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SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2015
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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