It’s time to go to Zoey’s favorite city: New Orleans, Louisiana! We’re visiting Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop in the French Quarter. While the shop did originate as a Blacksmith Shop and keeps the name, the shop is better known for the drinks that they can make you. That’s right, here’s another Haunted Boozy Place!
The Blacksmith Shop wasn’t just any store in it’s heyday, however. It was owned by Jean Lafitte, famous pirate and privateer. He was known to smuggle his stolen goods and sell them at the blacksmith shop. Jean himself is one of the ghosts who may haunt the place, along with an unnamed woman and a demon with red eyes.
But first, Robin brings us a Something Southern and Spooky, where she talks about Doll’s Head Trail in Atlanta, GA!
Sources:
- https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lafittes-blacksmith-shop/
- `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte
- https://neworleanslocal.com/lafittes-blacksmith-shop-a-very-new-orleans-history/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lafitte
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafitte’s_Blacksmith_Shop
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradjaphe/2020/08/20/is-this-the-worlds-most-haunted-bar/?sh=375952c965a9
- https://www.andrewjacksonhotel.com/blog/new-orleans-haunted-legends-and-mysteries-lafitte-s-blacksmith-shop-and-bar
- https://hauntedhistorytours.com/blog/exploring-the-unseen-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-the-hauntings-at-lafittes-blacksmith-shop/
- https://hauntedhouses.com/louisiana/lafittes-blacksmith-shop/
- https://nightlyspirits.com/best-new-orleans-ghost-tour-lafittes-pub-pirates/
- https://www.southernspiritguide.org/encounter-with-a-gentleman-new-orleans/
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