Haunted History Tours

Drew is an amazing storyteller, historian, and comedian. We felt like we came away with unofficial underground history of NOLA and want to know more. The gruesome stories were mesmerizing but broken up with Drew’s jokes so it didn’t get too heavy. No sugar coating. As an ambassador for the city of New Orleans, Drew sells the city and makes you want to come back for more. Thank you for a fun evening!

We went on the 5 for 1 tour and anDrew without the «An» was our guide. He was awesome! He was very animated and captivating. All his stories were super good and well researched. Two thumbs up. He really loves what he does and he does is well.

My favorite tour the entire trip! My tour guy was awesome! Made it super enjoyable and interesting. I feel so bad that I forgot his name. :/​He was a young white man, that graduated with useless degree! LOL!
«Do not major in Liberal Arts… it’s good for nothing. I hope I didn’t offend anyone with that statement tonight.» His words of wisdom haha.
Tip 1: Do the tour at night! Gives it a spookier vibe, I felt chills down my back a few times.
Tip 2: Wear comfy shoes! You walk… a lot.
Tip 3: USE YOUR STUDENT ID! I believe it was $ 5-​$ 10 off the regular price. I graduated from college bout 2 years ago, but you see here… I’m Asian. I don’t age. Haha, I’m sure that ID will work for me the next 10 years.
Tip 4: Go with someone you would love to get cozy with. ;) I saw two people in my group that we’re getting feely feely… haha. He pulled her closer every time she started trippin after we heard a spooky story. Great date idea, you one smooth man. Haha!
Tip 5: DRINK! GET TIPSY! Haha! It’s like 5 times funner when you’re on one.
Tip 6: Pray nothing follows you home. This tour got me so spooked, I was really scared to shower that night.

Jack was our tour guide and he was great-​provided lots of details into the stories and was into it. Went on the 8pm tour. I will tell you that there’s a New Orleans ordinance that has them stop all tours at 10pm so if the tour starts late for any reason, you’ll move at a quicker pace but will get to see it all. Felt safe as well which is a big deal when in the FQ at night. You will stop at the Lalaurie Mansion as well as Lafitte’s. Just be prepared to walk for two hours and indulge into done haunted NOLA history.

My friend and I spent our last night in NOLA on this tour and it did not disappoint! The two hours goes by quickly and they let you take a pit stop for drinks. Ariadne was an amazing tour guide and storyteller. You can tell that she genuinely enjoys interacting with the crowd. We were so engaged the entire time she had us both in tears by the last stop. I can’t recommend her highly enough!

Was in new Orleans last week with a friend for her birthday! Took the 5 in 1 tour with Natalie and it was fantastic! She was very knowledgeable and open to all questions. Extraordinarily friendly! Had such a great tour we booked the ghost tour the following night with Ari and as I expected had ANOTHER fantastic tour. I learned so much about the city i was visiting and its past! She was also very educated on her city (and her accent impersonations were a nice touch) I highly recommend both tours. Natalie and Ari we both amazing tour guides! Friendly, Knowledgeable, and even funny! Take these tours!

The 5 in 1 tour was meh. The guide was funny, but thin on depth. He did call it a «poo poo platter» a sampling. In all it was poo poo. Don’t spend your money here — TOURIST TRAP — it’s cheaper to get a book and read about the underside, haunted side of NOLA. Again the guide was nice, but it was just a gloss over experience.

We did the 5-​in-​1 tour with Drew at night. It was better than expected and Drew not only was very knowledgeable, he was passionate about the city and its history as well as being an excellent presenter. He got into his storytelling so it was very entertaining instead of just a matter-​of-​fact type of tour. Definitely worth the time and money if you’re visiting the Crescent City.

Gabriel was our tour guide for the haunted garden district tour. HE WAS FANTASTIC. He clearly had a lot of passion for the area and was very funny and relatable and real. Our group (collectively) has been on 10 or so NOLA tours and Gabriel was the best. His stories were genuinely chilling because he didn’t deliver any of the used car salesman nonsense you usually get. He was very earnest and the whole thing was a blast.
Our group consisted of 3 people — me (a person who hates walking), my friend (a person who is easily grossed out), and her mom (who LOVES history and blood and guts and horror and NOLA). All 3 of us LOVED the tour.
I highly recommend Gabriel and the Garden Tour.

5-​In-​1 tour was excellent! Our tour guide Trevor was funny and engaging. He also apparently grew up in the French Quarter area so his historical stories were interspersed with personal experiences which made him a great tour guide!
Be prepared for a lot of walking and standing on this tour. But the frequent stops make it conducive to any age or physical ability.
Word of advice: there will most likely be a few drink people on your tour. It’s probably worse the later you do the tour. Luckily our guide was good at controlling them.

5 in 1 Haunted Tour
Fact… You walk around the French Quarters for two hours.
Fact… You stand the whole time except for a break and the last stop on the tour
Fact… You stop seven times with a break in the «middle» of the tour to refresh your drink and use the restroom
Fact… You hear stories about vampires, ghosts, witches, and the occult
Now… I would like to say my tour guide (Gabriel) was fantastic but I don’t want to mislead or misinform you or him. He asked for an honest review.
I am a director and acting coach so my job is to teach people how to bring a character to life and keep the audience engaged. The character here is Gabriel the tour guide and the audience was those taking the tour (not just to receive info but to be entertained).
Opinion: I feel Gabriel has lost the passion for telling the stories; he doesn’t connect to them and worse is he doesn’t connect to his audience. He had a ton of information, which lead him to go off on tangents, that although informative, had me lost. He also seemed to be searching for the story here and there.
I think for the price it wasn’t worth my time. I could’ve found the information online. I wanted my tour guide to bring the stories to life.

Let’s start with saying Lucy our tour guide for the 2 hr ghost was very captivating. Her energy and charisma was contagious. She was very knowledgeable of the history of the French quarter paranormal activity. The tour itself was interesting but I could tell half my party would have rather been throwing back drinks on bourbon street. I think you must have a heart for history to enjoy such a tour.
Well Nola isn’t my favorite place on earth it’s pretty entertaining. Glad I came but probably won’t be back anytime soon. I will recommend taking a tour to anyone. I actually wish I could have taken a graveyard tour instead. Maybe next time. :)

So here’s one of my guilty pleasures you may not know about: I love hearing ghost stories, researching haunted places and watching ghost hunting TV shows. And what better place to take a ghost tour than oh, I don’t know, the most haunted city in the US? New Orleans is so rich in history and culture and given the age of its conception and the people who have lived here, it’s not so surprising that the city is also rich in ghost stories and legends.
We took the 6PM tour and went around the whole French Quarter for a couple of hours. Without revealing any spoilers, I just wanted to say that we had a really fun time learning about some of the local haunted hotspots. And relieved that we didn’t pick any of the haunted hotels when we were researching where to stay. Our tour guide was funny, informative and knowledgable and made sure we had a good time.
Even if you don’t really geek out over ghost stories, it’s still a great experience to have when visiting New Orleans. There’s so much to learn about and some of the buildings we visit are hauntingly beautiful. The only thing is I wish we were able to have toured the inside of some of these incredible places such as the infamous Laularie Mansion, but hey, what can you do when they’re privately owned? On a side note, we did get to go inside a haunted bar that was built in the 1700s and is also the oldest consecutively operating bar in the US. Of course, we had to order a hurricane in there.

This was the most boring thing I have ever purchased. I wasted two hours of my time in listening to stories that were completely flawed. I do not recommend this at all.

Drew was amazing! Ask for him when you go:) He even kept his cool when a real JERK of a citizen honked and taunted and tried to run Drew over to get the parking space where he was teaching. And yes, I said teaching. Drew has such a grasp of local history and folklore mixed with a gift for oration that I truly came away richer for the experience! Outstanding evening!
~Heather from Augusta

Gabriel is awesome, quirky and fun! Recommend him for a tour to learn more about New Orleans history, ghosts and see beautiful houses.

I cannot even explain how excellent this tour was. Drew was our guide for the walking tour of the Garden District. Now I called them a few days before our tour for a special reason. Now drew was incredibly informative, funny and really brought us into the history of the garden district.
Now the reason I called them. I wanted to propose to my girlfriend in front of the Anne Rice mansion. The tour guide Drew called me to discuss the plan and even offered to take the photos for me.
She said yes and this was an experience I’ll never forget.
THANK YOU to HHT and Drew for being just great people and for being so cool and informative.

I went on the 5 in 1 tour today with Lisa as our guide. She is awesome and has a great storytelling gift. Haunted History Tours are a must to do!

From our initial contact with Cher Miller at the ticket sales store on Decatur Street to the gathering at the Reverend Zombie’s House of Voodoo on St. Peter’s street just south of Bourbon the night was engaging well organized, thoroughly entertaining and enriched with amazing New Orleans history and folklore.
Now for our tour guide. Drew.
Drew is a thespian whose knowledge is infectious and instantly sends you into a vortex of time back to the days of black hand gangsters, sultans, vampire obsessed murderers, and many of the city’s most notorious list of characters. He will penetrate you with stories of some of NOLA’s most infamous brothels and before the tour concludes you get a 15 minute bar break at MRB where you and your tour group can mingle and talk about your favorite tour spots.
We did the 5 – 1 tour which covered the span and highlights of the best of from the company’s tour. So, when you get to NOLA see Cher and experience Drew’s amazing tour!

We had Drew as our tour guide and he was amazing! He told the best stories and really knows a lot about the city. Would definitely recommend.

These tours were fabulous! The tour guide was a great storyteller and he was very informative. I completely recommend this tour and Drew was a great guide!

Group size tour big and to much noise to hear what was being said I could have stayed in a room and heard a ghost stories

Just went on the vampire tour and our guide Wendy was lovely. She was personable and lively and was genuinely invested in creating an entertaining and enjoyable experience for everyone. The temperature was 41 degrees but with wind felt like it was below freezing and we stayed through the whole tour. I would highly recommend the tour, however, if it is a cold night like tonight you should bundle up as it is a walking tour and you spend the majority of it outside with a short bar break midway through. Also, keep in mind that your tour guide has feelings and would like to keep track of people so please tell them if you leave early so that they are not worried. Happy touring!

Just finished our vampire tour with Lisa and it was definitely well worth the price of admission. She was more than passionate and extensively knowledgeable about every point in the tour. Not only did she give great insights on all of our stops but she made it relatable, fun and engaging. I frequent New Orleans often and always do a tour and while I always leave satisfied, this tour was something special. Haunted history tours has an asset on their hands here. She left us looking over our shoulders on the way to the next bar stop thinking of all the creepy delights we’d just learned about. Will definitely be coming back and requesting her (not to downplay the rest of the staff) she was just that good. See you soon NoLa and Haunted History Tours! Thanks for never disappointing

Worst tour ever, complete waste of money. Basically walk around for 2 hours and point at empty houses and claim they are haunted

First trip to New Orleans and first ghost tour. Natalie wad great, really had a good time til it started raining. But was fun.

our tour guide, Jesse was really nice and knowledgable ! Appreciate him! It was good!

Clint was our tour guide and he was amazing!!! Got to see all the famous haunted spots and learned a lot of fun (and spooky) historical facts about the city. Definitely recommend it!!!

Daphne was my tour guide for the cemetery tour and she was amazing! She was able to answer all the questions I had about the burial process used through the history of New Orleans. I would recommend any tour from this company!

We really enjoyed our haunted French quarter tour. There were other tour groups along the same route, so I’m guessing the biggest factor in your experience is the guide. Clint was very knowledgeable and did a great job of mixing NOLA history with the creepy things that people have reported. It was a fun way to spend a few hours and learn more about the French Quarter.

5 in 1 history tour with Stevie — who was sweet and engaging.
Pros: relatively small groups, good pace.
Cons: some of the dates were pretty outrageous — sulaiman the first definitely wouldn’t have been in power at the time of the Sultan’s palace mass murder…
I couldn’t quite figured out what age group and who it was targeted at, but we were glad we went along, a good way to get your bearings in the city.

The 5 in 1 tour is a great sampler filled with crazy, twisted stories that make Criminal Minds sound tame. I forget our guide’s name, but he had that whole slightly leery, I’m-an-ex-hippie schtick going on, and it was quite fun.

This tour was enjoyable, but (at least during the day) not particularly spooky. However as someone uninterested in ghosts, I was more focused on the historical information. It was a bit difficult to hear at times, but the guide was an excellent storyteller. I think I would return here, but just take a history oriented tour in the future.

I’ve been on several ghost tours, but this was probably my least favorite. This could be due to several factors outside of the tour’s control — it was Halloween weekend, there were loud, drunk people everywhere and the roads were extremely busy.
I will say that our tour guide was great! I was very impressed by her delivery and ability to ignore major distractions. She was a great performer.
We chose the 5-​in-​1 tour, which combines stories of werewolves, vampires, witches, ghosts and other folklore. Perhaps we should’ve stuck with only 1 topic, because I felt like we didn’t get enough of each topic.
Things I wish the company would address — people smoking on the tour. I get that smoking is everywhere in the French Quarter, but when you’re standing right in front of another tour guest lighting up a cigarette — there’s nowhere to go unless you want to miss the storytelling. I also felt like a number on the tour. I get it — we booked a spot last minute on probably their busiest weekend, but the whole experience just felt overcrowded.
Anther thing — they take a 15-​minute break at a historical bar. It’s only a two-​hour tour, so I felt like that time spent on a break took away a bit from the experience.
Overall, it wasn’t terrible — I just wish it could’ve included a bit more substance, and compared to other historical ghost tours I’ve been on, it was just OK.

Ernest was amazing! Very knowledgable and fun tour guide. Definitely the best we’ve had and we’ve don’t almost every tour.
5 Stars for Ernest. 0 Stars for St Louis Cemetery #1 for allowing 89 different tour companies in the Cemetery at the same time. Couldn’t see anything or take pictures due to there being 3000 people in the Cemetery at the same time.
But Ernest is the man great job sir!

We took the 5 in 1 tour that was meant to combine the ghost, vampire, etc tours into one. It was not what I expected. The guide was ok, not the best guide I’ve had on a walking tour but also not the worst. He was loud enough to hear and interesting enough that I only zoned out a few times along the tour. The actual stories were not the most exciting of New Orleans. It felt like they took the second most interesting stories from the main tours and threw them together for this tour. They didn’t even talk about the convent which is super interesting vampire lore in the area. When I asked about it, he said they cover it on the vampire tour.
They do talk about the Ax man and we got to go into the courtyard of the building to take photos. I got really bored with his storytelling of the kids that identified as vampires and ended up getting caught in Louisiana, but maybe that’s because I saw that on television a while back.
If you want the main ghost stories you probably already know, then this tour is fine. If you want super secret underground supernatural lore, this is not the tour.

Two of my friends and I settled on the 5-​in-​1 tour. We all loved our tour guide, Stevie, and had a great time learning some of the nonconventional history of New Orleans. We didn’t see anything spooky (darn) but we enjoyed the tour nevertheless. We got to see different parts of the French Quarter we might not have otherwise seen and enjoyed every minute!

We truly enjoyed the 5 in one ghost & mystery tour.
Trevor was an amazing guide! he was so knowledgable and entertaining. Some of the ghost stories were hard to believe but most of them were terrifying!
I highly recommend you take the tour with him tue next time you visit the french quarters

My tour was on 8÷14÷15 at 5 pm for the 5 in 1 Haunted History tour. My tour guide was Natalie. She was perfect for this job and knew her stuff!!! In the beginning of the tour, there were 2 different groups of people w ho were extremely intoxicated. It was difficult to hear Natalie because of the other 10 people being so loud. As we left to head to our first destination, one of the groups lost their friend. Now they were being loud because they were trying to find him. Natalie told them to step to the side so she can continue the tour. As we continued the tour, these 2 groups of people left making the tour much better for the experience.
The tour overall was very amazing and I learned a lot from this tour. It was a great way to see New Orleans in a short matter of time and get to learn some history from an expert. You do get a 15 minute break during the tour at Harry’s bar. From here, you continue on to learn some more history.
The ending of the tour was a perfect conclusion to the tour. Haunted Hotel was my favorite story! At the end of the tour, you can purchase a book about the tour you just took from the owners of the tour. I purchased a book because I thought it would be nice to read about it later on.
It is encouraged you tip your tour guide at the end. I would highly recommend this tour because I thought I received a lot of knowledge from a well trusted tour guide. There are so many tours to choose from, I felt comfortable with this business. Try one of their tours today.

THE BEST OF THE BEST!
We did a different walking tour every day during our stay in NOLA to get to know some of that amazing history and culture (and to walk off those beignets and rich, creole sauces.)
First impression: on the phone Jesse was efficient and warm taking our rezi. He was a great communicator and because of him we were looking forward to this specific tour even more. When you call, tell Jesse that Annette from California referred you. ;-)
Getting ready: meeting at Rev. Zombie’s is a trip! So much to look at but don’t touch! Touch anything (or even close your eyes and visualize touching anything…) and the spirits will know and punish you! And by spirits I mean the cashier guy at the counter. Nah just kidding he was nice. But don’t touch anything.
The tour begins: if you’re lucky like me, you’ll get the grizzled old guy with the cane. Follow him into that dark alley.
«Huh?» you ask?
Do it. He’s Jack.
There are other tour guides around the French Quarter who look like goth posers or big kids playing dress up with top hats, costumes, even voodoo make up, right? Jack doesn’t need that. He’s the real deal.
Jack opens his mouth, you listen. And it’s easy– you’ll want to catch every word. You’ll start with a brief history of New Orleans and the people who were sent here to populate it. I won’t give anything away but let’s just say, it explains a few things.
Jack leads, you follow. He holds his cane up? Gather round, he has a nasty but true tale to tell. Or maybe heart breaking.
Keep walking and listening and you’ll get to know this fascinating jambalaya of a city. You’ll remember Jack’s stories long after your visit because he has that magical mojo that transforms historical facts and names into very real people, dealing with very compelling situations.
I’ll say no more.
Except this: enjoy your evening walking with Jack meeting the colorful characters To whom you will be introduced.
My suggestion: When you stop at a bar mid way through the tour to grab a cocktail to go, be sure to break whatever big bill you need to to have a worthy tip on hand.

Fun and interesting way to learn some o the history and folklore of New Orleans. It’s not often you get a chance to take a history lesson while walking around with a beer. The tour was about 2 hours with a 15 minute break in a local watering hole. Our guide, Drew was animated and fun. Great for fans of the macabre or a family activity (Some of the conversation, like the history itself is a bit off color.) A great way to spend a couple hours in the French Quarter without taking your clothes off.