TLDR
Built in 1826, this French Quarter cottage housed Confederate General Beauregard after the war and author Frances Parkinson Keyes decades later. Chess prodigy Paul Morphy was born here — and allegedly went mad and died here too.
The Full Story
Civil War soldiers in grey uniforms stand with vacant expressions before dematerializing. The main hallway hosts ghostly recreations of the Battle of Shiloh, complete with cannon fire and the smell of blood. General Beauregard searches eternally for boots he left behind. Paul Morphy, driven mad, once ran naked down Chartres Street with an ax claiming demons chased him. A 1908 Mafia massacre in the dining room left three dead, adding more spirits. Ghost cat Caroline and a spectral dog complete the supernatural menagerie.
Visiting
Beauregard-Keyes House is located at 1113 Chartres Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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