Historic haunted places in Baton Rouge, LA. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Haunted place
100 North Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Open to the public (museum; free admission).
Motion detectors in this Gothic Revival 'castle' go off at night when the building is empty, and footprints have appeared on the Senate floor. Tradition pins the activity on state …
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
422 North 19th Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Open to the public (cemetery; daylight hours).
Soldiers fought among these tombs during the 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, and the dead were buried in a mass grave here. Visitors describe silhouettes slipping between raised tombs …
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
900 State Capitol Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Open to the public (museum; free, limited hours).
Visitors to this 1830s powder magazine tell of a uniformed soldier they call Billy Boy Blue. Others describe a figure in period dress who asks puzzled questions about modern object…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
State Capitol Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Grounds open to the public; interior apartments are private.
Maintenance workers on after-hours jobs describe a hostile, shapeless dark mass in the stairwells and lower corridors, and some refuse to go into certain areas alone. Residents als…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
305 S River Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Open to the public (museum ship; admission fee).
A kamikaze strike on April 11, 1945 killed 38 men aboard this destroyer, and most reports come from the crew spaces where they lived. Visitors describe shadowy sailors in 1940s dun…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.