Discover New Orleans’ dark side on this haunted history ghost tour. Hear tales of famous hauntings from your local guide, and visit the French Quarter’s most infamous and eerie locations—hotspots for paranormal investigators and historical videographers. By the end, see the Vieux Carré in a different (and profoundly more ominous) light.
Haunted history ghost tour in New Orleans
Walk around the French Quarter, the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans
Visit ghostly sites where ghastly spirits have been documented
Enter a haunted bar and be on the lookout for paranormal activity
Hear tales of ghoulish goings-on from your expert guide
What To Expect
French Quarter
Follow your guide through the legendary French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans. This eerie, chilling yet fun-filled adventure takes you to several sites of documented hauntings by the region’s ghosts and spirits.
See the French Quarter residences in which unbelievable events took place and visit a haunted bar along the way. You’ll get the shivers amid the shadows as you descend into New Orleans’ grim and grisly past, and discover thrilling tales of supernatural activity – try to capture it in a photo if you dare!
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Bourbon Street
The party never ends on Bourbon Street. As you hunt for ghosts departing just steps away from the biggest block party in the world. Take in the essence of the famous of all streets, Bourbon Street.
• Admission Ticket Free
Finnegan’s Easy
Enjoy 2 for 1 hurricane specials at Finnegan’s before or after your tour. Just check in with the tour guide for your sticker to participate in this special.
• Admission Ticket Free
Rev. Zombie’s Voodoo Shop
Escape into the spirited past as your theatrical ghost-hunter guide leads you on a 2-hour haunted history ghost tour – featured on the History Channel and recommended by the Travel Channel as the ‘number one tour in New Orleans’! Tour departs from Reverend Zombie’s Voodoo Shop in the evening.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Lalaurie Mansion
The most haunted house in New Orleans is the LaLaurie Mansion. Learn the real story behind the city’s most famous serial killer. In public, she was a socialite but in the unseen shadows behind the scenes, she was a cold blooded murderer who took the lives of innocent people right under the noses of the affluent New Orleanians.
12 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar
There are many more haunted bars in the French Quarter than we can possibly include in one ghost tour but often that bar is this one. Located on Bourbon Street it is hosts to a number of ghost stories as well as signature drink called Voodoo.
• Admission Ticket Free
Jackson Square
Jackson Square takes on a completely different persona after dark. See one of the most iconic landmarks in America when the shadows and spirits come out to roam. This tour usually ends in or near the square.
3 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Pirates Alley
The most notorious alley in all America where pirates sold their contraband and killed their enemies and all right next to a Catholic Cathedral! Legend says that if you begin drinking in Pirate’s Alley and make your way to Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, the ghost of Jean Lafitte will greet you when you get there. Many a visitor has witnessed the apparitions of pirates running in the alley then disappearing late in the evening.
• Admission Ticket Included
Pirate’s Alley Cafe
Most of our guides end their ghost tour near this iconic bar in Pirate’s Alley. Stop in and try an absynthe, dubbed The Green Fairy for it’s hauntingly green appearance. This famous pub was a popular hangout for Aleistar Crowley in the early 1900s as well as an entire culture of vampire lifestylers in the 1990s.
• Admission Ticket Included
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Wheelchair accessible
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Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 28 travelers
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