NOLA Ghosts

3. The Andrew Jackson Hotel

New Orleans, LA

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The ghosts staying at the Andrew Jackson Hotel are not trapped former guests � they predate the hotel building itself by many decades. The spirits, five mischievous young boys, are said to have become attached to the location during the Good Friday Fire of 1788. Students at a Catholic boarding school, they perished in that inferno, and are said to have haunted the location ever since. The little boys seem more intent on disruption and merrymaking than in frightening the guests, but they have still given many an occupant a good scare. Turning on sinks, flushing toilets, and manipulating the televisions are amongst their more commonplace pranks. They are often heard running up and down the hallways of the hotel in the early morning hours, giggling and waking the guests. Some sightings, however, have given guests more pause than others. One guest awakened to find five little boys sitting on the end of her bed, watching television. When she screamed, they disappeared into thin air. Another guest decided to do her best imitation of a ghost for a group of tourists passing below, draping a bed sheet over her head and making ghoulish noises out on her room's gallery. When she returned to her room, and removed the sheet, she would find five little boys standing there, applauding her performance. A young couple who picked the hotel with the hopes of experiencing something paranormal would be quite disappointed when nothing extraordinary occurred to them at all. That is, until they returned home, when they found amongst their pictures a shot of themselves asleep in their hotel room, taken, it seems, from the angle of the ceiling.