Dauphine Orleans Hotel

In New Orleans, Louisiana, only a block away from the bustling Bourbon street, the Dauphine Orleans hotel may date back as far as 1775, with parts of the hotel still standing built in the early 1800's.

Many of the current building which make up the Dauphine hotel used to be private residences as well as a bordello (brothel), and before 1898, brothels and gambling houses were said to spread across most of the city.

Sidney Story, an America politician, created a legislation that confined theses activities to a 16-block region, making prostitution and gambling legal within that area, which would later be named after Sidney Story himself and dubbed Storyville.

Storyville was reportedly riddled with crime, with some of it being at the hands of the prostitutes themselves.

During the Civil War, soldiers were supposedly staying on the premises while recovering, with multiple accounts of spirits of soldiers seen throughout the hotel. However, the most haunted and active location of the hotel is the bar, called May Baily's place, which was a well-known bordello at the edge of Storyville.

Confederate soldiers are often seen around May Baily's place but most of the ghosts seen are female, probably employees of the hotel of prostitutes, with one of the active areas being the bordello suite, where woman would take patrons to perform services.

Some have reported the feeling of unrest in the suite, with one of the employees working at the hotel for more than 30 years, refusing to go into the room to this day.

Another active section is the little library within the hotel, which some claim has a ghost that will knock books of the shelves.

One of the famous ghosts at the hotel is May Baily's younger sister Millie. The story claims that Millie's fiancé was shot in a gambling dispute on the morning of their wedding, and that consumed with grief, Millie continued to wear the wedding dress, and to this day she can be seen wondering the hotel wearing the dress. This earned her the name of 'the lost bride of the Dauphine Orleans Hotel.

Guests have reported seeing the spirit of a man dressed in dark Confederate uniform pacing the outer courtyard, garnering the nickname, “the Worried General,” from employees and paranormal investigative teams. When Dr. Larry Montz of the International Society for Paranormal Research held an investigation at the Dauphine Orleans, his parapsychologist team was told that the spirit’s name is “Eldridge."

You can currently stay at the Dauphine Orleans hotel and experience the paranormal activity yourself, with some guests reporting hearing inexplicable sounds in their guest rooms; TV’s are known to flicker on and off on their own; and some visitors have felt ghostly hands trail up their calves as they sleep. (Admittedly, the latter is generally reported by men).

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