Hotel Monteleone

Louisiana · United States · Hotel

Little Maurice died in the 1890s and appeared to his mother, on the notorious fourteenth floor.

Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter of New Orleans was built in 1886 by the Sicilian immigrant Antonio Monteleone and is still family owned today. Famous is the hotel's Carousel Bar from 1949, the first and only revolving bar in New Orleans, whose hand painted carousel seats make a slow turn every fifteen minutes.

The best known ghost story concerns Maurice Begere. According to Historic Hotels of America, Maurice was a small boy who lived at the hotel with his family in the 1890s. While his parents were at the opera he fell suddenly ill in the care of his nurse and died the same night. According to the story Maurice later appeared to his mother on the fourteenth floor and asked her not to cry, telling her he was well. Many guests have seen him on that floor ever since.

The fourteenth floor, which is in fact the thirteenth, is considered the most haunted. Guests have seen ghostly figures in period clothing sitting at the bar, only for them to vanish as anyone approaches, and the mirrors of the bar are said sometimes to reflect the faces of people who are not in the room.

Over the years writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner have stayed at the Monteleone, giving the hotel a rich literary history alongside its hauntings.

Source: ghostcitytours.com + usghostadventures.com + Historic Hotels of America + beyondhaunted.com

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Hotel Monteleone is in Louisiana, United States.

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