The New Orleans Casket Girls

When ships full of pale women and their caskets arrived in New Orleans, vampiric suspicions began to arise... but what was the real story behind these "Casket Girls"?

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This podcast is produced, researched, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras from Pixabay. Art designed in Canva.

Sources used for this episode:

https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/casket-girls/ 
https://www.nola.com/300/300-unique-new-orleans-moments-casket-girls-shipped-to-new-orleans-for-molding-into-refined/article_2038e39e-0290-535f-875b-a0de5f93aee8.html 
https://locationsoflore.com/2022/08/06/casket-girls-new-orleans-vampire-tale/ 
https://allthatsinteresting.com/casket-girls 
https://scrcexhibits.omeka.net/exhibits/show/sihistory/settlement/french/frwomen#:~:text=Many%20French%20explorers%2C%20traders%2C%20and,were%20relatively%20independent%20and%20influential 
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5597&context=etd