Attic Madame Lalaurie House Inside

We visited the lalaurie mansion as part of a walking ghost tour and heard an incredible story involving madame lalaurie.

Attic madame lalaurie house inside.

Dozens of slaves were reportedly chained to the wall in a secret attic. The mansion of lalaurie was set on fire by her personal chef in the year 1834. Wikimedia commons madame marie delphine lalaurie in 1834 at the mansion at 1140 royal street in the french quarter of new orleans a fire broke out. Louis street in the french quarter.

On april 10 1834 a fire broke out in the lalaurie home and when the volunteer fireman came to the scene they discovered the horror hidden inside the facade of gentility. Though well known in popular culture the infamous madame lalaurie has never been given the detailed extensive deep dive that this film has planned including the exclusive right to the home. There were stories to be told and luckily there were plenty of slaves and witnesses to share the gruesome facts. Step inside madame lalaurie s house of horrors where witnesses claimed she committed appalling acts of torture and murder.

However in 1833 delphine chased a small enslaved girl with a whip until the girl fell off the roof of the house and died. The lady was so inhuman that she left her slaves to burn and die inside the attic in which she had locked them up for months. Some were in cages and body parts were strewn about haphazardly. Marie delphine macarty or maccarthy march 19 1787 december 7 1849 more commonly known as madame blanque or after her third marriage as madame lalaurie was a new orleans creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household.

While the couple fled from their mansion the slaves in the attic were left behind to die a painful death. More about the 12 year old slave. The exterior of her house on the show was ironically filmed two houses down from the lalaurie mansion at the gallier house museum. To many it was a blessing when her appalling sadism was discovered after a fire broke out in her residence.

This was only the beginning of the horrors inside the lalaurie mansion. The inside of delphine lalaurie s house was filmed at the hermann grima house museum on st. Lalaurie tried to cover up the incident but police found the body. Born during the spanish colonial period lalaurie married three times in louisiana and was twice widowed.

In 1834 her elderly cook set the house on fire to end the horrific ordeals.