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Alyne's recent guest appearence November 19, 2010 listen here now! Alyne Pustanio's Guest On Darkness Radio listen here: Play/Download To inquire about booking Alyne Pustanio for your next supernatural or Paranormal evening, lecture or event please contact via email here:,CONTACT Alyne Pustanio is one of the most sought after leading lecturers on the subject of the occult, paranormal phenomena, Zombie and Voodoo hoodoo Folklore and explores the real facts associated with New Orleans Real haunted Tales, and those of the State Of Louisiana, the Greater Gulf Coast and the World. November is officially Zombie Baby Awareness Month .... I am excited to announce accepting charity donations for The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and The New Orleans Healing Center Meet Today's “Demon du Jour” Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds Alyne Pustanio is also a one of the acclaimed featured contributing writers in Brad Stieger's Number 1 Best Selling Books: Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creature of the Apocalypse. And Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside. Celebrate in Style
It may be noted by some that many of my "Haunting Tales of Old New Orleans" contain comments, words, and discourse that today might be considered "politically incorrect" in the mind of the average informed reader. The inclusion of these examples of local vernacular and colloquialisms in the stories and legends presented here is a conscious effort on the part of the author to reproduce, to the greatest extent possible, the atmosphere and mindset of the time in which many of the folktales originated. It is not meant to offend or provoke, but rather to preserve the realities and daily nuances of an era in New Orleans and Louisiana - the "Creole Epoch" - that, though familiar to older generations, is fast fading from the character of New Orleans. It is my sincere hope that you read and enjoy these tales in the context and spirit in which they are intended. Thank you. Do you want to spend a haunted night with real New Orleans Ghosts?
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Taken from first-person accounts and historical documents, this book chronicles more than 300 examples of alien encounters, conspiracy theories, and the influence of extraterrestrials on human events throughout history. Investigating claims of visits from otherworldly creatures, aliens living among us, abductions of humans to alien spacecraft, and accounts of interstellar cooperation since the UFO crash in Roswell, this disscussion of the theories and mysteries surrounding aliens is packed with thought-provoking stories and shocking revelations of alien involvement in the lives of Earthling
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Pazuzu was an Assyrian and Babylonian demonic god of the first millennium BC. He normally has a dog-like face like here, and where his body is depicted he has a scaly torso, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and usually wings. He is often regarded as an evil underworld demon, but he seems also to have played a beneficent role as a protector against disease-bearing winds (especially the west wind). He was closely associated with the demoness Lamashtu who stole babies from their mother's womb or when newly born. Pazuzu acted to counter her evil: he forced her back to the underworld. Amulets of Pazuzu like this were therefore placed in windows hung inside and out of dwellings, attached to bedroom furniture. Smaller versions were hung around the necks of pregnant women. Pazuzu Head Assyria Artifact The Exorcist Prop 4 X 2 inches Item is shipped United States only Standard ~ Flat Rate Shipping Service
GHOSTS OF BAYOU ST.JOHN
There are many Haunted Houses along it's shores. Many residents believe that the actual bayou is haunted! by Alyne A. PustanioBayou St. John (or St. John’s Bayou as it was known to Old New Orleans) is a scenic waterway in the heart of the Mid City. Originating in the old Carrollton area, it meanders serenely past classic homes and locales as it makes it’s way to join Lake Pontchartrain. Today, the Bayou St. John vistas include joggers and cyclists and pet owners playing a game of Frisbee with their dogs as they make their way to walk under the ancient oaks of nearby City Park. But in New Orleans of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Bayou was a vital artery for merchants and vendors plying their trade in the French Quarter. Its egress to the waters of Lake Pontchartrain made it the perfect route for schooners and barges underway for the myriad Lake outlets feeding into the Gulf of Mexico. In those days one could see everything from barges loaded with bananas and other tropical cargo, to paddlewheelers full of rich “Uptowners” on their way to a summer holiday on the Northshore of the Lake. Carriages and flatbed wagons would line the muddy banks, taking cargoes from the barges for sale in the Old French Market and in vending stalls throughout the Quarter and beyond. Most of this mercantile traffic was under the control of one man, Jose Planas called by all who knew him “The King of the French Market.” Planas,My great,great great Grand Father, a native of Spain, had traveled to America with his family at the height of the surging emigration of the late 1800’s.
Jose Planas ~ Standing on the banks of Bayou St. John Photo circa late 1900. He made his fortune and his name by purchasing the land on both side of Bayou St. John, from its Old Carrollton roots to within miles of the Lake outlet. Dark haired and bronzed by the tropical New Orleans sun, Planas was a familiar sight to bargers and schoonermen along the shores of “his” Bayou. With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, however, Planas’ personal fortunes took a downturn. Victimized by paranoid locals who became distrustful of Spaniards, Planas soon abandoned New Orleans for his European homeland. But if stories that come from the 21st century shores of this old Bayou can be believed, Jose Planas, and many others who lived and worked the waterway in centuries past, have never really left. One report from a resident of the Faubourg St. John, the historical residential area that lines the eastern shore of the Bayou, recounts how, while walking his dog in the summer twilight he first heard, then saw, an extraordinary apparition. The resident, who asked that his name be withheld, reports, “First I heard the ‘slapping’ sound, like someone clapping his or her hand onto the surface of the water over and over. Even my dog perked up at the sound. When I looked up, I was shocked by the sight of a turn of the century paddlewheel schooner making it’s way down the middle of the Bayou!” The story continues that the schooner, vaguely luminescent in the moonless night, drifted within feet of the shore and the shocked local until it slowly disappeared from sight, leaving no wake and only the sound of crickets chirping and cars in the distance of the hot summer night. There are other reports of barges, some empty or full of cargo, drifting by to the sounds of ghostly voices calling out for rigging and anchors. Several people have seen ghostly canoes floating by, with apparitions locked in an eternal gaze of young love. And the most fantastic are the sightings of Jose Planas himself. One woman who lives within sight of the Bayou near where it crosses under the Esplanade Avenue bridge reports that she clearly saw the image of “a dark, Spanish man in a panama style hat and a linen suit” pacing along the Bayou and puffing a huge cigar. “Every now and then he would stop and look at his watch, as if waiting for something or someone.” This in itself is not so strange, except that, as she watched, the image disappeared right before her eyes! Others report the sound of a man shouting in Spanish, possibly to unseen deckhands or workers; and still others have heard the words, “Senor Jose!” shouted on more than one occasion. But the history of the Bayou is not all capitalism and ship’s traffic. Over the generations many people have met their untimely end in the murky Bayou waters. Several years ago, after a horrible car crash near the DeSaix Avenue bridge, some residents reported hearing the accident repeat itself, over and over, as if tape-recorded - including the splash of the Bayou waters. Upon investigation, nothing unusual was found to have occurred, though the ghostly reenactment continued for several months. New Orleans of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Bayou was a vital artery for merchants and vendors plying their trade in the French Quarter. In the early 1900’s a female member of Jose Planas’ family (My Great aunt),was pulled into the Bayou by the paddlewheel of the family houseboat in which her long, red hair had become tragically wound. The woman was pulled under and her body jammed the paddlewheel mechanism. Boatmen retrieved her as soon as they realized what had happened, but she had already drowned. It is said that sometimes the grisly accident, houseboat, paddlewheel and all, is reenacted in the exact spot it happened, at the north side of the Esplanade Avenue bridge. Ghostly apparitions are seen walking the banks of the Bayou, and ghostly images are especially disturbing at the point where the Bayou empties into Lake Pontchartrain. Legend has it that this location was the favorite of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau when she held her wild rituals and sacrifices. At the height of her fame and power, fearful locales knew better than to follow Madame Laveau into the overgrown darkness of the trees near the Bayou’s mouth, and some insist that, even today, the mouth of the Bayou at Lake Pontchartrain is a place strictly to be avoided, especially at night.
Sounds of drumming and chanting are commonplace in the surrounding areas and once a local fire truck appeared on the scene in response to a call from students of a nearby university who claimed to have seen fires along the Bayou from the windows of their dormitory. With its history or mystery and the unexplained, Haunted Bayou St. John is not to be missed on a tour of Haunted New Orleans. Remember to include it the next time you visit the famous Crescent City! hauntedneworleanstours.com ©2004-2010 alynepustanio.com ©2004-2010
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