Honey Island Swamp: Wildlife, the Swamp Monster Legend, and What to Expect
The Honey Island Swamp is one of the least-altered river swamps in the United States. That is not marketing. Most of it is protected, the water still moves the way it always did, and on a kayak you get into corners an airboat cannot reach. Here is what lives there, the legend that made it…
The Haunted Manchac Swamp: Julia Brown’s Curse and the Drowned Towns
Most swamp tours sell you alligators. Manchac sells you a ghost story, and unlike most ghost stories, the bones of this one are true. Who was Julia Brown? Julia Brown was a real woman, a Black herbalist and self-described voodoo practitioner who lived in the swamp community of Frenier, on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain,…