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The spirit of Blue Dog starts with a spooky, Cajun ghost story

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - Ever heard the legend of Loup Garou?

Cover your eyes and ears if a good ghost story gives you the chills.

Loup Garou is a Cajun werewolf. The legend is, he likes to eat children. Well, he likes to eat bad children.

That's the legend. That's the story from Jacques Rodrigue.

As Jacques tells the tale to WGNO News with a Twist features guy Wild Bill Wood, Wild Bill is looking at a painting of Loup Garou that looks a little too blue. In fact, he looks a lot blue. A lot like Blue Dog.

That's maybe because the painting of Loup Garou is by Louisiana artist George Rodrigue.

He's the Blue Dog artist and he's Jacques Rodrigue's dad. George died a few years ago. But he left his son, and the world, a legacy and a lot of paintings that include this painting of Loup Garou.

Loup Garou inspired Blue Dog as you'll see and hear in Wild Bill's story about ghost stories.

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