New Orleans is City Haunted
Kune hurumende dzakawanda muNew Orleans. Muzvokwadi, hatisi kuwedzera "para" kumabasa ezvakanaka patinotaura pamusoro pavo. Kwatiri, iri pedyo nekureruka kuva nemweya kana maviri mauri imba. Imba yedu inofananidzwa nehuwandu hweNew Orleans dzimba dzekugara uye yakavakwa muma1870. Tine mweya wechikadzi. Murume wangu anomuti "Carney". Anofarira kutamisa zvinhu zvakapoteredza zvipfeko uye anotya makate nekufamba pasi pamatanho ekupedzisira usiku, asi zvisinei, iye akadzikama.
Sezvo madhimoni achienda, haasi anotyisa kwazvo, uye zvichida inowanzoonekwa kune vazhinji vanofa muNew Orleans. Sezvo akadaro, haazotori nyaya yakanyorwa pamusoro pake. Carney ari kukuvadza imba mune rimwe remaguta akawanda zvikuru munyika. Saka, zvichida haazombozivikanwi kunze kweshamwari dzedu nemhuri.
Mafiro akaita seCarney haatore zvakawanda zvepa press. Asi, vamwe muNew Orleans vanoita. Friar Antonio de Sedella akauya kuNew Orleans kunenge muna 1774 neSpain Inquisition muLouisana. Hazvina kumbobvunzisisa mubvunzo, pamusoro pemakore mashomanana, Baba Sedella vakazova mudiwa Pere Antoine, mufundisi we (ipapo) St. Louis Church. Nzira iri pedyo neSt. Louis Cathedral inonzi zita rake, ndiPere Antoine Alley. Iye achiri kumativi ose muSt. Louis Cathedral, iyo isiri nzvimbo yakaipa yekuda. IChedhedral iri kubva kuScarleton Square uye iri pamwoyo weNew Orleans French Quarter .
Zvino pane Prince Suleyman, mutambi weTurk uyo aiti ndiye sultan, kana kuti aimbova sultan, wenyika yekumabvazuva.
Sezviri pachena, Sultan akanga aita vavengi vechisimba vasati vasvika kuNew Orleans uye vakamubhadhara iye nevakuru vake kushanyira zvakashata. Kunyange zvazvo akafa, Sultan haana kumbobvira asiya. Sultan ndiyo inonyanya kushamisa uye isingazivikanwi yeNew Orleans mweya. Heino nhau yake.
Yakaisvonaka Octoroon, Julie, aiva maikadzi veFrench vaipfuma mumavambo ekuma1800.
Julie tenzi wake akamuchengeta mumutambo wakaisvonaka pamusha wakanaka paRoy Street. Akamupa zvipfeko zvakanaka uye zvishongo. Akaita kuti ave nechikafu chakanakisisa chokudya uye nevashandi kuti vatarisire zvinhu zvose nokuda kwake. Mutungamiri wechiFrench aizouya kuna Julie manheru akawanda uye avo vaviri vakaita rudo rukuru mumasikati ekuSultry eNew Orleans. Asi, Julie akaita chimwe chikanganiso chikuru, akada murume akanaka weFrench uye akataura zvewanano kakawanda. Murume wechiFrench aivewo murudo, asi kuroora kumukadzi ane 1/8 dema ropa kwakanga kusingafungidziki panguva iyoyo. Pakupedzisira, Julie tenzi akabvuma kuroorana, kana Julie aigona kuratidzira rudo rwake kwaari. Akavimbisa Julie kuti kana akazorora husiku huri kunze, asina kupfeka. Iri raiva muna December. Murume wechiFrench aive nechokwadi chokuti Julie aizoramba ari kunze kwekanguva uye achipinda mumba make yekutonhora nguva refu. Nhamo, tenzi akanga asina kururama. Mangwanani, akawana Julie wake akanaka, asina kupfeka uye asina upenyu kunze kwebhokisi rake. Iye zvino pamusiku weDecember usiku Julie anokwanisa kuonekwa achifamba pamusoro pedzimba yake, asina kupfeka.
Ndingafungidzira imba yakanyanyisa uye mabasa akaipa akaipa akaenderera mberi muLalaurie Mansion muQueti yeFrance. Zviri pachena kuti imba inonyanya kuwanikwa muNew Orleans iyo Lalaurie Mansion yakanyatsotsungirira nhoroondo yakaipisisa, uye mukurumbira wayo wekushanyirwa kune dzimwe nyika yakakodzera uye yakanyatsoratidzwa.
Imwe imba yakakosha yaDr. Louis LaLaurie nemudzimai wake, Delphine, imba iyi yakakurumidza kuonekwa kuti ndiyo nzvimbo yakaoma yekuedza kune varanda apo moto wakapera muna 1835. Verenga nyaya yose.
Le Petit Theatre yava nemakore zana nemakore uye yakashanda senzvimbo yemunharaunda munzvimbo yeFrance Quarter kubvira pakutanga kwayo. Iko kuri kuitika zvimwe zvekugadzirisa iyezvino uye zvichava zvinonakidza kuona kana mweya wayo unogara, murume akanaka mumasikati emakore ekuma1900 apfeka, achaenda kumushure mutsva.
Kune dzimwe dzakawanda dzakawanda muNew Orleans. Vamwe vari muhotera, vamwe mumapuranga, uye vamwe, saCarney wedu, mumisha yakawanda yeNew Orleans.