Once upon a time, there was a beautiful house filled with beautiful things in a beautiful city and within this luxurious dwelling lived a manipulative and absolutely psychotic and murderous princess.
Atlas Obscura. LaLaurie Mansion. New Orleans, Louisiana. A symbolic Piece of New Orleans Architecture – and a Ghostly Legend. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion
French Quarter Phantoms Ghost Tours. The Real Story Behind the LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans Most Haunted Home. https://www.frenchquarterphantoms.com/blog/the-real-story-behind-the-lalaurie-mansion-new-orleans-most-haunted-home
Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans. What Really Happened at the LaLaurie House? Robert Cangelosi, Jr. November 1, 2019. https://prcno.org/what-really-happened-at-the-lalaurie-house/
The French Quarter’s LaLaurie Mansion will Star in a New Horror Franchise. Missy Wilkinson. 10-29-2019. https://nola.curbed.com/2019/10/29/20938439/lalaurie-mansion-new-horror-franchise-film-the-conjuring
Ghost City Tours. The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion. https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/
Look for: The New Orleans Bee April 11, 1834.
All That’s Interesting. Madame LaLaurie’s Most Sickening Acts of Torture and Murder. Katie Serena. https://www.allthatsinteresting.com/madame-lalaurie
NOLA. Another Era for the LaLaurie House: See Elegant Makeover for Haunted French Quarter Mansion. Susan Langenhennig 10-23-2013. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/home_garden/article_f0c51023-9560-5fc9-9063-f550e01c7b0c.html
Altered Dimensions. Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie – New Orleans Socialite Caged, Tortured, and Maimed her Slaves for Fun. 10-21-2013. Serial Killers. https://www.altereddimensions.net/2013/mad-madame-marie-delphine-lalaurie-new-orleans-socialite-serial-killer-caged-tortured-killed-slaves
Portland State University PDX Scholar. The Radical Impact of Madame Delphine Lalaurie on Slavery and the Image of African Americans, 1831 – 1840. Sophie A. Rehlaender. Lakeridge High School. 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=younghistorians
New Orleans as It Was. Henry C. Castellanos.
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