The Casket Girls - New Orleans, Louisiana

The old Ursuline Convent, was a series of historic convents in New Orleans, Louisiana. Which housed nuns from the Ursuline Convent of Rouen in Normandy. King Louis the 15th of France, decided that the nuns should go to New Orleans to establish a hospital for the poor sick people and to provide education for young girls of wealthy families. But while the convent has good and holsom history pertaining to the nuns, it also has a much darker story, pertaining to the French girls, who were sent thousands of miles away from their homes, and transplanted to colonial America, to be saddled with husbands and tasked with the impossible, settle the land and tame the men. Oh and did I mention, that these girls might have also been blood sucking vampires, if the legends are true, they are still lurking around on the third floor of the old Ursuline Convent building, known as the Casket Girls.

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