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For
obvious reasons, we are currently unable to
respond to requests in the New Orleans area.
I hope to hell that the places listed below
are still there.
New Orleans News & Investigations
Area Rep - Susan Englert
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TRAVEL TO HAUNTED NEW
ORLEANS
New Orleans is a city of extremes
in beauty and darkness. Take a sip of this city and you will thirst
forevermore.
Where to stay:
 | The Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave. Site
where the movie "Pretty Baby" was filmed. Beautiful, Victorian
mansion turned into a hotel and local bar. Great place for cocktails
after a long day of sightseeing. Reportedly haunted. |
| Le Pavillon, 833 Poydras St. Haunted and
beautiful hotel filled with glitz and antiques. Romanesque pool on
the roof. |
| Hotel Maison de Ville, 727 Rue Toulouse,
(504) 561-5858. National Trust Historic Preservation site. Elegant,
haunted hotel located in the French Quarter.
www.maisondeville.com |
| 1891 Castle Inn, 1539 4th St., (504)
561-5858). Beautiful, haunted hotel located in the Garden District.
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History & Ghost tours:
New Orleans graveyards are the most
beautiful and intriguing graveyards in the country. Because of the low
flood plain, bodies are buried above ground. However, do not go to a
graveyard alone! Go with a tour group. The graveyards are favorite
haunts of very alive criminals waiting for their next victim.
Haunted places:
| Madame John's Legacy, 632 Dumaine St.
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| Old Ursuline Convent, 1100 Chartres St.,
(504) 529-3040. The convent is the oldest building in the
Mississippi Valley and the only one to survive from French Colonial
times. It was constructed in 1745. Tours available on site. |
| Beauregard House, 1113 Chartres |
| Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop/Pub, 941 Bourbon
St. |
| O'Flaherty's Irish Pub, 508 Toulouse St.
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| Musee' Conti Historical Wax Museum, 917 Conti
St. (French Qtr). |
| Congo Park, located off N. Rampart St. in the
French Quarter - historic park where slave auctions and voodoo
ceremonies took place. Do not go alone; only go with a tour group.
Do not go at night. |
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An excellent and beautiful plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana which has
been featured in several movies such as North vs. South
http://www.greenwoodplantation.com
| Joseph: Because the imagery that has to be used in
order to tell what can't be told, symbolic imagery, is then understood or
interpreted not symbolically but factually, empirically. It's a natural
thing, but that's the whole problem with Western religion. All of the
symbols are interpreted as if they were historical references. They're
not. And if they are, then so what? Tom: Let's go carefully
here. What are you calling a symbol?
Joseph: I'm calling a symbol a sign that points past itself to a
ground of meaning and being that is one with the consciousness of the
beholder. What you're learning in myth is about yourself as part of the
being of the world. If it talks not about you, finally, but about
something out there, then it's short. There's that wonderful phase I got
from Karlfried Graf Durkheim, "transparency to the transcendent." If a
deity blocks off transcendency, cuts you short of it by stopping at
himself, he turns you into a worshipper and a devotee, and he hasn't
opened the mystery of your own being.
Tom: You once called that the pathology of theology.
Joseph: That's what I would call it.
Interview with Joseph Campbell and Tom Collins |
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