New Orleans Ghost Tours & Cemetery Tours

New Orleans Number One Ghost Tour:

New Orleans is well known for its voodoo, ghosts, above-ground cemeteries, vampires and a whole host of other paranormal delights. Witches Brew Tours offers a range of walking tours that can be tailored to any horror and supernatural enthusiast’s checklist. And now, featuring a series of Three-in-One and Four-in-One packages available, all of the creepy sites of New Orleans can be explored at one time.

Maximum capacity for each walking tour is 28 people per group, so it is best to book tours early. More personalized tours are available with a VIP ghost-tour option that ensures a smaller, more intimate group size of no more than 15 people. The French Quarter is often crowded at night, so the VIP tour is a great option for those who like to keep their touring crowds small.

Participants will learn about hauntings, spirits and paranormal activity documented over multiple decades in front of some of the oldest and most famous buildings in the city. To help guests unravel the truths regarding witchcraft and voodoo legends, guides will delight tour-participants with stories about specific, infamous individuals: like the world’s oldest vampire and the time he spent in New Orleans during the Roaring 20s. Then, moving through the gas-lantern-lit streets of the French Quarter, tourists are offered a chance to catch a glimpse of some other famous ghosts.

Other tour features include the real story behind Kathy Bates’ character from “American Horror Story: Coven,” the infamous Madame Delphine LaLaurie, and her haunted home —one of New Orleans’ most haunted houses. This tour also takes visitors to sites where the show was filmed.

New Orleans Folklore: Voodoo and Vampires

New Orleans and voodoo go together like beans and rice, with some legends spanning back centuries. Women like Marie Laveau helped cultivate these stories, and many of the tales began when voodoo was introduced to New Orleans: the colonial period, a time that brought slaves from Africa to America.

More not-to-be-missed tours include ones dedicated to the lore and legends behind some of the most popular blood-sucking undead: vampires. Tours include various locations in and around the famous streets of the city, with visits that help illuminate the mysteries behind the enigmatic Jacque Saint Germain and macabre Carter Brothers.