Dead bodies cannot be buried underground. The water levels are so high in New Orleans that the dead need to be laid to rest in tombs above ground so their bodies will not resurface.

Five school children haunt the Andrew Jackson Hotel. This hotel is said to be haunted by five small boys who were killed in a fire when the building was a boarding school in 1778.

The LaLaurie estate used to have a human centipede torture attic. In the 1830s, Madame LaLaurie tortured her slaves in horrific ways.

Dead doctors and soldiers roam the Hotel Provincial. Parts of this hotel were once a Civil War Confederate hospital.

Werewolves are said to prowl New Orleans. Since the 1800s, people say werewolves hunt in the surrounding swamps and cemeteries of New Orleans.

A voodoo queen lurks in the Saint Louis Cemetery. Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau 17941881 is said to be buried here and regularly haunts the area.

An old womans ghost sits on hotel beds at Le Pavilion Hotel. People have allegedly reported that an a old gray-haired woman sat on the side of their bed when they stayed there.

Graves are often left open. Many graves in New Orleans can be found open because grave robbers can easily access all of the tombs above ground.

Funerals have their own soundtrack. Jazz funerals began when more than 41,000 people in New Orleans died from yellow fever from 18171905.

A sultan was buried alive. In the 1840s, a sultan from Turkey rented the Gardette-Laprete house in New Orleans where he created a harem. One afternoon an onlooker noticed blood draining from the home. When the authorities broke down the door, they found dead bodies everywhere. Every person in the house had been killed. They discovered the sultans body in a shallow grave behind the house. He had apparently been buried alive. No one ever found out who the murderer was.

Theres a vampire in the French Quarter. Ramon, one of the first-known vampires in New Orleans, still haunts the French Quarter.

Some families never leave a corpses side to keep them from coming back as a vampire. This is called sitting up with the dead. The corpse is never left unattended until the body is buried. The tradition began in the 1800s.