Cajun Decay explores the abandoned institutions, forgotten towns, and buried history scattered across America.
From massive asylums and prisons to lost schools, military sites, and entire communities left behind, each exploration uncovers the stories these places were built on — and why they were ultimately abandoned.
What started as personal exploration has grown into a deeper investigation of America's institutional past, documenting locations that still hold unanswered questions.
Every location is approached with respect. No vandalism, no damage — just documentation and preservation of places history tried to forget.
If you're interested in forgotten architecture, hidden history, and the places America quietly moved on from, welcome to Cajun Decay.
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Hey Cajun Decay Decay why you always calling it the Ratchet City?????
A lot of people ask why I call Shreveport “Ratchet City.” It’s not something I just made up. It’s real local history tied to the music that shaped a lot of us.
The term came out of the North Louisiana rap scene in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Shreveport group Lava House (GClick) dropped a track called “Ratchet” back in ‘99. Then Anthony Mandigo (Lil Mandigo) really ran with it on his album Ratchet Fight in the Ghetto with the song “Do the Ratchet.” He said he got the word from his grandmother — that raw, no-filter, turnt-up energy.
Lil Boosie jumped on a remix with Mandigo, Hurricane Chris and other North Louisiana artists kept pushing it, and “Ratchet City” stuck as the name for Shreveport. It fit the gritty, hardcore reality of the city back then.
For me, that music hit right during my teenage years on the K-side. Me and my two best friends — three 15-year-olds fresh out of our parents’ houses with nothing — were trying to survive on our own in a slumlord’s crackhead trailer park. That raw Louisiana rap was the soundtrack to the harder side of my upbringing. It wasn’t just beats — it was the voice of what we were living every day.
That same time period is when I saw the injustice and inequality in the justice system up close. Watching how the system treated people in neighborhoods like ours left a mark. A lot of the forgotten institutions and buried history I document with Cajun Decay started making sense to me back then.
So when I say Ratchet City, it’s not disrespect. It’s acknowledging the culture, the music, and the reality I came up in. That era helped shape who I am and why I do this work today.#cajundecay #318lousiana #ratchet #BoosieBadAzz #lavahouse
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Kyle Busch pronounced dead at the age of 41 rest in peace rowdy prayers for your family. But why the NASCAR villains always got to go where the latest part like a champ?
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Tonight at 6 PM, I’m premiering a new Cajun Decay director’s cut walkthrough.
This one is Scott State Prison, a 24-minute extended field cut from the larger Milledgeville / Central State Hospital landscape.
Scott wasn’t just a random abandoned prison. It was part of the same institutional world surrounding Central State Hospital, where buildings tied to the asylum system were later repurposed for incarceration.
Patients became prisoners.
Hospital space became prison space.
The system changed names, but the loop kept going.
This version has minimal narration and is meant to feel more like a raw walkthrough companion piece to the Milledgeville video. The full researched version can come later, but I wanted to get this footage out instead of letting it sit on a hard drive.
Premiere is at 6 PM.
Title: The Prison Inside the Asylum | Scott State Prison Director’s Cut
https://youtu.be/9Ly7CLEx4uI?si=UiGNl...
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First Cajun Decay merch drop is live.
Every order helps support the investigations, travel, research, and documentation behind these stories.
Shop here:
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Who doesnt love a cold war bunker....
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Just want to give a shout out to all my new subscribers, most of which just came over from Reddit to see kids behind the fence. Y'all are awesome man! The comments y'all up mean the world to me. I've been investigating something similar hardcore for glass 4 months and was starting to get A little drugged down by it because hard to look at that stuff and just read into it too deep. Especially I have kids so that makes it hard. But anyways just wanted to say thank you all. Happy y'all are here if you like that. Whenever I do finish this monster project, you're really going to love that. We're trying to put a stop to active scandals, not just tell history.
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Live right now with the candidate.
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Tonight at 6PM Central I'm premeiring Part 1 of my interview with John Paul Young.
This is a long form sit down about Shreveport, Leadership and the issues people here actually care about.
Part 2 will premier at 7 PM
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Follow Up Video if you liked the Kids Behind he Fence Video This Fly over will help understand the layout of the Campus.
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Ever Wonder How I Find locations lol Bunkers Mansions and more in one episode
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