St. Peter's Cemetery: New Orleans' First* Burial Ground

[@JagerLange]

Bloody hell. Imagine thinking the worst thing in your week was your house flooding, only to see recently-interred grandparent rising up from the waters like USS Dallas in Hunt For Red October.

[@abullmoose4854]

Perfectly obscure comparison, I like it.

[@ckmedia6120]

Dude! imagine trying to find your grandma's arm floating around by your feet to stick her back together.... Amazing video! Super crazy had me saying no way out loud to my computer!

[@Victini0510]

Don't know if you'll read this since it's such an old video, but I've been binging your channel the last few days after Karl of InRangeTV recommended it, and I've gone through most of your backlog already. Fantastic work, reigniting my interest in Civil War-era history. I've always been a Wild West guy being from California and all, but it's fascinating to study what was happening east of the Mississippi at the same time.

[@kitschydotpre4302]

I love these short stories

[@lisellesloan3191]

Tres bien, cher, and where did you get the tres cool t-shirt, I'm, er, dying to know?

[@IntentionalChaos]

I live in an apartment on Royal... we believe it used to house priests for St Louis as it had a simple layout that included kitchens in each of the original apartments. (More was added to the building later.) I'm curious... would there be a possibility that some spare wood/parts of these coffins, with holes drilled into them, had been used for other purposes? Possibly... doors? Several doors in the building have weird hole patterns drilled into them... and I can't think of a reason for this! (They are incredibly old... 200 years, at least)

[@sailcat662]

I love your content. So great

[@jj-uy6qs]

I was reading about the levees outside New Orleans in 1927 being dynamited in a bid to "clean up/out" the poorer areas, and that led to some New Orleans citizens after Hurricane Katrina believing that the same thing had happened again. Sorry to post conspiracy theories, but as someone who seems to be a fountain of knowledge about New Orleans. I was wondering if you could either dispell or confirm this?

[@davidcollopy3876]

I saw a map from the 18th century that depicted the cemetery's location in the northern most corner of the French Quarter @ Hospital and Rampart. Then there is the case of the five coffins discovered in 1972, excavated @ Toulouse and Burgundy.

[@Nightmarigny]

Toulouse and Burgundy is the correct location for St. Peter's. I also saw an old map showing a (military) cemetery across Esplanade, where Bourbon meets Kerlerec today.

[@goboslament5535]

I believe the hotel you were standing in front of is where Johnny Thunders died. RIP Johnny.

[@ericlightbody1656]

could you do a video on the Upstairs Lounge fire?

[@thexalon]

This went "swimmingly" - I see what you did there.

[@11Survivor]

Underground cemetery in the French quarter... *Catacomb vibes anyone?*

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

I’m getting shitty found footage film vibes

[@braydansoares6808]

It really is common im Cape verdean and my family is mashpee wampanoag

[@williamoldaker5348]

Damn that is harsh. Rich people have little respect. At least he got some people to check beforehand but then still the whole "fuck it still do the pool" is absurd.

[@Bluebelle51]

I am Redbone and Irish Born in NOLA but my family moved to Alabama when I was around 6 months old, by the way, you should probably check into the Cherokee Freemen, the descendants of slaves that the Cherokee took with them to "Indian country" AKA, Oklahoma They won a court case to allow them full membership into the Cherokee nation, where before, because of their African mixed blood, they were being denied Tribal citizenship

[@TeethToothman]

🎉❤🎉

[@christianweibrecht6555]

Why were premodern people so opposed to cremation & burial at sea?

[@MrCoolwolf123]

Captain Jean Luke Picard was from New Orleans? I didn't know that

[@handsomeman-child8751]

Dunno about that but Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko was. His father even had a Creole restaurant there.

[@michaelmcclure9350]

Just say a member of the Marcello family owned that property

[@Nightmarigny]

Actually the Marcello descendants do own properties right in that section of the Quarter, including the Pool of Souls property, where 15 coffins were excavated in 2011.

[@brianstabile165]

This is grandma but that’s not grandma

[@hmmwhatidoxnottoo8459]

No.

[@hmmwhatidoxnottoo8459]

Aka don't rob graves or crypts.

[@shannsimms9072]

A below ground cemetery lol

[@cadetflamen12]

That's a lot of gay flags

[@rockinresurrection6542]

So what?

[@cadetflamen12]

Rockin' Resurrection just saying

[@Nightmarigny]

The French Quarter is a queer neighborhood. It would not be standing today if not for the queer people who saved and preserved it. Most residents are queer men today. Same for the Marigny. Even the Blacksmith Shop is owned by a gay man. Tourists don't realize this, but... yep.

[@steril1087]

Ty for representing GAY PRIDE!!!!!!!¡ PS knew you were gay also buttercup

[@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039]

really. it's the background

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is sad