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 orphaned by yellow fever, until the great French Quarter fires of 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, where lavish Creole balls once filled the room beneath its chandeliers.
• Hotel MonteleoneInn · New Orleans, LAThe Hotel Monteleone began in 1886, when Sicilian immigrant Antonio Monteleone bought a small hotel at Royal and Iberville streets and grew it into a French Quarter landmark, 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 1770s Spanish colonial era, this briquette-entre-poteaux cottage at the corner of Bourbon and St. Philip is among the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans, a National Historic Landmark now run as a candlelit bar.
• 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. Dufilho Jr., America's first licensed pharmacist, the Creole townhouse on Chartres Street has operated as the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum since 1950, its shelves still lined with belladonna, opium, and old surgical tools.
• Old Ursuline ConventLandmark · New Orleans, LACompleted around 1752 and regarded as the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi Valley, the Old Ursuline Convent housed the nuns who taught New Orleans' young women.
• Pirate's AlleyLandmark · New Orleans, LAPirate's Alley is a narrow 600-foot cobblestone passage beside St. Louis Cathedral, laid out as Orleans Alley South in the late 1700s and only renamed in 1964, its title likely borrowed from a 1920s gift shop rather than any proven dealings of the privateer Jean Lafitte.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1Cemetery · New Orleans, LAEstablished in 1789 just beyond the old city limits, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest surviving cemetery in New Orleans, a single square block crowded with whitewashed above-ground tombs that hold tens of thousands of the dead.
• 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.