Episode 159: Josie Arlington

In this episode…

Patrice, Marleah, and Courtney drink tailgate bloody marys and talk storyville, moving statues, and cemetery swaps.

In this classic rags to riches to graveyard ghosts story, we learn about Josie Arlington, who was Orphaned on the streets of New Orleans at a young age but grew up to rule the city’s newborn vice district. And then haunt its fancy Metairie Cemetery with her hell flames and walking statuary.

Resources:

• Josie Arlington, from The Honest Courtesan

• The Flaming Tomb of Josie Arlington, from The Moonlit Road

• The Life and Times of the Notorious Josie Arlington, from Owlcation

• The Morales-Arlington Tomb, a Fiery Legacy, from the New Orleans Historical Society

• Storyville - The Ghosts of NOLA’s Red Light DIstrict, from New Orleans Ghosts

• Josie Arlington: Storyville’s Most Infamous Madam, from Royal Tours NOLA

• Storyville, New Orleans: the Rise and Fall of the Notorious Red Light District, from Varstory

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