French Quarter Historic District · Jackson Square (execution history dating to the 1700s) · LaLaurie Mansion (1834 torture-chamber discovery) · Beauregard-Keyes House
US Ghost Adventures operates its New Orleans program under the on-page brand 'New Orleans Ghosts,' with an office at 620 Decatur St in the French Quarter. The flagship product, French Quarter Ghosts and Ghouls of New Orleans, is independently listed and reviewed on TripAdvisor as 'New Orleans Ghost Adventures' (with reviews describing the Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery tour and named guides), corroborating that the program actually operates. An extended late-night version, Shadows of Midnight, covers additional stops, and the company separately runs Time and Money: Tombs and Mansions of the Rich and Famous (a Garden District walking tour), Blood and Magic: Voodoo and Vampire True Crime Tour, and the 21-and-up New Orleans Ghosts Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl.
The French Quarter route covers Jackson Square, site of public executions dating to the 1700s under town executioner Louis Congo; the Beauregard-Keyes House, once home to Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard and later author Frances Parkinson Keyes; and the LaLaurie Mansion on Royal Street, tied to the documented 1834 discovery of a torture chamber in the home of Madame Delphine LaLaurie.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/new-orleans-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60864-d9731489-Reviews-New_Orleans_Ghost_Adventures-New_Orleans_Louisiana.html
ApparitionsDisembodied ScreamsUnexplained SoundsPhantom Gunfire
The operator recounts reported sightings of tormented souls and the executioner Louis Congo near the Andrew Jackson statue at Jackson Square. At the Beauregard-Keyes House, the operator describes General Beauregard reportedly hearing gunfire and cannon fire after moving in, followed by apparitions of soldiers, and frames later resident Frances Parkinson Keyes as having 'joined' the general's haunting after her death. The LaLaurie Mansion material centers on the documented 1834 case of Madame Delphine LaLaurie, whose treatment of enslaved people in the home was exposed after a fire, with the operator describing reports of disembodied screams and other phenomena in the centuries since. The French Opera House stop carries the operator's 'Witch of the Opera House' legend tied to a performer named Marguerite, following the building's 1919 fire.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim. The LaLaurie Mansion and Jackson Square material involves real documented violence against enslaved and executed people and is presented here as the operator's own historical framing, without invented embellishment beyond what the operator states.
Notable Entities
P.G.T. Beauregard (reported apparition, Beauregard-Keyes House)Madame Delphine LaLaurie (reported apparition, LaLaurie Mansion)Louis Congo (reported apparition, Jackson Square)