OT: Ghost Tours in New Orleans?

[cwc73]

Has anyone even done a ghost tour or "investigation" in New Orleans? I'm just looking to do something with the wife next weekend and she is in to all of those TV ghost shows. I figure it will be fun or comical even if it sucks.

So does anyone have a recommendation for us?

 

[Notch Johnson dawg]

you'll learn neato things about the history of New Orleans as well as ghost stories.

 

[anon1751035439]

The Zydeco Trail

Slide Show

 

[99jc]

coming from the guide than Horseshit laying in the french Quarter.

 

[quickdawg]

I had pooh-poohed them for years but took a cemetery tour with some friends to kill some time last year. If you get a good guide, it's not a bad way to pass a sunny afternoon and see some parts of New Orleans of which you might be unaware. Can't comment on the night tours as I've never done one.

Plus our guide made it damn near mandatory that we stop at bars and get drinks a couple of times which I must say rather enhanced the experience.

 

[memphodawg]

I've only been on a couple of the night tours but both sucked. You'll have more fun on an air boat swamp tour</p>

 

[ShaNaNa]

it's BYOB. If there is a group of six get ona small boat with just yuor group that way if your pilot is cool you can pee off the side.

 

[NashvilleBulldawg]

I've done ghost tours. The only fun out of them is mocking how serious the guide is. It's the gift that keeps on giving for my family. The comedy still lives on. But I wouldn't waste my time or money on another one. It's more for the guide to make money to further their psychotic belief in ghosts and write pisspoor books on the subject.

 

[SchruteDog]

If you've been to the French Quarter and have never ventured off of Bourbon Street, a ghost tour will take you on some side streets and back alleys where you'll hear a hippie guide tell you some ghost stories. The one time I went on one they stopped off at a bar with black lights and a vampire theme to try and get every one on the tour to buy one of their purple slushy daquiris. They can be somewhat comically entertaining if your guide is interested in his job, but nothing like one of those paranormal shows.<div>
</div><div>If I were forced to do something like that again, I'd do a night time cemetery tour. At least that has a little creep factor to it.</div>

 

[cwc73]

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[jiminim]

Wife and I did the Gray Line ghost tour a few years ago. There was a huge family reunion group and the two of us for two tour guides; so the family went with one and we went with the other. Having a 3 person group was fun because we got to go inside more places. YMMV of course.

 

[Mr Todd French]

I've done the cocktail tour and the wife and I enjoyed it. You get some history, plus the drinks that the bars and restaurants are famous for. Warning, the drinks go back a long way. Before most mixers, so be ready to man up and drink some strong stuff or just listen and order a beer. Still fun.