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Ghost of the french opera house
The ghost of a witch once walked the streets of the Vieux Carre. Some people claimed they saw this female apparition on St. Ann Street. The ghost paraded through various parts of the Quarter going down Toulouse St. and the Rue Royale. To many she was known as the "Witch of the French Opera House" for it was from the opera building she first emerged, took her walk, then disappeared.
Shocking was her appearance. She had ghost white hair and a face as pale as death itself. Her eyes were blood red.
Reportedly she was the ghost of an aging woman whose younger lover had taken a mistress. The aging woman, distraught over her lover's betrayal, killed herself. But she later returned as a ghost and murdered her cheating lover and the mistress. The ghost walked the streets for many years from the French Opera House to a building, a boarding house where she had allegedly committed the murders.
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