Girod Street Cemetery

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The Girod Street Cemetery was a small above-ground cemetery established in 1822 for Protestant residents of the Faubourg St. Mary in predominantly Catholic New Orleans, Louisiana. Notables entombed there included congressman Henry Adams Bullard and California governor John B. Weller.

The cemetery fell into disrepair in the 20th century and it was deconsecrated in 1957.

In 1970 it was excavated and remains moved elsewhere. The Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Center buildings were constructed on the site. Although all bodies were thought to have been removed in advance, there were multiple local reports of human remains discovered during excavations for the construction of the Superdome. A superstition repeated by some alleges the poor record of the New Orleans Saints football team is somehow supernaturally tied to disturbing corpses for the construction of the sports venue.

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