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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 • 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. • Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie • Old State Capital, Baton Rouge

Ghostbusting on the Gulf Coast

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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

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