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Dear Alex you said:

"Now, New Orleans is well-known for its voodoo cults and one can find voodoo objects in restaurants and even a large voodoo store in the French Quarter "

I say:

I have never been to New Orleans but a foreigner from another country mentioned the voodoo. Since then I began to wonder just how long it would be before New Orleans would be hit by a hurricane.

I know that Tocqueville who had come sometime around the early eigtheen hundreds, said that in New Orleans they would have these large balls. The girls at these balls were mulatto's and went with the hope of finding some wealthy men to support them.

Also from what I gathered in a movie with Bette Davis, ( I can't remember the name, but it was made in the late 1930's), it seems 'yellow jack' (yellow fever) was quite common in New Orleans during the 1800's. If someone had it the whole city would be quarantined. Anyone caught leaving New Orleans would be shot. The sick people would be sent off to a certain island to die.

Is it any wonder then that New Orleans has ghosts, not to mention that 'dueling' was alive and well for quite some time.

Zenovia

Your Old Testament ability to discern cause and effect is quite impressive, really. :rolleyes:
-Daniel

Dear Alex you said:

"New Orleans is rather haunted - some say the most haunted and disturbed city in North America!"

I say:

I've heard that San Francisco is also quite haunted, especially by Chinese ghosts. I've read that before the great earthquake there were many heroin 'dens' with secret women slaves.

The most interesting thing that I ever heard of in my family was a story about my grandaunt. She was highly devout and at night she would hear rocks being tossed at her roof. Now there were some people that were trying to claim the house and that's why she slept there at night.

One night she asked my grandmother, who was quite fearless, to please sleep with her. She did and couldn't believe the racket. She said she couldn't sleep all night and kept hearing voices in the key hole saying that 'they' will get her.

In the morning of course, there was not one sign of anything having been thrown at the house. Eventually these things must have stopped because I heard that the noises started again during the Nazi occupation when the townspeople were starving. A form of Nazi genocide I guess!

In this case I think it was 'demons' because it seems that Saint Vianney the 'Cure D'Ars' had similar experiences. As for me, I've had my own experiences, both demonic and ghostly...but that's another story.

Zenovia

For my dollar the most haunted place I have ever been is Gettysburg PA. On several occasions I have been in that civil war town and seen and heard things that defy the logical. Not once have I ever felt any danger, always that these young men North and South in the flower of their youth were taken from this earth and maybe God is letting them try to tell us here not to repeat their mistakes, a restless warning is you will. I have heard that Verdun and the Normandy Beaches are even more haunted...... war is a terrible thing.
Michael Aidan

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Dear Teen,

In the military, all chaplains must comply with uniform regulations. That means clerics are out except as an option when serving in a non-battlefield related area, and then only for services. I have even seen BDU vestments (that is Battle Dress Uniform or camoflague). Otherwise they have to be in uniform with the appropriate insignia that deginates them a chaplain and an officer.

I hope this helps.

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+

Dear Michael you said:

"For my dollar the most haunted place I have ever been is Gettysburg PA. On several occasions I have been in that civil war town and seen and heard things that defy the logical."

I say:

I've heard this too about Gettysburg. The conclusion that I came to was that they were Protestants so that the place never had a sacremental blessing.

My mother told me a story about a young boy that fell from a cliff. Every night the people living there would hear his screams until they finally had a priest come and bless the spot. The screams immediately stopped.

They say that the state of anxiety one feels in a tragic death continues, so that the soul cannot find peace and lives in that continuous state of anxiety. It's a pity that some service's cannot be held at places where battles took place so that the souls can move on.

Zenovia