Haunted NOLA
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ghost of Madame Mineurecanal and her terrier began to appear.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a priest and a dog walk into a cemetery… and never leave.
In New Orleans, we know a thing or two about hauntings. Whether you believe or not, here are 10 things that claim to be able to help.
Furniture moving, unexplainable ghostly hands and gruesome ghost sightings surround the tale of the Old Carrollton Jail.
Blood pouring into the streets, scores of hacked limbs strewn about a stately mansion, a Sultan’s brother buried alive in the garden. Wild parties, foreign intrigue, mass murder, brutal revenge! Sex! Pirates! And in the aftermath, the macabre haunting of one of the French Quarter’s most venerable buildings.
Pere Dagobert’s tale is one of a heroic, singing 18th-century icon who clearly loves New Orleans too much to leave it.
A golden ghost, without a stitch of clothing on, haunts a Royal Street rooftop, shivering and pacing through the night before collapsing just before dawn.
The most well-known ghost stories swirling around the Beauregard-Keyes house in the 1100 block of Chartres Street involve one of the house’s namesakes, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. But, a binder has documented multiple apparitions within.
Hast thou been affronted?
Along Toulouse Street in the French Quarter, one block is filled with more than just hungry tourists and locals passing by. From a feed store to a quarantine hospital and later a pub, three ghosts are said to be seen roaming the grounds along with the haunting cries of “Mommy! Mommy!”