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Josie Arlington was a notorious New Orleans madam, though other than her rather unsavory occupation, it isn’t clear that she was involved in anything else illegal. Her date of birth has been lost to time, presumably because, in her profession, you just didn’t tell. She died in 1914 and was buried in Metairie Cemetary in New Orleans (I have no idea how this particular cemetary fared when Katrina hit… ).Soon after her death, locals became convinced that her crypt was haunted. The statue of the woman in front of the crypt was said to take on a life of it’s own and wander the graveyard at night. It was discovered upon investigation that a nearby streetlamp, coupled with the wind, was casting an eerie glow on the statue, presumably causing the rumors. She was at some point moved to an undisclosed location in the same cemetary, and the rumors stopped.

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