Скачать или смотреть The Cemetery Fiend of 1907 – Louisiana’s Most Disturbing Burial Scandal

The Cemetery Fiend of 1907 – Louisiana’s Most Disturbing Burial Scandal

In 1907 Louisiana, the quiet parish town of Thibodaux became home to one of the most disturbing and enduring mysteries in southern American history — The Cemetery Fiend. What began as minor disturbances in the parish cemetery soon turned into whispers of desecrated graves, missing bodies, and a caretaker who vanished into the fog.

This episode investigates the forgotten case of James H. Gautreaux, a cemetery groundsman whose name still lingers in county records and local folklore. Through church ledgers, coroner’s notes, and eyewitness testimonies, we reconstruct how a once-trusted caretaker descended into obsession with “preserving the dead.” From the 1907 grave disturbances to the eerie rediscovery of his journals decades later, the story stretches across generations — from priests and coroners to modern researchers and digital historians still haunted by the same rhythmic hum beneath Thibodaux’s soil.

Blending documented history with local legend, this narrative explores how faith, science, and fear intertwined in a community that never truly buried its past. Even today, visitors claim to see a lantern drifting among the graves, and the old parish records still carry his initials — J.H.G.

#DarkHistory #AmericanHistory #UnsolvedMystery
#LouisianaHistory #Thibodaux #CemeteryFiend #HistoricalMystery #1907 #TrueCrimeHistory #SouthernGothic #Folklore #ParishRecords #CemeteryLegends #JamesHGautreaux