Haunted Places in New Orleans, LA

Explore 11 haunted places in New Orleans, LA — inns, haunted houses, landmarks and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Andrew Jackson HotelInn · New Orleans, LAThe site at 919 Royal Street began as a Spanish colonial boarding school for boys, many of them orphaned by yellow fever, before the great fires that swept the French Quarter in 1794 reduced it to ash and, by legend, claimed five young boys trapped inside.
• Bourbon Orleans HotelInn · New Orleans, LAIn the heart of the French Quarter, the Bourbon Orleans rose from the Orleans Ballroom and Theatre, a center of Creole society where lavish balls filled the room beneath its chandeliers.
• Hotel MonteleoneInn · New Orleans, LAFounded in 1886 when Sicilian immigrant Antonio Monteleone bought a small hotel at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets, the Hotel Monteleone grew into one of the French Quarter's grand landmarks, family-owned through five generations and beloved by writers from Faulkner to Capote.
• LaLaurie MansionHouse · New Orleans, LAIn the 1830s the wealthy socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie hosted lavish parties at her grand Royal Street mansion, even as rumors spread about her cruelty toward the people she enslaved.
• Lafitte's Blacksmith ShopLandmark · New Orleans, LABuilt in the Spanish colonial era of the 1770s, the briquette-entre-poteaux cottage at the corner of Bourbon and St.
• Muriel's Jackson SquareRestaurant · New Orleans, LAMuriel's Jackson Square occupies a French Quarter building rebuilt after the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, restored to grandeur by owner Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan as a home for his family.
• New Orleans Pharmacy MuseumMuseum · New Orleans, LABuilt in 1823 as the apothecary and home of Louis J.
• Old Ursuline ConventLandmark · New Orleans, LACompleted around 1752 and now widely regarded as the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi Valley, the Old Ursuline Convent was raised by French colonial engineers to house the Ursuline nuns who taught and sheltered the young women of the colony.
• Pirate's AlleyLandmark · New Orleans, LAA narrow 600-foot cobblestone passage beside St.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1Cemetery · New Orleans, LAEstablished in 1789 just beyond the old city limits, St.
• Sultan's Palace (Gardette-LePretre House)House · New Orleans, LAThis Greek Revival mansion with its distinctive cast-iron filigree balconies was completed around 1836 for Philadelphia dentist Joseph Coulon Gardette and purchased in 1839 by planter Jean Baptiste LePretre.