French Quarter Ghosts and Spirits Tour with Augmented Reality is a two-hour guided walk run by Gray Line New Orleans, booking from $27 per person at our July 30, 2026 check. It is the only listing among the fifteen New Orleans ghost tours in our research with augmented reality on the route: the operator describes interactive segments including a photo with Marie Laveau and the Great Fire of 1788. The itinerary names six points, the French Quarter itself, New Orleans Creole Cookery, the LaLaurie Mansion, Muriel's Jackson Square, the Old Ursuline Convent Museum and the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum. Age bands run adult 13 to 99, child 6 to 12 and infant 0 to 5. It suits families and first-time visitors who want the standard Quarter addresses with a screen layer over them.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $27 per person (checked July 30, 2026) |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Departures | Not verified. No clock time and no time-of-day band in our check. |
| Ages | Adult 13 to 99, child 6 to 12, infant 0 to 5 |
| Group size | Not verified on this listing |
| Augmented reality | Interactive segments, including a photo with Marie Laveau and the Great Fire of 1788 |
| Getting there | The listing asks guests to walk to the departure point to spare the French Quarter vehicle traffic. Address not verified, so confirm it when you book. |
| Accessibility | The listing notes alternate routes may be needed for wheelchair users on uneven narrow paths. No flat accessibility flag verified, so ask the operator. |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation flagged at our check. We did not capture the window, so read the terms. |
| Rating | 4.5 from 281 Viator reviews, the fourth-smallest sample of the fifteen New Orleans listings we checked, so a thin one |
| Operator | Gray Line New Orleans. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
The LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street is on seven of the eleven New Orleans routes whose stop lists we banked. Delphine LaLaurie bought the corner lot and its unfinished house on August 30, 1831 (Vieux Carre Digital Survey, Historic New Orleans Collection). A fire started in the kitchen on April 10, 1834, responders forced the locked quarters and found enslaved people confined there, and the New Orleans Bee of April 11 reported seven of them mutilated (nola.com). A crowd gutted it within days. The catalogue of surgical tortures repeated on most ghost tours is not in those newspapers: it traces to Jeanne deLavigne's Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans of 1946, which cited no sources, while Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel of 1838 describes haggard, whipped people and no mutilations. Pierre E. Trastour bought the ruin on March 24, 1837 and rebuilt it, so the house people photograph is his, not the one that burned. It is private, and tours stand on the pavement.
Muriel's Jackson Square, at 801 Chartres Street on the corner of St. Ann, anchors the fire segment. A published house history traces a cottage built by Claude Trepagnier about 1718, a larger house put up by the royal treasurer Jean Baptiste Destrehan in 1745, and a sale to Pierre Philippe de Marigny in 1776. The Good Friday fire of March 21, 1788, the one the tour renders, partly burned it; Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan bought the damaged property and rebuilt; the restaurant opened in March 2001. That fire also took the parish church across the square, which Pere Antoine, Antonio de Sedella, recorded as gone in under half an hour (64 Parishes). Muriel's sets a table nightly for Jourdan's ghost. The ownership chain is documented; the wager, the suicide and the year attached to them are not, so read the standing table as theatre performed about a real former owner.
The Old Ursuline Convent Museum at 1100 Chartres Street is the only building we researched on this route that predates the 1788 fire. Twelve Ursulines arrived from Rouen in 1727, the royal engineer Ignace Francois Broutin drew the replacement in 1745, and the current building was finished in 1752 (64 Parishes). It came through both great Quarter fires, in 1788 and 1794, the only French colonial structure in the Quarter known to have done so, and became a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960 (Old Ursuline Convent). The vampire story told at its shutters fails on the calendar: the women called casket girls reached Louisiana about 1728, and this building was not finished for another twenty-four years, so whatever those trunks held was never in it. Cassette means a small chest, about the size of hand luggage. No pope visited New Orleans before John Paul II in 1987, which retires the blessed-nails detail.
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum at 514 Chartres Street carries the walk's best documented history and its firmest correction. Louisiana required pharmacists to pass a licensing examination from 1804, the first such rule in the country, and Louis J. Dufilho, Jr. passed a three-hour oral examination at the Cabildo on May 11, 1816 to become the first licensed pharmacist in the United States (New Orleans Pharmacy Museum). His townhouse here went up in 1822 and 1823. The tour-trade story that a Dr. Dupas experimented on pregnant enslaved women here is rejected by the museum that occupies the building, whose FAQ states there is no evidence of poisonings or medical experiments on enslaved or otherwise unwilling people there, and which points instead to J. Marion Sims, whose documented operations on enslaved women happened in Montgomery, Alabama (museum FAQ). The second augmented-reality segment puts you in a photograph with Marie Laveau, born in New Orleans on September 10, 1801, the first of her maternal line born free, a religious leader and practising Catholic who died on June 15, 1881 (64 Parishes). Her own house stood on St. Ann Street and was demolished in 1903.
Who it suits
This is two hours on French Quarter pavement with a screen layer over it, at the second-lowest from-price of the fifteen New Orleans listings in our research. The augmented reality is the reason to choose it, because the addresses are the ones most ghost walks here already use.
- Good for families. The bands run adult 13 to 99, child 6 to 12 and infant 0 to 5, wider than the bar crawls in this city, which start at 21.
- Good if price decides it. At $27 only one New Orleans listing we checked books cheaper, and that one is $15.
- Skip it if you want documented ghost accounts. Every haunting claim on this route is folklore, and the section above marks which parts are on the record.
- Skip it if you need a confirmed start time or a group cap before you book. Neither is verified on this listing.
- Ask first if anyone uses a wheelchair, because the listing warns of alternate routes on uneven narrow paths, and do not expect to go indoors.
How it compares
The choice comes down to what $27 buys against dearer walks with bigger review corpora. Haunted Ghost and Paranormal Tour in New Orleans is the cheapest of the fifteen at $15 for the same two hours and shares three addresses with this route, the LaLaurie Mansion, Muriel's and the pharmacy museum, though its 4.5 rests on 98 reviews. New Orleans Haunted History Ghost Tour is $30 for two hours, rates 4.6 across 2,274 reviews, states wheelchair access, allows strollers and caps groups at 28, all of which this listing leaves unverified.
If group size matters more than price, The Ghosts of New Orleans Tour runs 90 minutes at $29.99 with a cap of nine, the smallest stated cap among the fifteen listings in our research, and shows 4.7 across 718 reviews. None of those three carries augmented reality, and this listing's 281 reviews are the fourth-smallest sample among the fifteen, so weigh the 4.5 lightly. For the wider field, see New Orleans ghost tours compared and the best haunted tours in New Orleans.
Questions people ask
Who runs this tour?
Gray Line New Orleans. We do not run it.
What does the augmented reality include?
The operator describes interactive segments, among them a photo with Marie Laveau and the Great Fire of 1788. Our check did not record what device is used, so ask when you book.
What does it cost and how long is it?
From $27 per person for two hours, at our July 30, 2026 check. Prices move, so confirm the rate on the booking page.
What time does it start and where do you meet?
Neither is verified here, so confirm both when you book. The listing does ask guests to walk to the departure point rather than add vehicle traffic to the French Quarter.
Can children come?
The bands are adult 13 to 99, child 6 to 12 and infant 0 to 5, so everyone from thirteen books at the adult band.
Can you go inside the LaLaurie Mansion or the pharmacy museum?
No. 1140 Royal Street is a private home, and the house there is Trastour's rebuild of 1837 and 1838. The pharmacy museum charges admission and keeps its own hours, so ghost walks stop outside.
