Haunted Passport New Orleans: An Interactive Travel Guide to New Orleans’s Haunted Places, Paranormal Activity, Dark History, and Hidden Stories (The Haunted Passport Series)

In New Orleans, the dead don't always stay buried, and some legends are older than the streets that carry them. Behind the iron balconies and jazz-filled nights, another city waits. Will you follow its shadows? Beyond the French Quarter's crowds, candlelit bars, grand hotels, and above-ground tombs lies a world of phantom dancers, vanished strangers, vampire folklore, and unsettling histories that refuse to fade. Haunted Passport New Orleans is part paranormal travel guide, part interactive adventure. Explore real places where documented events, reported encounters, and the city's most enduring supernatural legends meet. 32 MISSIONS. FIVE ROUTES. ONE HAUNTED CITY. Follow five routes through the Lower French Quarter, Jackson Square, Bourbon and Royal Streets, the Central Business and Garden Districts, and the city's cemeteries and lakeshore—with two final tests to complete your adventure. Along the way, you'll encounter six of New Orleans's most intriguing locations: LaLaurie Mansion — Confront the documented horrors behind a notorious Royal Street house and the ghost stories that grew around them. Old Ursuline Convent — Investigate the Casket Girls, their mysterious luggage, and the vampire legend attached to shuttered attic windows. Muriel's Jackson Square — Discover the restaurant that still sets a table with bread and wine for its supposed resident ghost. Hotel Monteleone — Follow the story of Maurice, a child said to linger near a hotel floor where elevators sometimes stop unexpectedly. Gardette-LePrêtre House — Unravel the Sultan's Palace massacre legend—and why the sensational story has never been substantiated. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — Explore the traditions surrounding Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen, on an authorized cemetery tour. And those are just six of the 32 missions waiting inside. MORE THAN A GUIDEBOOK—AN EXPERIENCE YOU COMPLETE. Each mission features four distinctive sections: THE HAUNTING — Immersive storytelling, chilling reports, local folklore, and real events behind the legends. BEHIND THE LEGEND — Historical context, competing accounts, skeptical explanations, and mysteries still unresolved. YOUR HAUNTED EXPERIENCE — Place-specific challenges, optional photos, observations, and room to record what you discover. WHILE YOU'RE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD — Five nearby discoveries, from historic sites and museums to music venues and named food and drink stops. Bonus challenges and a paranormal field guide add more ways to explore. EXPLORE NEW ORLEANS DIFFERENTLY. Whether you're visiting for the first time, rediscovering familiar streets, planning an unusual date, or choosing a gift for someone fascinated by ghosts, this is an adventure beyond the usual sightseeing circuit. Follow a complete route or pick individual missions over several visits. Bring a friend, a partner, or explore solo. Public-access alternatives make the experience possible even when a location is closed. You don't need to believe in ghosts or carry special equipment. Just bring curiosity, respect for the places you visit, and a taste for the unexplained. The places are real. The legends are waiting. What you discover is up to you. Open your Haunted Passport and discover the New Orleans most visitors never see.