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Hotel
Mount Washington Hotel
Joseph Stickney died a year after his Mount Washington Hotel opened in 1902. His widow, who later married a French prince, is said to sit on the edge of her four-poster bed in Room 314.
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."
Underground
Bell Witch Cave
Beneath the quiet earth, the Bell Witch Cave is said to hide the voice that once terrified a family and still murmurs to those who enter.
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Old Ursuline Convent
Read Post: Old Ursuline ConventThe Ursuline nuns finished this convent in 1752. Legend has it the shutters on its third floor were nailed shut to keep…
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Clay Pit
Read Post: Clay PitKUT public radio reports that Rudolph Bertram’s young son is said to haunt his father’s old store, and the store’s National Register…
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Littlefield House
Read Post: Littlefield HouseGeorge Littlefield died in this campus mansion in 1920, and The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student paper, reports that people…
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Paramount Theatre
Read Post: Paramount TheatreThe Paramount opened in 1915 as the Majestic. House manager Cheryl Wood says projectionists still leave a Snickers bar in the booth…
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Old Ship Saloon
Read Post: Old Ship SaloonThis Pacific Avenue bar traces back to the Gold Rush ship Arkansas, which ran aground on Alcatraz in 1849. A former owner…
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Hotel
Arctic Club Hotel
Congressman Marion Zioncheck died in a fall from his fifth-floor office window here in 1936. A Seattle police captain was later told the elevator stops on that floor by itself because of "the Zioncheck ghost."
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House
Davenport House
Margaret Wayt DeBolt's 1984 book of Savannah ghost stories tells of a spectral cat at Isaiah Davenport's 1820 house, a large yellow one that ran in front of a boarding-house tenant on the steps. The museum there now tells no ghost stories itself: its director says it sticks to "the story that we know."
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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.
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Hotel
Landmark Inn
The Landmark Inn is not only known for its historical significance but also for the tales of ghostly encounters that have been associated with the building.
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Castle
Manresa Castle
With so much rich history, it’s no surprise that Manresa Castle might have more than a few “permanent” residents…
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Cemetery
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Archival records place Voodoo queen Marie Laveau in her family's tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, the city's oldest. Devotees began bringing her offerings and petitions there almost as soon as she died in 1881.
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Church
St. Louis Cathedral
The priest Père Antoine wrote that fire engulfed the church before this cathedral "in less than half an hour" on March 21, 1788. Guides tell of his ghost humming hymns in the alley that carries his name.
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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."
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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.
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Underground
Bell Witch Cave
Beneath the quiet earth, the Bell Witch Cave is said to hide the voice that once terrified a family and still murmurs to those who enter.
