Haunted History Tours
We strive to deliver a memorable experience for visitors and locals alike. The mission of New Orleans Ghosts is to explain the strange, unexplained, and fantastic hauntings routinely experienced in New Orleans. To do this, we seek to answer the who, what, how, and why behind each haunting story. First, we journey into the history behind each location we visit, and the people involved in our stories. We believe that it is often a person’s violent and tragic history that results in the lingering presence at each location that we call “ghosts”. Only by understanding the history and what the people in our stories suffered through, can we begin to understand why a place might be haunted. Endeavor to put yourself in the shoes of the men and women in our stories, to understand their plight. Then, we will attempt to draw a logical connection between the events and people of the past, to the prevalent hauntings experienced today. While no one can use science to explain how a place is haunted, we venture to logically explain why a place is haunted through engaging storytelling backed by true historic events.
For exclusive access to five more locations after the tour ends, make sure to sign up for our extended tour. The extended tour will take you on an extra 30 to 45-minute tour for four additional ghost stories for only $6.
Locations visited include:
The Casket Girls of the old Ursuline Convent.
One of the oldest buildings in the Mississippi Valley, completed in 1752, the French order of Ursuline nuns came to run an infirmary for the French populations.
Later, orphan girls from French convents were sent to the new world as potential suitors for French men making their fortunes in French Louisiana’s colonies.
Chaperoned by the Ursuline nuns until they married, each girl bought their possessions in a coffin-shaped casket. Hence the name. The girls were terribly mistreated, and after the last one had left, their caskets were found in the attic of the old monastery.
Rumors started circulating that the girls did not only bring their clothes but also smuggled European vampires into the city. Join the tour to hear the fates of two groups who tried to hunt down the vampires.
The LaLaurie House and Museum
Madame Marie Delphine McCarty was married three times, and death and tragedy followed her all over the globe. From losing a husband on the way back to Spain to forcing another to leave her in her impressive house in new Orleans, on the Museum’s current site.
She was born into a wealthy family, and with her third husband, she and the Frenchman M. LaLaurie became the toast of the town, a social couple known for elegant and desirable parties.
During one such party, a small fire broke out; casually, the LaLauries’ escorted their guests onto the street, assured them the slave quarters were empty, and the party continued with music by a small quartet.
Some guests had cause to question whether there were actually people still in the house and brushed aside their now worries hosts to re-enter the building. The heroic guests emerged shortly with dozens of people in tow. Some were coughing from the smoke inhalation, and some were in a much worse state. Some looked like they were the victims of human experiments, torture, and certain abuse at the hands of the LaLauries’.
A mob grew, seeking vengeance, and when the LaLauries’ escaped and boarded a boat for France, the mob turned to the house that had been a vile prison for goodness knows how many tortured souls.
The house was ransacked, bodies were discovered, and the place was gutted by the end of the very next day. No one wanted to live in the cursed place, and stories of hauntings and apparitions started very soon.
Eventually, the building became tenement apartments, and the ghost stories grew from the ghastly suffering in this cursed building.
Movie star Nicholas Cage once owned it but lost it to foreclosure not long after. Now the LaLaurie mansion is owned by a film production house and is the subject of an upcoming movie.
