Special Event / Party

Private Tour

A delightful stroll with eerie  spirits, the guide, and 10 of your friends.

 Being with friends and family, we think we know them. But when a spirit gets involved, things happen. The waterlogged, swampy soil upon which New Orleans is built makes digging more than a couple of feet impractical, especially if the reason for digging is a burial of anything more substantial than a hamster. This gruesome revelation was made soon after the city’s first cemetery was established on St. Peter Street, just inside the current French Quarter. Graves started popping to the surface with a grim “Hello” and bodies floated down the street when it flooded – which was often.

The solution was to avoid burial altogether and house the dead in above ground tombs. In the mid-1800s the site of hundreds of little marble, granite or stone “houses” led to the coining of the term “cities of the dead.”