A convent attic sealed with blessed nails to keep vampires inside is the kind of New Orleans story that sounds impossible to forget, and we can’t resist pulling on the thread. We start in the French Quarter with the Ursuline Convent legend, then peel back the spooky paint to find the real history underneath: the Casket Girls, the long Atlantic crossing, the pale faces stepping off the boat, and the way a rumor can turn a human story into a vampire myth that still gets repeated on tours today.

From there, we swing hard into true crime and conspiracy territory with a New Orleans centered look at the JFK assassination narrative. We talk Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties to the city, why Carlos Marcello keeps showing up in conspiracy conversations, and how underworld politics, humiliation, and revenge become motive fuel. We also unpack the idea of CIA and mafia overlap, tracing it back to World War II port security and the darker toolkit of leverage and blackmail that people argue shaped later scandals.

We close with a case that feels like New Orleans at its most unsettling: Yelena Carisi, an Italian actress and TV personality who comes to town to study street culture, hints at meeting a spiritual master, then disappears without a trace. With records reportedly wiped out by Hurricane Katrina and sightings that never pan out, the mystery becomes a reminder that when the paper trail dies, stories grow teeth.

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A bayou at dusk can make anything sound like a monster, but some of the creepiest parts of the Gulf Coast don’t need imagination. We’re recording from an undisclosed spot in Hancock County, Mississippi, where the water runs toward the Gulf and the quiet has a way of daring you to fill it with stories.

For our "creep", we start with a classic local-style scare: a stubborn old-timer, Hurricane Katrina, and a curse that supposedly sticks to the land. Then we pull the rug out on purpose and talk about what’s genuinely unsettling after a storm like that, including reports of bodies surfacing in nearby bayous and the gritty reality of identification through DNA testing and dental records. We even detour into a famous forensic curveball where an implant serial number helped solve an identity, because true crime often comes down to the smallest surviving detail.

From there, the conversation turns to a darker Gulf Coast thread: a case tied to a TV appearance and a dancer whose remains wash up on local beaches. For our “crime,” we dig into the Dixie Mafia, including the wild rise of Danny Singleton and how a chance ride can become a criminal apprenticeship. Then we cap it all with a “cryptid” we grew up hearing about, the cowagator, and why the best monster stories sometimes double as a blunt safety lecture about alligators, night water, and life jackets.

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A stadium that may still be sitting on human remains. A Civil War stunt that ends on a gallows. A Cajun “werewolf” story that doubles as a cultural rulebook. New Orleans doesn’t just have spooky tales, it has history with teeth, and we go looking for it on the ground instead of only behind a microphone.

We kick things off with our CREEP at the Caesars Superdome, digging into the creepy claim that it was built over the old Girod Street Cemetery and that not every body was fully relocated. From the Saints “curse” jokes to the very real Hurricane Katrina aftermath, we talk about why certain places in New Orleans feel charged, even before you add ghosts. We also get into the nasty legacy of John B. Weller, a name tied to violence in the 1800s that some people still connect to the Superdome’s uneasy vibe.

Then we head to the old U.S. Mint building (today the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Museum) for a true CRIME moment from 1862: William Bruce Mumford climbs the building, rips down the American flag, and hands out pieces like souvenirs before the Union finds him and makes a brutal example out of it. It’s a reminder that the city’s haunted reputation often comes from what happened in public, not what happened in the dark.

Finally, we bring it home with Louisiana folklore with this week's CRYPTID: the Rougarou legend. We trace its loup-garou roots, how it travels with Acadian migration into Cajun culture, and the Catholic Lent rules that helped keep the story alive.

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Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids is a podcast by Ghost City Tours, exploring the strange, sinister, and unexplained history lurking beneath America’s most haunted cities. If you'd like to take a ghost tour in this episode's featured city, or to find tours in a city nearest you, visit www.ghostcitytours.com!