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September 13, 2005

You Don't Pooh Pooh VooDoo..

..if you're a local.

But you can't visit the old Girod Cemetery. Abandoned for years, its iron caskets and bones were tossed up by excavation gear in the early 1970s as the crews moved in to build . . . the Superdome. Beneath the now-shredded roof and the fetid stinking mess of excrement and blood where tens of thousands huddled in storm and flood . .. and some died . . . likely lie even more unexcavated bones.

And local lore is that the Superdome was cursed . . . a punishment for desecrating this City of the Dead. Exorcists and voodoo priestesses have been here to dispel the curse. That lore will no doubt expand into an even more gruesome story for buggy drivers in the Quarter to enchant their passengers.



Anytime I'm in St. Louis No. 1, without fail, I make sure to stop by Marie Laveau and say hi.

Never hurts to be polite.

Posted by tree hugging sister at September 13, 2005 12:22 PM

Comments

Well, OBVIOUSLY the dead hate black people.

Posted by: Lisa at September 13, 2005 01:11 PM

Yeah, I mean look how slowly the dead moved to help out!

Hell, even the federal government beat them!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at September 13, 2005 01:44 PM

Even Spielberg knew you don't build nothin' on a cemetary.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 13, 2005 01:48 PM

Mmm. Tastes like chicken.

Woops.

Posted by: Cullen at September 13, 2005 02:22 PM

Saints fans could tell you that 53 of the dead are regularly seen above-ground inside the Superdome.

Posted by: Nightfly at September 13, 2005 04:09 PM

Like the monks that still walk the Roman roads in England ~ three feet below the current street level?

Ooooh! I love this stuff!

Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 13, 2005 05:45 PM

Well, the dead in New Orleans do vote overwhelmingly for the Dems, but a lot of them remember them as the party of Jim Crow, and before that of slavery.

As for London, there are still plague pits from 1665 that have never been built over. Also there are seven whole rivers flowing out of the Thames that have been completely concealed by the streets, but they still exist just below the surface, flowing through sewers in some places, viaducts, around the Tube and all over. Their memory is preserved in place names, like Fleet Street (after the River Fleet) and the Lord Mayor's parish, the Church of St. Stephen's Walbrook (after the River Walbrook).

Posted by: Dave J at September 13, 2005 07:11 PM

(I've seen the Demon Barber of Fleet Street!)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 13, 2005 07:15 PM

More on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_rivers_of_London

Posted by: Dave J at September 13, 2005 08:33 PM

Where do the Werewolves of London bathe, Dave?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at September 14, 2005 08:04 AM

What a peculiar song.

Cool rivers, Dave. Sounds very other worldly... I found a place for Swillers to vacation while we look for the rivers.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at September 14, 2005 12:47 PM