After earning the first license to mix and dispense medicine in Louisiana Louis Dufilho Jr. opened a pharmacy in the French Quarter, even though he practiced primitive procedures like bloodletting and leeches Dufilho was a respected apothecary. However, Dr. Joseph Dupas, the man who bought his old building and opened up his own practice was…
After vanquishing the British from New Orleans in the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson returned home to middle Tennessee seeking a new challenge. During this time word quickly spread about the stories of the Bell Witch in Adams, Tennessee. “Old Hickory” wasn’t afraid and decided to go visit his old friend and see if the…
In St. James Court, in the heart of Old Louisville, you will find the Pink Palace. Now, the building wasn’t always pink and initially it was where the upper crust of Louisville came to unwind and spend some time with ladies of the night. That would change as the house changed hands and eventually the…
In the annals of sports history, curses have haunted sports teams, casting long shadows over their ambitions and victories. One such curse that gripped the San Francisco Giants dates back to 1918, when a man named Eddie Grant met a tragic end during World War I. The story of the Curse of Coogan’s Bluff, although…
When the War Between the States began, a young man named Dewitt Smith Jobe followed the example of his cousins, Sam Davis and Dee Smith, by enlisting in Company D of the Tennessee Infantry. After three years of fighting, Jobe was selected to become a Coleman scout. The new position was seen as a promotion,…
In November 1932 a wealthy Chicago businessman named Joseph F. Hirt became disoriented in bad weather and crashed his plane into Dean Hill in Kempville, Tennessee, just outside of Carthage. Onboard the aircraft was his wife, Inez as well as their friend Elizabeth Hunter and her two children. When authorities discovered the wreckage, Hirt was…
Laid out in 1789, St. Louis Cemetery #1 is one of the oldest and most historically significant cemeteries in New Orleans. With roughly 700 tombs and 100,000 people interned in walls and tombs sinking into the ground, the cemetery is a site to see. It’s also the final resting place of Voo Doo priestess Marie…
In the 19th century Addison Buchanan built a modest log cabin not too far from his parents in Donelson. When the airport expanded in the mid-1990s Addison’s old home was relocated to the grounds of the Buchanan Log House on Elm Hill Pike. The house is said to be haunted by Addison as well as…
Built in 1823, Hiram Lodge No. 7 in Franklin wasn’t just the largest building in middle Tennessee during that time, it was also the tallest building west of the Allegheny Mountains! During the Union occupation of Franklin, Confederate sympathizers climbed to the third floor of the building to make sketches of nearby Fort Granger. Those…
Why do people hear people arguing in the Tennessee State Capitol late at night when no one is in the building? Also, are the ground haunted by a former United States President who was at one time buried there? Who is the Union soldier who that still guards the Capitol? Find out this plus a…
