Last week I received the fantastic news that great friends from France are coming to stay over the summer, and we swung into high-planning mode.

We haven’t had newbies come in a long time, so this’ll be great fun. There’s a bit of performance anxiety- New Orleans may be the most European city in the US, but how does it stack up to actual Europe, after all?

Well, the closest thing we have to castles are plantations, so we’re going to take a day and do a tour, with an overnight stay in the most notorious of the bunch, the Myrtles.

I remembered seeing that the show Ghost Hunters had done an episode there, so I took to YouTube to see if I could find it. There was “the reveal,” which was grainy and you couldn’t tell a damn thing.

But…even better:

So I’m watching this, waiting for something…anything…and when the creepy ghost finally appears it’s clearly one of our massive roaches coming in for a closer look.

There are quite a few of these videos where people just really want to think they’ve seen something…but clearly these nice folks are from someplace safe where they don’t recognize these buggers.