New Orleans Hauntings

Parlange Plantation- The ghost of a young woman
wearing a wedding dress runs between the trees
that line the path to the old manor here. She
supposedly killed herself by running into an oak tree
just before she was to be married to someone she
didn't love. This story has become legend, and the
facts are hard to find. Some say that she just died,
possibly after her wedding.

- Baton Rouge, LA

Moonrise Plantation- This house is haunted by its
former owner, Dominique de Laboutre. In life, she
survived a machete attack that nearly severed her
head. She was also poisoned by her ex-husband,
and caught an almost fatal case of Malaria,
Pnemonia, and other diseases. She was in several
near accidents, but lived to be 107 years old. No
wonder she won't leave!

Destrehan Manor- After restoration in the
1980's, ghosts began to appear regulary to staff
and tourists. ghostly figures, phantom lights and
disembodied voices have been seen and heard
here. Candidates for the ghost are Stephen
Henderson, who with his wife, was a previous
owner in the mid 1800's and Jean Laffitte, who
suposedly was a friend of Henderson's.

Beauregaurd House- General Pierre Gustave
Toutant de Beauregard lived here until 1869 when
he commanded confederate troops in the
battlefield at Shiloh. Thousands lost their lives,
but it seems that they return to this house where
they had spent their last hours and re-enact their
final battle scene.

Gardette-LePretre House- This house was
leased by a Turkish Sultan and his 5 wives. In
1880 (correct year?) assasins broke in one night
and murdered everyone in the house. Re-
enactments of the murders continued for years,
but suddenly stopped after the house was divided
into apartments.

Lalaurie House- Delphine Lalaurie was a very cruel
woman in the mid 1800's. She was the creme of
society, but harbored a dirty secret. In her attic
were many of her slaves whom she tortured
mercilessly. She was actually witnessed chasing a
slave girl onto the house with a whip. One day, a
fire broke out in the kitchen, and the firemen quickly
knew what the woman had been up to. Her torture
chamber was revealed and she was chased by a mob
out of town. With so much hatred, and sadness
here, it has created quite a handfull of spirits.
Madame Lalaurie is one of those ghosts, and she
walks the darkened hallways with her whip ready to
put anyone back in line. A tall malevolent black man
haunts the staircase (surely one of Madame's
victims looking for revenge), and screams are heard
coming from the attic. Other phantom apparitions
are seen, and sometimes heard crying.

Laveau House- Marie Laveau was an illegitimate
mullato born in 1784, and grew to become the
Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Marie began
practising voodoo early, and in the 1830's she was
selling her charms and love potions from her home.
She held wild parties and rituals at the St. Johns
Bayou. By the late 1800's Marie was still young
looking, and people began to believe that there had
been two of them; a mother and her daughter. Both
are said to be buried in St. Loius Cemetery #1 and #
2 respectivly. Which one is Which is unknown.

Myrtles Plantation- No less than 12 spirits haunt
this place. A slave girl named Chloe is seen often
in her long dress and green turban. She is said to
have poisoned 2 of her masters children by mixing
Oleander flowers into a birthday cake. She was
subsequently hung, and he body was thrown into
the river. Other specters include, a nude Indian
woman who paces the backyard gazebo, a man in
Khacki who tells visitors that the plantation is
closed, 2 young blond girls in the bedrooms, a child
who jumps on the beds and her maid who tidys up
after her, the 2 children who were poisoned by
Chloe, a man who died on the 17th step of the
front stairs, a ballet dancer wearing a black tutu
and a voodoo priestess who supposedly could not
cure a child of some fatal disease.

Ann Rice's Former House- According to Anne
Rice herself, her home on First Street in New
Orleans, Louisianna is haunted. Although Ms. Rice
says that she herself has never seen nor felt the
spirit's presence, she has learned from several eye
witnesses including her father and other family
members that the ghost of a woman by the name
of Pamela Starr does indeed inhabit her house.
Ms. Starr lived in the house at 1239 First Street
from 1867 till about 1929, and has since been
seen wandering around the back of the house, and
in the dining room.

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