New Orleans--it's a natural for reports of the supernatural. This is not a tale of Voodoo or the walking dead or Marie LaVeux, the Voodoo Queen.
Several years ago a friend who is a CPA was between offices, her lease had expired and she had a new place being built out for her. In the interim--it was the Spring, and tax season--she used the guest house in back of our home as her temporary office to work and meet clients. Now she is a very reasonable person, not given to flights of fancy, so what she said gave us pause.
She said she was working away on clients' returns, when she looked up and saw our youngest daughter sitting on the rear porch steps. Next to her was a woman in a blue dress who looked like she was talking to our daughter. She didn't recognize the woman as one of her clients so she continued working on the return. When she took a break shortly after, she came out and our daughter was still in the yard. She asked who the woman was, and our daughter told her that she hadn't seen anyone. Yet our friend maintains that she saw the woman clearly, even to the color of the dress.
Note here: Our house was built in 1867, and has many interesting owners, including the widow of Prudent Mallard, a famous Louisiana furniture maker in the late 19th century. We don't know if she died in the home, but we do know that the house was sold by her daughters after her death. From the records we can't surmise that anyone else might have died in the house. We wonder who our visitor was--there hasn't been another sighting either of the woman in the blue dress or anyone else.