As the Paltrow virus has brought me low, today I give you a short re-blog of another chilling local New Orleans legend heard on my 40th birthday haunted tour: The Carter Brothers.
The Carter Brothers are positioned as real life "vampires" and the fact that it took eight policemen to subdue two men lets the tour guides allege that they gained supernatural strength from drinking the blood of their victims. Layers upon layers of embellishment bloom into supernatural lore, like snowball tinged with crimson red.
Read on, text is from neworleans.com
The Carter Brothers
In 1932, at the 800 block of Royal Street, a young girl stumbled out of the red house on the corner. She told authorities the harrowing tale of being held captive by the Carter brothers, who she said drank her blood daily. John and Wayne Carter were tried, convicted and executed for their crimes against the girl and more than a dozen other victims. One year after their execution, their tomb in the St. Louis Cemetery was opened and no remains were found. New Orleans vampire tour guides insist there have been documented sightings of men matching their descriptions.
The Carter brothers also may have passed on their bloodlust to at least one of their victims. After spending time in a mental hospital, a man who survived captivity with the bloody-thirsty Carters moved into a home at 920 Bourbon Street, blocks away from where the brothers held him hostage. By all accounts, he lived a quiet life. Then, he disappeared in 1949. When the house was turned into apartments in the 1960s, the man’s journal was found filled with entries detailing his own blood-drinking habit and the victims he killed. In his last journal entry, he wrote that he was going to the river to dispose of his latest victims.
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