The Louisiana Haunted Trail

Louisiana's haunted geography splits in two: the crowded, commercialized blocks of the French Quarter, where nightly walking tours cover the LaLaurie house and Storyville's ghosts, and a quieter interior that most visitors skip. North and central Louisiana keep their own record, parish courthouses with named apparitions and hundred-year-old dining rooms that still set a table for the dead. Nearly a hundred stops make up the statewide network, spread from river towns to bayou parishes. The featured route runs the quieter half, a short northbound drive through Alexandria, Monroe, and Shreveport for readers who already know the Quarter.