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Louisiana and Mississippi Day 4: Haunted History Ghost Tour

11 October 2022

Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 25 November 2022
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With the conference nearly over, we decided to take an evening walking tour of the French Quarter and to learn about the city’s ghostly history.

This being New Orleans, we were walking with drinks in our hands (yes, that’s legal there, unlike most of the US) and we were asked not to make audio or video recordings during the tour. So the ghost stories didn’t really come home with us. My advice: Go see the tour on your own!

Haunted or not, the tour served as an excuse to admire the well-preserved history of the city. Here are a few of our favorites:

A red-brick building in New Orleans’ French Quarter with ornate white cast-iron balconies draped in hanging ferns and Spanish moss, above a street-level storefront with arched windows, green shutters, and a shop marked number 700. A blue fire hydrant and a black trash bin stand on the sidewalk in the foreground.

Three women walk along the sidewalk past a brick French Quarter building marked 837 Royal, with tall arched shuttered windows, a wrought-iron balcony holding potted plants and hanging ferns, and white paneled garage-style doors.

A street corner in the New Orleans French Quarter with a red-brick building featuring an ornate wrought-iron balcony and gallery overhang; signs read “Café Amelie” and “Dumaine,” and a person sits on the sidewalk against the building near white French doors. Down the quiet side street a white gallery-front hotel and green trees are visible under a partly cloudy evening sky.

by Lisa Rozmyn

by Lisa Rozmyn

A dark-colored mule wearing a red and black leather harness pulls a carriage down a paved street at dusk, with historic New Orleans houses featuring balconies, columns, and warmly lit windows in the background.

Andrew Jackson Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

Andrew Jackson Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar

A stucco Creole cottage numbered 1035 in New Orleans photographed at dusk, its facade lit by a hanging lantern with a deep blue sky above. The house has two dormer windows in the roof, dark green louvered shutters, and a red front door with a small Halloween witch decoration hanging on it.

A nighttime street corner in the New Orleans French Quarter showing the corner building of Royal Pharmacy, with an illuminated vintage “Royal Phcy. Coca-Cola Soda” sign hanging over the sidewalk and a lit “Royal Pharmacy” hanging sign. The building has a white balcony with turned railing spindles, gated windows, and a white SUV parked along the quiet street lined with lamp lights.

Royal Pharmacy

A white horse pulls a Royal Carriages tour buggy full of passengers down a French Quarter street at night, in front of a yellow two-story building with green shutters, dormer windows, and iron balconies. A gas-style lamp glows near a gated entrance marked with ‘Private Parking’ and ‘No Trespassing’ signs.

A cruiser bicycle leans against a sign post in front of a two-story brick building at night, with two tall arched green doors on the ground floor and warmly lit upper windows showing ceiling fans and a balcony with wrought-iron railing.

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