New Orleans is known for many things—Mardi Gras, jazz music, beignets—but locals will tell you the city has another claim to fame: vampires.
According to one TikToker, it’s not just tourist trap folklore.
Everyone In New Orleans Has A Vampire Story
In a viral video with more than 1.4 million views, TikToker @user27291002839303 (which might be an AI account) explains that vampire lore runs deep in New Orleans. And it’s not just something tour guides talk about to spook visitors.
“The vampires in New Orleans are real,” she says in the video. “There’s all this lore about, like, ‘Oh, I met a vampire at a bar in New Orleans.’ ‘My Uber driver told me he met a vampire once.’”…