Stories of hauntings and paranormal activities are commonplace in the city. Many of New Orleans' most haunted houses and places or paranormal attractions can be found right downtown in the French Quarter.
Due to its rich and very strange history, New Orleans has racked up countless reports of hauntings, making it the most haunted city in America, by some sources. Following are some of the city's locations most associated with frequent paranormal activity.
Most Haunted Houses in New Orleans – The LaLaurie House
The LaLaurie House, a French Quarter mansion, is reportedly filled with paranormal activity. Once maintained by Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who reportedly mistreated slaves in her house, the mansion is now said to be filled with their ghosts.
According to legend, Madame LaLaurie conducted brutal experiments on slaves, and by some accounts, she engaged in breaking bones to turn someone into a crab man, peeling skin off in stripes to turn one woman into a human caterpillar, and removing organs from people. All of this is unconfirmed, but it adds to the legend of the haunted mansion.
Beauregard-Keyes House, a Place of Paranormal Activity in New Orleans
This house is recognized as a national monument because of its rich history. It attracts tourists during the day, and other entities at night, some say. The house of a Confederate general by the name of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard after the defeat of the Confederacy, it reportedly became haunted long after his death in 1893.
In the early 1900s, the house played host to a series of murders, which may also have contributed to its status as one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans.
The Haunting at Le Pavilion Hotel
This hotel is supposed to house four ghostly figures. A young girl, known as Eva or Ava, as well as a well-to-do couple, and a young man, all of whom exist solely as spectral images, are reported from time to time in the hotel. The hotel is located in downtown New Orleans.
The Sultan's Palace, a Place of Reported Paranormal Activity
Also known as the Gardette-LePrete House (as it was built by Gardette and sold to the LePrete family), this house was rented by a Turkish sultan.
This sultan was reportedly a cruel man who tortured people himself, but on one occasion in the mid 1800s, a neighbor noticed blood issuing from under the house's door, according to legend, and she called the authorities. Inside, associates of the sultan's were found chopped to bits, and later, the sultan was found buried in the back yard. Following the reported massacre, the house has been a model home for paranormal activity.
These are all some of New Orleans' most haunted houses and places, though there are many others. Due to the abundance of paranormal attractions in New Orleans, the city has been dubbed America's most haunted city time and time again by various sources.
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