Hotel Monteleone
Founded 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. Its most enduring ghost is Maurice Begere, a toddler said to have died of a sudden fever in the 1890s while his parents attended the French Opera House, leaving them to return year after year in hopes of glimpsing their son. Legend holds that the boy at last appeared to his grieving mother on the fourteenth floor with the words "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 famously claimed contact with more than a dozen entities, and staff and visitors alike have long described doors opening on their own, elevators stopping at empty floors, and the laughter of unseen children in the halls.
📍 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, LA · Get directions