The Curse of the Mad Butcher: A "True" New Orleans Folktale

[@Petepeatpeet]

“I still sort of love my wife, in a convoluted European way” underrated quote

[@julian7247]

he should also have mentioned that hitting somebody across the face with a sausage is just german foreplay

[@rex103friend6]

All I have to say is... "RAIN COMMITMENT"

[@noahsherwood2445]

That's New Orleans for ya

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

That comment is true for anyone who lives, or has lived in the great Northwest, from the north shore of Vancouver down to Seattle (approximately). You either learn to live with rain or you move.

[@wargriffin5]

"It's pretty quiet, residential, and unfortunately cursed..." - To be fair, you could summarize almost any major city in the Southern US like that.

[@dylanroberts7364]

It's almost like they all built over native American burial grounds 😂

[@PJA264]

Though here in Memphis the curse is just rampant crime everywhere all the time.

[@tankshots3452]

Peter Abernathy New Orleans has much more problems than Memphis frm the HIV rate to the homicide rate which has always been top 3 for the past 40+ years

[@tankshots3452]

wargriffin5 New Orleans is nothing like other southern cities. They don’t even talk like the rest of the south. And New Orleans the only city in America to break their own murder rate record 3x. A 79, 85, then a 94 per capita. The murder rate back then was astonishingly higher than any other cities back in the day. Gentrification slowed it down and it usually 3 or 4 in the murder rate each year.

[@PJA264]

@@tankshots3452 I don't doubt it. I only mean that Memphis has the violent crime without the personality and culture.

[@charlescopeland3954]

"So, ladies, don't date a butcher" This is absolutely unfounded, and as a butcher I would like to strongly object on the grounds that.. Ah fuck it, you're probably right.

[@Nightmarigny]

He didn't even mention that yet another butcher (more of a meat-slicer, really), Zack Bowen, decapitated, dismembered, and COOKED his gf a year after Katrina, just a few blocks away.

[@TheExiledTyrant]

Bow before my bullets and oil! Fear the radios for they are active!

[@dorkmax7073]

Mighty is your horde, and small are your tumors, oh Slightly Balding One

[@BeaverChainsaw]

is that a reference to anything?

[@119winters5]

@@BeaverChainsaw haha

[@nolagirl7082]

I’m from New Orleans and I’ve never heard of any of the stories. They were very interesting though, and I have to say you are very dedicated to your videos. Standing in the rain in the French quarter is definitely dedication!

[@brandonshaw7619]

Meeeee toooooo!!!!!!!!!

[@lhistorienchipoteur9968]

He said those are tour-fabricated stories.

[@janetscofield7740]

"A cheating wienerschitzel!" Oh how I wish I had heard that while married to my first husband.

[@SoulDevoured]

Some sincere advice: while it's generally regarded as respectful to break up in person and in private do NOT do it if you have the slightest inkling that it might turn violent. Do it over the phone or in public or anywhere you can be safe. Better your ex and friends think you an asshole than for you to be a victim.

[@quangdungngo7644]

Well the wife did indeed BREAK UP in person , or in pieces.

[@SplendidCoffee0]

Broke up with my psycho ex over the phone, and her dumb ass drove an hour and a half to my place so I could break up with her in person, lmfaooo. She ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere, too, lmao.

[@tfd7915]

Cute stories. I also love the way you guys from New Orleans don't react at all when you're out in the rain with no umbrella or anything. I guess it rains so much down there you just give up and endure it. Where I live when it rains we all break for cover. But then I live in the arid lands of Utah so we're not inured to being rained on as you New Orleanians are.

[@Sableagle]

Probably helps that Nuwallins is quite warm. In Scotland or Yorkshire, getting wet can kill you.

[@methos1999]

Helps that he's originally from New England.

[@bassmasterbill]

I actually love these earlier videos. There's a certain twickle in your eyes. You can tell you're excited to be making KZbin videos. And the commitment! Geez. F the rain

[@hamptoncomics]

I was reading about old west gunslingers and came across a man named Levi Boone Helm who was a crazy cannibal with an interesting story. I think it would make a good video

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Funny you should say that... he's going to feature heavily in a video I'm writing now.

[@captainpanda5533]

@@AtunSheiFilms It's a darn good video, too!

[@JB-hl1qx]

This is one of your best!! Loved it! Cant wait to see more ! Funny how in NOLA they say "neutral ground " as opposed to here it's the "median strip " lol.

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Apparently that's because in the years after the Louisiana Purchase, Canal Street was the "neutral ground" between the Creoles of the French 1/4 and the Americans of Faubourg St Mary (the CBD and Garden District)

[@JB-hl1qx]

@@AtunSheiFilms that's pretty cool .interesting stuff ! Thank you.

[@dereljohnson]

The creator is right. The French and American populations would literally fight each other if they crossed into their respective parts of town. The neutral ground, on Canal Street, was where the sides were divided, and they could meet without violence

[@nancywhitty4008]

@@AtunSheiFilms for your next New Orleans horror video, check out the night of the Axman's Jazz. You won't regret it.

[@brandonshaw7619]

@@AtunSheiFilms wasn't it an actual canal during that time? Also do the city funded nuclear bunker in uptown out by the lake

[@alexanderaugustus]

So how did John not get questioned for two years after Dana had suddenly disappeared after she already told EVERYONE she was leaving him?

[@Deonesis]

You never see owls being amorous in the rain. It’s too wet to woo.

[@alundavies8402]

Ha ha by the way are you a father? As that is a classy Dad joke

[@javaplum8364]

super cool owl fact- owls also don’t mate in the rain because they aren’t waterproof! they often hide while its rainy because once they get wet, they don’t dry for possibly days

[@ΛόρδοςΜπύρων]

keep it up buddy, love the content and New Orleans!

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Thank you!

[@Nell19891]

Just came across your channel today and really glad I did - the amount of history and humour you have in your videos makes it perfect! I'm going over to New Orleans in April on honeymoon, love hearing all the stories and folklore about it. Thank you!

[@Louis_Davout]

Bet ya didn't

[@Nell19891]

@@Louis_Davout Lol, yeah sadly had to postpone it - fingers crossed for next year instead!x

[@Louis_Davout]

@@Nell19891 Best of wishes!

[@blaquevamp]

Never have heard this one. Great story ❤️

[@TafoAdam]

Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏

[@CrazyCajun42]

I have lived in South Louisiana all my life...I have never heard of these New Orleans stories. Thanks!!

[@matthewburdick4966]

I 100% was like "Oh wow, pretty decent green screen!"

[@kristenwerner4845]

That went the way of Sweeney Todd quite fast there. "Such a nice, plump frame what's her name has.....had.....has. Seems an awful waste."

[@nellscrypt]

"Well, with the price of meat what it is....."

[@reggiebinyaner8613]

I love how he tells us at the very start of the video that these stories are made by tour guides by saying they definitely weren't made up by tour guides.

[@trusarmor4957]

you have a Criminally under rated channel

[@clinton.gannaway]

Honestly you have some of the best timing with these videos!

[@EveryFairyDies]

When Thor appreciates your storytelling so much he adds in a few thunder crashes at the right moments for effect. Then Loki sees you and makes it rain.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Hey! It was a good story! What else would you expect? You're welcome. Had this comment been in any of the three Scandinavian languages, this would have been a horrible dad-pun. Hvad ellers havde du "regnet" med? (What else did you rain?) [double meaning]

[@JagerLange]

I think this is the first Patreon shoutout on here that I've seen so far that 1) got finished 2) wasn't a rib on the reader.

[@scottythompson8098]

Great video

[@kevinwaldi499]

Love the use of Ravenous soundtrack at the end of the videos.

[@RT-jx9cp]

Lol, right at the part with the meat grinder, I get an ad for meat substitute.

[@wyatt1339]

Can you do a video on the Axeman of New Orleans please?

[@MetaSynForYourSoul]

Weather: i think I'm gonna rain today. You might not wanna fil... Atun-shei: I DON'T CARE ABOUT NO STINKIN' RAIN! I GOT COOL NAWLINS GHOST STORIES TO TELL, BOI!!! You need to get your priorities straight. Weather: 😐😑😐

[@ultimor1183]

Man every murderer just seems to have a spare chest lying around.

[@liliangutierrez8171]

These videos have gotten me through this Coronavirus ordeal.

[@jeropage95]

Nice outro music, goes pretty well with the sausage!

[@kylelaird5539]

Love your videos brodude

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Thanks broski!

[@sethlong9118]

You know I've watched a couple of your videos and I just can't figure it out, why don't you have more subscribers? You have a unique quality most KZbinrs have to substitute with CGI and bad puns: You're engaging, and whether that be from some pretty impressive practical effects or a wonderfully morbid Tale the fact remains, the perfect mix of brains, looks, and charisma really should be pulling you in a higher subscriber count. Well it was meant to be a compliment, but I think I'm kind of screwed that up. A+ for shooting on location!! (Fixed).

[@TurkeyMaze]

WOW - I can't believe stuff like this happened. ...Unless some tour guide made them up...

[@AntonioGiammarioli]

Well, that was messed up!

[@TeethToothman]

What amazing stories from history! 🫀🗝️🫀

[@TheCaffeinatedOrganist]

Good work man. Enjoyed this

[@connorpayne9830]

I still love my wife in a convoluted Europe way 🤣🤣

[@fuckeverybodycom]

You got more stories I knew about the first one already

[@noirboheme4234]

Only in Nola where moving a block down street means torrential rainstorm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ianlewis6258]

"I love you're skull t-shirt!!!!!!" "It's from "Over The Garden Wall" "Keep up the good historical work, Mister!!!!!!"

[@BardovBacchus]

How do you feel about doing a video about Bacon's Rebellion..?

[@G00N3YC4NG]

Respect for taking that rain by the balls and soaking it up ;)

[@starwarsman70]

Watching this video, i found myself muttering "...Carol f*ckin Baskin..."

[@stmary2260]

A video about The axe murder is neded asap!! Even a tour!

[@akryeguy]

My first American ancestor and his brother landed in New Orleans on the SS Bremen hailing from Prussia. They did not stay, and somehow made their way to Fort Madison, Iowa where there was a community of fellow German ex-pats. He was on the 1860 Census there as a Cooper.

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

So Elsa was Italian and ahead of her times. Part of the Scarpa Crew. Funny my Grandfather was a butcher in Brooklyn with his 7 bros. Rumors had it there used to be 8. Great Profession👍🏾

[@Tamzbongeaux]

I'm from new orleans and I remember the waitress in the chest. I didnt know however that he gutted her and packed her with salt.. omg

[@Bobbymaccys]

“Bigger fish to fry” Why not: “Bigger sausage to sear”?

[@johnburt7935]

It certainly sounds as though this street is an attractor for a certain kind of crime.

[@stanmoroncini8825]

Cool shirt you're wearing, where did you get it?

[@rogueapache6467]

I'm so concerned, I'm over here thinking "what's with Butchers and Chests/Trunks?"

[@CALPH88]

Have you ever herd the folktale of the PIG PEOPLE? I use to live in the 3rd ward back in the 90s as a kid and it would freak me out all the time.

[@Urbexplus]

I applaud you bro you tell and amazing story I’m a Nola local/youtuber I always wanted to do content like this but I suck at remembering and telling the story lol I’m gonna be up all night watching your channel now 😆😆😆

[@brandonlett]

love the history form my home state

[@jenniferditty2904]

You crack me up.

[@lordkitchener967]

Wasn’t a version of the first murder in Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark (without the affair)?

[@kolardgreene3096]

This man really just standing in the rain. I'd be recording under an umbrella for sure

[@dannykid3215]

Is the music at the end of these things from Ravenous or do my ears deceive

[@alexanderchenf1]

You intentionally chose the best roads in French Quarter to shoot.

[@crcurran]

"...a struggling obscure KZbinr" LOL I'm dyin'

[@exceptionvideo]

High on the list of how to deal with any NOLA problem is food preparation. Salting Dora doesn't even seem odd to me. In 2006 after Zack jumped off the hotel roof, they found poor Addie in the oven and on the stove.

[@BrandEver117]

Helga and Hans were definitely real people, not just the first two German-ish names an American would think of when making up a ghost story

[@Nightmarigny]

Your sausage ghost story is much more detailed than mine - I make it clear it's just a legend but it DOES have strange resemblences to the actual murders on that block. I also do make a sausage joke or two... I never heard of Henry finding Teresa with another man. The rumor in the neighborhood was that she was having an affair with Joseph Caruso in his office downstairs. The women's dismembered bodies were actually found in their individual clothing trunks, which they had been threatening to pack up - they were symbols of the women's potential independence. Their bodies were found the morning after the murders, though, discovered by Nettie Compass, the housekeeper. Her screams alerted the neighbors, who brought the police. A citywide manhunt ensued for three days. Henry was caught - thanks to his prominent arm tattoo of a naked female torso - trying to board a ship using a fake name. I forgot about the Long portrait. Henry was the warden's favorite. The warden allowed Henry to leave Angola on work assignments for 17 years, until he finally hailed a cab and escaped. Caught two years later - and given early release! Then shot his next gf twice in the chest. Nice guy. He should have been given the death penalty, based on how easily that penalty was handed out back then. But the press had painted him as a handsome (well, he was) victim of alcoholism and a morally insufficient wife. Public sympathy swayed the all-male juries; he got to live and go on to attempt another murder. John Henry Morgan was free for two years after Dana's mummy was found, because Katrina destroyed our dna testing facility. DNA samples had to be sent to Virginia, and there was a two year wait for results. The houses are spaced out evenly - 715 (Moity trunk murders), 725 (Mueller sausage legend), 735 (John Henry Morgan). HENRY Moity and John HENRY (a name he adopted). Both were butchers/meat-carvers (as was Zack Bowen). Both decapitated and dismembered the victims and put their remains into trunks. Both serve/served time at Angola. Both MAY have been influenced by the "sausage ghost." Okay, maybe not that part.

[@DarkestdaysAU]

I need to know where you got that t-shirt.

[@sashakhan4317]

Elsa should NOT have gotten away with it.

[@Quirky_QF]

As a native Charlottean, I seized up when you said they lived here during Katrina. That bitch was in MY backyard?

[@crmesson22k]

typical New Orleans weather there nice.

[@NymbusCumulo928]

"A relationship where one person has a full time job and the other does nothing all day" Sounds like your average american middle class marriage.

[@Kay2be2mr]

I'm now wondering if you have any followers who are butchers.

[@oldesalt10310]

Ravenous soundtrack again

[@fiafia5802]

He brought the chest WITH him and his new girlfriend. 😳😳

[@fds7476]

6:54 - Goddammit, why must the Kingfish figure into _everything?_

[@Gwaithmir]

This folktale was the basis for the film "The Mad Butcher" starring Victor Buono.

[@chrisnaden3590]

They shoulda called her 'Gretchen' - Hans & Gretchen => 'Hansel and Gretel', in the childhood diminutive form :)

[@gerryphilly53]

Your last story is reminiscent of the case of Ira Einhorn here in Philadelphia. He killed his girlfriend Holly Maddux and stored her body in a trunk for 18 months until it was discovered by the police in 1979. Because he was an established figure in Philadelphia, having, among other things, cohosted the city’s first Earth Day celebration in 1970, his defense attorney, former Philadelphia DA and later US Senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Spector was able to get his bail reduced to $40,000 of which 10% or $4,000 actually had to be posted. Einhorn then skipped town and led authorities on a 17 year chase through Europe until he was finally tracked down and arrested in France. In the interim, Einhorn had been convicted of Murder and given a sentence of life without parole. Even though he was not subject to the death penalty, the fact that the trial was held in absentia became an issue for his extradition that was only resolved when the state legislature passed a law allowing such defendants the right of a new trial. He was finally extradited to the US in 2001, retried, convicted and again sentenced to life. He died just last month on April 4, 2020 in state custody.

[@brandonellis8111]

Reviewbruh shout out 💪🏿

[@Long_live_Da_Bully]

No on the sidewalk. Streets are narrow in the quarters. Really narrow.😒I hate it.🙄

[@simon-8660]

So this is the new orleans Sweeny Todd.

[@Desyx14]

This man stood out in the rain and yall only gave him 1 and a half thousand likes.

[@TheWildmanden]

Honestly "a gregarious german" already sounds like a massive red flag

[@zlatko8051]

I am not surprised if most tales that accompany cursed roads in New Orleans involve a butcher.

[@popbaby103]

You should’ve talked about addie and Zack. It’s almost the same as john and Dana

[@sashakhan4317]

The 2nd case was understandable though.

[@wyatt1339]

“It’s gonna be a while before I eat anything from Satriale’s”

[@EPWillard]

"honey theres a man across the street yelling and gesturing at our house and doing german accents"

[@invisible_can]

but how happy was the last ending

[@beverlybalius9303]

Good story telling!!!! Please do one on the Guy that killed and ate his GF after Hurricane Katrina,,,,, true story

[@furbs9999]

What's that blue spot on your face?

[@commentcopbadge6665]

In the last one, didn't Dana's parents report her missing? I mean, 3 years?

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Tonight's Episode of Real-Life Mad Butcher Ghost Stories: The Terrifying Historical Accounts Behind What Winds Up on Your Plate for Dinner

[@ZakkuTakku]

If someone were to tell me that the first story (at least loosely) inspired Sweeney Todd, I'd probably believe them lmao

[@maxharrop9643]

Why did they wait two years to report her missing didnt they see anything alarming in that time?

[@sophielovesthetruth7261]

Is he standing in the STREET?

[@ChristisLord1917]

This dude is always in the rain

[@internetpleb4854]

I was asking my self why didn’t they bother just burying the bodies then I remember oh it’s Louisiana dogging down many be a a few feet it already hitting water level. So it wound the possible

[@bluebini279]

And I guess elsa saw hans coming if you know what I mean

[@Galvion1980]

I am a German and I approve this message XD