Memories cling like spider webs from

Visiting a haunt in Vamp Town, U.S.A.!
Oak Alley Plantation
The house used in the film Interview with the Vampire where Louis the vampire (played by Brad Pitt) resided.
The vampire, Lestat (Tom Cruise), later comes and wants the house,
but Louis torches it in an effort to rebel against Lestat's lust for power.
In reality, this house is reportedly haunted in the upstairs rooms, where the period furniture and clothing
remains from the house's last owners of plantation days. A woman in a white dress is seen on the balcony
upstairs by people who work at the house, and other unexplainable circumstances go on during off-business hours.
At this bench is also where my boyfriend proposed! :~) (For those of you who are curious, yes, I accepted!)
St. Louis Cemetery Number 1
New Orleans' oldest cemetery, located around downtown. Many of the graves are falling apart or are in repair. The area surrounding the cemetery
is not seen as a safe place to travel alone. If you ever visit this cemetery, go when you know a tour is taking place or go with a group. As you will
see, it would be easy for someone to hide in this cemetery and jump out from behind a grave to rob or harm you.

Voodoo priests and priestesses are marked in graves such as these by the prayers of those who worship them. When a person comes to such a grave, they
make a wish and carve three "X's" into the stone. If their wish comes true, a person will come back and circle their three X's. People also use these
as "prayer altars," leaving tokens behind as offerings. A necklace and a religious booklet can be seen in this photo.


In the background is a huge fancy vault, or crypt, of one family. Very ornate, the structure had been vandalized
during a couple movie shootings (remember that trippy scene in Easy Rider?), so moviemaking has been banned in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.
On the ghost and vampire tours...

Reported sighting of the first vampire was somewhere along this spot.
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