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Discover the "Boo Carré" and Beyond on a Ghost Tour

It’s not just what you see in New Orleans that will amaze you–it’s what you might not see. Scare up a few extra bucks and tour the “Most Haunted City in America” with an educated, entertaining guide who can bring the dead to life for you. Why just come here to drink spirits when you might actually get to see one?

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The tours ought to get you started exploring the “haunted” history of New Orleans.

New Orleans Legendary Walking Tours »

Explore the darker side of the French Quarter with New Orleans Legendary Walking Tours. Led by licensed local guides, the haunted walking tour visits legendary locations, including the LaLaurie Mansion, Ursuline Convent, and Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, while sharing centuries of New Orleans history, ghost stories, and vampire lore.

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Gray Line Interactive Ghosts & Spirits Walking Tour »

Find out why New Orleans is known as the “most haunted city in America” on this thrilling night-time tour through the French Quarter in New Orleans.  Hear ghostly stories about haunted hotels and our courthouse; visit sites, and hear stories that were featured on both the Discovery and History Channels.  You will learn more about the area’s history and traditions.  Highlights include checking out voodoo ceremonial relics and a kit designed for the slaying of vampires from eccentric members of  New Orleans’ past. 

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Haunted Plantation Tour at Destrehan Plantation »

This 2+-hour interactive tour, created in partnership with NOLA Ghost Riders, is led by a paranormal investigator. Both inside the big house and on the grounds of this former sugar plantation, you’ll hear spooky tales of the 1811 Slave Revolt as well as other ghostly happenings. Here’s your chance to go ghost hunting with dowsing rods, K2 meters, and spirit boxes. If you can’t make the 35-minute drive to Destrehan yourself, you can grab a bus at Voodoo Tavern & Poboy’s at 1140 Decatur St in New Orleans. 

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More Ghostly Goings-On in the Boo Carré

If you enjoy a good ghost story, you’ll love these New Orleans ghost tours—they’re a scream!

Until You Get Here…

Below is some information on other sites rumored to be haunted in New Orleans to conjure up your appetite for adventure!

Hotel Provincial
www.hotelprovincial.com
During the Civil War, the Hotel Provincial was used as a hospital for Confederate soldiers. Guests and maids have told of encounters with ghostly men on crutches and spirit surgeons. Once, a security guard said he stepped off the elevator onto the second floor into a hospital scene from the past — nurses rushing frantically from patient to patient. He stepped back into the elevator without saying “boo.”

Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com
And if you suspected Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop at 941 Bourbon Street was haunted, you’re not alone. The privateer Jean Lafitte himself is said to keep an eye on the fireplace in his former Blacksmith Shop, built in the late 1700s, a front for his smuggling operation, where it’s believed he hid his booty. While some of the regulars swear the place is haunted, others claim those who’ve witnessed the apparitions couldn’t pass a sobriety test. You be the judge.

St. Louis Cathedral
www.stlouiscathedral.org
In 1769, a group of French rebel leaders were executed by the Spanish for insurrection against the crown. To set an example, the bodies were left outside in Jackson Square to rot in the heat and rain. The French community was horrified, but no one was brave enough to challenge the Spanish leaders. Then nothing short of a miracle occurred. Pere Dagobert, the beloved priest of the Church St. Louis, later St. Louis Cathedral, showed up at the homes of the slain men and summoned their families to the church, where to their amazement, they found the bodies of their loved ones. It’s a mystery to this day, but somehow, under the watchful eyes of the Spanish soldiers, the priest had recovered the bodies. Then, in a terrible rainstorm, Pere Dagobert performed a funeral mass and led the procession to Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1. Today, on rainy mornings before sunrise, some say they hear Pere Dagobert singing the Kyrie.

Le Petite Theatre du Vieux Carré
https://www.lepetittheatre.com
At Le Petite Theatre du Vieux Carré, right off Jackson Square at 616 St. Peter Street, it has been rumored that you might bump into Caroline, an actress who performed here in the 1930s. One day, while joking with a director on the third-story balcony, she tumbled over the railing. According to legend, she slammed to the courtyard below where she died, dressed for the evening’s performance in a white wedding gown. But Caroline isn’t the only legendary ghost haunting Le Petite. Others include the Captain, the suitor of another actress who used to perform here. There have been reports that he settles into his balcony seat while modern-day actors rehearse in hopes of catching a return performance by his lover.

Ursuline Convent
https://en.wikipedia.org
Ursuline Convent at 1100 Chartres Street, the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley, is rumored to have a few ghosts – vampires, even. In the 1700s, the Catholic Diocese sent young girls from the French convents to New Orleans to find husbands and spread Christian values. They carried coffin-shaped chests as their suitcases. The chests were called “caskets,” and the young women became known as “the Casket Girls.” According to superstition, the caskets held vampires from the old country, and they were stored unopened in the attic, sealed shut with nails and screws blessed by the Pope himself. Legend has it that in the 1970s, after spotting a set of the attic’s shutters half open, two ghost hunters hid in the convent’s courtyard to try to catch the vampires on film. Legend has it that their bodies were found the next morning, drained of blood with a few mysterious scratches. (Those in the know say the shutters said to have been sealed shut with nails were installed 100 years later to protect from hurricanes.)

LaLaurie Mansion
One of the most notorious haunted houses in America is LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street. In 1832, Creole socialite Delphine LaLaurie and her doctor husband moved to these splendid quarters, where they entertained lavishly. But although Madame LaLaurie was quite beautiful, she was also quite mad – a murderess, in fact. Come learn all about her on a visit to this historic home, once owned by actor Nicholas Cage.

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