Stranger in New Orleans

The October Halloween Love Story

I don't know what I was thinking when I created this book. I wanted to put something for the month of October out there and when thinking of that month New Orleans came to mind. Mind you, we visited New Orleans this year and it was a much different experience than the last time we were there about 4 years ago. So I could go on and on about what we physically did when we were in New Orleans but instead, let me tell you about the feeling I got just being there.

The last time I was there, it was a vacation. We were in the heart of the French Quarters at an old style but fancy hotel with a bar on the lower level. People in this area were fun and it felt like everything we were seeing was a show.. like most of the people are in that area just to make it a tourist attraction and let me tell you, they did a wonderful job and the stay that year, I think it was for my 52nd Birthday, it was a great time and experience and New Orleans owed me nothing.

But the second time I went. All the haunted stories, the things that I have red made sense this time around and my eyes were open. Mind you we were going there to experience New Orleans this time and the history it holds, and boy did we get our eyes full. We did the plantation tours and the swamp tour and I could feel that something wasn't right there.

We didn't go out much at night but the hotel we were staying in had a creepy vibe, like something happened there or that it use to be an old plantation house turned into a hotel and the rooms were all over balconies facing an outdoor courtyard, I thought that was interesting.

I can't tell you specifically what happened but one night in our room I heard someone screaming but not nothing in this day and time, like something that took place from an older time... the scream was strong, full of hurt and anger and it was from a distance. This stuck with me when I left that place, I had a lot of questions and I was a bit confused at a few things I saw and experiences we had too. I think I will go back and experience it another way soon. For now, you will have to enjoy the fictional stories that I write about a mysterious place that holds so much history. Let's take this journey together and if the tales are true, then so be it... but if they're not, well, I have a few tales of my own that I could tell.