New Orleans, Louisiana - Voodoo enhanced New Orleans cemetery

Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery & Poor Folks Cemetery - Close to Metairie cemetery, within a cluster of a few others, it is unique because -- at least when I visited -- there was all sorts of evidence of voodoo practices going on. Crypts were broken into and human bones were visible. People had left black candles about and had drawn symbols on the ground to conjure up spirits. It's very creepy!

Also, near Delgado Community College, there's a cemtery for the poor. most of the head stones are hand painted wood and mispelled words abound ex: "dide" for "died". A local folk artist has elaborately decorated a grave there. [k. brown, 01/27/2001]