Madame LaLaurie holds a horrific place in the history and lore of New Orleans. If ever a house was haunted, it would be the Lalaurie Mansion and it’s attic used for the sole purpose of torturing and murdering enslaved people in the most grotesque ways you could possibly imagine. The wealthy socialite is estimated to have killed between 50 and 100 people.

SOURCES

Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House; Book by Carolyn Morrow Long

Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans’ Most Famous Murderess Revealed; Book by Cosner Love & Lorelei Shannon

Journey Into Darkness: Ghosts and Vampires of New Orleans: book by Kalila Katherina Smith

https://64parishes.org/entry/delphine-lalaurie/