Which could, honestly, be more terrifying. We had never experienced a situation like this and what New Orleans heat and humidity can do to a building that has flooded. It looked like a bad Halloween event. But those medical responders did help other people.AND you can BET THEY do feel GUILTY for NOT saving everybody. Ghost City Tours has been New Orleans' #1 Tour Company since 2014. Here are our New Orleans Top 3 Haunted Abandoned Locations. I surveyed the buildings in November 2005 right after the flood. Editor’s note: Yet another awesome post from Whitney Mackman (@wmackattack). This was a serious hazmat situation. St. Margaret’s Daughters Home, a nonprofit skilled nursing facility located in Mid-City on the site of the former Lindy Boggs Medical Center, was refinanced recently. Until the city decides to do something with Jazzland, it seems that it will continue to be run by urban explorers and the ghosts that call it home. The consulting engineering company I worked for was hired to determine what damage had been done to the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing systems. Our group was from Massachusetts. This is a project I will never forget. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, one of the hardest-hit facilities was Lindy Boggs Medical Center, a historic hospital named in her honor the previous year. This horrifying building is a rare case in which you just might as well go ahead and judge a book by its cover. I had a love one die in that building. Forty-five people died at Lindy Boggs during and after Hurricane Katrina. I couldn’t breathe for a moment, as if the room was still on fire, and I had to blink a few times to ensure the room was not engulfed in ghost flames. According to a local news station, Lindy Boggs Medical Center, which stands in close proximity to shiny new doggy day care facilities and beer gardens, has sat vacant since the disaster. A chair dangles stubbornly over … Lindy Boggs has been looming in my world for the past four years and I feel honored to be able to explore it. Market St. Power Plant, Convention Center Blvd. By: B.A. Telephone: 504-865-5764 Email: sse@tulane.edu At night, it's down-right scary — Until tonight. By: La Mitchell on August 2, 2015 at 9:55 am. The failure of response at all levels of state and government created situations that each doctor, patient, and family should never have to face. Later, Tenet Healthcare bought the Mid-City facility and renamed it in honor of Lindy Boggs, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. However, the site has become famous world wide, and is now on many people's bucket lists, from urban explorers and photographers to paranormal investigators. I still get chills just thinking about it. Take care. Lindy Boggs Medical Center (Formally known as Mercy Baptist Hospital) opened for business in 1920. Built in 1736, from a grant willed by shipbuilder Jean Louis, Charity Hospital was founded so that the city's poor would always have a place to go for their health care needs, and it quickly grew into a symbol of pride, located right in the heart of downtown New Orleans. I take moments like these as my cue to leave.". The burnt paint chips, with their coal black bodies and gray tips, animated the wall. And yet another explorer's account reveals the haunted mystery that is the Lindy Boggs Medical Center: "The creepiest, was turning the corner to face a room that caught fire post-abandonment. You’re confusing Lindy Boggs (old Mercy Hospital) with Memorial (old Baptist Hospital) on Napoleon Avenue. Johnies, paper products, sheets. I am blessed because I didn’t take that night shift because I wouldn’t be alive today. Lindy Boggs Medical Center This hospital (previously photographed here) remains in poor shape since Katrina. This medical center has been empty since Katrina and is still sitting at the end of Bayou St. John in Mid city. We had seen pictures on the news of the x’s on the doors, marking how many were in a room, animals and dead, water lines and the buses that remained idol during the hurricane and the following serge. Those who died in the hospital during the days, weeks following Katrina's destruction, continue to leave their mark on the abandoned property. Everything in central supply, also in the basement, was now hanging from the pipes and ductwork above. In some areas of the park, lights have been known to come alive, a strange occurrence indeed considering there is no electricity at all throughout Jazzland. The stuff of true nightmares, a place for all the rejected, demented clowns of the world to unite, in this crumbling land of dis-amusement. However, upon a closer look, centered in the heart of the building, a single window out of hundreds of rooms was lit with a ghostly glow. I experience only minimal pangs of horror – until my flashlight illuminates, written in classic horror-film-blood-dripping-font, “Are you scared yet?” Other graffiti is helpful, telling us which stairs lead to roof access or pointing out open and plunging elevator shafts. Dr. Ruth Berggren, "Charity Hospital was an icon. When entering some of the buildings, you might expect to hear nothing, just a calm but creepy quietness, yet this is not the case, as there are ghostly whispering sounds that emanate from all around. Change ). 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