8 Drowned Towns In The Louisiana Bayou You Were NEVER Meant To Find

Eight drowned towns hidden deep in the Louisiana bayou, and the reason no one was left. These are the real places the water took, counting down to Cheniere Caminada and the worst night this coast has ever seen. Across the south Louisiana coast, whole towns once held hundreds of people, with churches, schools, and graveyards. Then the water came for them. Some drowned in a single storm. Others sank so slowly that nobody noticed until the headstones were already gone. What is left now sits under open water, marsh, and silt, and in this part of the world the dead do not always stay buried. This countdown covers the drowned and abandoned towns of the bayou and the disasters that erased them: Pine Flat, lost under Toledo Bend; Last Island, where a hurricane walked over a ballroom in 1856; Isle de Jean Charles, the island still going under today; the Manchac swamp logging towns of Frenier and Ruddock; Ironton, where a storm tore open the cemetery; Creole and Cameron Parish after Hurricane Audrey; Leeville, a graveyard sinking into Bayou Lafourche; and Cheniere Caminada, the largest village on the coast, gone in one night in 1893. Real Louisiana history, real places, and the black water that does not give them back. Subscribe for a new drowned and forgotten place of the bayou every week:    / @drownedsouth   More drowned towns, shipwrecks, and forbidden waters of the bayou:    • Forbidden Waters of the Louisiana Bayou   #bayou #louisiana #drownedtowns #southerngothic #abandoned