Best Western Plus French Quarter Courtyard Hotel
920 North Rampart Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
For details on other hauntings on the street see my “Street Guide to the Phantoms of the French Quarter—North Rampart Street.”
The atmosphere of a room on the second floor of the Best Western French Quarter Courtyard Hotel remains on edge. The tensions and negative energies left over from a shooting that happened some years ago still echo in this hotel on the edge of the French Quarter.
According to author Allen Sircy, in the 1970s a wealthy businessman picked up a pair of young hustlers and brought them back to his hotel room to take advantage of their services. When the hustlers attempted to rob their client, he produced a gun shooting and killing both young men. He was arrested in their murder but was let off pleading self-defense.
A longtime hotel employee told Sircy that while the hotel doesn’t advertise itself as being haunted, guests staying in the particular second-floor room have had a variety of experiences. One guest reported that she heard footsteps around her bed before she felt someone climb in with her. Jumping up, she turned on the light to reveal that she was entirely alone.
A search for the details of this murder have so far been fruitless.
Sources
- Sircy, Allen. Southern Ghost Stories: New Orleans. Amazon Kindle edition. 2023.