8 CREEPY Abandoned Forts In The Louisiana Bayou You Won't Believe Exist!

Abandoned forts in Louisiana are chained shut, privately owned, or standing alone in open water — and the state won't let anyone inside. Across the water approaches to New Orleans, the United States government spent a century and a half raising a chain of brick fortresses through the Louisiana bayou. Walls five feet thick. Moats, casemates, iron-framed gun decks, all of it built to stop invasions that mostly never came. This video counts down eight of these forgotten forts and gets into why every single gate is shut. The records are public. Construction ledgers, closure orders, flood reports. What the files never explain is why the men who fish beneath these walls cut their engines and speak a little lower until the brick is behind them. One of these forts got famous on television and is still illegal to walk. Another vanished so completely that historians spent two centuries hunting for it. There's a garrison that turned on its own officers in the middle of a war. And the last fort on this list stands in open water right now, waves rolling where its parade ground used to be. No name here. That one you walk into cold. Every place in this video is real, and so is every closure order. The abandoned places of the Louisiana bayou don't wait around to be filmed, and hurricane season redraws this map every single year. ▶️ WATCH NEXT — Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou:    • Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou   👉 SUBSCRIBE:    / @drownedsouth   💬 Which of these would you take a boat out to see, and which would you leave alone? ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Abandoned forts in Louisiana no one is allowed inside 01:20 The gates the state chained shut 02:36 Famous on television, forbidden in person 03:55 The pirate's island the Gulf is eating 05:17 The fort that vanished for two centuries 06:30 A broken tower alone in the lake 07:59 The night a garrison turned on its own 09:22 The fort the public will never see 10:43 Number 1: Revealed 12:40 Why the Louisiana bayou is swallowing its forts ⚠️ Informational only. Every site in this video is closed, restricted, or privately owned. Do not attempt access. Conditions, ownership, and laws change. #AbandonedForts #LouisianaBayou #ForbiddenPlaces