Case file · Folklore / legend
Julia Brown's curse on Frenier
Legend says Julia Brown, a healer and Voodoo practitioner in the swamp village of Frenier, Louisiana, sang that the town would die with her; on the day of her funeral in 1915 a hurricane wiped it out.
1915 CE · 30.11, -90.42 · status: legend
The account
The September 1915 New Orleans hurricane killed dozens in Frenier and nearby Ruddock, and the settlement was never rebuilt. The Manchac swamp is now marketed as haunted.
The sceptical view
The hurricane is documented; the curse and the song were written down long after.