The Curse Of Julia Brown: Manchac Swamp’s Voodoo Priestess Haunts Louisiana After Killing a Whole Town
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:59 am
The mysteries and legends that surround Louisiana’s infamous Manchac Swamp are deeply rooted in its past, making the dense forest one of the state’s most famous haunts. Not only does Manchac Swamp have direct ties to Rougarou, Cajun werwolves of legend, it’s also said to be haunted by the ghost of voodoo priestess Julia Brown, who used her powers to destroy an entire town.
Julia Brown was a well-respected magic practitioner in her small town of Frenier, Louisiana. If someone got sick they had two options – they could make the journey into New Orleans, or they could turn to Julia for a supernatural healing. It wasn’t uncommon for Julia to travel around the village performing rituals to help with childbirth, fight off infections, and cure illnesses, and more often than not, the afflicted would recover quickly. By all accounts, whatever strange powers Julia was harnessing – they worked.
Though the townsfolk respected Julia, they also began to take her for granted. When she started to feel as if her neighbors were using her, many of them demanding her help without asking, Julia Brown developed a bit of a mean streak, and began scaring the ungrateful locals by predicting when terrible things were about to happen to them. Whether she was foretelling future events or placing a curse, it seemed that Julia always knew when something bad was coming to the town of Frenier.
On September 28, 1915, Julia made her final terrifying prediction.. and then dropped dead. In the final weeks leading up to her death she was often heard singing, “One day I’m gonna die, and I’m gonna take all of you with me,” over and over again.
The entire town gathered at Julia’s funeral hoping that the show of attention would help her soul rest easy, but unfortunately for them, it appeared to have the opposite effect. Julia Brown was true to her word. As the nails were hammered into her coffin, a sudden and unusually devastating hurricane ripped through the entire village, leaving only two citizens left alive. Hundreds of people died during the storm, in fact, so many were lost that locals claim it’s still common for skeletons to surface today, only to drift down the muggy swamp.
The force of the hurricane was felt all over Southern Louisiana, and claimed over 350 lives. One former resident, who was lucky enough to have left Manchac Swamp during the storm, recounted his experience from New Orleans.
http://weekinweird.com/2016/08/07/the-c ... hole-town/
Julia Brown was a well-respected magic practitioner in her small town of Frenier, Louisiana. If someone got sick they had two options – they could make the journey into New Orleans, or they could turn to Julia for a supernatural healing. It wasn’t uncommon for Julia to travel around the village performing rituals to help with childbirth, fight off infections, and cure illnesses, and more often than not, the afflicted would recover quickly. By all accounts, whatever strange powers Julia was harnessing – they worked.
Though the townsfolk respected Julia, they also began to take her for granted. When she started to feel as if her neighbors were using her, many of them demanding her help without asking, Julia Brown developed a bit of a mean streak, and began scaring the ungrateful locals by predicting when terrible things were about to happen to them. Whether she was foretelling future events or placing a curse, it seemed that Julia always knew when something bad was coming to the town of Frenier.
On September 28, 1915, Julia made her final terrifying prediction.. and then dropped dead. In the final weeks leading up to her death she was often heard singing, “One day I’m gonna die, and I’m gonna take all of you with me,” over and over again.
The entire town gathered at Julia’s funeral hoping that the show of attention would help her soul rest easy, but unfortunately for them, it appeared to have the opposite effect. Julia Brown was true to her word. As the nails were hammered into her coffin, a sudden and unusually devastating hurricane ripped through the entire village, leaving only two citizens left alive. Hundreds of people died during the storm, in fact, so many were lost that locals claim it’s still common for skeletons to surface today, only to drift down the muggy swamp.
The force of the hurricane was felt all over Southern Louisiana, and claimed over 350 lives. One former resident, who was lucky enough to have left Manchac Swamp during the storm, recounted his experience from New Orleans.
http://weekinweird.com/2016/08/07/the-c ... hole-town/