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The ghost story I'm about to tell is an old favorite down New Orleans way. It tells of a young woman who was the Devil's mistress,...

I'm watching The Walking Dead marathon on AMC in anticipation of Sunday's season three opener. I'm a junky for this stuff. An...

Superstions die harder in some areas than in others.   In a place like New Orleans and the bayous that surround it, weather signs are so ...

The excitement of NOLA Navy Week has me thinking about my ancestral home and the many legends of ghostly ships, seafarers and – in partic...

I realized the other day that it has been some time since we’ve spun a good ghostly yarn here at HQ.   With St. Valentine’s Day in the offin...

Today finds HQ closing out the October series of New Orleans ghost stories from and inspired by the book Gumbo Ya~Ya .   Since we are at our...

Last week’s ghost story saw the horrors of abuse leading to residual, angry energy haunting a New Orleans house on Rue Royal.   In the case ...

The house at 1140 Rue Royal is known to New Orleanais as “The Haunted House”.   The tales told about the house and its original owners, thos...

As anyone who has studied, hunted or read about ghosts will tell you, it goes without saying that places like prisons are often more suscept...

Today's story is probably familiar to many residents of the French Quarter.   It was so well known at the turn of the century that accor...

Many of the ghostly tales of old New Orleans feature the secreting away or burying of treasure.   Perhaps it is the idea of sudden and uncom...

I hope everyone is ready for another haunted tale because I’ve been eager to tell this one all week. The story is set in a charming townho...

As the weather cools down, the leaves begin to fall and the smell of fireplace smoke drifts on the evening air, my thoughts turn to my favo...