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Participants on the tours have experienced a variety of personal hauntings while on these daily and nightly expeditions throughout the French Quarter. For example, quite often time pieces stop working and camera equipment fails to function at one particular spot. Another location has spawned severa fainting spells during the guide’s rendition of a sparticularly horrific tale of man’s inhumanity to man. Additionally, “cold spots” are abundant and many people actually hear, feel, and see entities and apparitions while on the tour.

“This is not a Halloween spook house,” Smith often tells guests on the tour. “Some people are simply more sensitive to paranormal activity than others.”

For instance, he recently heard a story from a woman on his tour about a man she met at French Quarter hotel. He was on the adjoining balcony to her room. “She talked to him for a while and enjoyed his company, ” said Smith. “When she went downstairs and inquired who was occupying the room, she was told it was empty.”

She described the gentleman to the concierge. “Ah! you met our ghost!,” he told her. “People see him all the time.”

When she developed her film back home in Chicago, there included a photo of her modeling a hat in her hotel room taken by her traveling companion. “Guess whose reflection was in the mirror staring back!
Sidney declared. “Our ghost!”

The woman wasn’t ready (just yet) to give up her photograph. However, many tour participants do. The company receives several photos each week from people who believe they have captured a ghost on their film while taking the tour.

Many of these photos appear on their web site (www.hauntedhistorytours.com) and some have made it into their best selling book, “Journey Into Darkness… Ghosts and Vampires of New Orleans.”

The Haunted History Tour takes participants to several French Quarter locations associated with actual, documented hauntings. The stories are based on paranormal investigations of these properties.

Journey Into Darkness…A Vampire Tour offers a combinatin of fiction and reality. Fiction in the sense of Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, and movie sights used to film “Interview With The Vampire.” - Reality, in the sense that “we take you to sights of actual “Vampire-type” killings taken from police records, city archives people’s diaries, as well as our own research,” Smith explained.

The Voodoo-Cemetery Tour is an extremely popular daytime trek intothe legendary St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans’ oldest City of the Dead. You’ll explore the cemetery, visit the tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau as well as her homesite, and learn more about this misunderstood and secretive religion. You may even witness an actual voodoo ceremony. “It’s a tour that combines one of the most fascinating elements of New Orleans - our most historic cemetery, along with ancient practice of Voodoo.

The Spellbound Tour is an amazing magical, mystical, adventure that takes you into the Real World of Witchcraft and Voodoo. Sorcery abounds as you find out why the witch trials of Salem were mild compared to what happened in New Orleans…and continues today!

And finally, as a departure from the world of the paranormal and the macabre, we submit for your approval…The Original Five Star Garden District Tour! Elegant, lavish, and historic, this antebellum neighborhood known as the “American” section of town was built in the 1800s to rival the architectural splendor and beauty of the French Quarter. On this tour you’ll learn about architecture, plant life, and visit Lafayette cemetery. Stops on the tour also include the home of author Anne Rice and the house where Jefferson Davis died in 1889.

The Haunted History Tour departs daily at 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, and 8 pm from Rev Zombie’s Voodoo Shop, 723 St. Peter Street (between Bourbon and Royal Street).

The Voodoo-Cemetery Tour departs at 10 am and 1:15 pm, also from Rev. Zombie’s Voodoo Shop. (There is no 1:15 pm tour on Sunday.)

The Spellbound-Voodoo & Witchcraft Tour departs nightly at 7:30 pm also from Rev. Zombie’s Voodoo Shop.

The Vampire Tour departs nightly at 8:30 pm from the front of the St. Louis Cathedral facing Jackson Square.

The Garden District Tour departs at 10:00 am and 1:30 pm daily from the Pontachartrian Hotel, 2031 St. Charles Avenue (corner of Josephine and St. Charles). And…For those who love the Garden District, but want a touch of the paranormal… Haunted History Tours offers, “Garden District Ghosts & Legends.” This tour is offered at 3:00 pm daily, and also departs from the Pontchartrian Hotel, 2031 St. Charles Avenue.

No reservations are required for any of the tours unless you are planning to bring a large group. Guests should arrive 10 to 15 minutes early.

For more information on what they has become the most popular tours in New Orleans, call (504) 861-2727 or toll free (888) 644-6787 or visit their website at: www.hauntedhistorytours.com.

More than a tour… It’s an event!

‘Journey Into Darkness…New Orleans Ghosts and Vampires’
Author of book - Kalila Katherina Smith

The following is taken directly from the pages of Haunted History Tours own wonderful haunted book entitled, ‘Journey Into Darkness…New Orleans Ghosts and Vampires’.

Haunted History Tours are regarded by many as a “must do” for any visitor to New Orleans. In fact, SPIRIT Magazine, the in-flight publication of Southwest Airlines listed our tours as on of THE things to do while in the city. “The Travel Channel” has also described our tours as “the” number one tour in New Orleans.

Natives, too, have come to regard these tours as one of our special highlights. Local publications such as Times-Picayune, City Business, Gambit, This Week In New Orleans, WHERE, and New Orleans Magazine have also taken notice of these popular tour adventures.

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, ESPN, MTV, and the FOX Network have all featured Haunted History Tours within the last several years. National magazines such as Southern Living, Maxim, and Orient Express have each recently focused on these French Quarter “expeditions” as being highly recommended for anyone spending time in the Crescent City.

If this sounds like we’re tooting our own horn a bit, make no mistake about it, we are! I am very proud of what we have created here. In fact, our sucess has even spawned several imitators in the ghost and vampire tour market. While imitation is the fondest form of flattery, I can honestly now say … when it comes to this subjest…

Please write to them at:

Haunted History Tours
97 Fontainebleau Dr.
New Orleans, LA 70125
Email Us: info@hauntedhistorytours.com

New Orleans Ghosts and Vampires Journey Into Darkness written by Kalila Katherina Smith and can be purchased here.