Ghost Tour of New Orleans
- Vicky
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 12, 2023
Back in October 2017, Amber and I visited New Orleans, Louisiana for a week. It was part vacation and part going to a Supernatural Convention. We did many different site-seeing activities from going on a cruise on the Mississippi River, touring various museums, and many cemeteries. We also did a ghost tour.
After a day of exploring the town, we went to where we were to start our tour. We were both nervous that the starting point seemed to be a plain building in a more residential part of town. Debating if this was a scam and we should just cut our losses, we decided to regroup and figure out what we were going to do at Café du Monde. Café du Monde is popular for their beignets and Café au lait. I didn’t like coffee before this trip, but quickly became addicted to café au lait.
After discussing and figuring out a place to hang out if things didn’t actual go according to plan, we ended up exploring around Royal Street and visiting a few shops here and there. Once it was getting closer to the time of our tour, we sat in CC’s Coffee Shop to get something to drink. I had an Earl Gray tea. We kept watching the corner where we were to meet up and saw people just wandering around it. We also kept seeing people inside the coffee shop watching the same area.
Deciding that there were enough people around we went to the spot to be greeted by our tour guide, Randy. Some of the people from the coffee shop we noticed also came over and chatted with us on how they too were worried about the tour not being real.
Our first stop of the tour was Daphne LaLaurie house. She was known to torture her slaves in a very cruel manner. She would break bones and reshape them in horrific ways. Her and her husband would also do experiments on the slaves. People learned of all this when a fire broke out in the house and firefighters were ensuring everyone was evacuated.
Another stop was the French Market, which back in the day was overrun with gangs and prostitutes. The story we were told was of one lady that was particularly bad, and people stayed way from her because if you messed with her, you were as good as dead. As we continued walking Randy told us about the vampires. At a Sister’s school, an orphanage and school ran by nuns, a group of young girls from France were brought in. Each of these girls would arrive after being stuck on a ship for four months carrying a trunk the size of a kid’s coffin. The girls had very little sun while on board the ship and caught scurvy, which causes your mouth to bleed.
We stopped by the Andrew Jackson Hotel, which was originally a school that got burnt down and is haunted by a few kids that didn’t escape. We also stopped by the site of Madam Laveau’s house. At one point during the tour, we walked past the back of St. Louis Cathedral which has a Jesus statue that is illuminated. At this point I whispered to Amber, “Touchdown Jesus,” a saying we learned during other tours. I caused Amber to laugh at the most inappropriate time causing our tour group all to look at us wondering what was going on. Later our tour guide, Randy also pointed out the statue and said, “Here’s Touchdown Jesus,” which caused us both to laugh again.
While we didn’t experience anything paranormal during this ghost tour of New Orleans the stories alone were interesting.
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