I recently passed a bloody good time on Saturday, September 9, 2017 at the grand opening party of Bloody Mary’s New Orleans Haunted Museum & Voodoo Pharmacy Shop. There was a large turnout of guests who mingled, danced and toasted the new museum.
Author, Medium and Voodoo Paranormal Investigator Bloody Mary was on hand greeting guests and signing her book Hauntings, Horrors and Dancing with the Dead.
The museum contains dramatic multi-media displays, a haunted collection of dolls (Annabelle anyone), Séance parlor, ghost photo gallery, paranormal evidence, Occult artifacts in a 200 year old documented haunted house!
But the eeriest part of the evening was the tour of the upstairs murder spot. The apartment right above the museum was the scene of one of the most ghastly and scary crimes to happen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The grisly murder of Addie Hall, 30, by her boyfriend, Zackery Bowen, 28 shocked the city and the nation. The couple had fallen in love in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and stayed in the city, living a survivalist existence and becoming the darlings of national media outlets including the New York Times. Police found out about Hall’s murder when Bowen jumped off a French Quarter hotel with a suicide note in his pocket, which laid out in excrutiating detail how he strangled, cut up and cooked his girlfriend’s body during a weekend that also included cocaine and booze binges.
It was just chilling to see the actual stove, refrigerator, bathtub and futon where Bowen committed this heinous crime. The ghost of Addie Hall still haunts the space as well as that of a child. Creepy fun. So as Halloween nears, I can think of no other place to visit then the new Haunted Museum. In addition to the museum, Bloody Mary also offers tours, readings and seances. For more information, go to www.bloodymarytours.com.