Haunted NOLA

Haunted NOLA: The Marigny’s Madame “Mini Canal,” and her loyal ghost terrier

By Michael DeMocker | July 7, 2020

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ghost of Madame Mineurecanal and her terrier began to appear.

Haunted NOLA: The Plague, the Promise and the Ghost Dog of St. Roch Cemetery

By Michael DeMocker | May 26, 2020

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a priest and a dog walk into a cemetery… and never leave.

So you think your NOLA pad is haunted? Here’s some things you can get to check

By Clint Durrett | May 6, 2020

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. 

Haunted NOLA: The Old Carrollton Jail & The Ghostly Prisoners That Can’t Escape

By Michael DeMocker | April 21, 2020

Furniture moving, unexplainable ghostly hands and gruesome ghost sightings surround the tale of the Old Carrollton Jail.

Haunted NOLA: Slaughter at the Sultan’s French Quarter Palace, Gardette-LePretre House

By Michael DeMocker | March 30, 2020

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.

Haunted NOLA: The ghost of New Orleans monk Pere Dagobert de Longuory is one of the most frequently seen (and heard) spirits

By Michael DeMocker | March 10, 2020

Pere Dagobert’s tale is one of a heroic, singing 18th-century icon who clearly loves New Orleans too much to leave it.

Haunted NOLA: The freezing ghost on the Royal Street rooftop

By Michael DeMocker | January 22, 2020

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.

Haunted NOLA: The Beauregard-Keyes House

By Michael DeMocker | November 19, 2019

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.

Haunted NOLA: Duels for ‘pride and honor’ left behind hundreds of ghosts at Duelling Oaks in City Park

By Michael DeMocker | October 29, 2019

Hast thou been affronted?

Haunted NOLA: The Three Ghosts of Toulouse Street and the hauntings from a former hospital

By Michael DeMocker | October 23, 2019

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!”