Saint Ann’s St. The apparitions of Marie Laveau and her daughter are seen floating up and down this street.

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Marie Laveau is buried in a tomb entitled “Marie Philome Glapion, deceased June 11, 1897.” Visitors leave offerings of food, money and flowers and then ask for Marie’s help after turning around three times and marking a cross with red brick on the stone. Supposedly, Marie turned herself into a huge black crow, which still flies over the cemetery. The crow’s head feathers supposedly stick up in tuffs, after a headdress that Marie used to wear.
The second Marie is buried in the St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, marked “Marie Laveau” and covered with red-brick crosses. It is the “Wishing Vault” for young women seeking husbands.
Marie Laveau'S Tomb

Lake Ponchartrain Secret voodoo ceremonies were held there, some presided over by voodoo queen Marie Laveau. On St. John’s Eve, residents of the bayou hear an ethereal singing and see a shadowy figure who looks like a woman clinging to a floating log in Lake Ponchartrain, believed to be Marie.

Castle Inn
The Castle Inn is a wonderful old place with more than one ghost. Pictures taken by a young girl show someone playing the piano, the little girl who drowned in a swamp at a plantation house before the Inn was built, and others figures that the managers and the young girl can not identify. The slave is not in the pictures the girl took. Footsteps have been heard when there is no one there. Items are missing, and people only find them after a while. Some think that the poor little girl is just looking for her mother, and the other ghosts are just sort of hanging out, either not wanting to leave, or not finding their way to their next destination.

Beauregard House
The Beauregard-Keyes house is known to be haunted more by Paul Munni, who was a world-class chess master, who went insane. In a fit of mania, Munni ran, in the nude, down Ursaline with an axe, looking to kill anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path. When not playing chess, he liked to play the piano. It is the piano, and his screaming that can be heard at night. The Beauregard-Keyes house is also the sight of a mafia massacre. It's said that in the garden, you can smell gunpowder, and sometimes you can hear shots in the garden.

Bottom of the Cup Tea Room - A ghost called Jul haunts the place. People see the back of her turn around the corner or feel her brush past them.

The Castle Inn - It's a fantastic Bed and Breakfast in the Garden District of New Orleans. It has a couple ghosts; a black man who burned in the wood shed that "smokes," and a little girl who just wants to play. You can request the most haunted of the rooms which are mostly on the 3rd. floor.

Destrehan Plantation (just outside of New Orleans) - Haunted by a small sized teenaged girl.

The French Quarter this is haunted by a vampire in an ally where he killed all of his victims. When the cops found them there was no blood left in their bodies. He comes after female victims at all hours of the night. He has long, curly, brown hair with 1800's style clothing.

Hangman’s Tree
Lake Pontchartrain
During the antebellum period, a slave was caught in the heat of passion with a white female. He was taken to an oak tree near Lake Pontchartrain and hanged. If you go there late at night, you will hear the snapping of the rope and will see a shadow swinging back and forth against the tree.

Lalaurie House - ghosts include a tall black figure, Madame Lalaurie, and other spirits which haunt this place.

Lamothe Hotel
A witnesses once stayed in a room in the cottage off the house. Almost immediately after shutting off the light to settle into bed, a woman emerged from the closet area and drifted up to the his bed. After minutes of telling her to "go away" she finally slowly vanished.

Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
In the courtyard a young bride, on the day of her wedding, jumped from a side of the building overlooking the courtyard. Some have seen her standing at the place where she jumped. Also there have been experienced cold spots in the courtyard, and in the fountain (at night) you can almost see the reflection of the girl standing where she fell. On the second story in the theatre people have recounted stories when they went to get in their seats but an old man would be sitting in it, reading a newspaper. He has been seen wearing old-fashioned clothing. After the manager has been notified of this 'man', he is nowhere to be found. There are also, sightings and missing prop/costume occurrences. Actors have felt cold hands placed on their shoulders as they walk onstage, smoke machines have gone off at random, etc.

The Morgue bar and lounge,626 St. Phillip Street
The building which currently houses The Morgue bar and lounge was built in 1849. It was originally used as the city's first integrated mortuary. Though paranormal activity has been recorded in the main bar area, the most well known haunting here is of the mortician's daughter. She used to steal jewelry from the dead and still 'borrows' items from unsuspecting ladies who use the women's restroom. You see, the restroom area was once the place where the bodies were stored. The house cocktail is called Embalming Fluid, and is just about the right color too. For more info see www.themorguebar.com

The Myrtles Plantation

O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub
There are reportedly four or five ghosts here. One is a former owner who seems to be looking for something. One is another former owner of the premises who killed his secretary/servant when she wouldn't have an affair with him, and then killed himself. The secretary is also still in residence at the pub as well. Another woman who was married to one or two of the former owners of the property is also hanging around. The possible fifth ghost is that of a little boy who became separated from his mother in the French Quarter and died. According to his story, he was wandering, looking for his mother, when he wandered into O'Flaherty's, and at least one of the other ghosts seems to have taken him in.

Oddfellows Rest - Haunted by a lady dressed in white and an old gentleman dressed in a three piece suit. Both were seen by the caretaker in the daytime.

Pirates Alley - The ghost of the famous pirate Jean Lafitte is sometimes seen around 3:00 a.m. walking up and down the alley named after him.

The Bourbon Orleans Hotel 717 Orleans Ave (Located in the Vieux Carre') - Confederate Soldiers have been seen walking down hallsand there are cold spots in the ballroom. There is guestroom that people hear a little girl crying in but when employees go in there is nobody there. Hotel guests feel a presence at the end of their beds, upon turning on lights the sheets are rumpled as if someone were just sitting there.

The Fairview Hotel - In the old section of the Hotel there are ghosts wandering about. Picture have been taken of ghosts in a room on the 11th floor, in July, 2001.

Vieux Carre - Place D'Armes Hotel - Guests have been awakened in the middle of the night by a knock at the door. Upon answering the knock they find a small girl in old fashioned nightclothes asking if they have seen her grandmother. She then fades away.

Hotel Provincial - Briefly turned into a hospital during the Civil War. Many soldiers died there and haunt the hotel, specifically, building number 5. A young girl on vacation with her family stepped out of the shower, and had to step over a bunch of towels but then she noticed they were bloodied bandages and sheets. A security guard stepped out of an elevator, only to have the room before him transformed into one of the hospital wards, full of wounded soldiers.

Griffin House - unexplained sounds and footsteps are heard here.

St. Louis Cathedral
Occasionally on early morning rain storms, the spirit of Pere Dagobert can be heard singing the "Kyrie". The voice travels from St. Lois Cathedral to St. Louis Cemetery #1. The procession was from a funeral mass he conducted in 1769 for a group of townspeople who led a rebellion against the Spanish occupation. They were executed for insurrection against the crown and their bodies were left to rot in Jackson Square as an example. Pere held a mass for them and had them buried to the delight of the townspeople.

Witches Den or Circle
City Park
At this old fountain, witchcraft was practiced very regularly. Many dogs and cats were murdered during sacrifices; their howls and meows are still heard today. Also heard are the screams and cries of the murdered and of the virgins that were brutally raped.