The Most Haunted Places in Louisiana

Ranked

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   1. Hotel Monteleone New Orleans · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this working hotel. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   7 original accounts · documented across 4 decades, 1880-2014 · retold in 4 later publications

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   2. Hotel Bentley Alexandria · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Five later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and objects moving.

   7 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1985-2011 · retold in 5 later publications

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   3. Louisiana's Old State Capitol Baton Rouge · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this museum site. Three later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include cold spots and electrical anomalies.

   5 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1852-2009 · retold in 3 later publications

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   4. Beauregard-Keyes House New Orleans · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Built in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier, this Creole mansion later housed Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard as a renter from 1866 to 1868 and, decades later, novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes, who restored and bequeathed it as a museum. Lore holds that Beauregard's apparition paces the parlors searching for boots he left behind, and passersby report ballroom music and the silhouettes of a dancing couple in the upper windows.

   7 original accounts · documented in 2010 · retold in 3 later publications

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   5. The Andrew Jackson Hotel New Orleans · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Not Recommended

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across three kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   7 original accounts · retold in 4 later publications

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   6. Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Baton Rouge · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and phantom smells.

   4 original accounts · documented in 1992 · retold in 2 later publications

7. 7. Arnaud's Restaurant New Orleans · Haunted Dining / Bar · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this operating restaurant and bar, across four kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and phantom smells.

   4 original accounts · documented in 2008 · retold in 4 later publications

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   8. St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans · Other Dark Tourism Site · Family Comfort: High

   The oldest continuously active Catholic cathedral in the country traces to a 1720 parish and a 1727 church that burned in 1788, with the present building dating largely to an 1850 rebuilding. Visitors report the figure of Pere Dagobert, a friar who served the parish from 1745 until his 1776 death, walking the aisles on rainy mornings, sometimes heard chanting; a second rector, Pere Antoine, is said to walk the alley named for him.

   4 original accounts · documented in 1829 · retold in 4 later publications

9. 9. Hotel Villa Convento New Orleans · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Built around 1833 on land the Ursuline nuns sold off, this Creole townhouse has been run as a small guest house by the Campo family since 1981; local lore claims it as the building behind the Animals' 'House of the Rising Sun,' though no record confirms it. Guests in rooms 301, 302, and 209 report disembodied voices, unexplained knocking, and small items going missing, tied to a rumored madam called only 'the Madame.'

   3 original accounts · documented in 2015 · retold in 7 later publications

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    10. Dauphine Orleans Hotel New Orleans · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

    This 1969 French Quarter hotel incorporates the former site of May Baily's Place, a bordello licensed by the city in 1857, whose original license is displayed on-site. Hotel lore holds that May's sister Millie, engaged to a Confederate soldier killed in a gambling dispute on their 1861 wedding day, still wanders the property in her wedding dress, and guests report a pacing male figure in the courtyard.

    4 original accounts · retold in 7 later publications

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