous musician Dr. John, The Night Tripper. I was so excited and wanted to talk to him but I wanted to make sure it was actually him first. I asked one of the hostesses at that restaurant if that was Dr. John. She looked up and casually said, “Oh no! That’s Vladimir the Vampire.” Only in NOLA! Needless to say I didn’t try to talk to him. We did have a good laugh though! Oh and my youngest daughter got married in the Chapel at the Ursuline Convent. It’s just beautiful!
lol I’m glad you went into the facts cause the Ursuline convent is a building I had to study in one of my classes and I was like “um the convent wasn’t built yet” cool story. Great video
Awesome- great story for Halloween! I always think of the Anne Rice stories when I think of Vampires in New Orleans. I've never heard this story before, would love to visit New Orleans some day. Thanks!
Loved this. Rather sad in a way, because although I don't believe the vampire story, I can imagine this story being born on the arrival of these girls. You can easily imagine these young women being blamed for the deaths of the young children which would no doubt have been something like cholera. I imagine their lives would have been fraught with danger and difficulty. I wonder if there are any direct descendants who have any tales to add to this?
Here is one, I have always heard that there is a gate keeper living in New Orleans that watches over the true vampire that is supposedly in a vault somewhere. It would be interesting if you could find out more information on that. I truly believe that there are vampires there. There is so much mystery about New Orleans and I love the city, even though I do not live there I am a history buff :) thanks for this video!
People say they see Jacques St Germain walking around the French quarter dressed like the 1800’s asking women to come with him and if u say no he just vanished out of nowhere
Hi Alex 😲 Boo!!A Great 👍 Halloween 🎃 Spooky story , Interesting 🤔.. The trunk's look ship 🚢⚓ trunks.. The last picture 🖼️ of the attic looked like a storage room, But the world 🌎🌍 may never know.We will pray 🙏 for those who come and goes...Thanks for Video 🎥🍿..
Thanks for debunking this so clearly. This legend is so silly, and I love New Orleans legends. The convent is definitely haunted--even the pictures are terrifying.
Ghosts - we have ghosts en mass, but the vampire story associated with the casket girls is more a 2oth century thing. Oh, and the term "casket" for a small trunk was used in English as well. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a beautiful collection of Ivory Early Middle Ages caskets with carvings around them.
Alex, your channel content is great, a little bit of this and a lot of that and so on. Keep up the great work. Perfect timing for Halloween on this one..... The cemeteries in New Orleans all have above ground crypts, the water table is too high to bury people underground. Thanks for posting.....
Thank you Mike! I love delving into random histories such as this, and indeed I plan to discuss the New Orleans cemeteries some day, maybe when I go to the city in Spring!
@@AlextheHistorian Spring sounds good, we were there in the summer, and it was so Hot and Muggy. Try the Beignets at Cafe du Monde - - - bet you can't eat one. Back to work---bye
That's a fun story. The reality is probably just that the women, already poor and so without even the meager healthcare of the day, brought some infection over that had spread during the voyage. Ships were very unpleasant back then! New people tend to get blamed for many things. It seems more coercion and force than choice to go to an empire's colonies it seems. The orphan children probably suffered a lot at the hands of the men in the city sadly. I may not be up to date on my vampire knowledge, but I thought that the Catholic Church has never recognized them. Them having vampires in their closets seems unlikely. The classic vampire stories are folk tales and the biggest vampire panic I can think of happened in Protestant New England much later. There are some specific details that seem unusual about the story that suggest there may be some truth to them. Perhaps there were once coffins in the attic being stored or perhaps there were some things to do with death in the US Civil War up there. Caskets in the attic, the misunderstanding of the French words, and the sick women living in the attic could come together to form such a tale. I wonder if the number of nails had some significance (and tangentially I wonder if silver plating is sufficient for dealing with vampires). Another good history video for Halloween. :)
My great-great grandfather (or maybe another great) was sent to oversee the Ursuline convent in Cuba and then in New Orleans. I'm trying to learn more about "all this" - and him. Suggestions?
Since the Ursuline convent is Catholic, you can start by getting in contact with a priest and seeing what you can do about tracking down information. The Catholic Church keeps impeccable records of all the goings-on of their churches dating back hundreds of years.
Good vid! There is so much folklore in The Quarter that is easily debunked by a little research. Nicely done! I was on a "ghost tour" of The Quarter many years ago. We stopped by the garden of the P.G.T. Beauregard House across from the Old Ursuline Convent. The tour guide said "On some nights you can hear the ghost of the general moaning, "Shiloh! Shiloh! Shiloh!" (where General Beauregard had suffered one of his most costly defeats of the Civil War.) I just grinned to myself... History is written by the winners. The Federals called it "Shiloh". A Confederate general would never refer to "The battle of Shiloh". The Southern side called it "The Battle of Pittsburg Landing". 😆
yeah I've lived in the quarter most of my life, two blocks away. never heard the vampire or silver nail story. they did send over undesirable women and disguised them as nuns.
You never heard the vampire or silver nail story? They tell that story on all the Haunted tours of the quarter! My dad first told me that story when he came back from a trip in 2003. Even today when I watch videos about haunted New Orleans this vampire story keeps popping up. It's really famous...or infamous.
My sister got married there and I was feeling a weird sense of “I have to protect my family” which felt weird to me. My mom was more like “oh, look at the beautiful architecture and artifacts!” Not to mention that I thought I saw a few faces watching from the windows when no one was upstairs. 😰
@Alex the Historian Do you know the story of Lady Kim, the supposed "head vampire" of the vampire community/coven of New Orleans? I have never believed her to be true, but the story has been in a couple of books about the haunted history and vampires of New Orleans.
The story of the ursuline convent vampires could be true in some extent but the story of how the vampires got here could have been altered because they don't know who has that kind of knowledge...and I believe the vampires used the nuns to blend in. But who knows how they got here. The way they got here could have been on a boat that came to New Orleans but which one exactly.
Nobody knows. I mean, what really is a vampire? Is it from the Devil? Or is it of nature, like a vampire bat? And every book in literature is different on the "rules". Anne Rice's vampires love to visit churches and stare at crucifixes, some of them pray to the Christian God.
These old convents are creepy as hell. It’s suppose to a place for nuns, their cloister, place to sleep. They didn’t much because they gave up all their worldly possessions. Maybe a family picture, but the couldn’t have anything of possession. The cloisters were dark, creepy, quiet, & mysterious. So, if the ladies came with only a box looking casket, they stored them in the attic never to be seen again. Than the room was sealed off so no one could enter does sound suspicious. I don’t think I’d venture into that attic. Maybe they had dirt in them from their home place & that’s where they reside, as Dirt. Than again they might of ventured into the city. Finding a newer home.
I beg your pardon, you cannot lock the vampire's inside. The Vampire is powerful. It's powers. The vamp can shapeshift into an ant or fly. It can even transform into a mist or vapor. Or even a smoke. Get my point?
Boxes could be hope chests. Espixally if it’s women who want to marry it’s like a bunch of stuff to represent the marriage i don’t really know but my moms family does it.
if they were real i feel very sorry for them, those oor vampire girls, all they wanted was to live in peace. the superstitions of the past is unbelieable! Im a woman too i do believe in vampires, i do believe they are out there somewhere or their bones have to be. vampire stories cant just be fake! their has be be some truth to legands if any at all!
so everyone this is the story back when new orleans was just a plot of land spain king sent spain men to build building after about 10 years they wanted family so they sent a letter to the spain king to bring women if you know back then they didnt have refrigators so they only ate jerky and had a lack of vitaman C and D they got a disease which i forgot the name of but that disasease symtoms are fatigue pale skin bony arms and canine teeth growing the spain men were terriefied when the shipment of women came and thought they were demons so they locked them in the church at the third floor after abought 300 years student researchers set cameras after a few days after putting the cameras the camara was broken or could say smashed and the head of the researcher was right next to it and the body was preety close and all the blood was drained
I know. Because I have been a vampire & werewolf fan since I was 6 years old. And I have been studying vampires for decades. But I know that vamps are the staff of legends. I don't believe they exist. Up to now I know very well about vampires. And I'm interested to know. That what more do I need to know more about vamps. If theres a little something I don't know about em. I even know very well about Dracula.
If you know that much about vampires, then you also know that each legend, each author has their own idea of what vampires can and cannot do. Anne Rice's vampires, for instance, cannot shapeshift.
@@AlextheHistorian Anne Rices idea. What made her think that the vampire cannot shapeshift. She made a mistake. The Vampire Lestat in Interview with the vampire. She needs to know and you that vampires are International. Did you know that? One of the vampires powers is shapeshifting. Usually the vampires of modern America can transform into a wolf.
@@AlextheHistorian Well maybe theres something you know about vampires that I don't. Since you might be a true historian. I would like to know what that might be.
Well researched Alex!! If you get a chance to visit the French Quarter, make sure to add to your list:
1) Pat Obrien's-2 steel pianos where the pianists take requests (requires a tip) and if you don't mind alcohol, they advertise their "World Famous Hurricane" drink.
2) Brennan's-World class dining, world class. It is next to impossible to get lunch or dinner reservations, but I did have breakfast there and it was a five course breakfast (reservations needed).
3) Preservation Hall-pure jazz, pure, exactly as it was over 100 years ago and the building has been kept "as is" from 1900 (give or take).
My cousin went Ursuline Academy for high school. She said that whole place was haunted.
Idk about the whole school but the elevator by the bookstore is definitely haunted
What year?
My wife also went to school there plus her mom and sister
My wonderful Italian Mama was raised by the Ursaline Nuns as a child in New Orleans during the Great Depression 1930s, she had many vivid recollections and stories to tell about her time and experiences with the sisters, but absolutely nothing about vampires, haha. She was a small child when she entered the home (about 3yrs), and 14 when she aged out and went to live with local relatives. She often mentioned that with school lessons and daily chores, the nuns never gave the children any idle time for getting into trouble, they kept the kids busy or occupied from sun up to sun down... Interesting story though. :-)
Thanks for the story John! The Ursulines had a separate facility on the other side of the French Quarter for the children, so that probably explains why she didn't hear of vampires.
My mother was born and raised in NOLA so I spent several weeks each summer there with my grandpa. It’s like home to me even though I grew up in another city in La. Once when my sister and I went back for a visit, after we were both married and had kids, we went to the French Quarter and Market. We were walking down one of the streets trying to decide where to eat lunch and we stopped to look at the menu outside of this restaurant. I looked up and there was a guy standing on the sidewalk who I thought might be the famous musician Dr. John, The Night Tripper. I was so excited and wanted to talk to him but I wanted to make sure it was actually him first. I asked one of the hostesses at that restaurant if that was Dr. John. She looked up and casually said, “Oh no! That’s Vladimir the Vampire.” Only in NOLA! Needless to say I didn’t try to talk to him. We did have a good laugh though!
Oh and my youngest daughter got married in the Chapel at the Ursuline Convent. It’s just beautiful!
I would love to go there and investigate that attic.
lol I’m glad you went into the facts cause the Ursuline convent is a building I had to study in one of my classes and I was like “um the convent wasn’t built yet” cool story. Great video
Awesome- great story for Halloween! I always think of the Anne Rice stories when I think of Vampires in New Orleans. I've never heard this story before, would love to visit New Orleans some day. Thanks!
Loved this. Rather sad in a way, because although I don't believe the vampire story, I can imagine this story being born on the arrival of these girls. You can easily imagine these young women being blamed for the deaths of the young children which would no doubt have been something like cholera. I imagine their lives would have been fraught with danger and difficulty. I wonder if there are any direct descendants who have any tales to add to this?
Here is one, I have always heard that there is a gate keeper living in New Orleans that watches over the true vampire that is supposedly in a vault somewhere. It would be interesting if you could find out more information on that. I truly believe that there are vampires there. There is so much mystery about New Orleans and I love the city, even though I do not live there I am a history buff :) thanks for this video!
Sorry, I can't find any information on that story, but I'll keep my eyes open in case I ever cross it.
@@AlextheHistorian thank you for looking :) I am glad that I found your channel :)
People say they see Jacques St Germain walking around the French quarter dressed like the 1800’s asking women to come with him and if u say no he just vanished out of nowhere
Hi Alex 😲 Boo!!A Great 👍 Halloween 🎃 Spooky story , Interesting 🤔.. The trunk's look ship 🚢⚓ trunks.. The last picture 🖼️ of the attic looked like a storage room, But the world 🌎🌍 may never know.We will pray 🙏 for those who come and goes...Thanks for Video 🎥🍿..
That was a fun story! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for debunking this so clearly. This legend is so silly, and I love New Orleans legends.
The convent is definitely haunted--even the pictures are terrifying.
Very good story telling. I've been binging MeBallen, but I'm binging this channel tonight.
Thanks!
Very nice story!!! 🦇🦇🎃
Ghosts - we have ghosts en mass, but the vampire story associated with the casket girls is more a 2oth century thing. Oh, and the term "casket" for a small trunk was used in English as well. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a beautiful collection of Ivory Early Middle Ages caskets with carvings around them.
Learn French!! Our country was not always the USA.
Alex, your channel content is great, a little bit of this and a lot of that and so on. Keep up the great work. Perfect timing for Halloween on this one..... The cemeteries in New Orleans all have above ground crypts, the water table is too high to bury people underground. Thanks for posting.....
Thank you Mike! I love delving into random histories such as this, and indeed I plan to discuss the New Orleans cemeteries some day, maybe when I go to the city in Spring!
@@AlextheHistorian Spring sounds good, we were there in the summer, and it was so Hot and Muggy. Try the Beignets at Cafe du Monde - - - bet you can't eat one. Back to work---bye
Our tour guide said an incident happened in 1978 with 2 paranormal researchers being murdered and drained 70% of their blood.
Loved this . Drinking my coffee ☕ enjoying your video. Thank you 👏👏👏❤️.
That's a fun story. The reality is probably just that the women, already poor and so without even the meager healthcare of the day, brought some infection over that had spread during the voyage. Ships were very unpleasant back then! New people tend to get blamed for many things.
It seems more coercion and force than choice to go to an empire's colonies it seems. The orphan children probably suffered a lot at the hands of the men in the city sadly.
I may not be up to date on my vampire knowledge, but I thought that the Catholic Church has never recognized them. Them having vampires in their closets seems unlikely. The classic vampire stories are folk tales and the biggest vampire panic I can think of happened in Protestant New England much later.
There are some specific details that seem unusual about the story that suggest there may be some truth to them. Perhaps there were once coffins in the attic being stored or perhaps there were some things to do with death in the US Civil War up there. Caskets in the attic, the misunderstanding of the French words, and the sick women living in the attic could come together to form such a tale. I wonder if the number of nails had some significance (and tangentially I wonder if silver plating is sufficient for dealing with vampires).
Another good history video for Halloween. :)
Thank you for this Alex! Excellent! 🖤🎃🧡
My great-great grandfather (or maybe another great) was sent to oversee the Ursuline convent in Cuba and then in New Orleans. I'm trying to learn more about "all this" - and him. Suggestions?
Since the Ursuline convent is Catholic, you can start by getting in contact with a priest and seeing what you can do about tracking down information. The Catholic Church keeps impeccable records of all the goings-on of their churches dating back hundreds of years.
Love your style, Alex. This type of story is very popular.
Good vid! There is so much folklore in The Quarter that is easily debunked by a little research. Nicely done!
I was on a "ghost tour" of The Quarter many years ago. We stopped by the garden of the P.G.T. Beauregard House across from the Old Ursuline Convent. The tour guide said "On some nights you can hear the ghost of the general moaning, "Shiloh! Shiloh! Shiloh!" (where General Beauregard had suffered one of his most costly defeats of the Civil War.) I just grinned to myself... History is written by the winners. The Federals called it "Shiloh". A Confederate general would never refer to "The battle of Shiloh". The Southern side called it "The Battle of Pittsburg Landing".
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Thank you!
Thanks!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it
Well researched and informative video! I enjoyed it very much.
Alex this was wonderful!! I love NOLA! The Originals a tv show set there did an episode of their own version of the casket girls.
Awesome factual account! Great job!
Great video Alex!
Thanks!
Great Video
Great story. New Orleans is the best city for ghosts. Did Anne Rice write about this?
About the Convent? No, but she did allude to the fact that her vampires have a particular love for New Orleans
yeah I've lived in the quarter most of my life, two blocks away. never heard the vampire or silver nail story. they did send over undesirable women and disguised them as nuns.
You never heard the vampire or silver nail story? They tell that story on all the Haunted tours of the quarter! My dad first told me that story when he came back from a trip in 2003. Even today when I watch videos about haunted New Orleans this vampire story keeps popping up. It's really famous...or infamous.
I was watching a documentary and a lady claimed she saw something fly out of the 3rd floor window one night.
Cool video Alex!
Thanks!
You are so good at making these! 🤩
Thanks!
Great video
Thank you!
Research the convent’s graveyard.
It is catty corner to the left of the Beauregard Keyes house.
Underneath a couple homes now.
Frenchman open one of their wooden boxes. Finds a bat. In a French accent "gross.". Closes the Box and puts her on the ship.
I can see the young female vampires crying, "bastards nailed my coffin shut." 😭
My sister got married there and I was feeling a weird sense of “I have to protect my family” which felt weird to me. My mom was more like “oh, look at the beautiful architecture and artifacts!” Not to mention that I thought I saw a few faces watching from the windows when no one was upstairs. 😰
Passionnant !
I worked in the Convent for a few years and never felt or saw anything
so what ?
Very interesting
@Alex the Historian Do you know the story of Lady Kim, the supposed "head vampire" of the vampire community/coven of New Orleans? I have never believed her to be true, but the story has been in a couple of books about the haunted history and vampires of New Orleans.
No I haven't heard of her!
The story of the ursuline convent vampires could be true in some extent but the story of how the vampires got here could have been altered because they don't know who has that kind of knowledge...and I believe the vampires used the nuns to blend in. But who knows how they got here. The way they got here could have been on a boat that came to New Orleans but which one exactly.
I love how the trimmed bushes outside the building looks like a knock-off British flag 😂🇬🇧
ooooo finally!
I know this one bartender says he saw a casket girl dancing on the bar after closing he quit and left the city
could a vampire live on sacred ground or in a sanctified house?
Nobody knows. I mean, what really is a vampire? Is it from the Devil? Or is it of nature, like a vampire bat? And every book in literature is different on the "rules". Anne Rice's vampires love to visit churches and stare at crucifixes, some of them pray to the Christian God.
Sanctified? Hardly.
Yes a Vampire can be on sacred ground they just can’t remain there. Despite lore
These old convents are creepy as hell. It’s suppose to a place for nuns, their cloister, place to sleep. They didn’t much because they gave up all their worldly possessions. Maybe a family picture, but the couldn’t have anything of possession. The cloisters were dark, creepy, quiet, & mysterious. So, if the ladies came with only a box looking casket, they stored them in the attic never to be seen again. Than the room was sealed off so no one could enter does sound suspicious. I don’t think I’d venture into that attic.
Maybe they had dirt in them from their home place & that’s where they reside, as Dirt. Than again they might of ventured into the city. Finding a newer home.
I beg your pardon, you cannot lock the vampire's inside. The Vampire is powerful. It's powers. The vamp can shapeshift into an ant or fly. It can even transform into a mist or vapor. Or even a smoke. Get my point?
Born n raised here never heard of it
Boxes could be hope chests. Espixally if it’s women who want to marry it’s like a bunch of stuff to represent the marriage i don’t really know but my moms family does it.
Blood offerings. The girl probably wanted a turkey!!!!
if they were real i feel very sorry for them, those oor vampire girls, all they wanted was to live in peace. the superstitions of the past is unbelieable! Im a woman too i do believe in vampires, i do believe they are out there somewhere or their bones have to be. vampire stories cant just be fake! their has be be some truth to legands if any at all!
so everyone this is the story back when new orleans was just a plot of land spain king sent spain men to build building after about 10 years they wanted family so they sent a letter to the spain king to bring women if you know back then they didnt have refrigators so they only ate jerky and had a lack of vitaman C and D they got a disease which i forgot the name of but that disasease symtoms are fatigue pale skin bony arms and canine teeth growing the spain men were terriefied when the shipment of women came and thought they were demons so they locked them in the church at the third floor after abought 300 years student researchers set cameras after a few days after putting the cameras the camara was broken or could say smashed and the head of the researcher was right next to it and the body was preety close and all the blood was drained
Vampires are Nephilim
I know. Because I have been a vampire & werewolf fan since I was 6 years old. And I have been studying vampires for decades. But I know that vamps are the staff of legends. I don't believe they exist. Up to now I know very well about vampires. And I'm interested to know. That what more do I need to know more about vamps. If theres a little something I don't know about em. I even know very well about Dracula.
If you know that much about vampires, then you also know that each legend, each author has their own idea of what vampires can and cannot do. Anne Rice's vampires, for instance, cannot shapeshift.
@@AlextheHistorian Anne Rices idea. What made her think that the vampire cannot shapeshift. She made a mistake. The Vampire Lestat in Interview with the vampire. She needs to know and you that vampires are International. Did you know that? One of the vampires powers is shapeshifting. Usually the vampires of modern America can transform into a wolf.
Well, you're right. I can't argue with that logic.
@@AlextheHistorian Well maybe theres something you know about vampires that I don't. Since you might be a true historian. I would like to know what that might be.
I dont know anything about vampires
These women has scurvy - I’m sure they looked like Hell!
Are you sure people aren't reading to meany Ann Rice novels?
They are real vampires
A bunch of "scoundrel bachelors" wanted quality women?
Greys.
Sweeney to be careful if they like your energy they will come back. Don't allow anyone to put their hand on you.
Swaniawski Camp
Nonsense
Because they do have somethings from the Vatican.