New Orleans: Haunted Pub Crawl & Dark History with 3 Bar Stops

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1/19

Duration2h

GroupUp to 15

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Murder, Madams & Spirits: New Orleans' Darkest Stories Over Drinks

You get a 2-hour walk through New Orleans' French Quarter with a guide who knows the dark history of murder, brothels, and hauntings tied to real locations. Three bar stops are built into the route, so you're not paying separately for drinks. The guide handles the storytelling while you handle the walking and listening—no arranging your own ghost story tour or figuring out which bars have the actual history.

Step-by-step itinerary

Haunted pub crawl with ghost stories

Start at The Creole Cookery
Hear adultery and murder story
Walk to May Baily's bordello
Meet madam and lingering spirits
Stop for drinks between locations
Listen to stories of adulterers and evil
Carry drink while walking streets
Visit New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
See Jackson Square
Explore Royal Street

The Experience

The Creole Cookery is where an affair ended in murder, and the people involved never left. That's where this 2-hour haunted pub crawl starts—not with a polished history lesson, but with the kind of story that makes you want a drink before you've even finished hearing it. Your guide walks you through the French Quarter telling the treacherous accounts of adulterers, prostitutes, womanizers, and worse, all of them still somehow present in the buildings where it happened. You carry your drink along the streets between stops, listening to one depraved story after another.

The crawl hits three bars, and they're not random—each one is tied to the haunting. May Baily's was the first licensed bordello in New Orleans, and the madam who ran it apparently still does, along with other spirits that won't leave. The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum gets its own dark chapter; the Jackson Square and Court of Two Sisters locations round out the stops. It's not a tour where you stand still and listen. You're moving, drinking, and the guide is feeding you the twisted history of the place as you walk past it.

This is strictly 21 and over, and the operator will cut you off if you get too drunk and disruptive—they reserve the right to refuse service and won't refund you if that happens. It runs in all weather, so wear shoes you can actually walk in and bring a jacket if it's cold. The whole thing is wheelchair accessible, and service animals are welcome. Small groups, professional guide, all taxes and fees included.

What’s included

Your 2-hour tour includes a professional guide who tells the stories of murder, adultery, and hauntings tied to real locations in the French Quarter.
You'll visit three bars—The Creole Cookery, May Baily's (the first licensed bordello in New Orleans), and stops at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Jackson Square, and the Court of Two Sisters.
All taxes and fees are covered; drinks at the bars are purchased separately.
The tour is wheelchair accessible and operates in all weather.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Unique NOLA

Is this one for you?Book this if you want the dark side of New Orleans history told by someone who knows it, with built-in bar stops so you're not hunting for drinks on your own—the small-group format and fixed route are what make two hours feel like you've actually covered the twisted stories of the place.