Delphine Lalaurie's haunted house is a famous ghost story and is considered by most to be the only original true haunted house ghost story of New Orleans through out all time.
Royal Street-- With grand balcony garden houses and the most unique shop lined bankets, which runs through the French Quarter, and it is more then just very haunted.
Many have reported over the years seeing a dark haired woman dressed in a long black dress, always ... alone pale as the moon and solemn, rain or shine, day and night walking on the great wrought iron balcony. And tales from who have seen her and so have claimed to even have spoken to her. Madame Lalaurie's ghost is said to be very quiet and once spoken to or acknowledged instantly disappears before your very eyes.
The majestic grand LaLaurie House, is located at 1140 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana. There is, indeed, a long and sorted dark grim history associated with the large old mansion, and it is all traced back to the most evil " Devil Woman" whoever lived of the Old French Quarter, Madame Delphine LaLaurie herself.
So often called the Most Haunted House in New Orleans and America by many locals and tourist alike, many stories of it's past hauntings still circulate. But new ones are on the rise more and more cropping up every day. One local ghost hunter says that since hurricane Katrina devastated the city many of the haunting's are now more active then ever. Especially these of this popular most haunted spot.
The Lalaurie House is a real place, though it is now luxury apartments. Whatever was haunting it seems to have never left, as there is now surfacing recent reports of new disturbances, ghost sightings and many new ghost photos. A recent visitor to New Orleans told of her encounter with a period costume dressed elegant lady atop the royal street balcony." I was glancing up I asked her might I take her photo." " I was thinking to myself how nice it was to see a lady in a long old fashioned 1900's period dress." "I snapped the photo, said Jean Mason and then looked up and she was gone." "The photo in question showed only the empty wrought iron balcony and no one in the photo even though I spied her in the view finder."
Although most of the current tenants always refuse to talk about the actual goings-on in the Lalaurie house, there are still worried glances and tight lips when tour groups go by or would be ghost hunters rush upon a resident to question them.
Ryan Colman was on a late night time Haunted walking tour of the French Quarter. He had taken the tour full well knowing that the Lalaurie house was part of the haunted places they would stop. And he wanted to see what info the tour guide had, as well as see what others in the crowd would say or experience when the notorious real haunted house was in prominent view.
"As our well spoken tour guide told the Lalaurie ghost story the nine of us in the intimate tour group all looked up to see a pale lady dressed in a long black floor length 1800's style dress." We all were thinking this was part of the tour's ghost experience, a few of us waved and I personally shouted up." " Please smile so we can take your picture." Well, she just nodded. The tour guide said aloud distracting us making us all look at him at once asking me "Who are you talking to! " " I then looked up as did the others and she was just gone in the blink of an eye!"
