LOUISIANA: Mysterious, Rarely Seen Towns Deep In Vampire Country

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• JO

  @johngibson7001 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Why is it called vampire country? ive never heard that before... and love your vids Joe. always informative and entertaining! keep up the good work!

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• RA

  @rangers7259 · 2 years ago

  As a Brit, I find these videos of small town America absolutely fascinating… love your channel..👏👏🇬🇧🇺🇸👍

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• AU

  @auntmaryspals7978 · 2 years ago

  I appreciate people like you that take the time to film and put out these type of video. I'm retired and simply can't afford to travel, so watching your trips is a happy substitute. I love your voice by the way, very pleasant.

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• HA

  @hankmoody5514 · 1 year ago

  Watching videos like this is better than most movies today

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• CU

  @curtisphilumalee1447 · 2 years ago

  I actually drove down that highway about ten years ago from Texarkana to Shreveport and had to stop for gas. Pull up to a gas pump at an ole convenience store that still had the rolling numbers instead of the digital numbers. I yelled over to my daughter and told her to check it out. She’d had never seen one and chuckled. ( The land that time has forgotten. )

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• JD

  @jd7089 · 2 years ago

  This town of Vivian,La  brings back  sad memories when I drove from New Orleans to Vivian in 2018 or 2019 (4 hour drive) to a good friend’s funeral. It’s a beautiful small town, but poverty is really evident.

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• TH

  @thebadbadness · 1 year ago

  That house in Vivian sold for $22K. I could see myself sitting on that little porch listening to the church bells for that price!

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• LY

  @lynny5510 · 2 years ago

  My husband was stationed at Ft. Polk LA in 1987. Our daughter was born there and we lived there until 1993. There was something different about LA. Some of it was very desolate but very spiritual and mystical as well. Before we moved onto post we lived in DeRidder and there was a older woman that lived next door to us who had lived there all her life. She was a descendant of slaves and she practiced voo doo. It was kind of scary but she was the nicest kindest woman I had ever met. She so many interesting stories to tell!!

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• JA

  @janinee6733 · 2 years ago

  First thing I noticed was how neat and clean the streets are in nearly any town/village, nearly no garbage and no graffiti. Interesting.

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• EZ

  @Ezraiel-k6x · 1 year ago

  There’s literally nonone outside. Must really be vampire country huh

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• JL

  @JL-vq1gl · 2 years ago

  Kentucky here. I tell ya: it makes me sad to see how very alike we are.  Too many towns with no means to support their people. Too many people forced to move from towns where everyone looks out for each other to cities where no one gives a damn and will treat us like trash if we commit the sin of actually sounding like we come from the places we call home by people who never take the time to go there and see what they're missing and what they lost by living in a city. It's heartbreaking. So much lost and thrown away 😢

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• CH

  @chopperbillintexas5854 · 2 years ago

  That field with the oil equipment is full of what are called "pump jacks", which pump oil out of oil wells. Oil rigs are the tall towers used to drill/rework the wells. My Dad was an independent oil driller all his life, so I was immersed in the lingo. Great episode!

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