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50

MY

ROUSES

EVERYDAY

SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2015

the

Savings

issue

LOWER ALABAMA

• BoyingtonOak –ChurchStreetCemetery,

Mobile

• Crybaby Bridge, Saraland

• Kali Oak Plantation – Oak Grove

Plantation, Mobile

• Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island

Fort Morgan, Gulf Shores

Civil war sailors and soldiers are said to

still haunt this fort, which played a role in

the battle of Mobile Bay.

• Indian Mound Park, Dauphin Island

USS Alabama, Mobile

Visitors to this retired battleship have

reported mysterious footsteps and strange

voices and sounds, including the opening

and closing of ship hatches.

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST

• Aunt Jenny’s Restaurant, Ocean Springs

• The Blue Rose,Pass Christian (now closed)

Deer Island, Biloxi

Mysterious lights and sounds are credited

to the Ghost of Deer Island, while a strange

blue light is thought to be the Firewater

Ghost himself.

SOUTH LOUISIANA

• Andrew Jackson Hotel, New Orleans

Arnaud’s Restaurant, New Orleans

People have experienced flashes of coldness

with hair raising tingles. There have been

multiple sightings of a tuxedo clad man

sitting at the end of the Richelieu Bar.

It was always noted that this individual

resembled a Maitre D’.There have also been

multiple of sightings of a woman (with

only a torso and head) floating through the

wall from the main dining room into the

The Richelieu Bar area.

• Buckner Mansion, New Orleans

• Charles Burr Lane Bridge, Opelousas

• Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan

• Evergreen, Edgard

Hans Muller House, New Orleans

Unexplained disappearances of adults,

children and pets were blamed on the

Ghostbusting

on the Gulf Coast

Sausage Man, a ghostly butcher who

worked in Mr. Muller’s sausage factory.

• Houmas House Plantation,Donaldsonville

• Joseph Jefferson Mansion, New Iberia

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

• Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans

LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans

Madame LaLaurie’s victims have haunted

this Royal Street address for more than 150

years. Past owners, including actor Nicholas

Cage, have suffered misfortunes attributed

to the LaLaurie Curse.This is one of the best

known haunted houses in the French Quarter.

LaurelValleyVillagePlantation,Thibodaux

Ghosts of slaves, Chinese, Italian, Irish

and Acadian field workers are sometimes

seen at Laurel Valley Village, the largest

surviving 19th and 20th century sugar

plantation in America.

• Magnolia Lane Plantation, Westwego

• Mary Jane’s Bridge, Broussard

• Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans

Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville

This 18th Century antebellum home has

been recognized as one of the most haunted

places in America. Ghosts include Chloe, a

slave girl, who made her first appearance in

a 1992 photo of the property.

• Nottoway Plantation, White Castle

• Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie

• Old State Capital, Baton Rouge

• Old State Penitentiary, Baton Rouge

• Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans

• Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia

• Southdown Plantation House, Houma

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans

T’Frere’s House, Lafayette

This B&B is said to be haunted by Amelie

Comeaux, a widowed schoolteacher who

drowned in a well in her brother’s backyard.

Her death was labeled a suicide by the

Catholic Church, but townspeople thought

otherwise.

Woodland Plantation, Port Sulfur

The ghost of former owner Braddish

Johnson is often seen roaming the property

dressed in striped pants and silk hats and

carrying a gold-tipped cane. Woodland is

one of the few Louisiana plantations to

survive the Civil War.

photo by

Erika Goldring