[charlie4]

I actually have the story of Madame DeLaurie and she was a very sick lady. The book is titled "Haunted Stories in America" and the book is far worse than what you have described here. It is sickening. She got away scot free, apparently, and no one knows what happened to her since. I am Canadian, so forgive me if I have gotten the details wrong, but I strongly agree that they should NOT have treated the African Americans in this way!

respectfully yours,

charlie4 from Canada

[BadmouthBetty]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

That's her. She had her slaves taken away from her after she was caught chasing a young girl slave across her rooftop with a whip; the girl jumped. Unfortunately, her relatives brought back the slaves when they were being auctioned and gave them right back to her.

Supposedly a cook that had been chained to the stove purposefully set the fire to bring attention to
what was going on in the house. The firemen and police thought something was strange when they mentioned needing to help get the slaves out of the house and Madame Lalaurie was more interested in making sure her paintings and valuables were brought out of the house first. Then they tried to get into the attic, it was locked, she wouldn't give them the key. When they broke the door down they found dead slaves that had been left to rot, slaves who had limbs broken and twisted back into grotesque positions, even one who had a hole drilled into their skull and a stick inserted to stir the brain. The house is now reportedly one of the most haunted in the state. Nicolas Cage either still owns it, or owned it in the past.

She ran away too and was never found.

[PunkNana66]

Coven was actually loosely-based on Madame LaLaurie