Haunted New Orleans tour

[azarum]

I've been wondering about this. Several years ago, I went on the Haunted New Orleans tour with two friends. We had a very scary experience in the La Petite Theatre in Jackson Square. In one of the theaters, our tour guide called out to the "trickster" ghost (don't remember his name) and just after, the two sets of doors (maybe ten feet away from each other) banged shut at the same time. We did look at the doors and it didn't look like a mechanism, and there was *no way* people could have closed them without us seeing them. We were inches away from one set of doors and would definitely have seen anyone coming to close them.

My question is: has anyone else experienced this on the tour? Is this a true experience, or did they rig this somehow? If someone else has had this same experience, then it is likely rigged.:huh:

Sorry...I'm an armchair parapsychologist.

[Xander67]

I've heard that the cemetaries are not safe to wander around in at night...because of mysterious goings on...

[Astara Seague]

Id love to go! maybe one day

[Hærfest Leah]

It all depends on who did your tour. The majority of the haunted tours in the French Quarter are overexagerated or completey bogus just to freak out tourists. We were advised no to take a tour by anyone dressed in goth that are in Jackson Square because the tours are staged for effect.

Our friend Karen who runs the Dauphine House B&B does a very good legitimate Haunted tour that starts out of Pat O'Briens Irish Pub.

www.dauphinehouse.com

http://patobriens.com/

On our tour we did feel some of your normal spirits around but nothing crazy happened.

The cemeteries....the most famous one is the St Louis #1, it's the oldest cemetary in New Orleans and in at the back of the French Quarter. Karen told us that it is now closed up at night at I think 10 pm, night tours are not allowed anymore. This is not do to ghostly stuff in the cemetery, it is due to the ..uh, I guess you'ld call projects..that are right outside the cemetery & from the upper floors they can see right into the cemetery and if your not in a group people are known to get mugged in there.

[Jadewynd~]

Ok, maybe I should have done a seperate thread for this but, I thought it works here. Has anyone heard of Loretta Lynn's plantation home. I saw an interview of her in regards to her home, supposedly haunted. Now I don't think she is making this up, but it could be. But, here is the story her home is from pre-civil war period. The home itself has seen the civil war on it's premises. She and her family have had several run in's with spirits; spirits of this kind: the original owner of the home, slaves that lived on the land and civil war soldiers. Her home is still lived in by her and her family but, even people who care for the home and land have reported sitings. She has tours at her home and they have had their share of sitings. I've never been to her home but, I would love to visit in Tennesse.

Here is the site that explains all the events in the home: http://www.prairieghosts.com/hur_mills.html

I saw this on the History Channel they usually give it again every October.

In regards to New Orleans I have seen another show on the History Channel that spoke of the Hauntings in the French Quarter, one that stood out in my mind was the story of a pirate that always went to a specific restaurant in the Quarter way back in history. Many pirates would do there dealings in secret in and underground area of the restaurant. This restaurant is still open and the people who work there still see his spirit today.

[Bluewillow]

I don't have a lot of interest in going on ghost tours because there's so much that is simply staged, e.t.c.. However, I would love to go to New Orleans and check out some of the legendary sites with a couple friends, just to see what we feel when we're there.