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re: Did you know you could be murdered if u lived in New Orleans & didn’t play jazz music ?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:57 pm to TutHillTiger
Posted on 10/9/25 at 8:57 pm to TutHillTiger
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. I honestly had never heard of him until he was character in American Horror Stories. Incredible story and he was never caught or even identified.
I had never heard of him nor watched the show, but I would imagine the reason I learned this a little while back was because of the show.
So many great twists or turns you could pull from the story or why he stopped. If he even did stop. Maybe the story was all a hoax and the connections were never actually made. Maybe the murders never stopped, but the cops stopped the hysteria with the story and night. Maybe it was a war of the world's type event and it never really happened.
It is a fun story though, being this removed.
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:01 pm to fightin tigers
It’s amazing it’s not a better known story
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:04 pm to TutHillTiger
Eh, I've done ghost tours all over the country. They are fun. But I do wonder how much liberty is taken. Not like a 150 year old age murderer is coming back to sue for accuracy.
Not even sure the murders happened, or happened the way record says they happened.
Really really good new orleans (and other cities) stories hang around because of proof.
Not even sure the murders happened, or happened the way record says they happened.
Really really good new orleans (and other cities) stories hang around because of proof.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:07 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:that’s the guy that went to the Audubon Zoo and axed for you
the Axeman of New Orleans.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:30 pm to TutHillTiger
Axeman?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:31 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:were easily accessible axes a thing in the city homes?
The murder weapon was usually an axe found at the victims’ homes, never one he brought himself.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:32 pm to madamsquirrel
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were easily accessible axes a thing in the city homes?
Shockingly central heat wasn't created yet. And men still had tools.
I still have 3 axes, axen, axens.....axis? Living in the city. Not usual I would imagine. Lots if wood for smokin meats.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 9:33 pm to TutHillTiger
Did you just learn about The Axeman of New Orleans?
quote:
A less plausible theory is that the Axeman committed the murders in an attempt to promote jazz music, suggested by written correspondence attributed to the killer in which he stated that he would spare the lives of those who played jazz in their homes.[4] On March 13, 1919, a letter purporting to be from the Axeman was published in newspapers, saying that he would kill again at fifteen minutes past midnight on the night of March 19 but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing. That night all of the city's dance halls were filled to capacity, and professional and amateur bands played jazz at parties at hundreds of houses around town. There were no murders that night.[5]
Posted on 10/10/25 at 6:25 am to Bullfrog
Hey, hey, hey.......some neighborhoods in NOLA take their jazz very seriously.
If you are playing jazz badly it may be worse than not playing it at all
If you are playing jazz badly it may be worse than not playing it at all
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