Provincial Hotel
The Provincial Hotel is located on Chartres Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, and ghosts of the Civil War seem to often frequent building 500 of this old establishment. There are several structures that make up the hotel and building 500 happens to be on land that was once used for the Ursuline Order of nuns. When these nuns arrived in 1729, the land and the military hospital that was here went under their control. The wounded American and British soldiers from the Battle of New Orleans were treated here and many of them would take their last breaths here as well. A lawyer by the name of Dominique Seghers purchased the land in the 1830s and tore down the hospital, replacing it with two houses.
The buildings were renovated in the 1850s to accommodate a boardinghouse, coffee shop, and retail stores. When the Civil War came about, this structure was taken over by the military governor for use as a hospital. Guests at the current hotel have often reported seeing the ghosts of medical staff walking around with blood stains on their clothing. Also, ghosts of wounded soldiers with bandages or crutches have been seen in the lobby, the courtyard, and certain rooms in building 500.
One guest who was staying in one of these rooms was in the shower one night and stepped out to find bandages and sheets covered in blood on the floor. It seems to be a common experience for the guests here to vision blood stains on the walls and floors, and then to have them vanish before their eyes seconds later. There was one interesting story of a security guard of the hotel who stepped out of the elevator one night into the scene of the1863 hospital ward that was full with wounded soldiers. The guard watched as nurses scrambled frantically from one soldier to the next, until he stepped back in the elevator and went upstairs.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
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