Haunted Louisiana Locations

The Southern state of Louisiana has rich history. This state's past has led to several haunted locations.

The Myrtles Plantation, in the Louisiana town of St. Francisville, is a very active haunted site. A murder apparently took place on a stairwell, for the reenactment of it can be heard there. Ghosts of a slave and mother with her two daughters have been seen and heard. Footsteps, piano music, and doors opening or closing are often heard as well. Overnight guests at the house have found their bedcovers tucked in so tightly that they can hardly get out of bed.

If you've heard of Louisiana, no doubt you've heard of Baton Rouge. But have you heard of the Old State Penitentiary? It is now the state's police headquarters. What was once the execution chamber and morgue are now offices. The basement continually seeps water, presumably because of a high water table. Employees here have heard footsteps with no earthly cause and radios that turn themselves on or off. Some dark spaces have a malignant feeling about them.

In New Orleans in 1769, a group of townspeople led a rebellion protesting Spanish occupation. They were promptly executed and left to rot in Jackson Square - the Spanish wanted the townspeople to be an example. Pere Dagobert held mass for these individuals and also had them buried. He can sometimes be heard singing in the St. Louis Cathedral.

The Biomedical Engineering Building in Ruston, Louisiana used to be an old hospital. The fourth floor, which housed the operating room, is haunted. When an individual gets on the elevator at the first floor, which was the morgue, they find themselves arriving at the fourth floor, regardless of which floor they selected.

Like many haunted locations in the South, the Buena Vista plantation in Gloster was once a Civil War hospital. Civil War soldiers have been seen in the house, and many have sensed eerie feelings near the old slave houses. The main house sometimes feels quite cold even in summertime and the floor is sometimes found covered in water, although rain or pipes leaking have not occurred.

Highway 810 runs through Louisiana, and near Jonesboro, there is an old barn near the highway. A trail, which leads from the barn to the nearby woods, is also easily visible. Some say if you park your car on that trail, and wait for a few minutes, you'll hear someone knocking on your window. The knocking is supposedly caused by a man who was hung on meat hooks in the barn and left to die.

Sources:
http://ghostwatchers.org/hauntedla.html
http://theshadowlands.net/places/louisiana.htm