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 Kalila
Katherina Smith is the founder of the New Orleans Paranormal & Occult
Society. She is the author of "Journey Into Darkness....
Ghosts & Vampires of New Orleans" and "Searching
for Spirits". She was born and raised in New Orleans.
She has personally researched and wrote the material featured
on our Ghost, Vampire and Spellbound tours. She has been featured
as an expert on television productions as Travel Daily, Places
of Mystery, Secret New Orleans, Unsolved Mysteries, FEAR!,
America's Most Haunted Places, In Search of..., Sony's Playstation
II, and Supernatural Destinations. She appeared in the motion
picture, "The St. Francisville Experience". She wrote
and directed "Journey Into Darkness... The Trilogy",
Haunted History Tours own video documentary, as well as "The
Spirit World", currently in production. She recently co-wrote
a new murder mystery movie, "Silent Scream", currently
in production. She is the "official" parapsychologist
for Sony's new Playstation II game, "Ghosthunter," and
the only American selected by the UK for the project. She appears
as a vampire expert in the documentary "Fang vs. Fiction" as
seen on the DVD for the motion picture, "Underworld." Visit
her paranormal pages at www.neworleansghosts.com She is available
for lectures & workshops on any paranormal related subject.
She is a practitioner of Voodoo and lives in the beautiful
bayou country of St. John Parish. She often conducts the Spellbound
and Vampire tours. Look for Kalila on the "Underworld" dvd
in the documentary "Fang or Fiction." Her vampire movie, "Secrets of the Sisterhood" is availible on DVD. See a clip from one of our many television appearances, "America's Most Haunted Places."
Check out Kalila's new line of Ancient Goddess Ritual Bath kits,
New Orleans Voodoo Spell kits and European Witchcraft Spell
kits!! http://www.erzulies.com/nola_voodoo_spells.php http://www.erzulies.com/european_witchcraft_magic.php She is available for psychic readings through Erzulie's Authentic Voodoo
Ghost Books by Kalila Katherina Smith
Her personal E-mail is: kalila@hauntedhistorytours.com
Personal home page: www.kalilasmith.com; myspace.com/kalilasmith
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 Sidney
Smith is our illustrious leader, director, and producer. He
handles EVERYTHING behind the scenes from marketing and advertising
to scheduling and training. He is a master promoter, making
sure that everything runs smoothly. Before creating Haunted
History Tours, he owned and operated a hugely successful entertainment
company known as Merry Minstrel. Prior to starting that business,
Sid was a well known rock and roll photographer throughout
the 1970's, touring with major groups like The Allman Brothers,
The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and many others.
His work is still being published today in many national magazines
as well as in books featuring the glory days of Rock & Roll.
His personal e-mail address is Sidney
Smith.
Be sure to check out his personal website: www.sidneysmithphotos.com OR www.rockstarphotos.net ; myspace.com/hauntedhistorytours
For the first time ever, Sidney's exclusive collection of rare,
and some never before seen photographs are on display and available
for purchase. Over thirty years of rock & roll legends,
photographed performing and behind the scenes.
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 Michael
Dardant, also known as "Magic Mike", was born in
France and grew up in Louisiana in Acadiana (Cajun country).
He's been performing for the past eight years as an accomplished
magician, juggler, comedian, actor,
and public speaker. Having performed across the nation and in France,
his skill with slight of hand is quite impressive. As a tour guide,
he is not only magical, but theatrical, hilarious, and completely
unpredictable. Our tourists have described his tour as their best
experience in New Orleans. Magic Mike currently resides in the
French Quarter and can be booked as a magician for any event requiring
entertainment.
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 Eugenia has been dazzling New Orleans with tales of haunted history since 2004. She moved here in 2001 from The Windy City, where she had obtained a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Currently, Eugenia is enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Nebraska. Eugenia resides in uptown New Orleans with her husband and 3 children.
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 Midge
is a familiar face on our Garden District and Voodoo Cemetery
tours. He resides in the Garden District. Midge loves New Orleans
and has called it home most of his life. He has expert knowledge
of the city and its history. Midge has no problem with letting
the tourists know that he is saving up to buy a plot in the
St. Louis Cemetery. I guess he spends so much time there, he
wants to be assured that he will never have part with it.
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Ernest Isiah Sylvester Jr.: |
Ernie
was born in Slidell, LA. Yet, spent ten years of his life between
Georgia and Florida where his mother told him Louisiana ghost
stories before bed (Family secret to ensure that children do
not sneak out of the house). Seven years ago he returned to
his parents home state after serving in the US Army. Where
he now continues the family tradition conducting Ghost Tours.
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 Born
in Scotland, Midian spent his childhood in the Appalachian
Mountains of North Carolina. Midian has been doing the Haunted
History Tour for several years. He left for a year to pursue
other interests in New York, but has returned to our beloved
city to feed his passion for history and the supernatural.
He is a member of the "Single Action Shooting Society" and
is equally skilled with the sword. He researched a variety
of religions before settling into his heart-felt paganism.
He lives in Uptown New Orleans.
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 Jonathan was born in the Great State of Texas, and spent several years traveling the country after returning from school in London. He received scholarships for voice and theatre, and has harnessed those talents alongside his lifelong fascination for the paranormal to join our tour as a guide into the dark history of New Orleans. He came to the city for the first time at the age of 7, and declared his intention to live here, because "it was magic," a vow he was at last able to keep, arriving in February 2003. He resides in the Fauborg Marigny, with a small orange cat, and a ghost named "Annie." Jonathan can be seen in the movies, "Silent Scream," and "Secrets of the Sisterhood," our very own vampire movie!
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 Renee Dodge is an excellent story teller and definitely an asset to our ghost tour! Renee is from New York where she continues her business making custom jewelry to a prestigious clientele.
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 A long time purveyor of Pirate history, Rene is the founder of the Louisiana Lafitte Society. Additionally, he is the only guide in the city to include a beautiful German Shepard dog named Sara, stating that she is a great compliment to his French Quarter walking tour. Rene has a profound love for New Orleans, a city in which he was born and raised. As he is fond of stating to tour participants, "you are getting the real deal, I am not imported!" He has orated the city's history for over 10 years as a tour guide for Haunted History Tours and hopes to do so for many more.
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Brent,
a local of Cajun and Creole Decent, got his first taste of
performance when only in the first grade as a competitor in
the
National
Storytellers Competition. Since then he has continued to perform
as a
musician, actor, and storyteller. He was the last of the founding
members of
the Mandeville Underground Theater Project to direct the organization
and
toured the country as a swordsman for The Duelists Fight Team.
At 18, when
he began, Brent was the youngest tour guide in the city of New
Orleans;
using the craft of the storyteller, and the pulpit mannerisms developed
from
his one time desire to join the priesthood, to shape the world
around his
audience.
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