Haunted Places: House

  • Hotel

    Welty House

    Because of the tragic and gruesome events that occurred at the Welty House and on the property surrounding it, visitors claim to hear phantom gunshots, see apparitions of soldiers in full uniform, feel cold spots, and have eerie sensations while there.

  • House

    LaLaurie Mansion

    On April 10, 1834, a fire at Delphine LaLaurie's Royal Street mansion revealed seven enslaved people who had been starved, tortured, and chained. By 1889, the writer George Washington Cable was calling it "The Haunted House in Royal Street."

  • House

    Beauregard-Keyes House

    In the early hours of June 17, 1908, a wine merchant and his son shot three Black Hand blackmailers dead on this house's back gallery. Writer Michael Kleen says passersby have heard gunshots and shouting outside at night.