Скачать или смотреть Episode 65: The Casket Girls, New Orleans Vampire Smugglers

In the 1700s, New Orleans was part of a struggling French colony desperate for new residents. So, naturally, they started importing women to help grow the population. But when 88 of these women arrived - deathly pale and carrying coffin-shaped luggage - it’s said they tore through New Orleans on a vampiric murder spree, leading the local nuns to imprison them in a convent attic…where some say they remain to this day.

Today, we’re exploring the legend of the Casket Girls and the real women who inspired it.

Correction: The Anne Rice novel Gina mentions is Interview with the Vampire, not Interview for a Vampire. Gina pleads not guilty by reason of slight inebriation.

Story starts: 12:59

📖Book recommendations:
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson: https://beta.thestorygraph.com/books/...
City Witchery by Lisa Marie Basile: https://beta.thestorygraph.com/books/...

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