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Explore 60 haunted places in Louisiana. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Hotel
New Orleans tourism recounts mischievous boys heard laughing and running in the courtyard, with belongings moved in guest rooms. A separate housekeeper spirit is said to straighten towels and pillows. The familiar story connects the boys to a boarding-school fire; that origin remains part of the legend.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Other
A Via Nola Vie interview with server Renee Smith records a belief that founder Antoine Alciatore still moves through the restaurant after dark. Smith also described spirits linked to objects in its dining rooms, including an unsettling photograph in the 1840 Room. The article treats this as the restaurant community’s living folklore.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Other
US Ghost Adventures retells sightings of founder Arnaud Cazenave in a tuxedo, watching the busy dining room as though still supervising service. The ghost identified as his daughter Germaine is associated with the Mardi Gras museum and a woman seen passing straight through a wall. Staff attribute rearranged place settings to the Count.
DeRidder, Louisiana · Prison
The Beauregard Tourist Commission presents the Gothic Jail as a place haunted by the two men executed from its stairwell. Joe Genna and Molton Brasseaux’s 1928 hanging provides the center of the enduring jail legend. Its distinctive cells and spiral stair have become the setting for public ghost tours and paranormal television investigations.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Historic house
HauntTracker’s collection attributes unexplained piano music and screaming to a figure in the house’s chess-player folklore. A separate garden story involves phantom gunshots and the smell of gunpowder. These are the collected haunting motifs, rather than an accepted account of the people or events behind them. Source misnames a supposed chess player as Paul Munni and contains dubious biographical claims; those claims are deliberately excluded. Historical review recommended.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Hotel
The hotel identifies several strands of its ghost lore: a Confederate soldier, children and nuns linked to the former convent and orphanage, and a solitary dancer. The ballroom dancer is said to continue beneath the chandelier, while the children’s presence is associated with sounds along the guest corridors.
Lafayette, Louisiana · Other
Lafayette Travel describes a mustached man seen near the bar and a small girl in blue appearing in the lobby or upstairs window. Falling bottles and inexplicable cold patches accompany the sightings.
Sunset, Louisiana · Historic house
Haunted Nation’s account describes the figure of Félicité watching from upper windows or sitting in a rocking chair. A gentler apparition called Célestine is said to move through the house in white. Other stories concern car alarms sounding unexpectedly and the indistinct shapes of soldiers crossing the surrounding fields. Historic identities and alleged violent events require separate historical verification. Source is a folklore/investigator blog.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Hotel
Louisiana tourism tells of Millie, a bride still waiting for her lost fiancé, and Jewel, a dancing figure said to guide late-arriving guests. May Baily’s Place forms part of this same hotel’s ghost tradition.
Destrehan, Louisiana · Historic house
The St. Charles Herald Guide interviewed director Tracy Smith about a rocking horse apparently moving on its own and a boy seen sitting on a window ledge. An earlier report records Annette Roper’s account of a transparent figure in a chair, later seen at an upstairs window and crossing the driveway.
Alexandria, Louisiana · Other
Atlas Obscura describes Stella, the ghost staff associate with the upstairs banquet area of this former jewelry store. She is said to fuss with glassware and other shiny objects. Louisiana Spirits’ own investigation report separately records unexplained noises and a shadow seen in a mirror.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Other
Ghost City Tours retells sightings of William Faulkner seated at a writing desk inside the bookshop, accompanied by an unexplained smell of pipe tobacco. The tradition links the shop’s literary history with a writer who seems reluctant to leave his New Orleans rooms.
Alexandria, Louisiana · Other
Syfy’s Ghost Hunters recap identifies Finnegan’s Wake as one of three Alexandria investigation sites. Its story connects the disturbances with an old bar imported from a former brothel, suggesting the haunting arrived with the furnishing. This is a television-investigation account attached to the former tavern, not a general claim about downtown.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Other
HauntTracker preserves a story about a mortician’s daughter who continues to borrow jewelry from women using the restroom. The account places that room in a former body-storage area and also mentions disturbances around the bar. The story belongs to the building formerly operated as the Morgue at 626 St. Philip Street. Business name and mortuary history are historical claims from an old listing. Current tenant/access unverified. Distinct from The Mortuary on Canal Street.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Other
A Louisiana magazine interviewed owner Dez Crawford about glasses moving and sightings of a girl and a young man with a 1950s-style haircut. Staff also described pool balls rolling, unexplained touches and voices in the empty building. Earlier accounts added beer taps operating without a visible hand.
Buras, Louisiana · Other
Haunted Places records a local tradition that soldiers from the Civil War still appear around Fort Jackson. The brief account identifies the figures with men who died there, but supplies neither named witnesses nor detailed encounters. It is retained as a concise military ghost legend.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Other
Haunted Places collects sightings of a spectral sergeant and reports of heavy bootsteps where no walker can be found. Visitors have also described feeling watched inside the fort. These motifs make the ruined defenses a setting for military ghost lore rather than a claim of an identified historical haunting.
LaPlace / Manchac wetlands, Louisiana · Cemetery
Atlas Obscura’s cemetery guide recounts sightings of Julia Brown moving through mist near the graves of people killed in the 1915 hurricane. The broader legend links her warning song and funeral with the storm. That supernatural interpretation is folklore surrounding a real disaster, not an explanation for it. Use cemetery identity, not the entire Manchac swamp as another profile. Brown’s religious identity is disputed in retellings; do not label her an evil witch or equate Voodoo with a curse.
Crowley, Louisiana · Theater
Haunted Nation describes the Grand Opera House as long rumored to be haunted by its guests and staff, and recounts arranging an investigation of the historic venue. The available account establishes a local paranormal reputation without enough inspected detail to attribute a particular apparition.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Other
Haunted Places records a family member’s account of a night guard hearing doors slam and vending-machine items fall while alone. A former radio host responded that he too had heard the guard’s stories and avoided the basement at night. The reputation is linked to the building’s former hospital use.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Historic house
Ghost City Tours recounts former director Charles Mackie’s descriptions of rooms warming unexpectedly and rose scents where no flowers were present. Lavender is associated with Mrs. Hermann and roses with Mrs. Grima. Its account also describes visitors mistaking a nineteenth-century couple for museum interpreters.
Lake Charles, Louisiana · Other
The Calcasieu Clerk of Court acknowledges the building’s ghost reputation: some visitors and workers identify its alleged presence as Toni Jo Henry, executed in 1942. The Imperial Calcasieu Museum’s folklore exhibit adds reports of unexplained laughter, shadows and phantom scents within the courthouse.
Alexandria, Louisiana · Hotel
Hotel Bentley lore centers on its builder Joseph Bentley, said to remain on the third floor after dying in his suite. Other reported apparitions peer down from the mezzanine above the grand staircase. A child near the elevator and a man associated with a staircase fall also recur in the hotel’s ghost stories. Deaths and identities in the haunting account are folklore claims, not independently corroborated here.
New Orleans, Louisiana · Hotel
The hotel’s own history tells of Maurice Begere, a child said to appear near the room where he died and once to have comforted his grieving mother. Staff and guests also report doors opening without help, lifts stopping on unexpected floors and childlike shadows moving along the corridors.