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i know its late but oh well...
while we were in new orleans we took one of those haunted tours at night and they gave us a walk thru the french quarter and told many stories of what happened and where etc etc..
new orleans is the most haunted city in the US and after hearing most of those stories, i am not suprised.
the reason i bring this up is b/c of your shot of the st. louis cathedral. we were told that the park directly in front of the church was a large lot made up of sand and is the place were public executions were held on fridays. now this was late 1700s early 1800s so the executions they performed were very gruesome. in fact, the church would actually have alter boys break up trashy bricks with hammers etc so that they can bag them and sell to the public who were attending the stoning of a criminal. new orleans is built on marsh land so you couldnt just dig up your own rocks etc so the church had found a way to make money etc...
also since the exections were held on fridays, wedding cerimonies were held on saturdays so early saturday morning the same alter boys would go out into the sand lot and cover up all of the pools of blood left over from the day before with fresh sand etc etc...
pretty weird huh.
anyways.. just thought id share what i was told...
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