“Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Ghost stories. I’m warning you. This story is a real one, and one of the worst you will ever hear or read in your life.” I take a deep breath and begin.
“The LaLaurie maintained several black slaves in slaves quarters, attached to the Royal Street mansion. Accounts of Delphine LaLaurie's treatment of her slaves between 1831 and 1834 are mixed. Harriet Martineau, claimed LaLaurie's slaves were observed to be "singularly haggard and wretched;" however, in public appearances LaLaurie was seen to be generally polite to black people and solicitous of her slaves' health, and court records of the time showed that LaLaurie manumitted two of her own slaves. Nevertheless, Martineau reported that public rumors about LaLaurie's mistreatment of her slaves were sufficiently widespread that a local lawyer was dispatched to Royal Street to remind LaLaurie of the laws relevant to the upkeep of slaves. During this visit, the lawyer found no evidence of wrongdoing or mistreatment of slaves by LaLaurie."
"Martineau also recounted other tales of LaLaurie's cruelty that were current among New Orleans residents in about 1836. She claimed that, subsequent to the visit of the local lawyer, one of LaLaurie's neighbors saw one of the LaLaurie's slaves, a twelve-year-old girl named Lia, fall to her death from the roof of the Royal Street mansion while trying to avoid punishment from a whip-wielding Delphine LaLaurie. Lia had been brushing Delphine's hair when she hit a snag, causing Delphine to grab a whip and chase her. The body was subsequently buried on the mansion grounds. According to Martineau, this incident led to an investigation of the LaLauries, in which they were found guilty of illegal cruelty and forced to forfeit nine slaves. These nine slaves were then brought back by the LaLauries through the intermediary of one of their relatives and returned to the Royal Street residences. Similarly, Martineau reported stories that LaLaurie kept her cook chained to the kitchen stove, and beat her daughters when they attempted to feed the slaves."
"On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the LaLaurie residence on Royal Street, starting in the kitchen. When the police and fire marshals got there, they found a seventy-year-old woman, the cook, chained to the stove by her ankle. She later confessed to them that she had set the fire as a suicide attempt for fear of her punishment, being taken to the uppermost room, because she said that anyone who was taken there never came back. bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the slave quarters to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by the LaLauries, the bystanders broke down the doors to the slave quarters and found "seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated ... suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other", who claimed to have been imprisoned there for some months."
"One of those who entered the premises was Judge Jean-Francois Canonge, who subsequently deposed to have found in the LaLaurie mansion, among others, a "negress ... wearing an iron collar" and "an old negro woman who had received a very deep wound on her head [who was] too weak to be able to walk." Canonge claimed, that when he questioned Madame LaLaurie's husband about the slaves, he was told in an insolent manner that "some people had better stay at home rather than come to others' houses to dictate laws and meddle with other people's business."
"A version of this story circulating in 1836, recounted by Martineau, added that the slaves were emaciated, showed signs of being flayed with a whip, were bound in restrictive postures and wore spiked iron collars which kept their heads in static positions."
"When the discovery of the tortured slaves became widely known, a mob of local citizens attacked the LaLaurie residence and "demolished and destroyed everything upon which they could lay their hands". A sheriff and his officers were called upon to disperse the crowd, but by the time the mob left, the Royal Street property had sustained major damage, with "scarcely anything remaining, but the walls." The tortured slaves were taken to a local jail, where they were available for public viewing. The New Orleans Bee reported that by April 12 up to 4,000 people had attended to view the tortured slaves "to convince themselves of their sufferings." With that, I stop talking and wait for the responses.
“What the actual (Beep)?!?” Thomas yells out
“I told you that this story was terrible. It trumps ‘The Headless Horse,’ By a good amount.” I shrug.
“Isn't this supposed to be ghost stories?” Asked Karen.
“This story made ghost stories.” I point out. “People claim that their house is now haunted by the angry spirits of the dead slaves.”
“That’s all sorts of (Beep)ed up.”
“How are you girls holding up?” I looked sideways and saw that Rarity had fainted, Twilight’s usually purple coat was entirely white and Applejack was hiding under a pillow shaking. “Not very well then. Don’t worry girls, she’s dead. She died close to 200 years ago.”
“And she's from a different universe, so she can't scare you as a ghost either.” I sigh and frown,
“Dude. Remember? These girls have a counterpart in our world, so what if that woman has a counterpart here?” I point out.
“Oh yeah, I keep forgetting you're from an EqG-like universe and not one like my own. Or at least I think that’s what you said that gave us both headaches.”
“No, I said that All parallel universes have their own version of EqG and Their own MLP alternate universe. It’s just of matter of finding out when and where it is. I know where my MLP universe is, I just don’t know where the EqG universe in my own universe is.”
“And there’s a headache again, but I think I get it this time. Each… let's say MLP world has its own EqG and Earth universe’s to go with it.” I nod.
“That is correct. My involvement in this universe was entirely by accident, If I wanted to get here the proper way, I would have had to find the EqG in my universe to get to the portal and to here.”
“I just realized something, if every Earth, as in our Earth’s, has the two FIM properties as parallel worlds, shouldn't that apply to all fictional properties?”
“Nah.” Said a resounding voice coming from the walls.” I jump a bit and sigh.
“Hey, Author.” I groan
“That is still so weird.”
“I know, But this is my life now, I need to get comfortable with it. But what do you want author?”
“I just came to add to your fictional property theory. You see, there are certain universes that can connect to other certain universes. Since my universe can connect to yours, your universe has the same properties, But if Neither you or I can connect to a universe, then they should not have the same properties.”
“That makes sense, I think. You kinda lost me there.”
“It’s a Snowball effect. The properties began here. Let’s say this is ground zero. The first thing that happened with our universe is we connected with Flash sentry’s Yugioh universe. So he has the same physics property as us. Then we connected to your universe, which should have the same properties again. So any universes that our three universes connect to should have the same properties. But there are certain universes that are impossible for our universes to connect to. So they should not have the same properties.”
“OK, I followed you that time.”
“Good, Now if you’ll excuse me, my ability to interfere with this world is growing less and less the more I talk.” With that, the voice left.