In
Louisiana
Arcadia - Site where Bonnie and Clyde were killed - On a full moon, you can here the sounds of gun shots.
Anniston - Jacksonville -
Fort McClellan - A very old fort that is now
closed, but people are still aloud to go out on it. Almost every
building is abandoned. It was built back in the 1800s for military use.
Almost every building and every foot of that land is haunted.
Basile - Basile high
school - In Basile High School's old gym there
has been seen seats moving up and down. There also had been lights
flickering on and off.
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 - Highland
Road near Lee Drive - Usually during late
September or early October, but occasionally at other times, the ghosts
of ragged and dirty Confederate soldiers can be seen walking along or
crossing Highland Road beginning around Lee Drive (south of the LSU
campus) and the sightings continue as far down as Gardere Lane. There
are numerous reports of soldiers scurrying across the road late at
night. However, in 1999 or 2000, there was an incident in early October
in which several drivers called police when a filthy, bleeding young
man wearing a Confederate uniform and carrying a rifle staggered across
the busy intersection of Lee Drive and Highland Road around 5:00pm.
Police serached the area and found no one.
Baton Rouge - Houma - it is a haunted road where people claim 2 see dead
people walking
Baton Rouge - Louisiana
State University - Pleasant Hall - (Formerly
a women's dormitory, now being renovated. ) Several accounts of
murder/suicides have been reported. Most famous is the incident in room
312: The story goes that one night a girl and her boyfriend got in an
argument. The girl shot her boyfriend, but he survived. She ran
upstairs into her own room, 312, shot herself and died. Strange noises
and sightings have been reported.
Baton Rouge - Old State
Capitol Building - The ghost of "Pierre" who is
believed to be an senator or congressman from who died from a heart
attack in his mid- to late- forties because of a political issue that
he was particularly riled about. Before he could start to serve his
term. He is said to haunt the upstairs of the Old State Capitol
Building. Several security officers report alarms (motion sensors
mostly) going off in the middle of the night and the video camera shows
no signs of anyone. One female security guard briefly glimpsed "Pierre"
one night upstairs were the senate used to meet. The guards and tour
guides at the building also report instances of doors opening and
closing when no one else is in the building as well.
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 includes radios turning themselves on and
off and dark spaces, which take on malignant life of their own.
Baton Rouge - Parlange
Plantation - a girl in a wedding dress can be
scene running through the oak trees on the property.
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.
Bossier - KCS Railroad
Tracks - Near a curve in the railroad tracks
inside the city limits of Bossier City, ghostly cries and screams can
be heard. The story is a young mother and several of her small children
were hit by a train years ago when her vehicle stalled on the tracks.
The spine tingling cries can be heard between 10:30 and 11:30pm on
certain nights. Even hard core railroad men avoid this area at night.
My husband won't go near the area at night again, because he has
experienced the fright several times while working.
Broussard - New Iberia -
Mary Jane’s Bridge - Legend is her boyfriend
raped and killed her. She was shackled and thrown over. They never ever
found the body. To this day they say if you go to the bridge on her
prom night at midnight you can see her waling across the bride. She
wearing a white dress and she has no feet.
Buras - Fort Jackson - Ghosts of soldiers who fought in the Civil War can be
seen walking around the place at night.
Centerville - Susie
Plantation - The Home was built in early 1800's.
Ghost include an unknown black male who has appeared in photos and
Addie E. Harris, who's parents owned the house. The Working Plantation
was given to her husband James Stirling Hereford two years prior to her
death as a Wedding Dowry. She died in childbirth in 1876 at the age of
22 yrs old. Her Life ended at a young age and she was put to rest on
the grounds of the home she grew up in and loved dearly, It seems she
has chose to remained there. Her Tomb can be seeing today standing
stately beside the house with a marble slab adoring the tomb. Upon
there the slab is an eerie inscription, it reads "Weep Not For me, I am
not dead, I only sleepth". That is true, she has appeared there at
least once in full view and there are many other happenings at that
home.
Chalmette - Chalmette
Battlefield - This is the battlefield where the
Battle of New Orleans took place. People have said to seen ghost of the
soldiers walking around as if they were at camp. There are also
accounts of a "head less" ghost that walks the levee at night. The
house on the premise "The Beaurgard House" served as an impromptu
hospital for the American soldiers. Sounds of guns and cannons have
also been heard.
Cheneyville - Loyd's Hall
- The ghost of a Confederate soldier has
reportedly been heard walking through the house and playing the violin.
The smells of food cooking or coffee brewing at impossibly early hours
of the morning, have also been reported.
Covington - The Old SSA
School - The old building which is almost hidden
in the woods is known for eire noises, screams, hearing people breath
behind you, and ghost like activty. Story has it that over 60 nuns died
in the building.It is said that there is a room in the building where
if you go in it you never come out.It was printed in the paper that A
group of teeagers were last seen going to the old school to scare
themselves,after that they were never seen again. An old graveyard
behind the buildng where nuns and preist were burried dates back to
1841.
DeRidder - Pleasant Hill
Cemetery - A Little boy at the age of 3 and His
mother were killed in a house fire. They are buried at the Pleasant
Hill Cemetery. There names were Marie and Freddie Kruger. Sometimes if
you go out there at night and stand at the fence you can see an orange
flame above his grave.
Destrehan - Destrehan
Plantation - The ghost of the master of the house
is said to haunt this place to this day.
Doyline - Potter Road - Twenty Seven Years ago...Four Doyline High School
Teenagers were riding back from the local homecoming dance. They were
drunk and ran straight into a Pine Tree. A cross was placed right in
front of the tree where they wrecked. Every Homecoming Night...Blood
runs from the tree to the cross...but now that someone stole the
cross....the blood runs up the tree...they say you can hear the two
girls weeping...in the tree
Edgerly / Starks - Big
Woods Cemetery - There is a small pass that
connects two graveyards: Antioch and Big Woods. There used to be a gate
at the connection of these two graveyards. Now there is a sign that
states, “beware of Children…or children at play” The legend is that if
you see a shadow pass in front of the gate when there is no scientific
explanation for a shadow passing there, Then that is a serious warning
that you should not be passing there. Some who have passed through the
crossing after the sighting of the gatekeeper have never come back.
Numerous Ghost hunting societies have lost Compact Flash cards and Hi8
video tapes from the electromagnetic interference out there. Numerous
photos of orbs and ectoplasm have been taken here. SWLA Ghost Society
has written documentation that this place is in FACT haunted. People
have been chased by a truck that seemed to have no driver. Cars and
trucks come from the cemeteries, drive to the woods and just disappear.
Elizabeth - Town Hal (old
hospital) - its said to believe that at the old
hospital where people have died there and now claims of hauntings of
people walking the halls, actual shadows of an old lady, moving of the
curtains, voices of little girls, women and boys with whisper into the
night.
Eunice - Headless Cemetery
- When you drive there, your car will
automatically die out no matter what. There are rumors that there are
restless spirits of those who were not buried properly walk along the
paths. There is story that Satanists were buried there also. There is
usually a dead animal that rests upon the cross.
Eunice - Michelle's School
of Dance - It is Said that a young girl was
noticed talking to her daughter. Mysterious things often occur.
Fields - Hyatt High
School- The School has been proven to be
haunted. People have died inside off the school. People say that the
school is built on old Indian graves. People say that you can hear
toilets flushing, voices, basketballs bouncing, lockers slamimg, doors
locking by themselfs, and lights cuting off and on. The school will
make you not want to come back.
Fiske Union - ghost
bridge - This bridge is haunted by the woman
who was killed there in a car wreck years ago. She continues to look
for her boyfriend there who was in the car with her. Sounds of screams
and reflections of headlights can be seen in the water and in the trees
surrounding the bridge.
Gloster - Buena Vista
plantation - The plantation house was used for a
civil war hospital clinic. In the house there are reports of several
civil war apparitions have been seen. There are several slave houses
out in the front where eerie feelings are felt. In 70 degree weather it
sometimes feels very cold and there have been reports of water being
found completely covering the floor while it was still days away from
rain.
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.
Greenwood - Old Greenwood
Cemetery - there have been a sighting of a
headless person behind my car you go at night you hear moaning, hart
beats, and beating on the old iron gate.
Gretna - The Jungle Rock
Club - Old night club that has been reopened
after many years of being closed down. Since remodeling has started,
voices, loud bangs (almost like a firecracker) in the restrooms, tools
disappearing. Rumor ids the original owner committed suicide in the
men’s restroom by shooting himself.
Houma - The Ardoyne
Plantation - A woman in white walks the grounds.
And disappears.
Houma - Bayou Sally road -
it is a long curvy road. There have been
sightings of ghost hitch hiking, and if you stop and pick them up you
can exchange someone with you for some treasure.
Houma - Coteau Road - Eerie figures seen wondering around the old metal
sheds off in the distance of the grazing fields. Be careful driving, a
foggy figure may run past your car causing an accident.
Houma - Oak Manor Cow
Graveyard - many a times people have reported
sounds of mooing and seeing white, clear cow figures grazing. some
people even say they are coming after them and scaring them off the
roads.
Houma - Southdown
Plantation - It is said that the plantation
owner rapped and killed slaves and you can see figures in the windows
during the day and mostly at night.
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.
Jonesboro - Hodge - Walker
Rd (surrounding area) - Witnesses have seen a
tall man in a black hat walking through their rooms at all hours of the
day through one wall out the exterior wall. This area was also
susceptible to other strange occurrences such as a strange noise coming
from the ground. They described it as, "...a train engine that you can
feel more than hear. Everyone heard it that was there including my best
friend at the time."
Jonesboro - Weston -
Highway 810 - Down highway 810, there is an old
red barn on the side of the road. There is a trail going into the
woods. if you park the car on the trail and wait about 15 minutes,
there will be a knocking on your windows. It is said that a black man
was killed in that barn by hanging on meat hooks. - April 2008 Update: Has been torn down
Keatchie - Keatchi Women's
College - There is an old women's college in
Keatchie down Highway 172. During the Civil War the college was turned
into a hospital for the wounded. It is said that if you go to the
second floor (which was turned into the morgue during the war) you can
feel cold spots and hear the moans of the departed. To get there go
either down Hwy 5 from Logansport, Louisiana and turn left onto Hwy.
172 when you get into Keatchie or from Shreveport go down 171 get onto
172 and go through Keatchie and its not less than 200 yards past the
old white building.
Lafayette - T'Frere's
House - There is a young woman said to haunt
this Bed and Breakfast. It is one of the oldest homes in Lafayette and
it's said she once lived there a hundred or so years ago. The story
goes she drowned in the big barrell used to catch the rainwater that is
still in place today. The story varies as to whether it was an accident
or suicide. She is a friendly ghost who makes objects move, walks
around upstairs at night, and moves furniture around. People say she
has a comforting presence.
Lafayette - University of
Louisiana at Lafayette -One of the girls' dormitories - is haunted by a girl who was killed when an elevator
that wasn't supposed to be working fell on her and decapitated her. The
elevator has been sealed and closed off, but you can still feel an
immense energy or presence when you pass by it. The girl is a
"friendly" ghost, helping the girls when they lose things by placing
them where they can find them easily.
Lake Charles - Old Fire
station - There is a fire station on the north
side of town that my brother worked at. The only night that something
would happen was Halloween. Ear-shattering screams and rumbling were
heard. The walls would sweat, even though there weren't any leaks or
plumbing works behind the wall. Every Halloween, the entire crew would
pack up and drive down the road on the fire truck and sleep on the
truck.
Lake Charles - Old Gravel
Road - This is a gravel road that is far from
the city. It is a very long road that runs along side a wooded area.
Many people have warned never to go down that road at night. A friend
and I have and we now know why. There is a ghost truck that drives down
there and runs you off sometimes. He will appear behind you and speed
up, nearly ramming you. Then after you go around the last corner that
leads to the paved neighborhood area, he disappears. There have been
sightings of shadow-beings that usually stand on the side of the road
and watch you drive by. There have also been photographs of mists and
ectoplasms by ghost hunters.
Lake Charles - Old House -
There is an old house in the city that stands
amidst torn down trees. It is wrecked but no one has bothered to
destroy it. There are at least two spirits inhabiting the house. One is
inside the house and the other is outside. Inside the house, there are
boxes, ladders, and cans of paint as if someone was going to remodel
the house but stopped and left. There are many odd spots such as in the
attic, there is a hole in the ceiling and if you look up into it, you
feel as though something is looking back. Sounds such as doors creaking
open (even when all are nailed shut) and someone slamming glass against
a wall have been heard. Reports of seeing a white figure & a blue
mist.
Lake Charles - Old
Railroad - This is an old road that is on the
outskirts of town. A railroad runs across the road, leading to the rice
factories. The story is that a long time ago, in the 1950s, before
there were railroad signs there, a family consisting of a mother,
father, and two daughters went down that road. Despite the fact of the
older girl protesting going down that road due to a bad feeling, the
father drove down there anyways and the car got hit by an oncoming
train. Reports of seeing orbs and the apparition of the older girl.
When you drive down that road, you get a very strong, odd feeling of
being suffocated.
Logansport - The Dowling
House - In this house there are recorded to be
two ghosts that haunt this location. The owner claims that a little
girl pinched her arm while she was cooking, and then threw a tomato off
the table and also claims the girl calls her name while she's in the
kitchen. The son of the owners claims he has seen a shaggy haired man
dressed in a civil war uniform at the foot of his bed on more than one
occasion. Also while watching t.v. the channels will all of the sudden
change without anyone touching the t.v. or the remote. Beside the house
is an old graveyard. Some believe could be built over some unmarked
graves from a long time ago.
Metairie - Odin's Inn - There are cold spots, unexplained noises, a man
appeared in the mirror, lights turning on and off and silhouettes /
apparitions appear.
Monroe - Jackson Street - Every year at about the same time during the first
week of the third month you can feel the souls of fallen gangsters
enter your body. Only if you find yourself walking down the street
between seven forty-five and twelve o-clock midnight. You may even see
a bloodstain vanish into the ground.
Monroe - Jackson's Shift -
Long ago there was a driveby on Jackson Street,
where many innocent victims were savagely murdered. One of the guys was
a store owner who owned a club on the street.He and his friend were
both shot down and many people claim to have seen them weeks after the
homicide had occurred, falling down in slow motion to the ground with
the same bullet wounds described to them by their family.
Natchitoches - Campus of
Northwestern 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.
Natchitoches - Front
Street - The old area part of the town is known
as front street. Many of the town residents and shop owners of front
street have reported seeing a man dressed in confederate uniform
roaming the bricked street.
New Orleans - The Andrew
Jackson Hotel (919 Royal St.) - This old
"adults only" hotel was once the former site of an all-boys boarding
school that was completely destroyed during the infamous New Orleans
fire of the 1700's. Five boys died in this fire. Guests have reported
hearing the boys laughing and playing outside in the courtyard of this
hotel. Others have reported seeing an apparition of a General
resembling Andrew Jackson.
New Orleans - Beauregard
House - The Beauregard-Keyes house is known to
be haunted more by Paul Munni, who was a world-class chess master, who
went insane. As a matter of fact, Charles Dickenson said that Thomas
Jefferson, and Paul Munni were the only two geniuses that America ever
produced. In a fit of mania, Munni ran, in the nude, down Ursaline with
an axe, looking to kill anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path.
When not playing chess, he liked to play the piano. It is the piano,
and his screaming that can be heard at night. The Beauregard-Keyes
house is also the sight of a mafia massacre. It's said that in the
garden, you can smell gunpowder, and sometimes you can hear shots in
the garden.
New Orleans - Bottom of
the Cup Tea Room - A ghost called Julhunts the
place. People see the back of her turn around the corner or feel her
brush past them.
New Orleans - Bourbon
Street - Apparitions of a mob beating each other
up with curtain rods.
New Orleans - The Castle
Inn - Its a fantastic Bed and Breakfast in the
Garden District or New Orleans. It has a couple ghosts; a black man who
burned in the wood shed that "smokes," and a little girl who just wants
to play. It is a fantastic Bed and Breakfast, and you can request the
most haunted of the rooms. (Mostly on the 3rd. floor).
New Orleans - Destrehan
Plantation (just outside of New Orleans) - Haunted
by a small sized teenaged girl.
New Orleans - Flannagan's
Cafe & Pub (625 St. Philip St.) - the ghost
of Angela, the sister of the former owner, committed suicide in the
ladies' room. She has been seen and felt roaming the grounds of this
restaurant.
New Orleans - The French
Quarter - French Quarter-this is haunted for
vampire hauntings by some people in the French quarter at night in this
one ally where he killed all of his victims. When the cops found them
there was no blood left in there bodies. He comes after female victims
of all hours of the night. He has long, curly, brown hair. With 1800's
clothing style so beware and attempt with caution.
New Orleans - Le Richelieu
Hotel (1234 Chartres St.) - this site at one
time was used as an execution ground. In 1802, when France took back
Louisiana from Spain, several Spanish soldiers were shot for treason on
this site. The ghosts of some of these Spanish soldiers have been
reports to walk the grounds of this hotel.
New Orleans - Lafitte
Guest House (1003 Bourbon St.) - A mother and
her two children died here in Room 21. The first daughter died from
yellow fever. Years later, the other daughter hangs herself in the same
room. The mother of the two children spends that rest of her life
grieving over her loss. She later dies alone and heartbroken in the
same room. It is only the mother's spirit guests and employees her
crying from the room. People get the overwhelming feeling of grief and
despair upon entering this room.
New Orleans - Lalaurie
House - ghosts including a tall black figure,
Madame Lalaurie, and other spirits haunt this place.
New Orleans - Lamothe
Hotel - A witnesses once stayed in a room in the
cottage off the house. Almost immediately after shutting off the light
to settle into bed, a woman emerged from the closet area and drifted up
to the his bed. After minutes of telling her to "go away" she finally
slowly vanished. He stayed up until sunrise because he was so upset.
New Orleans - Le Petit
Theatre du Vieux Carre - In the courtyard
a young bride, on the day of her wedding day, Jumped from a side of the
building overlooking the courtyard. Some (including myself) have seen
her standing at the place where she jumped. Also there have been
experienced cold spots in the courtyard, and in the fountain (at night)
you can kind of see the reflection of the girl standing where she fell.
Another one is on the second story in the theatre. People have
recounted stories when they went to get in their seats but an old man
would be sitting in it, reading a newspaper. He has been seen wearing
old-time clothing. After the manager has been notified of this 'man',
he is nowhere to be found. Also, Sightings and missing prop/costume
occurrences. Actors have felt cold hands placed on their shoulders as
they walk onstage, smoke machines have gone off at random, etc.
New Orleans - The
Morgue bar and lounge - The building
which currently houses The Morgue bar and lounge, 626 St. Phillip
Street, was built in 1849. It was originally used as the city's first
integrated mortuary, particularly during the huge Yellow Fever epidemic
of 1853. Ten thousand people perished in New Orleans that year alone.
Though paranormal activity has been recorded in the main bar area, the
most well known haunting here is of the mortician's daughter. She used
to steal jewelry from the dead.... and still 'borrows' items from
unsuspecting ladies who use the women's restroom. You see, the restroom
area was once the place was the bodies were stored. Obviously, the new
owner has a sense of humor - the house cocktail is called Embalming
Fluid, and is just about the right color too. For more info see www.themorguebar.com
New Orleans - Myrtle
Inn Plantation - A slave poisoned her
owners wife and two children to make them sick and nurse them back to
health she would not be sent to the fields. She over dosed the poison
and the three were dead she confessed and was hung by a mob and there
spirits are seen in various places. The judge’s wife is seen in the
staircase. The children in the rooms and the front lawn seen playing.
The Slave has been seen around the house and the owners claim to have
picture of the slave ghost. There is also a strange hand print that
appears on a mirror on the main floor, no matter how many time the
glass is replaced.
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.
New Orleans - Oddfellows
Rest - A lady dressed in white and an old
gentleman dressed in a three piece suit. Both were seen by the
caretaker in the daytime.
New Orleans - Prince
Conti Hotel - The Bombay Room inside the (830 Conti St.) - the ghost of a Storyville Madame haunts the bar area
and kitchen area here. She has been seen at booth number three in the
bar. She has walked in and out of the bar area. Unexplained occurrences
have taken place in the kitchen. A dishwasher will turn itself on/off,
sometimes not even going on when it's supposed to.
New Orleans - Pirates
Alley - The ghost of the famous pirate
Jean Lafitte is sometimes seen around 3:00 a.m. walking up and down the
alley named after him.
New Orleans - Pontchartrain
Hotel - On a visit to New Orleans we
stayed in the Pontchartrain Hotel in the Garden District. Cold spots
have been felt, and the elevators stops at different floors all on its
own.
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 - The
Super Dome - During Hurricane Katrina,
numerous people were killed in the Superdome. There were two suicides,
people were raped and murdered, and others died from natural causes.
Apparitions roam around during games and at night or through the day.
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 - The
Fairview Hotel - In the old section of the
Hotel there are ghosts wandering about. I have a picture of ghosts in
the room that my daughter took when staying there, on the 11th floor,
in July, 2001.
New Orleans - Vieux
Carre - Place D'Armes Hotel - Guests have
been awakened in the middle of the night by a knock at the door. Upon
answering the knock they find a small girl in old fashioned
nightclothes asking if they have seen her grandmother. She then fades
away.
New Orleans - Hotel
Provincial - Briefly turned into a
hospital during the Civil War. Many soldiers died there, and of course,
haunt the hotel, specifically, building number 5. A young girl on
vacation with here family stepped out of the shower, and had to step
over a bunch of "towels"...then she noticed they were bloodied bandages
and sheets. A security guard stepped out of an elevator, only to have
the room before him transformed into one of the hospital wards, full of
wounded soldiers.
New Orleans - Griffin
House - unexplained sounds and footsteps
are heard here.
New Orleans - St.
Louis Cathedral - Occasionally on early
morning rain storms, the spirit of Pere Dagobert can be heard singing
the "Kyrie". The voice travels from St. Lois Cathedral to St. Louis
Cemetery #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 executed 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.
Patterson - Old
Sawmill location - Dishes would sometimes
shake and spread out all across the floor and feelings of dread.
Pineville - Central
La State Hospital - A hospital for the
mentally disturbed. Opened in the early 1900's. Several original
buildings remain standing and in use. Unit 2 has an elevator that
operates by itself during the night. Also doors are heard slamming
during the night and when investigated all doors remain locked as they
are usually kept. A huge graveyard of unmarked graves exist. Unit 7
when reoccupied in 1999 experienced several sightings and unusual
events. Chairs were flipped over and electrical appliances would come
on and go off by themselves. Voices were heard in unoccupied offices. A
mist was seen and witnessed to move as if it had purpose.
Rayville - Holly
Ridge railroad tracks - A long time ago
there was the conductor of the train and him and one of his workers got
into a fight and the worker decapitated the conductors head and now the
conductor comes back every night in a red orb so you go to the rail
road tracks and turn off your car and roll down your window and wait
for it to come when you see it start your car before it gets to you or
the conductor will take your soul.
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 led to
mysteries in Hookmans Graveyard.
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.
Ruston - Louisiana
Tech University - A ghost is said to
haunt Howard Auditorium. The seats in the auditorium are spring loaded
and pop back up when you get out of them. However, if you go in there
alone, one seat will always be down. If you go and push the seat up,
later the same seat or another one in the auditorium can be found down,
as if someone were sitting in it.
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.
Shreveport - C.E.
Byrd High School - This school (built in
1925) had a swimming pool at one time, but the pool was closed because
a teenage girl supposedly drowned in it. A dance studio was built above
it. In the "catacombs"(subbasement) of the school, a JROTC instructor
reportedly killed himself with a rifle and his ghost still haunts the
school to this day. Cold Spots reported.
Shreveport - Taylortown
Tower - Bell tower which was once part of
a church, now stands alone in a pasture off the side of US Hwy 71.
Legend has it a bride was waiting for her soon-to-be husband who died
in a car accident on his way to their wedding. Many stories exist about
the way the woman actually died. Some say she fell down the stairs to
her death because she was upset, but still others say she hung herself
in a fit of depression. People claim at midnight the bell tolls and a
woman's screams can be heard.
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 manifested 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.
Slidell - Pizza
Hut - A Ghost of unknown Origin locks the
waitresses in the bathroom. Throws coffee at people 5 feet away. Makes
Dishes fly off the tables. Makes it very cold when the AC is on 90
degrees.
Slidell - Slidell
Jr. High School - Here are some of the
accounts recorded by the Earth's Society of the Paranormal: A voice of
a male, roughly 13 or 14-years-old, telling people from a stall in a
boys' restroom to "Get Out." When investigated, no one could have said
this. One person, when late on the bus, heard behind him someone call
his name. He looked behind him and saw that no one behind him was
calling his name. Earlier that day, he saw someone from behind outside
disappear. A person saw someone going into the bathroom mentioned
above, but right when the person got out, the someone was outside.
There was no chance of backtracking or using the back door (it was
locked). On a dark January day in 2005, a person went into the same
bathroom and saw a blob-like shadow went across the floor. The person
did not look up and washed his hands and got out of there. The only
window was too far away and was at a poor angle for it to have come
from the outside and it was dark and overcast at the time, besides it
happening roughly 1:00 pm.
South Shreveport - Old Ellerbe School - This
is an old elementary school where children whose parents were wealthy
went to school. There was a possible fire. Bells and faint screams can
be heard at night. For more information http://myfamily20011.homestead.com/Ellerbe.html
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. December 2003 Update: The
carving on the back of the headstone has the names of the driver that
hit the boy as well as the people who drove past him while he laid on
the side of the road dieing. The story says that the inscription on the
bottom of the face of the headstone, "MAY THE WORK I HAVE DONE SPEAK
FOR ME", is in reference to the map on the back and was not original to
the stone. On the back of the stone under the map is also an
inscription that reads, "BY DOGS MIND". He was walking his dog at the
time he was hit.
St. Bernard - P.G.T.
Beauregard Middle School - The front
building of the school used to be a courthouse, after the Civil war.
The prison was in the courthouse, and many inmates died there. Students
haven't been allowed in the courthouse section for many years, because
the building is not safe. Many students have snuck into the courthouse
and have claimed to hear chains rattling, and one adult witness has
claimed to hear someone screaming in the basement.
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,
reenactment 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.
Sunset - Cretien
Point Plantation - A woman named
Felicitae Chretien killed a pirate on the staircase one evening. His
body was stuffed under the staircase. I myself have went here and once
I stood by the staircase Half of my body went cold. Also me and my best
friend were looking at the bloodstains and we both felt parts of our
bodies get cold, as if we were standing over the body itself. There are
also 'shades' of Civil War Soldiers and even a woman who only appears
at the fish pond at 12 noon. She is seen to be holding a child wrapped
in black fabric. People who have stayed in this bed and breakfast have
reported sounds of Trumpeters calling soldiers. Sometimes you can even
hear people whispering in the rooms.
Thibodaux - Devil's
Swamp - It is said that if you park your
car over the rail road tracks, several things can happen. Car stalling,
fogging of windows, handprints on windows, ghosts shaking and banging
on your vehicle, and you can hear the sound of the train and see the
headlights coming at you. It is said that a number of people were
murdered on those tracks and that their ghosts remain to haunt the
area.
Thibodaux - Laural
Valley Plantation Rd. - Its been told
that you can see lights go on in the old plantation houses, and see
people walking around jus' like in the olden days when they had the
slaves back there
Thibodaux - Nicholls
State University - Ellender Dormitory - In past years there was an alleged suicide of a
student who threw herself out of a window from one of the top floors in
the dorm. There have been strange occurrences since including
flickering lights, moved objects, scratching, electronic difficulties
including appliances working while turned off and walls shaking. There
are no records to be found of any suicide at the University since its
beginning in 1948. There are other alleged incidences which might come
from the fact that the University is built on the same grounds as a
Civil War Hospital and the area where the Confederates retreated after
the Lafourche Crossing Battle.
Vacherie - Oak
Alley Plantation - The daughter of the
plantation owner fell down the stairs and had to have her leg amputated
when she was injured from her hoped skirt. When walking on the stairs
witnesses have reported a pinch in their leg where the girl was hurt.
The ghost of the wife of the plantation owner can be seen riding her
horse through the long alley of oak trees in the front of the house
looking for her husband.
Vernon - Kerthwood
- Kashache National Forest - In the woods
of central Louisiana the trees are very thick most of the time you can
not see more than three feet in front of you, so to see anything is
hard and a ghost is even harder. Sounds of drums & singing like
Indians. Apparitions of 8 Indians dressed in the traditional get up
dancing as though they were celebrating or something.
Walker - Westside
Jr. High School -A lady named Kindra plays
basketball in the school gym on the nights she used to have basketball
games when she was in school.
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.
West Shreveport - The Old Jail - a.k.a. -
The Pea Farm - The Old Jail is covered by
woods and located on W.70th street about 2 miles from Watertown. It has
been said to here moans and cries. There are many dark corners and
rooms that you cannot see in. They believe that a murder happened in
the kitchen. There is also a basement that has an old hand-crank
electric chair in it. A few yards away is the female jail that seems to
have an upper story but no way to get up there. The female jail is the
most haunted due to beatings and killings of the prisoners.
Zwolle - Grady
Hill - There's a story about a woman who
had a baby and her husband or boyfriend took her baby and killed it.
The woman went looking for the baby and found the man in a boat with
the dead baby. After that no one knows, but the story ends with the
woman known as the Crying Woman, walks around Grady Hill crying for her
baby. People all over town have heard her crying and some have even
seen her.
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