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Top haunted roads on Earth. But if you listen to the guides who take tourists into the Manchac swamp, the storm was the result of the wrath of Julia Brown. Brown, they say, laid a curse on the town because she felt taken for granted—a curse that came true when the storm swept through on the day of her funeral and killed everyone around.
The legend of Julia Brown has become the area's most popular ghost story, spreading to paranormal shows and even Reddit , where some claim to have seen Brown cackling at the edge of the water. After I visited the swamp earlier this year and heard Julia Brown's story, I got curious about separating fact from fiction.
It turns out Julia Brown was a real person: Census records suggest she was born Julia Bernard in Louisiana around , then married a laborer named Celestin Brown in A modern New Orleans voodoo priestess, Bloody Mary , told Mental Floss she has found references to a voodoo priestess or queen by the name of Brown who worked in New Orleans around the s before moving out to Frenier.
Mary notes that because the towns had no doctors, Brown likely served as the local healer or traiteur , a folk healer in Louisiana tradition and midwife, using whatever knowledge and materials she could find to care for local residents.
An oral history account from long-time area resident Helen Schlosser Burg records that "Aunt Julia Brown … always sat on her front porch and played her guitar and sang songs that she would make up. The words to one of the songs she sang said that one day, she would die and everything would die with her.
In the words of the New Orleans Times-Picayune from October 2, warning: offensive language ahead :. Many pranks were played by wind and tide.
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