Haunted Louisiana: Houmas House, Arnaud’s and French Quarter Hotels

The route begins at Houmas House and Gardens, then moves north to the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. Calcasieu Courthouse in Lake Charles adds a civic setting before the episode reaches New Orleans. There, Arnaud’s Restaurant, the Dauphine Orleans Hotel and the Andrew Jackson Hotel bring together hospitality history and the supernatural traditions attached to historic French Quarter buildings.

These sites carry difficult and complex histories, so the episode keeps verifiable people and places separate from later ghost stories. The result is an editorial survey of how Louisiana’s homes, performance venues, courthouses, restaurants and hotels became part of the state’s distinctive paranormal folklore.