Encounters x334 - Haunted New Orleans | Voodoo, the Rougarou & French Quarter Frights

You all asked for this paranormal fever dream, and we’re delivering. This episode is packed with haunted New Orleans encounters that will make you want to book a flight and immediately cleanse your suitcase afterward. We’re talking ghostly figures caught in cemetery photos, possible time slips in the French Quarter, voodoo museums with seriously heavy energy, a Rougarou sighting, haunted hotels, and the very real fear that something paranormal might hitch a ride home with you after a weekend in the Big Easy. NOLA encounters include: A visit to a New Orleans voodoo museum is followed by a terrifying late night encounter with a towering horned entity standing beside a listener’s bed. A cemetery tour photo captures what looks like a ghostly woman charging straight toward the crowd. Two friends experience what feels like a time slip after getting mysteriously transported nearly an hour away while walking through the French Quarter. A possible Rougarou sighting leaves one listener convinced something with glowing red eyes was stalking her from the shadows. A haunted French Quarter school becomes the setting for repeated encounters with the ghost of a floating little girl. Watch the video version here. Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! If you enjoy our show, please consider joining our Patreon, rating and reviewing on iTunes & Spotify and following us on social media! Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Discord. Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan. Original music by Arms Akimbo! Disclaimer: the use of white sage and smudging is a closed practice. If you’re looking to cleanse your space, here are some great alternatives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 2:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hey.

• 2:09Corinne Vien?

  Hi.

• 2:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Welcome back, everyone.

• 2:11Corinne Vien?

  This is Two Girls, One Ghost.

• 2:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Two Girls, One Ghost. And we are your guest sisters. That is Corinne.

• 2:16Corinne Vien?

  Hello.

• 2:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm Sabrina. And we have an encounters episode. We, I feel like the last couple of episodes are around this time when this episode comes out. We kind of have a theme going on.

• 2:27Corinne Vien?

  And it involves one particular place in the United States.

• 2:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  One of the most haunted places. New Orleans.

• 2:33Corinne Vien?

  New Orleans.

• 2:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  NOLA.

• 2:36Corinne Vien?

  I feel like people get very specific vibes visiting New Orleans. It's not one of those places that like people just visit and leave and it's just like, I thought it was a fun vacation. People leave either feeling really great about it, feeling like I gotta move here. Or they're a little freaked out.

• 2:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 2:52Corinne Vien?

  And I'll say I was a little freaked out.

• 2:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I feel like before going, I had such an image and like fascination with New Orleans in my mind. That I was like, I feel like I'm gonna feel like I fit in here. I feel like I'm gonna belong here. But then, yeah, it has some unsettling energy in certain places.

• 3:13Corinne Vien?

  Right. I think it depends on like what your ability to pick up energy is and, and your comfort with protecting yourself. Because I feel like some people, they're like, this is the perfect place to be witchy and practice my, whatever you practice. And some people feel really good. It's kind of like Salem where it's like.

• 3:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 3:30Corinne Vien?

  There's a kind of like a spiritual hotspot.

• 3:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm-hmm.

• 3:33Corinne Vien?

  And so, does it serve you or does it not?

• 3:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What's lurking in New Orleans. But what we do know is that a couple, like not long ago, we had asked people on Patreon, like, what are your favorite topics? What do you want us to cover? And like, there were so many people who asked specifically for this topic. So, yeah, we're gonna read listener stories from all of you where you were haunted in New Orleans.

• 3:56Corinne Vien?

  Amazing. Do you start? Do I start?

• 3:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I can start.

• 4:01Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 4:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes.

• 4:02Corinne Vien?

  The confidence. That's correct. Okay. There's a count how many we've decided to read and figure out who's first. You start.

• 4:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I think we have the same amount, but yeah. Okay. So when you think of New Orleans, you think of vampires?

• 4:15Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 4:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And voodoo. So this is an email from our listener, Vicky, and it is called, "Voodoo, y'all."

• 4:22Corinne Vien?

  Wait, can I already interrupt the story?

• 4:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Please.

• 4:24Corinne Vien?

  A listener sent, I don't know if it was to my personal or to Two Girls and Ghost, either way, I saw it on Instagram, sent a video of a guy talking about voodoo dolls and kind of more history on a voodoo doll. And maybe we'd learned this in the past, but I had no recollection of learning it, if so. But he basically was like, people.

• 4:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, yeah.

• 4:45Corinne Vien?

  You saw it too?

• 4:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, or I recently have learned this and it's not what we had ever heard before.

• 4:50Corinne Vien?

  No, not at all. It was like, basically like the, the version of medicine and like practicing that was not allowed for a lot of different cultures and like races.

• 5:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And a lot of people didn't have the ability to write or read.

• 5:06Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, yes. And so a lot of healers, kind of like in secrecy, who were working or just like didn't, again, like have a way to chronicle what was going on with their patients that they were treating because they couldn't write or read, used these voodoo dolls to like label them as their patients.

• 5:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was a medical record.

• 5:24Corinne Vien?

  And put pins in, like, oh, last time we talked about your head. How is your head feeling? Because there'd be a pin in the head.

• 5:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And of course, the white man turned it into, oh, this is such an evil, scary practice.

• 5:36Corinne Vien?

  Well, I think with anything, things can be misused and abused.

• 5:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yep.

• 5:40Corinne Vien?

  And voodoo's certainly been one of those things.

• 5:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Absolutely. So Vicky said, "Oh, my gosh, that's how it starts. I had to email you guys as soon as I heard your latest voodoo episode. I had a very weird and scary experience after a visit to New Orleans many years ago. I will never put anything on a voodoo altar, ever."

• 6:00Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 6:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And do you remember?

• 6:02Corinne Vien?

  Like in the shops where you can just put stuff?

• 6:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yep. There, we've read one story where someone took a penny off of a voodoo altar and was like cursed.

• 6:10Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 6:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And then when I was in New Orleans, before you got there, my sister and I walked into a shop and I immediately was like, do not touch anything. I got such heavy, like intense energy that like I had to get out of the shop.

• 6:26Corinne Vien?

  I remember that.

• 6:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. So Vicky says, "A coworker and I went to a conference in NOLA and spent our spare time going to all the cemeteries and tourist sites we could. And we ended up at the New Orleans Historic Museum on a dreary rainy day. We were the only visitors, so we paid our money to the owner, and we took our time looking at the skeletons, voodoo ritual items, and decor. And then we came to the voodoo altar that had voodoo dolls, coins, and a bunch of alcohol on it. My friend tossed some of the coins. I did not. And these next two items might be unrelated to what happened later, but we exited the museum area and walked back into the front lobby, but the storm was too intense for us to leave. So, being the only visitors, we ended up stopping and chatting with the owner. He lived upstairs

• 7:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  and said the apartment was haunted. I think the ghost was named Andrew or Albert, but it definitely sounded like this ghost was a trickster. Then, the front door to the museum flung open, and a skinny, wild-eyed woman ran in, drenched from the rain. She ran up to the owner, frenzied, and said, 'Satanic bible. Satanic bible. Do you have a satanic bible?' The owner was clearly offended, and clarified, 'This is a voodoo museum. I do not have any satanic items on display or for sale.' She looked confused and then just turned and walked out. While we looked at each other, being like, 'What the hell was that?' Although, I imagine, in New Orleans, you probably are used to things like that. If you own a shop like that.

• 7:52Corinne Vien?

  It's still unsettling. Someone dripping wet, coming in, requesting something.

• 7:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In a frenzied...

• 7:58Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 7:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Concerned way.

• 8:00Corinne Vien?

  Totally.

• 8:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The rain died down, so we were able to leave. We said our goodbyes to this man, and then flew home to North Carolina the next day. That night, I awoke to the sight of something huge and dark next to my bed. I knew I wasn't dreaming, and this thing had a human-like body with a huge chest, like a bodybuilder's chest. It had a giant head with horns. Like, it truly reminded me of a character from Where the Wild Things Are, but if they were evil.

• 8:27Corinne Vien?

  I'm thinking of American Horror Story, the guy who's like, I don't remember what is, who is supposed to be, but he's got kind of like the centaur thing going on, where he's got the horns, the human body, and then some hairy legs.

• 8:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yep. This thing was breathing hard, its giant chest heaving, and I could feel raw anger emanating from it, but it never spoke. I am laying there, I'm terrified. I shut my eyes and I prayed as hard as I could. I was so scared. I prayed a hedge of protection around my family. I rebuked this demon in the name of Jesus and asked Jesus to bind it and cast it into the abyss. I'm a very open-minded Christian who believes in a divine creator as well as ghosts, demons, positive and negative energies, and of course, the big foot. So I kept praying with my eyes closed until I finally felt safe opening my eyes again. And this giant, heavy breathing demon thing was gone, and I've never seen it again. I never smelled anything weird like sulfur, and it never touched me or spoke.

• 9:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But oh my gosh, you guys, it was terrifying. Surprisingly, somehow I slept well the rest of the night. But as soon as morning came, I told my husband about it. He had slept right through the whole entire thing.

• 9:35Corinne Vien?

  Of course.

• 9:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I told my friend as soon as I got to work the next morning, and she immediately regretted leaving the offering on the voodoo altar.

• 9:43Corinne Vien?

  Which is interesting because you'd almost feel like the opposite. Where it's like, if you leave something, then you're okay.

• 9:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, that, that's, I think, what we're saying. Vicky had an experience. She didn't leave anything on the altar. Vicky's coworker did leave stuff on the altar.

• 9:58Corinne Vien?

  But she-

• 9:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She never experienced anything.

• 10:00Corinne Vien?

  I thought you said the coworker regrets leaving something.

• 10:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She regrets it, but she didn't have anything. She never experienced anything, so I think you are right.

• 10:08Corinne Vien?

  You don't need to regret it, like you're safe, you gave the offering.

• 10:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I think she's scared because of Vicky's experience.

• 10:14Corinne Vien?

  They just shouldn't have gone in there at all. That's really the regret happening.

• 10:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or they both should have left an offering.

• 10:20Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 10:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I have no idea if this was related to the museum ghost. My friend, my coworker, never experienced anything. Or maybe this was related to that lady who ran in, I don't know. Fast forward a number of years, I was watching Famously Afraid, which is a TV series about celebrity ghost stories. And actor Willie Ames described his son being terrorized by something in their house. Willie finally saw it in their yard one night, and it was exactly like the thing I saw in my room. I should say, the TV show's depiction of it at least was exactly similar. He said after a research, he thought it was a Native American spirit. I don't know.

• 10:56Corinne Vien?

  Hmm, that is kind of confusing.

• 10:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But also, it could be any number of things.

• 11:01Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 11:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It could just be something that likes to torture and mess with people.

• 11:07Corinne Vien?

  That's what's hard about a space like New Orleans, and I feel like the same can be said for places throughout the world, where there's a lot going on. Where it's like, does this belong to the land? Is this a historical thing? Is this a cultural thing? Is this something that's attracted to the various energies that are happening here?

• 11:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Is it also something that we've just completely manifested energy into? And now it exists?

• 11:30Corinne Vien?

  Or was there just someone on vacation at the wrong time, the same time you were there? And you grabbed their demon?

• 11:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The sisterhood of the traveling demon.

• 11:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Vicky says, "I've always wondered if more than one thing affected the situation. My coworker is a skilled photographer and on that trip took photos of a dead body that was visible inside a crumbling tomb when we were in a graveyard.

• 11:53Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 11:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ironically, the same graveyard that Marie Laveau is buried in."

• 11:57Corinne Vien?

  That was better than where I thought this was going. I thought you were just gonna say like, oh, we just like saw it on the side of the road.

• 12:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, no, no.

• 12:03Corinne Vien?

  It's like, whoa, God, I feel like...

• 12:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's disturbing. No, there's, she said, "It's not rare to find decaying crypts in NOLA graveyards, but looking back, maybe photographing it was not a great idea."

• 12:15Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 12:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Anyway, this thing was angry. I don't know why it came to me and not my friend, but I am glad that my protective prayers worked and that it has never come back. I love listening to you guys. Thanks for the awesome spooky stories. Vicky from North Carolina.

• 12:29Corinne Vien?

  What if you, Vicky, have some sort of ability? And you are the chosen one and the one that they need in New Orleans, all of these spirits, all of these demons, to fight some battles that they have?

• 12:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hmm.

• 12:41Corinne Vien?

  And they were so mad that you finally came? And then you left? And so they were trying to come collect you again to go help them?

• 12:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, maybe they need a different approach, if that's the case.

• 12:53Corinne Vien?

  That's true.

• 12:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because if anything, that would make me never want to go back to New Orleans.

• 12:57Corinne Vien?

  Yes. Although I feel like the show Sabrina did a good...

• 13:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The original or Chilling Adventures?

• 13:02Corinne Vien?

  Chilling Adventures. I feel like they did a good example of the, all the familiars in that show were actually pretty scary. Like, I feel like a lot of the rituals and different things that they were doing where it was like, oh, this is my practice. This is a part of like what I do and who I am and who protects me and who I serve. I was terrified in those scenes. Like, this is so freaky.

• 13:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I also think Chilling Adventures, they were for sure working with dark magic. They were working with the like, the darker side of things.

• 13:29Corinne Vien?

  Well, yeah, but I guess like, not everyone can work with the light.

• 13:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Can't work with the light, work with the dark. Those are your only two options.

• 13:38Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 13:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh yeah, scary.

• 13:40Corinne Vien?

  Very scary. Okay, I have a story that comes with a photo. This is called Crazy New Orleans Cemetery Tour. My husband and I went to New Orleans, October of 2023, with our daughter and her boyfriend. We went on an evening cemetery tour. We believe in spooky stuff like this, but still look for every explanation to why something could maybe not be real. Well, another couple was next to us on the tour and everyone was snapping pictures. Then this thing appeared on the guy's phone instantly.

• 14:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 14:13Corinne Vien?

  What we captured was not a worker, it was not an actor, it was just us and the young couple on the tour. We showed the guide and even they were so freaked out by the picture and said that he never witnessed anything like this in all of his years doing the tours. We thought of every explanation and because it happened right then, we knew that there was not a single person other than just us in the background.

• 14:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh my gosh.

• 14:37Corinne Vien?

  The next day, we went to a stone and jewelry shop and we were talking about it to the workers. One of the workers was a little freaked out and actually started crying and was so upset.

• 14:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 14:48Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, very upset that we opened up the picture in the shop.

• 14:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You work in New Orleans?

• 14:53Corinne Vien?

  Everyone we showed the picture to said, it's not real, those are actors.

• 14:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Those?

• 15:00Corinne Vien?

  Well, I don't know about those. I see one. Maybe you'll see more, but we can't come up with anything to make us not believe. Sincerely, Brenda and Raphael.

• 15:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait.

• 15:11Corinne Vien?

  Okay. And do you see like behind the guy who's wearing like the blue name tag?

• 15:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Unsettling.

• 15:19Corinne Vien?

  There's like a creature.

• 15:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It looks like Samara.

• 15:22Corinne Vien?

  It does.

• 15:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh my god.

• 15:24Corinne Vien?

  It looks like she's smiling. Ooh, I have the chills.

• 15:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 15:29Corinne Vien?

  But you can so clearly see everyone else.

• 15:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She looks like she's in motion towards them, like almost like her gait and her arms are like pumping as if she's walking towards them.

• 15:38Corinne Vien?

  She's got a shadow too.

• 15:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I didn't even see that. Oh my god, that just gave me full chills.

• 15:42Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, because you can see everyone else's shadows, or not everyone, but. You can see one other person's shadow.

• 15:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, to be fair, if she's a ghost related to someone who's buried in the cemetery, you don't really look your best when you're a corpse.

• 15:55Corinne Vien?

  No, and now.

• 15:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And her face is blurred and like.

• 15:59Corinne Vien?

  Everywhere else. And this could be just a trick of the camera, but if you go to the second person in from the edge of the left.

• 16:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm hmm.

• 16:07Corinne Vien?

  Photo, it like looks like there's just a person's face floating, like there's no head or anything, but that might just be like a blurry.

• 16:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's what I mean. Like, I feel like part of this photo is kind of blurry, where like you can fully see that there's something behind this man.

• 16:24Corinne Vien?

  It's almost like the spirit here is crisper than the actual people who were captured in the photo.

• 16:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm so curious what cemetery this was.

• 16:31Corinne Vien?

  Oh, and I also don't like, not only does it feel like it's coming for the people in the crowd, but like, it is the direct focal point of the photo. Like.

• 16:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 16:42Corinne Vien?

  It is like.

• 16:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's like dead center.

• 16:44Corinne Vien?

  Person and it's like, I'm coming, oh, now it's making me think of that Korean film. Was it the Korean film where it's like?

• 16:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In the Polaroids?

• 16:52Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, where they take pictures and, oh, God, that one's so messed up.

• 16:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Korean film.

• 16:56Corinne Vien?

  I've only seen the like re- remake, the American one, but.

• 17:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait, also, I saw, I think it was whatever last episode we recorded, it might have been a regular episode, but we were talking about the Backrooms movie.

• 17:09Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 17:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There's also a movie called Exit Eight coming out.

• 17:13Corinne Vien?

  I haven't seen.

• 17:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I want to say it's a, it might be, let me see where it's from. It's based on a video game, but it's like a liminal space film. It's a Japanese film. It looks terrifying.

• 17:26Corinne Vien?

  What's scarier, playing the video game or watching the movie? I kind of feel like the video game. You're most likely alone.

• 17:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, because you're.

• 17:32Corinne Vien?

  Headset on.

• 17:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Especially with the video game, like, you're almost like you are the one in it, where.

• 17:37Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 17:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A movie, you can be a little bit more removed.

• 17:40Corinne Vien?

  Right. And you have to be like focused in the game.

• 17:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, this comes out April 10th, 2026, so soon. It already has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

• 17:48Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 17:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Exit Eight.

• 17:49Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 17:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, spooky. This video, I mean, this photo.

• 17:54Corinne Vien?

  I know, right?

• 17:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Breeppy.

• 17:55Corinne Vien?

  Very.

• 17:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm so excited. I'm getting my whole body MRI scan from Prenewvo in a couple of weeks.

• 18:03Corinne Vien?

  It's honestly so important. It's like one of those things where getting older and aging has provided me so many anxieties about like what's going on.

• 18:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I recently had some medical issues in my family and everyone in my family is like, "Let's just do everything we can to get ahead and take our own health into our own hands." Prenewvo's whole body scan is a radiation-free MRI designed to help provide a detailed, non-invasive look at your body in under an hour, and it helps evaluate across major organs and systems, including the brain, spine, abdomen, pelvis, and more. Prenewvo's whole body scan can help detect many cancers, aneurysms, and hundreds of other conditions. And they have memberships that bundle MRI scans, blood panels, and a personalized results review to track your health year after year.

• 18:44Corinne Vien?

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• 18:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

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• 19:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, I have one about a glitch in the matrix in New Orleans, a time glitch.

• 19:51Corinne Vien?

  Not surprised, but very cool. I feel like we don't often get these from NOLA.

• 19:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hello, Goolies. My name is Julia. I have lived in downtown New Orleans for almost three years now and always thought there was something mystical about nights out in the French Quarter. Now, I've only been a listener since this- Past summer and I just finished episode 157 about the haunted military bases. So I haven't heard about Sabrina's bachelorette party in New Orleans or your experiences yet, but I am sure you will be able to relate to this story. Since the first time I ever went out in the quarter, I thought time passed differently. Like 20 minutes, all of a sudden turned into four hours and then next thing you know, it's 4 a.m. And you would be somewhere and not even know how you ended up there. So I always joked with my friends about time passing differently in the quarter. But I ultimately chalked it up just being drunk, even though I have never experienced anything like this

• 20:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  in any other city I've been in or lived in until this past weekend, something happened. Last Friday, my friend A and I decided to go out for a night on Frenchman Street, our usual haunt since we love the live music and the vibes. So we started our night at a club on Bourbon and we had our fill and we decided to walk to Frenchman Street. Now let me preface that I've done this walk from Bourbon to Frenchman and vice versa so many times at night that I could probably do it blindfolded, backwards and blacked out. It is not a confusing walk. You basically just walk straight down Bourbon and at some point you have to cross Esplanade and then you're basically there. So you guys tell me how I ended up in a totally different neighborhood so far away.

• 21:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's why I really want to stress that the following events are so strange. So we didn't make any turns off of Bourbon Street, but at some point we realized we were not on Bourbon Street anymore. My friend and I looked at each other like, this is strange. So we opened Google Maps and redirected ourselves towards Frenchman. Everything looks vaguely familiar and like I've said, I've walked this neighborhood so many times. So me and my friend, we're not too worried. But then, keep in mind, we had opened Google Maps to redirect us, but we start walking and it feels like a lot longer than usual. So again, we realized we're off track. Except every time we tried to follow Google Maps, we still ended up in the wrong place. Eventually anxiety set in when I recognized where we were.

• 22:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In a totally different neighborhood, almost an hour away from Bourbon Street.

• 22:11Corinne Vien?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 22:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We had only been walking for a few minutes, but somehow we were in a neighborhood that was an hour walk away.

• 22:17Corinne Vien?

  That is so freaky. No wonder Google Maps couldn't figure it out.

• 22:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's like, cause you're not in real time.

• 22:24Corinne Vien?

  Rerouting.

• 22:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Should we call an Uber? My friend asked me. I said, no, I think I know where we are now. I don't know how we got back to Frenchman, but what felt like a few minutes later, we found ourselves there.

• 22:34Corinne Vien?

  Only a few minutes to walk an hour back.

• 22:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. This is where we had wanted to end up originally. And at first I thought I was tripping, but both of us felt so weird. We ended up having to sit down at a Willie's for some fried chicken and fries to debrief. I've honestly never experienced anything paranormal. I didn't believe in ghosts until I started listening to your podcast because yay, pyramid scheme. Which is why it struck me so intensely that I couldn't figure out what had happened. Yeah, we'd been drinking that night, but we had done that walk so many times before and it really felt like we had lost time. So the next morning I mapped out where we had walked based on my recollection and where we ended up. And it would have taken an hour and a half, which in reality, we were only walking for like 20 minutes.

• 23:16Corinne Vien?

  It's like so wild to me to think, like, I'm just trying to think of like what actually happens to your body when you're going through these time warms. So you do not feel anything? Does your skin not tingle? Are your atoms not coming a little too far apart? Like, what's happening?

• 23:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, clearly they feel weird. So like, they're messing with your mind, if anything. I texted my friend and we both confirmed how weird it was. I don't know. Maybe we were drunk, but I have this gut feeling and so does my friend that something mystical happened. Like for a moment, we got lost in a matrix.

• 23:50Corinne Vien?

  It's amazing that they were able to get back out so easily.

• 23:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is scary, but the next morning I saw on Instagram that someone I knew had been robbed at gunpoint and their dog had been shot. In the same neighborhood that we had gotten lost in. So was some force protecting us so we couldn't make it accurately? And go into these dangerous areas? I have no idea. Like, is it the neighborhood you were originally walking in? Or the neighborhood you wound up in?

• 24:16Corinne Vien?

  That's, that was my question. Cause I was like, it was putting you at the scene of the crime.

• 24:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then it's like, that doesn't feel like it's protecting you. It feels like something's trying to hurt you.

• 24:24Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 24:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love y'all on the podcast and I can't wait to hear all of your stories. You are so funny and relatable. And I hope by the time I catch up to current episodes, you all have read my story.

• 24:34Corinne Vien?

  Oh, man, a lot has happened since.

• 24:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know.

• 24:37Corinne Vien?

  To your point of reference.

• 24:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So, yes. Stay spooky, see you on the other side, Julia. And that was set in 2024. So I hope you're, you're still listening and maybe caught up. And now you realize, yeah, that bachelorette, that was just the beginning.

• 24:50Corinne Vien?

  That was just a bachelorette.

• 24:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That was just a girl's trip.

• 24:54Corinne Vien?

  That was, yeah, girl's trip.

• 24:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Theme girl's trip.

• 24:57Corinne Vien?

  The theme was bachelorette.

• 25:00Corinne Vien?

  It was a costume party where we pretended.

• 25:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Cosplaying and bride.

• 25:04Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. It kind of reminded me a little bit of what's like right over here. Do you remember we covered at the Lynn Woods Reservation or something like that? Where people get lost and they have a lot of like lost time and people who like.

• 25:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And then like they see people on the trail who are like trying to get them lost.

• 25:19Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, like come follow me or I need help or the path is this way. And it's just trying to get them disoriented and lost on the trails.

• 25:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Scary.

• 25:27Corinne Vien?

  It is freaky. Yeah, I am curious if it was some sort of protective.

• 25:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 25:31Corinne Vien?

  Thing.

• 25:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or, I mean, there's just so much energy there that I just feel like.

• 25:37Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 25:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Some, I don't know. Maybe it just gets confused sometimes.

• 25:40Corinne Vien?

  Maybe.

• 25:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And they're like, oh, we can't remember which way is up. It's too many things to keep track of and whoops, you're in the wrong neighborhood.

• 25:47Corinne Vien?

  Sorry. Which is like so dangerous because.

• 25:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know. Well, it reminds me of, there's a street in Cape May, New Jersey, which is the beach that I used to go to in the summers growing up. It's called Jackson Street. I think I've talked about it because I think I did an episode on Cape May, but it's like supposed to be, or it's said to be the most haunted street in America. But people have had experiences like that where they like glitch in time. I don't think they've ended up in different areas, but like they truly transport through time.

• 26:14Corinne Vien?

  I just can't believe we haven't figured out life in the world, given how many pockets and how many spots.

• 26:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Our pee brains.

• 26:21Corinne Vien?

  Happen, literally.

• 26:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't think there's enough people investing their time and energy into it. Wait, I know this will be way past now, but did you see like the first photos in fifty years of taken of Earth?

• 26:34Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 26:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I like cried.

• 26:38Corinne Vien?

  Did you watch the launch?

• 26:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I didn't watch, well, I ended up watching like afterwards.

• 26:43Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 26:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. And then I saw someone on TikTok. TikTok is a beautiful place. It's also a dangerous place. I love it and hate it. But I saw someone post, but they were on a plane and the pilot was like, "Look out your window." And they literally got to watch.

• 26:59Corinne Vien?

  That was the one that got me emotional too.

• 27:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The spaceship shoot off into space.

• 27:04Corinne Vien?

  Because, so I watched the launch live, because I also wanted to know, because he's into rocket ships. So I wanted him to see us, who's like into it. And then, but watching the view from the airplane, I was like, it just puts everything into a different perspective because the space shuttle looks so tiny. And they're going so much fat.

• 27:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They're going so fast.

• 27:25Corinne Vien?

  But they were going so much faster than it looks like they're going from Earth. Like when you're watching all the videos of them taking off. I was like, oh my God, there are people on, it's like on this little TikTok. That were just blasting off and being like,

• 27:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Literally blasting in space.

• 27:39Corinne Vien?

  Okay. And then I felt bad because all the astronauts were feeling really cold on board. And they're trying to figure out how to stay warm. We're just little humans.

• 27:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Outlook wasn't working in space. He had two outlets that weren't working. But then also, it's wild to me. This kind of feels like a glitch to me. Because when you look at the comments on the posts of like, like one of the astronauts did kind of a spacewalk outside of the spaceship to do some like work on the outside, whatever. And he filmed it on a GoPro. And all of the comments are like, this is fake, AI. And I'm like, how are there so many people who don't believe this? Well, in space and in like actual science.

• 28:26Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, man, I should have done the moon landing as fake conspiracy already. I keep saying I'm gonna do it, but it's just so big.

• 28:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 28:35Corinne Vien?

  And it's convoluted because there's like some parts that if you trust what is being presented, like you're like, of course, like they went to space and then there's other parts where you're like, well, maybe this one was in the studio to like add to the.

• 28:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I fully believe the movie that came out.

• 28:53Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 28:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why am I blanking?

• 28:54Corinne Vien?

  Uh, yeah, I can't remember what it's called either.

• 28:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Um.

• 28:56Corinne Vien?

  But it's about like the.

• 28:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, it's like a fictionalized dramatic version of it.

• 29:00Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it doesn't have something about like the studio in the title.

• 29:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Fly me to the moon. It's Scarlett Johansson and Danny Tatum. But I fully believe, I love how we went from New Orleans to space.

• 29:10Corinne Vien?

  And conspiracy.

• 29:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And conspiracies. I fully believe that just in case they did have a studio version of the moon landing ready to go.

• 29:21Corinne Vien?

  Well, just there was just so much politically going on too, that it wasn't just about getting to space.

• 29:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And you also can't really rely, you don't know what's gonna happen.

• 29:31Corinne Vien?

  No, but to your point with everyone saying like, oh, this is fake, this is AI, I do like it is becoming really hard online to differentiate because sometimes like most of the time I'm like, okay, I know when something's fake.

• 29:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm hmm.

• 29:45Corinne Vien?

  But every once in a while I'll open up the comments and people will be like, AI, AI, AI. And then someone else will be like, this came out in two thousand and five, like this is not AI, this is like you can look it up from before.

• 29:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I do appreciate everyone questioning before they just like trust it.

• 30:01Corinne Vien?

  But now it went from being like everyone's tricked to no one believes anything at all.

• 30:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No one knows. Yeah. Anyway, they're in space. Or they were.

• 30:09Corinne Vien?

  We've got four astronauts in space on the Artemis two.

• 30:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They're probably back now, right? By the time this comes out?

• 30:16Corinne Vien?

  Are they?

• 30:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Cause they're just going around the moon and back.

• 30:20Corinne Vien?

  When they were taking off.

• 30:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's a four day journey back to earth after they go around the moon. So yeah, they'll be back.

• 30:25Corinne Vien?

  They're not using like a normal propulsion.

• 30:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 30:29Corinne Vien?

  Or like engines, they're using physics to get themselves back.

• 30:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Science.

• 30:35Corinne Vien?

  Science.

• 30:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 30:36Corinne Vien?

  But when it was taking off, my dad was texting like, make sure you watch the launch. And then he texted again, he's like, Corinne, you're finally gonna get to see the dark side of the moon. You finally will figure out what's on the other side. Cause conspiracies and aliens and civilizations and buildings and giant tarantulas. Okay. I have no idea if that's a thing.

• 30:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, definitely not.

• 30:57Corinne Vien?

  It can be now. Who knows? What if I'm right? Proof that I used to live on the moon. And we'll say planet moon.

• 31:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Planet moon.

• 31:05Corinne Vien?

  Okay, this is called homophobic Ouija board ghost. I saw a rougarou while tripping on shrooms.

• 31:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's a rougarou.

• 31:13Corinne Vien?

  All in New Orleans. I looked it up and it's a Louisiana term for like a swamp werewolf or monster.

• 31:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I want to be a swamp werewolf.

• 31:20Corinne Vien?

  A rougarou.

• 31:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait.

• 31:22Corinne Vien?

  Sounds like ragu. I'm just thinking spaghetti.

• 31:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The swamp werewolf in New Orleans with his, uh, SpaghettiOs and his ragu.

• 31:30Corinne Vien?

  His ragu. Oh, yeah. Just give him an offering of some spaghetti to go with his ragu.

• 31:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, I like this. Okay.

• 31:36Corinne Vien?

  Hi y'all. My name is Minnie. I hope y'all see this. I love listening to the podcast and y'all have reanimated my love for the paranormal.

• 31:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You're welcome.

• 31:45Corinne Vien?

  I can be a bit skeptical at times, so that's fine. I'm not a skeptic, but I do think anything is possible and perhaps many of these things do have reasons behind them. But some things I can't explain. First of all, my Ouija board story. It was 2016 and it was my first year of college. I'm from New Orleans and I was at my friend's punk show that they were throwing at a small amphitheater on my college campus. Some DIY shit. A girl came up to me from my girl gang. We're all maybe 16 to 18 years old. I was the oldest and the only one in college at the time, but we all still lived in New Orleans and we went to school in the area. I didn't move away before college and all of my friends were a year younger, so they were all still in high school. The girl that came up to us had heard the music while walking back to her dorm and had to come check it out.

• 32:30Corinne Vien?

  She had approached our group while we were dancing and struck up conversation. It all happened so fast, but she winded up inviting our whole group back to the dorm with her. And I didn't really want to leave the show, but I also wanted to make a new friend at my school, so we all walked back to her apartment to smoke weed.

• 32:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, I don't know where this is going, but I'm like, this is scary. How does one girl convince a massive group? Cause I, as someone who's trying to make friends as an adult, I'm like, well, I can't go out to a bar by myself and like approach a group of girls and be like, hey, do you want to be my friend? But maybe I can.

• 33:04Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. It's also like, it's freshman year of.

• 33:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, and when you're in college, it's a little bit.

• 33:10Corinne Vien?

  You're trying to make friends with everyone.

• 33:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's kind of how you make friends.

• 33:12Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 33:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 33:14Corinne Vien?

  Two of my best friends thought I was weird. Brianna and Marsha thought I was weird because we lived across the hall from each other. And on moving day, I like stopped in and struck up a conversation and saw they had a big TV. And I was like, oh, so movie night's here.

• 33:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They thought you were weird.

• 33:28Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, and they were like, ugh, because I invited myself over.

• 33:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's what I did, too.

• 33:33Corinne Vien?

  Well, guess what now? You guys are all my best friends, so.

• 33:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You tricked them.

• 33:39Corinne Vien?

  It works. They might think you're weird for a second, but.

• 33:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, being weird is great, so.

• 33:42Corinne Vien?

  Just keep trying.

• 33:46Corinne Vien?

  When we got there, several of her roommates and their own friends were all hanging out, smoking weed and chatting. We weren't there for long, but someone suggested that we do a Ouija board.

• 33:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  College.

• 33:55Corinne Vien?

  Now, the Catholic school to witchcraft pipeline is real, so me and my whole girl gang, who had gone to Catholic school for high school, of course, were so excited to do the Ouija board.

• 34:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love this.

• 34:08Corinne Vien?

  I was probably the most excited of the group because I was actually the only one who'd never played before. Now, there were way too many of us in this apartment to all put our hands on the planchette. So I became the ambassador of our crew there on the floor of this empty dorm room. I think their fourth or fifth roommate had just moved out, so I do remember there being an extra room that was pretty empty. Anyways, I remember I was the only one in particular from the friend group that was actually touching the board. And the rest of the people playing had just met me, so they did not know anything about me.

• 34:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh shit, okay.

• 34:40Corinne Vien?

  We get to playing and I'm so excited. We make contact. Quickly, we ask the ghost some questions. I'm feeling antsy to speak directly to it, even though apparently only one person can speak with it. I'm asking new questions before the ghost could even answer the last question asked, and this seems to upset him. The planchette moves to B and then to I and now to T. And we had a guy in the corner writing down all the letters, so we weren't even really trying to figure out what it was saying. And then the planchette moved to C and you know what it's going to say. And I wanted to ask more interesting questions, so I'm speaking loudly and asking too many questions at once. So I'm irritating the ghost. And then it moves to G, A.

• 35:24Corinne Vien?

  Y and then back to B I T C H. Now, we weren't paying attention to what it was saying because the guy was writing it down. So I didn't know what it was spelling. All I was focused on was seeing the actual movement on the board. That is, until the guy in the corner had to explain that the ghost had just called me a gay bitch. I was stunned. My friends are the only ones in that room that knew that I was gay.

• 35:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my God.

• 35:51Corinne Vien?

  Everyone else had just met me. I hadn't said anything about being gay.

• 35:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The spirit.

• 35:56Corinne Vien?

  Anyway, that's the one time I used a Ouija board and was outed by the Ouija board.

• 36:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my God.

• 36:04Corinne Vien?

  Jesus.

• 36:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, I'm curious, how did it end? Did they get more answers or did they stop after that?

• 36:09Corinne Vien?

  I don't know. She just writes, okay, my next story is a little less homophobic.

• 36:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, well, I guess that was the most memorable part of the.

• 36:16Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 36:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What a terrible, terrible spirit.

• 36:20Corinne Vien?

  So I'm back home in Louisiana for the holiday season. I'm hanging out with my friend and she was one of the ones that was with me during the Ouija board experience a decade earlier. She said she had some mushrooms, so we took them. We had an amazing day doing all the things that we'd done together when we were younger, like walking the French Quarter, just tripping, stargazing on the bayou. I moved away a couple of years ago and when I came back home, we had a tradition to spend the day eating charbroiled oysters and seafood on the lake and doing all the things I missed.

• 36:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So the south.

• 36:50Corinne Vien?

  From home, so the south, yeah. And I love my city. But people from New Orleans know what it means when I say the whole city is haunted. There exists in Cajun folklore, the Rougarou, which pretty much all of the Louisianimals know about. Louisianimals.

• 37:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 37:09Corinne Vien?

  Is that like a fun term for?

• 37:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like the animals?

• 37:12Corinne Vien?

  Of Louisiana?

• 37:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, learning new things.

• 37:15Corinne Vien?

  We are. The Rougarou is a half man, half werewolf creature that exists to punish people who have not been good little Cajuns. Anyway, without even really knowing the folklore of the Rougarou, many can recognize him when they come across him in art or memorabilia depicting his image. They know what's up. Well, my friend and I had the most amazing time tripping and gallivanting around the city. But eventually, after hours of this, we went back to hers as the shrooms had started to wear off. We sat on her porch with some bright pink tea and some tarot cards and candles and incense, just pondering our thoughts from the trip and getting cozy on the come down. And it was while we were out there on the stoop that we noticed him.

• 37:56Corinne Vien?

  In the corner of my eye, his distinct shape, two evil glowing red eyes.

• 38:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The Rougarou.

• 38:03Corinne Vien?

  Now, I know that I was still on drugs, but I don't ever hallucinate the Rougarou or anything crazy, especially while I'm peeking on the shrooms. At most, I just get maybe like funny looking leaves or the feeling that I'm spiritually connected to the trees and the water and the moon. But this is weird. I am clearly, out of the corner of my eye, seeing the Rougarou. I turn, I look at him, and he disappears. I shake it off. I'm thinking, okay, oh, drugs are weird, right? But as soon as I look down at the cards in my hand, there he is, again, in the corner of my eye. It's so weird. He remained there in the corner of my vision, clear as day, as long as I didn't directly look at him.

• 38:45Corinne Vien?

  When I would turn to look at him face on, nothing, just a house and my truck. Not even remotely a similar shape or color. And then when I would turn back, out of the corner of my eye, there he was, the two glowing red eyes. As long as I didn't look directly at him, I could see him. And he was stalking us. Very evil, taunting energy. And they warned my friend, who was also coming down from the shrooms, and she stiffened and got scared. But this kicked me into protective mode, and suddenly I wasn't scared anymore. I just wanted her to not be scared. So I did regret telling her, and I did get the feeling that if I kept paying him attention, it would give him more strength. But again, I'm like, okay, wait, but I'm just tripping, right?

• 39:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Is he there for to punish? Is he like, you are naughty, naughty girls?

• 39:31Corinne Vien?

  Bad little girl. I don't want to give him any incentive or power to come through, so I just told her, okay, let's not give him any more power, okay? He can't hurt her. He can't hurt us. I'm reassuring her. But I did see him lurking as we did several readings and had several more pots of tea.

• 39:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What the heck?

• 39:49Corinne Vien?

  And it remained like that for hours as we sat there on her porch. And at this point, I'm sober. So finally, I make the decision I can drive home. And I know we were out there for hours because he was standing in front of my truck. But now that I'm not high anymore, I can still see him. I wanted him to not be in the corner of my eye.

• 40:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Standing by her truck?

• 40:11Corinne Vien?

  Uh huh. But he's literally blocking my truck and therefore he's blocking me on my way home. So we stayed out there for even longer, just chatting. I erased her worries of him and she knew that I wasn't leaving because I could still see him and he was in front of my truck. But as having been on shrooms earlier and now being totally sober, we were so tired and I was so ready to go. So I stared directly at him and therefore at my truck. And I told my friend goodbye and that I was going to go. Obviously, everything was fine, but I still think about that because how much of that was shrooms? How much was the other reality maybe bleeding into this one? Maybe I sound crazy, but regardless, that was the only negative experience I've ever had while tripping.

• 40:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But was he trying to protect you and didn't want you to get in your car?

• 40:57Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, don't go too early, make sure you're totally sober.

• 41:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Something was gonna happen or yeah, making sure, yeah.

• 41:02Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, you don't leave. I mean, what, what did she call it? Like a naughty little Cajun or something?

• 41:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, yeah, don't be a naughty.

• 41:10Corinne Vien?

  You're making sure everyone's good little Cajuns.

• 41:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I think the rigor has a bad rap. I think the rigor is trying to keep New Orleans safe.

• 41:17Corinne Vien?

  Right. Anyway, that's from Minnie.

• 41:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Minnie. Wow, those are two like really intense, very New Orleans or Louisiana specific encounters.

• 41:25Corinne Vien?

  Uh huh.

• 41:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wow.

• 41:26Corinne Vien?

  Can you imagine being at college and no one knows much about you when you're in like a new friend group and then?

• 41:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A ghost outs you?

• 41:34Corinne Vien?

  You get outed on a beach port.

• 41:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like a homophobic ghost is like calling you gay bitch. That's crazy.

• 41:40Corinne Vien?

  Unless, okay, what if it was a compliment?

• 41:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What if it's like a gay ghost being like, hey bitch?

• 41:47Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, like, oh my God, you gay bitch. I love you. Let's keep talking.

• 41:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I, but Minnie did say they were getting the vibe that this like spirit was irritated.

• 41:56Corinne Vien?

  Right, right. Minnie was annoying the spirit with all of her questions, but.

• 42:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Damn.

• 42:02Corinne Vien?

  This reminds me of, um, oh God, what was the show? The Hulu show where it was a bunch of LGBT?

• 42:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, with Roz?

• 42:09Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, Roz was on it.

• 42:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The ghost hunting show and Alex Lemay was on it?

• 42:13Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, we've talked, we've had two of the people from the show on our show. They were like promoting it as like the gay ghost hunting group or whatever. But it just reminds me of the episode.

• 42:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Living for the dead.

• 42:23Corinne Vien?

  Living for the dead, yeah. It's not on anymore, but it reminds me of when Roz was telling us about how the, like, one of the spirits was so mean and like homophobic and sometimes it does come through. When.

• 42:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Living and the dead are not too different.

• 42:40Corinne Vien?

  No, unfortunately.

• 42:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh my, I started watching, um, because now I'm a Bravo head, I started watching Southern Charm, which is a show that's been on, like, I think 11 seasons. So I just started season one.

• 42:52Corinne Vien?

  Oh my god.

• 42:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right. So like, it is unbelievable. I am like, because there's a couple of old men on the show, who I'm like, these are characters from True Blood. The way they talk, they feel like they're from decades ago.

• 43:06Corinne Vien?

  Oh my gosh.

• 43:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Thomas and Whitney, the, the two in season one.

• 43:10Corinne Vien?

  I'm looking at Thomas, he definitely gives.

• 43:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But Whitney lives with, Whitney's like a grown man. He's like in his 40s. He lives with, this is season one of it. He lives with his mom. His mom is Parker Posey's character in White Lotus. They sound identical.

• 43:25Corinne Vien?

  That is so.

• 43:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Whitney's mom has like a, basically a butler and she's like, it's time for my medicine. And it's the same voice as the character from White Lotus and her medicine is a like gin martini.

• 43:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's wild.

• 43:42Corinne Vien?

  Is The Real Housewives on, is that a Bravo show?

• 43:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, it's Bravo.

• 43:45Corinne Vien?

  Did you start watching the?

• 43:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Rhode Island.

• 43:48Corinne Vien?

  New one?

• 43:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm-hmm. Because I.

• 43:49Corinne Vien?

  That's the one that I'm like, so I don't watch any.

• 43:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You should start.

• 43:53Corinne Vien?

  But I'm kind of interested in watching the Rhode Island one just because I.

• 43:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's the first season?

• 43:57Corinne Vien?

  Understand the culture.

• 43:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You can start now. You don't feel like you have to catch up to a bunch.

• 44:00Corinne Vien?

  Right, yeah.

• 44:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm gonna say, I really think you should. I think it's such a good escape from all of the other crap that's going on in the world and it's dramatic and it brings the people together. I'm not kidding when I say like, I am texting so many people. About like the Bravo drama and I feel like it's bra-

• 44:22Corinne Vien?

  Is Summer House on Bravo?

• 44:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 44:24Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm. Okay, I'm gonna need you after we finish recording to explain-

• 44:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  To tell you the-

• 44:28Corinne Vien?

  What's going on, cuz I just keep seeing it on the internet and I, I don't have enough background or lore to understand-

• 44:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I will tell you everything.

• 44:34Corinne Vien?

  But I don't like being left out.

• 44:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I will tell you everything. See, this is why I really think you should start becoming a Bravo head.

• 44:39Corinne Vien?

  Maybe this will be my postpartum-

• 44:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is what you do, yeah. No, but like even if it's just like a late night turn on the TV-

• 44:46Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 44:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Noah's gone to bed and you just need something in the background cuz you don't need to watch every single moment of it.

• 44:52Corinne Vien?

  I wonder if Brian would like it. He might.

• 44:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I, I think-

• 44:54Corinne Vien?

  Cuz we, we've watched the reality shows, like the, um-

• 44:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like Love is Blind?

• 44:59Corinne Vien?

  Love is Blind, Love on the Spectrum, and then the like real drama ones.

• 45:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The drama's juicy.

• 45:05Corinne Vien?

  I gotta become a Bravo head.

• 45:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You really should. Okay, well, back to New Orleans.

• 45:09Corinne Vien?

  Anyway, I like this. In between every single New Orleans story, we talk about something completely unrelated.

• 45:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Completely off topic.

• 45:15Corinne Vien?

  The moon landing. Bravo!

• 45:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You get, you get it all with us. We are very four dimensional people. We've got depth.

• 45:27Corinne Vien?

  Talk, I feel like Bravo and depth are like not in the same sentence ever.

• 45:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Listen, celebrities love Bravo. Rihanna loves Bravo. Jon Hamm loves Bravo.

• 45:39Corinne Vien?

  Poor Jon Hamm. Well, actually, I don't know anything about him other than when he was in the press about how big his wiener was.

• 45:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't think that's sad for him. I think that's, that's the news you would prefer to have-

• 45:52Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I guess.

• 45:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Regarding your male appendage. You would prefer that over the other.

• 45:56Corinne Vien?

  I'm just thinking like if I were in the news for having a big ass camel toe, like that would-

• 46:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's very different. That's very different. Those are two very different experiences.

• 46:07Corinne Vien?

  That's the only time I've ever liked, that's, that's my word association. Jon Hamm penis.

• 46:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, he knows what he's doing. You can tuck.

• 46:15Corinne Vien?

  This is like the catching print thing that people keep talking about on the internet.

• 46:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 46:19Corinne Vien?

  Catching print? I don't know how to do it because I haven't watched enough videos, but it's like a new thing where there was this gay man who was like, ladies, you've had enough time not understanding how to identify the size of someone's penis before you sleep with them. And it's all about observing the area in the pants.

• 46:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But that's not a real indicator. Some people are showers, some people are growers.

• 46:42Corinne Vien?

  Totally, but that's the thing that that has taken over the internet recently. Catching print is what it's called.

• 46:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, some people have a big undercarriage, but not much member appendage underwear.

• 46:53Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 46:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Anyway, what? Okay, back to New Orleans.

• 46:56Corinne Vien?

  Some people have very little underwear, but giant balls. Is what Sabrina's saying. Tiny underwear.

• 47:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Tiny underwear.

• 47:05Corinne Vien?

  Big old balls. Them testies, man.

• 47:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, man, okay.

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• 48:12Corinne Vien?

  Well, this is from our listener Christine.

• 48:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hey ladies. My name is Christine. I'm writing from the ever spooky New Orleans. My nine-year-old daughter Florence and I have a couple of stories from the ever spooky French Quarter in New Orleans.

• 48:27Corinne Vien?

  I feel like we should start signing off that way. Ever spooky. Sabrina and Corinne.

• 48:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  XOXO. Ghost girls.

• 48:35Corinne Vien?

  It's like something romantic, something charmed about it.

• 48:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I like that. Well, there was, there used to be like the ever yours. You know?

• 48:44Corinne Vien?

  Never yours.

• 48:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's how we should sign off.

• 48:49Corinne Vien?

  Never yours.

• 48:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So Florence became a huge fan of y'all when I was listening to the podcast in the car at after-school pickup. You know, some kids love Taylor Swift, my kid loves you.

• 49:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love being compared to Taylor Swift in the same time.

• 49:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So this first story is from Florence and her story takes place at a school that used to be in the French Quarter. This school was built in 1727 by the Ursula nuns as a school and has a rich history that you should totally look into. But Florence writes, hi, my name is Florence. I'm nine.

• 49:25Corinne Vien?

  Hi Florence.

• 49:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hi Florence.

• 49:26Corinne Vien?

  Everyone say hi Florence.

• 49:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hi Florence. I'm nine, so all these events happened pretty recently. I've experienced normal things like moving objects, hearing voices, getting pushed down a hill. Mom, pause. What the fuck? You were pushed down a hill? How? Why? That's not normal. I need to ask questions. I'll get back to you on that. Okay, back to Florence. I'm gonna start talking about the school, ghosts, and this first incident happened when I was in kindergarten. My friend, who I'll call M, and I were going to the nurse's office and like always, the nurse was not there. I swear, M and I saw the most terrifying thing. It was this five to six-year-old looking girl and she was floating. She had this look like she had seen a murder. M and I bolted out of there terrified.

• 50:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then the second story happened in the bathroom where what we call the plessy ghost hangs out. I was washing my hands like normal when the same ghost appeared. But this time she had a blank face, like she was in a staring contest. And then she disappeared and I felt possessed for a second.

• 50:28Corinne Vien?

  What? Oh, my gosh.

• 50:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Those are Florence's experiences.

• 50:31Corinne Vien?

  All at school.

• 50:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm-hmm. Now, Christine says, "My own story is about the time I adopted a trickster little ghost spirit while we were living in the French Quarter." So, the kids were going to school in the Quarter, and I worked in the Quarter, so we would walk among the spirits of history every day. It started with my keys moving, and I'm a creature of habit, which comes with working in kitchens and being a parent. I had dropped my keys on the exact same bowl that I always did. Nothing new. The kids and I were about to head out for our three-block walk to school when I could not find my keys anywhere. I promptly accused the kids of taking them, and they insisted they didn't touch them, but I knew I had left them in that bowl on the table.

• 51:08Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 51:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We started the search for the keys, which turned up in front of a closet that I avoided because this closet gave off bad vibes. So, with the keys found, I just moved on, thought nothing of it. A few days later, at 6:00 a.m., I turned on the water kettle for coffee because I have to get those kids to school and myself to work, so I'm not paying attention to the kettle. Until all of a sudden, I noticed something gray bubbling away in my kettle. I opened the cover, and there was a frickin' slug boiling in my water.

• 51:37Corinne Vien?

  What? This is so gross.

• 51:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which, it's not unusual to find slugs by the doors of French Quarters or ground-floor apartments, you know, 300-year-old buildings with giant gaps. I looked for a slug slime trail, but there was nothing, and I was pissed. So, I decided I needed to talk to my spirit.

• 51:54Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, that kind of feels like a threat.

• 51:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was so gross.

• 51:57Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 51:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ugh.

• 51:58Corinne Vien?

  It almost feels like a fear hallucination, where it's like something's trying to...

• 52:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's Pennywise. Drink slugs. So, I started boiling more water in a saucepan for my coffee because I wanted to show Florence the slug, as, you know, all good spooky parents of spooky kids do. I stood at my sink and put on my sternest mom voice. I told this newest little kid-spirit that he was free to move my keys, appear, climb in bed with me during a storm, but he was not allowed to mess with my coffee.

• 52:29Corinne Vien?

  Boundaries.

• 52:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I explained I was more than happy to have him as part of my family, but he was not allowed to mess with the kids and do no harm. As I write this, I'm realizing that I never gave him a name, and I know that he was a little boy because he appeared to Florence one night in the hall. She told me very matter-of-factly that she had seen a little boy in the hall, holding his breath and making swimming motions with his arms.

• 52:51Corinne Vien?

  Hmm.

• 52:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I asked if she was scared. She said no, and we went on with our life. The last experience we had was a sweet one. I was having a bad day when my speaker, my Alexa speaker in the front room, all of a sudden turned on. My son was in the bathroom and Florence was in the kitchen putting away groceries with me, so I assumed maybe my son had turned it on. I went up to the front room and I heard music playing. The speaker was playing a Saints football game, and I could never get this speaker to play the game, so I thanked my son for turning it on. But he told me he didn't, and that he didn't even know a game was on. So I thought maybe my other ghostly son turned it on. I thanked him.

• 53:29Corinne Vien?

  Wait, is he the same one with the slug?

• 53:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I guess so. I mean, that is like kind of a kid prank.

• 53:33Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I get it totally.

• 53:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A kid playing with a slug and is like, what do I do with this now?

• 53:37Corinne Vien?

  What happens if I drop a slug in water, boiling water?

• 53:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, this ghost kid, I like to think that he let the hamster escape because I couldn't stand the creature and he was doing me a favor.

• 53:48Corinne Vien?

  Honestly, I feel like he was doing the hamster a favor because hamsters sometimes have horrifying deaths.

• 53:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Do they? Well, oh.

• 53:55Corinne Vien?

  I feel like that's like the classic thing where like, a lot of people who've had pet hamsters, their hamsters have died in horrific ways.

• 54:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yikes.

• 54:01Corinne Vien?

  Just like with escaping their cages or just like getting a little bit, ah, it's just, I feel for the hamsters.

• 54:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This little ghost kid let the hamster free.

• 54:10Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 54:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That school that Florence talks about in her story is half a block from Lafitte's blacksmith shop, so y'all were really close when you visited. I hope you visit again. All the best from a spooky mom with a spooky daughter, Christine and Florence.

• 54:22Corinne Vien?

  Dang. I mean, I feel like so many schools are haunted, but I can't imagine going to one.

• 54:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In the French Quarter?

• 54:29Corinne Vien?

  In like the heart of spookiness, Louisiana.

• 54:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I kind of wish I did.

• 54:34Corinne Vien?

  Did she get possessed for a second?

• 54:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or was it just like a trance because she was so startled?

• 54:39Corinne Vien?

  Or like when the spirit disappeared and then she felt like she was possessed for a moment? Like, was it going through her?

• 54:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh.

• 54:45Corinne Vien?

  Like it was leaving the room and floating through Florence?

• 54:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, I'm also worried for that little girl. I know, I do too. But the little ghost spirit.

• 54:52Corinne Vien?

  I want a daughter, so I can name her Florence.

• 54:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I do feel concerned for that little ghost girl at the school too, because she looks horrified.

• 55:01Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 55:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And why is she stuck there?

• 55:03Corinne Vien?

  I don't know. Little moaning Myrtle situation.

• 55:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I guess we have to look up the history of that place because it sounds like it's haunted.

• 55:08Corinne Vien?

  Yes, totally.

• 55:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Dang. What isn't haunted in New Orleans?

• 55:12Corinne Vien?

  These poor children. They go to school. They have to face so much.

• 55:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or they're lucky.

• 55:17Corinne Vien?

  Or it depends on how you look at it.

• 55:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like, I would love to be like, yeah, I grew up in a haunted school.

• 55:23Corinne Vien?

  Right. Also, like, their encounters are during the day.

• 55:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 55:26Corinne Vien?

  It's like 1:00 PM. They just had lunch and recess, and then they get a paranormal encounter? That's, that is a full delicious day of activities.

• 55:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I played with the ghost at school.

• 55:37Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 55:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'd rather a haunted school than like a possessed home.

• 55:42Corinne Vien?

  I agree.

• 55:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 55:44Corinne Vien?

  Because then you have a safe space to go home to.

• 55:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  If you chose possessed home, I have concerns for you.

• 55:52Corinne Vien?

  Okay, the last story I will read is called Two Different Haunted Bathrooms in NOLA. Sorry for being nasally. It is post nasal drip. Hot. Snot running down these throats over here. Hey, y'all. My name's Hannah. I recently found your podcast over Christmas break, and I've been binging ever since. I'm married to a super cool guy who is super spooky, but also a little bit superstitious. So he doesn't like to speak spooky in our house or about our house.

• 56:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Speak no spooky.

• 56:23Corinne Vien?

  He has seen hooded creatures.

• 56:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, shit.

• 56:26Corinne Vien?

  La Llorona in Mexico as a child. And he's experienced way more visually. And I'll back all of these stories up, but only if you catch him off of our property. I appreciate that, yeah. Okay, to get to the point, he bought a 110-year-old house almost two years ago in Ohio. I say he because I was pined in Texas with our thin infant daughter trying to sell her condo. So he chose this house himself. The vibes have never been bad. Actually, it's a super cool place. But it definitely, since the beginning, did not seem empty either. It also has a fucking terrifying unfinished basement, which is just the worst. And I've also seen flashes out of the corner of my eye while I'm in the kitchen cooking.

• 57:09Corinne Vien?

  But then when I peek around into our dining room, I see that there's nothing there. Okay, and then our creepiest room. It's this teeny tiny half bath between the living room and the kitchen. The door is also right next to the door to the creepy basement. It also is right across from the back door. This sounds exactly like my, my half bath. And it's in northern Ohio, so it gets really cold in the bathroom because there are no vents. The lights started flickering, so we replaced them. One of the lights still flickers, but not constantly. And there's also no rhyme or reason as to when it flickers.

• 57:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hmm.

• 57:43Corinne Vien?

  So one night I was standing in there and I asked, is someone in here with me? And it flashed on and off. Of course, I thought, no fucking way. So again, I say, if someone is in here, can you blink the light twice?

• 57:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my God.

• 57:56Corinne Vien?

  It went blink, blink. Okay, I got terrified. I instantly turned the lights off. And then a couple of days go by and I find myself in there again. Only one light bulb is working. And I ask, are you someone attached to me? Nothing. Are you someone I know? Nothing. Are you someone attached to this house? Triple blinks. We also just had the whole house redone with electric because, you know, it's a 100 plus year old house. And they didn't see anything wrong with the bathroom wiring.

• 58:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Cause there is nothing wrong with it.

• 58:28Corinne Vien?

  We also smell kind of at random times, some off scents, like a floral perfume or some random cigarette smoke, even though we've never smoked. I heard my three year old daughter talking one day. I was in the kitchen, I assumed she was just playing with toys. And so I poked my head in to look at her, only to realize that she was not in the living room. She was actually in the bathroom with the door closed whispering. When I asked, she said she wasn't doing anything. Nothing big, just lots of little weird stuff happening. Also, I heard my husband walking into the bathroom, open the door, cough. And so then I said, babe, what are you doing? And then I heard his voice answer from the living room. I said, wait, did you just walk into the bathroom? And he said, no.

• 59:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh. Okay, that could be like a creepy doppelganger-y situation. Or I just feel like the energy in this house, there's something about it that holds memories.

• 59:22Corinne Vien?

  Or is it like the original couple or something?

• 59:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 59:24Corinne Vien?

  You know, because there's the perfumey smell, which I would attribute with a woman. And then there's the smell of smoke, which if the perfume and the smoke doesn't come at the same time, like maybe it's two separate.

• 59:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Spirits.

• 59:36Corinne Vien?

  Spirits and like feeling like it's a man walking in and coughing. Maybe it was a smoker, maybe it was the OG guy who built the house.

• 59:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Huh.

• 59:44Corinne Vien?

  Okay, a few years ago, my whole family was in New Orleans for my little brother's wedding. We're from Baton Rouge, so about 50 minutes away. We were all staying at the same hotel, The Omni in the Quarter. My brother was getting married at City Park, but we thought, oh, this will just be fun for all of us to be together for a weekend in the Quarter.

• 1:00:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:00:01Corinne Vien?

  The Omni is this super old looking building.

• 1:00:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why is every Omni haunted?

• 1:00:06Corinne Vien?

  I don't know.

• 1:00:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like the one in Boston is.

• 1:00:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it is. And it's home of the Boston cream pie, if you want to go get the OG.

• 1:00:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Austin, Texas is haunted.

• 1:00:13Corinne Vien?

  Uh huh. You're right. Should we look into this?

• 1:00:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, it's like the Omni owner like being like, let's collect haunted hotels.

• 1:00:19Corinne Vien?

  That's what I was just thinking, like, oh, we're gonna make this like this beautiful, lovely, fancy, luxury hotel experience, but really it's all hiding. They're buying up spots that they want to paranormally investigate and turning it into hotels for them to stay at whenever they want.

• 1:00:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I kind of love that. That's like the perfect combo.

• 1:00:35Corinne Vien?

  That is the perfect cover. Okay, The Omni is a super old looking building, but it definitely has been remodeled. A lot of the rooms had balconies, but the doors to the rooms were very old, very heavy. So like, so heavy my Mimi could not open it by herself. So it was hard to prop these doors open while running between the rooms to get ready for the wedding, which is an important detail for later.

• 1:00:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 1:00:59Corinne Vien?

  I was eight months pregnant, but I was still down to walk and dance and eat. We had a great weekend celebrating my brother and his lovely new wife. But a couple hours after the wedding, I was just exhausted. I was swollen from the summer humidity and my husband, my grandparents and I headed back to our rooms around midnight. While the rest of the party took to Bourbon Street. I put on our AC, I put it as low as it would go. I stripped down to my panties, I propped my feet up on a few pillows and I fell right to sleep. Sometime around 3am, I was jolted from my sleep. My first thought was, why is my husband leaving the room? But at the same time I had thought that, I could also feel him next to me in bed.

• 1:01:40Corinne Vien?

  So I reached my arm over to shake him and he was also sort of awake. We both had just seen someone walk into our room. And then we heard them walk into the bathroom. We saw the hotel hall light fill the room. We heard the old heavy door open and close. We heard and saw the movement of someone walk into our bathroom. And so my husband Manny jumped out of bed in just his boxers, ready to fight and ran into this bathroom. He turned on the lights and nothing.

• 1:02:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What the heck?

• 1:02:13Corinne Vien?

  He came back out to check on our room just in case somehow this person had slunk into our small hotel room with us. He threw on a robe, he ran into the hall, but there was no one there. So we still assuming that this was an intruder or the hotel had given our key and room to someone accidentally.

• 1:02:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've had that happen where I get a hotel room key and a room and I go to open, I open the door and like someone else's stuff is in the room.

• 1:02:37Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I've had that happen.

• 1:02:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:39Corinne Vien?

  Like once or twice too. She's like, how is this happening?

• 1:02:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 1:02:42Corinne Vien?

  I'm glad that I've never been walked in on like that.

• 1:02:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's why you lock the deadbolt every time you go in.

• 1:02:48Corinne Vien?

  Walking in on someone else's room and being like, ooh, this is clearly taken.

• 1:02:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:52Corinne Vien?

  Weren't we together when, when I, I feel like that happened when we were on tour.

• 1:02:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It probably did.

• 1:02:56Corinne Vien?

  So we called down to the front desk. They assured us that no one has had access to our room at the time. And we were the only ones on file for this room. I thought, okay, maybe possibly it was a family member who'd gotten our room key somehow. So then I opened up Find My Friends and everyone is still out on Bourbon Street. My 80 plus year old grandparents were not physically able to run down the hall and prank us like that. Nor were they the kind of people that would do that. So we kind of panicked. And of course, we were wide awake, thinking that we had just skirted the death of a murderer. Of course, the worst case scenario playing out in our heads.

• 1:03:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, yeah, like, I would think a human being walked into your room, too.

• 1:03:33Corinne Vien?

  You just saw.

• 1:03:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:35Corinne Vien?

  And heard, like, aside from someone not actually being there when you check, you, like, everything else is watching a human being.

• 1:03:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Saw it.

• 1:03:44Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:03:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:45Corinne Vien?

  Okay, so we're up, we're scared. We Google the Omni Hotel French Quarter, and then we start reading reviews to see maybe if someone else had complained that their room key had been given out by mistake. But we didn't find that. What we found, though, was New Orleans' top ten haunted hotels. And our jaws were on the floor. Apparently, the Omni is built on the ground of the Old City Exchange, which is a nice way to say slave auctions. Then the original hotel burnt down, and it's said to have a famous ghost. The ghost of a housekeeper who comes in and will go to the bathroom and turn the lights on, and sometimes even the water.

• 1:04:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Whoa.

• 1:04:23Corinne Vien?

  So needless to say, we did not sleep through the night.

• 1:04:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait, that's such a specific, like, known haunting, yeah. That's kind of nice to have found that.

• 1:04:32Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because it is verbatim, it's like copy and paste what people experience.

• 1:04:36Corinne Vien?

  I feel bad that they, like, couldn't fall back asleep after this. We finally got up at 5:30 a.m. We walked down to Bourbon Street to our parking garage, and we went the fuck home.

• 1:04:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Back to your haunted house, where you know the ghosts.

• 1:04:49Corinne Vien?

  I have so many more ghost stories, including a haunted house that I grew up in, seeing the antebellum woman in our hallway, deceased pet visits, a demonic mini horse.

• 1:05:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 1:05:01Corinne Vien?

  Ah, but I'll save those for a future email. See y'all on the other side, Hannah.

• 1:05:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hannah, we need all of your other stories, and we need your husband's La Llorona, and stories from growing up in Mexico stories.

• 1:05:13Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it sounds like you owe us maybe eighteen stories.

• 1:05:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:17Corinne Vien?

  Actually, you know what? Let me do, let me do the due diligence of seeing if you've even sent.

• 1:05:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Before we bash.

• 1:05:22Corinne Vien?

  More before we start to attempt to peer pressure and bully you into sending more.

• 1:05:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Jacques, you.

• 1:05:29Corinne Vien?

  Mm, no, you haven't really. You sent one other.

• 1:05:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So we can bully you.

• 1:05:34Corinne Vien?

  Which was our encounters number 304. I'll just read it right now because it's like two sentences long.

• 1:05:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 1:05:41Corinne Vien?

  Bonus.

• 1:05:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we have another bonus after this.

• 1:05:44Corinne Vien?

  So, short story, but y'all were talking about a girl who moved into a building that was haunted in Salem and Sabrina said something like, "You never know what your neighbors are doing." And my headphones went full blast, which, okay, tech glitches sometimes, but our house is over 100 years old and it's haunted. And our next door neighbor, that house, it's been abandoned for years before we moved in. Someone just moved in last year. They just bought the house and then moved in the middle of the night at the beginning of the summer.

• 1:06:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 1:06:11Corinne Vien?

  And then someone else moved in a month ago and we have never seen nor heard them, except at night.

• 1:06:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Vampire.

• 1:06:18Corinne Vien?

  After dark, you just hear this rhythmic banging on their walls. Was Sabrina warning me?

• 1:06:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What am I doing?

• 1:06:25Corinne Vien?

  Okay Hannah, we read both of your stories now. Now you can say the first.

• 1:06:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Spooky.

• 1:06:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Damn. Well, we love New Orleans and New Orleans is haunted and you all have been haunted in New Orleans. And I feel like if you go, you're likely to be haunted. We actually have one bonus story that we'll read on Patreon. It's available for our Only Phantoms tier. So if you want more New Orleans stories, you're in luck. There is one more. It's on Patreon.

• 1:06:52Corinne Vien?

  Yes. We put out two extra bonus encounter stories.

• 1:06:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, it's every other. So it just, it might be three a month.

• 1:06:59Corinne Vien?

  True, true.

• 1:06:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:00Corinne Vien?

  So two to three a month.

• 1:07:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:01Corinne Vien?

  And then a bonus full-length episode, which is either a research one or encounters one.

• 1:07:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We also have witch class. We have campfire stories where you can join every Tuesday and like share your ghost story with us live.

• 1:07:12Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:07:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Um, and just hang out. And we have a bunch of other fun bonuses over there. So check that out.

• 1:07:18Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, there's a lot going on.

• 1:07:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Please email us if you have any ghost stories, whether it's New Orleans or not, [email protected]. All of this information is also in the show notes and the description of the episode. So if you're ever like, "I don't remember the email", it's right there. Or it's on our website, twogirlsmonghost.com. Thank you.

• 1:07:35Corinne Vien?

  Shout out to Jamie Ryan, who edits and produces our podcast and cuts a million sniffles and coughs and verbs and side tangents that are unnecessary.

• 1:07:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She is a Bravo head, though.

• 1:07:44Corinne Vien?

  Ha, I'm the only one. I must know.

• 1:07:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm telling you, like, it really brings people together. Like, the long list of people who I text on a daily basis about Bravo, it's a lot.

• 1:07:55Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 1:07:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  If you're trying to make friends, connect with a brother.

• 1:07:57Corinne Vien?

  I'm trying to be better friends with Jamie. Jamie, text me too. And shout out to all of you who come back and listen every week. We appreciate you, we love you, and we will. See you on the other side.

• 1:08:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or on Patreon if you want a bonus story.

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