HauntBound Press Fact Sheet · Updated September 2026
The Most Haunted Places in Louisiana
Louisiana has 103 documented haunted locations in the HauntBound index.
Top 10 identified after source-level analysis of the 22 strongest Louisiana candidates.
By the numbers
- Total documented
- 103
- Museum / Historical Site
- 19
- Cemetery / Burial Ground
- 16
- Haunted Hotel / Inn
- 16
- Family-friendly
- 97
- Bookable
- 37
- Oldest documented site
- American Cemetery (1737)
- Most-reported phenomenon
- apparitions
Ranked
- 1. Hotel Monteleone 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
- 2. Hotel Bentley 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
- 3. Louisiana's Old State Capitol 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
- 4. Beauregard-Keyes House 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
- 5. The Andrew Jackson Hotel 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
- 6. Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center 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. Arnaud's Restaurant 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
- 8. St. Louis Cathedral 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. Hotel Villa Convento 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
- 10. Dauphine Orleans Hotel 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
By city
- New Orleans: 33 documented sites
- Baton Rouge: 13 documented sites
- Shreveport: 7 documented sites
- Lake Charles: 4 documented sites
- St. Francisville: 4 documented sites
- Alexandria: 3 documented sites
- Ruston: 3 documented sites
- Lafayette: 3 documented sites
- Gibsland: 2 documented sites
- New Iberia: 2 documented sites
- 29 more across the rest of Louisiana
Press images
- Hotel Monteleone Carnaval.com Studios, CC BY 2.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Monteleone_214_Royal_St,_New_Orleans,_April_2022_-_Exterior_from_Royal_Street.jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/hotel-monteleone/hero.jpg
- Hotel Bentley Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Bentley,_Alexandria,_LA_IMG_1133.JPG hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/hotel-bentley/hero.jpg
- Louisiana's Old State Capitol John Krupsky, CC BY 2.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Louisiana_State_Capitol,_Baton_Rouge,_2016.jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/old-state-capitol-building/hero.jpg
- Beauregard-Keyes House Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beauregard-Keyes_House,_New_Orleans_October_2014.jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/beauregard-keyes-house/hero.jpg
- Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Tjean314, CC BY-SA 3.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heidelberg_Hotel.jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/hilton-baton-rouge-capitol-center/hero.jpg
- Arnaud's Restaurant Ajay Suresh, CC BY 4.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnaud%27s_(55151882573).jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/arnauds-restaurant/hero.jpg
- St. Louis Cathedral Brandon Price, CC BY 2.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Louis_Cathedral_-_New_Orleans_Jackson_Square_July_2015.jpg hauntbound.com/images/locations/louisiana/st-louis-cathedral/hero.jpg
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Superlatives
- Oldest documented site: American Cemetery Documented since 1737.
- Most documented: Hotel Monteleone 7 distinct published accounts.
- Top haunted stay: Hotel Villa Convento Overnight stays bookable.
- Most family-friendly: St. Louis Cathedral Family Comfort rating: High.
Methodology
For purposes of the HauntBound Index, "most haunted" means the location with the strongest documented record of reported haunting phenomena. We evaluate the quantity, independence, persistence, and documentary quality of published reports. We do not attempt to determine whether paranormal phenomena are real, and we never count a source that only establishes a building's history as evidence of haunting claims. Repetitive coverage is subject to diminishing returns, so a story retold many times does not outrank a story independently documented. Rankings never consider commercial relationships.
The 2026 Index reflects sources identified and classified as of September 15, 2026.
Updated September 29, 2026: documented totals now exclude the private homes, operating hospitals and venues with nothing left to visit that were withdrawn on September 25 and 26. The ranked ten are unchanged.
This is a documentation ranking, not a visitation guide; sites not open to visitors are marked on their entries.