Hotel Monteleone
The 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. Its most enduring ghost is Maurice Begere, a toddler said to have died of a sudden fever in the 1890s while his parents were at the French Opera House.
Legend holds the boy later appeared to his grieving mother on the fourteenth floor, saying "Mommy, don't cry, I'm fine," and guests there still report a small figure passing the foot of the bed at dawn. A 2003 paranormal investigation claimed contact with more than a dozen entities, and visitors describe doors opening on their own and unseen children laughing in the halls.
📍 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, LA · Get directions