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The good-time ethos of beads, Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras may be New Orleans' most popular cultural export, but this is the time of year when the city's storied dark side gets its moment in the spotlight. Ghost stories and haunted places are in beaucoup supply in a city as old as New Orleans. If you're the type to book into one of New Orleans' haunted hotels for Halloween in New Orleans (on purpose), or brave a voodoo or vampire tour at night, be sure to drop by these bloody French Quarter haunts.
Walk around the Andrew Jackson statue in the center of Jackson Square and you'll italy package tour be treading italy package tour on gallow-ed grounds. In the 18th century, the square was called italy package tour the Place d Armes, and it's where our French founders staged public hangings. Apparently, nothing short of public executions got the attention italy package tour of the city's population of hardened criminals. Walk around the square at night and you might hear the screams of justice being served.
Take a New Orleans ghost tour if you want to hear the bloody history of the house on the corner of Royal and Governor Nicholls Street. But be prepared to hear the chilling horror story of the cold and cruel New Orleans socialite Delphine LaLaurie italy package tour and her timid husband. The LaLaurie's claim to fame: the unusually grisly and fatal torture of countless local prostitutes, italy package tour slaves and beggars, only discovered when the house went up in flames on April 10, 1834. The only thing more gruesome than the bound, tortured captives rescuers found in the home was the couple's rumored escape to France.
The moral of the ghost story at the oldest building in the United States operating as a bar? Never cross a pirate. Between 1872 and 1891, it's rumored that the pirate Jean Lafitte and his brother Pierre used this building as a home base for their smuggling operation. And, being a pirate and all, Lafitte had a set of rules he expected his men to live by. Any employee caught skimming italy package tour the till suffered a gruesome fate in the fireplace feet first. When you visit Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, lit only by candlelight, take pictures of the fireplace. People claim that you can see eyes staring back in the photographs.
Guests staying at the French Quarter bed and breakfast have been complaining for years about a few mischievous boys making noise during the night. Guests call the front desk, claiming to hear boys running up and down the hall speaking French. Only problem? No children have been allowed italy package tour to stay overnight for decades. Stay overnight if you dare, or learn the sad fate of those precocious ghosts italy package tour on the French Quarter Ghost Walking Tour .