New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is located on Chartres Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Louis Duffulo was a physician and the first registered pharmacist in the United States. He built the townhouse in 1823 and practiced there for 35 years. When he died, Dr. Dupas purchased the building. After Dr. Dupas took over the practice, the reputation of the place went downhill. People would go into the building, but never come out. On the second floor of the building Dr. Dupas would conduct experiments on pregnant slaves and other people that had diseases with no diagnosis.
Dr. Dupas also made potions that were a mixture of voodoo ingredients, herbal remedies, and recent medicines that were to come from Europe. These potions were given in large doses without any regard to side-effects. The female slaves that received them suffered major birth defects and usually resulted in the death of many mothers. Legend has it that Dr. Dupas dumped the bodies of these people through a trap door on the second-floor, where there was a wagon waiting in the carriageway on the left side of the building. It is also inferred from this that bodies were snuck in the building by the same means.
The staff of the now museum have seen the spirit of a man in a brown suit and white lab coat. He appears to be approximately 65 years-old and is short with a mustache. He is seen on the first and second floors of the building and is usually moving around the cabinets and medicine bottles. The negative energy that the ghost of Dr. Dupas gives off is so severe that people can feel it even if they are standing outside of the building. The psychological effect is especially noted to that of women who are pregnant, as they experience an intense feeling of nausea and shortness of breath. There is also another unknown entity of a woman that is seen in the courtyard by the fountain.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
