HAUNTED PLACES IN LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge - Parlange Plantation - a girl in a wedding dress can be scene running through the oak trees on the property.
New Orleans - Beauregard House - southern soldiers that were killed at Shiloh haunt this building were they spent their last night.
New Orleans - Lalaurie House - ghosts including a tall black figure, Madame Lalaurie, and other spirits haunt this place.
New Orleans - Griffin House - unexplained sounds and footsteps are heard here.
St Francisville - Myrtles Plantation - The ghost of a murderous slave is seen and heard, a mother and her two daughters are seen there, and i have personally seen and heard the daughters, a confederate soldier walks there, a crying woman, reanactment of the murder on the stairwell can be heard, the piano plays by itself, footsteps when not a living soul is around, voices, doors open and close by themselves and people who sleep there, like me, have been grabbed by someone and had their legs rubbed in a massaging motion or have been tucked into bed so tight that they can hardly get free.
Baton Rouge - Old State Penitentiary - Now housing Louisiana State Police Headquarters and Barracks this place is a veritable hotspot of ghostly activity. The old execution chambers and morgue now house offices and the main two story building is located over a basement of some sort which is always dark and seeps with water due to the high water table in Louisiana. Employees have experienced the sound of footsteps on numerous occasions which upon close examination could have no earthly explanation. Other phenomenon include radios turning themselves on and off and dark spaces which take on malignant life of their own.
Jefferson's Island - Joseph Jefferson's Mansion - This mansion is haunted by Joseph Jefferson's (the founder of Jefferson's Island) ghost. Green balls of light fly through the air and chairs slide down the halls, even footsteps can be heard.
Grand Coteau - Saint Charles Borromeo College - This building was an old Ursuline Convent that was now used as a preliminary training center for the Society of Jesus religious order. An old priest is seen wandering the halls here.
New Orleans - St. Louis Cathedral - Occasionally on early morning rain storms, the spipit of Pere Dagobert can be heard singing the "kyrie". The voice travels from St. Lois Cathedral to St. Louis Cemetary #1. The procession was from a funeral mass He conducted in 1769 for a group of townspeople who led a rebellion against the Spanish occupation. They were exectuted for insurrection against the crown and their bodies were left to rot in Jackson Square as an example. Pere held a mass for them and had them buried to the delight of the townspeople.
Buras - Fort Jackson - Ghosts of soldiers who fought in the Civil War can be seen walking around the place at night.
Metairie - Odin's Inn - There are cold spots, unexplained noises, a man appeared in the mirror, lights turning on and off and sillouhettes/apparations appear.
Ruston - Stowe's Bar - was once a confederate hospital. Old equipment still stored upstairs (which is closed). On any given night footsteps can be heard from the first floor and the old beds can be heard sliding across the upper floor.
South Shreveport - Old Ellerbe School - This is an old burned-down elementary school where children whose parents were wealthy went to school. Bells and faint screams can be heard at night.
West Shreveport- Caddo Detention Center- Now a division of Caddo sheriffs department, once the areas maximum security prison. Security guards who were on watch before it was it reopened reported seeing figures walking amongst the corridors, slamming open cell doors shut, and producing cold spots. Some guards claim to have seen headless figures walking in front of security cameras. There are certain areas in the prison that wild nor domesticated animals will not enter, most specters are seen wearing the gray jumpsuits issued to prisoners.
Natchitoches- Campus of Northwestern LA University (which used to be an old plantation). There has been reports of a ghost woman who walks around by the columns that still stand where the plantation used to be. The people on campus call her Isabella. She has also been sighted by the old woman’s gym.
New Orleans-The Bourbon Orleans Hotel 717 Orleans Ave (Located in the Vieux Carre') Confederate Soldiers have been seen walking down halls cold spots in the ballroom. There is guestroom that people hear a little girl crying, when employees go in there is nobody there. Then of course there is basic stuff, Hotel guests that feel a presence at the end of their beds, upon turning on lights the sheets are rumpled as if someone were just sitting there.
New Orleans-St. Louis Cemetery No. 2.- The Gravestone of famed Voodoo Queen Marie LaVeau is said to have a crow looking over it. The spirit of Marie is said to inhabit the crow.
New Orleans-O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub- There are supposedly 4 or 5 ghosts here. One is a former owner who seems to be looking for something, although nobody knows what. One is another former owner of the premises who killed his secretary (servant?) when she wouldn't have an affair with him, and then killed himself. The secretary is also still in residence at the pub, too. Also, another woman who was married to one or two of the former owners of the property is also hanging around. The possible fifth ghost is that of a little boy who became separated from his mom in the French Quarter and died. According to his story, he was wandering, looking for his mother, when he wandered into O'Flaherty's, and at least one of the other ghosts seems to have taken him in.
Destrehan-Destrehan Plantation - The ghost of the master of the house is said to haunt this place to this day.
Ruston - Biomedical Engineering Building - the old hospital - There is a presence that inhabits the 4th floor (which used to be where the operating room was). The elevator continuously travels to the 4th floor although no offices are located there. It goes from the 1st floor (the old morgue) to the 4th floor, although another floor has been selected. Noises have also been heard on the 3rd floor when no one is around.
NEW ORLEANS - Pirates Alley - The ghost of the famous pirate Jean LeFeit is sometimes seen around 3:00 a.m. walking up and down the alley named after him.
Slidell - Northshore Regional Medical Center - This hospital has two known spirits lurking around its premises. One is affectionately known as Reggie. The story goes that while construction of the hospital was going on nearly 20 years ago, an elevator maintenance person fell to his death. Reggie’s antics included opening and closing elevator doors and taking people to the fifth floor, which normally requires the use of a key. One time Reggie mainifested himself to a maintenance man and a visitor even saw him inside the elevator. The second ghost appears as a black shadow and has been seen in the surgery room. Its origin is unknown.
New Orleans - Sin City Bar - Sin City Bar used to be a morgue many years ago. The beer is currently stored where the cadavers use to be kept. In the ladies' bathroom, people feel as if they are being watched. Five different women have reported seeing someone enter the bathroom, but when they went in, no one was there.
Baton Rouge - Guaranty Income Life and Broadcasting Building - This structure originally housed the old location for the Baton Rouge General Hospital. The bottom floor of the building used to serve as the hospital morgue, but now it houses a cafeteria and several offices. The old morgue freezer was turned into a file storage facility during the renovations for the new office complex. At night, the entire floor seems to drop several degrees colder than the rest of the building. Several of the security guards refuse to go down there and many complaints of strange noises have been reported coming from the bottom floor. The elevator is even said to go up and down all by itself at night when no one is there.
Baton Rouge - Spanish Moon - This downtown area nightclub is inhabited by at least one known ghost. During the 1880's, the building served as a firehouse. It has seen many occupants since then. It was even used as a "wino flophouse" about thirty years ago. This era is where the spirit is believed to have originated from. Manifestations include apparitions of a young man, beer taps turning themselves on, strange noises, and flying glassware.
New Orleans-Bottom of the Cup Tea Room A ghost called Julia hunts the place. People see the back of her turn around the corner or feel her brush past them.
Roberts Cove-Hookmans Graveyard This graveyard known as been haunted. There is a hook in a grave. People have also claimed that they seen the headless horseman back there. It is a very freaky place that only a big hearted person would want to go. This is no place to go for fun and games. Take it serious cause serious things have happened back there. There many stories that lead to mysteries in Hookmans Graveyard.
Ruston - Stowe's Bar - Formerly a hospital dating back to the civil war, the building's upper floors are now closed to patrons, but ghostly happenings still make their down to the first floor bar area. Examples include a bartender mopping the floor after closing one night only to hear footsteps when no one else should have been in the bar. He then noticed footprints on the damp, shimmering floor he'd just mopped - only feet away from him.
Springfield - Springfield cemetery The name of a man that killed a little boy, was written on the tombstone of the child, in child like writing.
Courtesy of: The Shadowlands: Ghosts & Hauntings