Ghost tour in New Orleans
Run by New Orleans Ghosts (US Ghost Adventures)
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US Ghost Adventures’ New Orleans walk covers more than a mile of the French Quarter, from Jackson Square to the Old Ursuline Convent, the Beauregard-Keyes House, and the LaLaurie Mansion. A local guide tells each stop’s ghost stories from the street, since the tour doesn’t go inside private buildings. A good first night for anyone who wants the Quarter’s best-known stories in one walk.
1 hrFrom $26★ 4.8 · 186 reviews
Checked daily. Times and the meeting point are on New Orleans Ghosts.
Places
Hotel
Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 and two months later was fined $1,000 for contempt of court in a federal courthouse on this site. New Orleans TV station FOX 8 calls the hotel one of the city's most haunted.
Bar
Muriel's says Pierre Jourdan rebuilt this house after the fire of 1788, then lost it in a poker game in 1814 and took his own life upstairs. The restaurant keeps a table reserved for him, set with bread and wine.
Church
The Ursuline nuns finished this convent in 1752. Legend has it the shutters on its third floor were nailed shut to keep in vampires, carried to New Orleans in the trunks of the "casket girls."
Church
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.
House
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
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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