THE DEVIL BABY IN CANDYLAND

My Mother being a native of Louisiana and having grown up in New Orleans, I've taken a keen interest in this particular story. It is one I am sure she would have relished in the telling and she knew many. This is one she either was unaware of or chose to keep it to herself.

From Alyne A. Pustanio's website comes this unforgettable story of New Orlean's haunted French Quarter.


In the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s the area around the intersection of Iberville and Chartres Streets in the New Orleans French Quarter, so near to the Mississippi River docks, was a place burgeoning with bars catering to all sorts of predilections.

...the mysterious story of one of their own, a dancer named Sylvia, and her association with a strange creature they all believe was linked to the woman’s disappearance.  Rest of Story: