Weird Distractions

Saint Roch Cemetery #1 & #2 (RE-RELEASED)

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This episode has been re-recorded & re-released for your listening pleasures!

Need to borrow some dentures? How about some roses with a hidden message? This week, the girls go to their favourite city, New Orleans (LA), to chat about one of it's many haunted locations. From a potential hellhound to a love story from beyond the grave - there's something spooky going on at Saint Roch Cemetery #1 & #2. Tune in to hear more about this reportedly haunted location, and why the dead may still be trying to connect with the living. Need a distraction? We got you!

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Resources: 

  • Nola Catholic Cemeteries website 
  • The History Engine website (historyengine.richmond.edu). 
  • CDC website – Yellow Fever (wwwnc.cdc.gov). 
  • New Orleans Historical website article – St. Roch Cemetery, Plagues, and Germans in New Orleans – by: Madison Roxanne White, Kelsey Lacourrege, Robert Daemmrich, Karen Snyder & Kathryn O’Dwyer. 
  • New Advent website – St. Roch – newadvent.org 
  • NOLA Very Local website article – Haunted NOLA: The plague, the promose and the ghost dog of St. Roch Cemetery – by Michael Democker – May 26th, 2020
  • Ghost City Tours website – The Ghosts of St. Roch Cemetery 
  • NOLA Weekend article – The Ghosts of St. Roch Cemetery, a haunted city of the dead – By: Shan Bailey 
  • Haunted Nation - St. Roch Cemetery - New Orleans, LA (The Shrine of Prosthetic Limbs!) – Posted by Duplechien – October 4th, 2016 
  • Monster Wiki – Hellhound (Folklore) 

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