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Bayous are generally pretty foreboding, what with all the snakes and gators and quicksand and such, but southeastern Louisiana's Manchac Swamp has its very own crew of local spooks. One is the bloodthirsty rougarou, a Cajun variation on the werewolf that's said to lurk in watery turf across Acadiana.
The other, though, is a woman variously named as Julie White or Julie Brown (as in the clip from America's Most Haunted Places above) described as a "voodoo priestess" who got her jollies freaking out her neighbors by predicting, "One day I'm gonna die, and I'm gonna take all of you with me." Legend has it that her funeral was held the very day the deadly 1915 New Orleans hurricane struck, burying her entire town in its wake. Eerie, no? - Cheryl Eddy http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-worlds-9-most-haunted-bodies-of-water-1679119114