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