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The Casket Girls’ Vampire Legend at Ursuline Convent
New Orleans has a dark tale that still haunts its old streets. Between 1704 and 1728, France sent young women to Louisiana as wives for male settlers.
These “Casket Girls,” named for the small trunks they brought, looked ghostly pale after months at sea. When they reached New Orleans, Ursuline nuns housed them until marriages were set…