The Haunted Quarters Of The Dauphine Orleans Hotel

**"The Haunted Quarters Of The Dauphine Orleans Hotel"** is a video made by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej, uploaded onto YouTube on June 2, 2017. It is the ninth episode of the second season of *BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural*, and the twenty-eighth episode overall. You can watch it here.

## Description

What spirits lurk in this infamous New Orleans hotel?

## Background

Located a block away from the bustling Bourbon Street, the site of the Dauphine Orleans may date back as far as 1775, with parts of the hotel that exist today that were built in the early 1800s. Many of the buildings that today comprise the Dauphine Orleans Hotel used to be private residences, as well as a bordello. In fact, before 1898, brothels and gambling houses were said to spread across most of the city. A man by the name of Sidney Story created legislation that confined the city's sinful hobbies to a 16 block region making prostitution and gambling legal within the confines of that area. Ironically, this 16 block precinct would be named after Sidney Story and was dubbed Storyville. It's said the Storyville was riddled with crime, sometimes at the hands of the prostitutes themselves. The hotel as a whole seems to be active, visitors and employees claim that doors lock themselves shut, footsteps can be heard, shadows follow you.

During the Civil War, soldiers were said to stay on the premises often while recovering. There are multiple accounts of spirits of Civil War soldiers seen in different places in the hotel. However, the most haunted area of the hotel is undoubtedly the hotel bar, May Baily's Place, which was actually a well-known bordello at the edge of the aforementioned Storyville. The madam of the bordello was May Baily, and the original city license was issued in 1857, and still remains on display today. Confederate soldiers are often seen near May Baily's Place, perhaps due to the fact that it was a brothel they frequented in the past. Most of the ghosts in the bar are said to be May's employees or ladies of the night.

Another active area of May Baily's is a little library section where a ghost is said to knock books off shelves.

Arguably the most horrifying part of the hotel is the bordello suite, which is upstairs in May Baily's, a place where the girls would take patrons to perform services. Many report feelings of unrest in here, and an employee that has worked at the hotel for over 30 years refuses to go in there to this day.

Another famous ghost at the hotel is said to be the younger sister of May Baily, Millie. The story goes that Millie's fiance was shot in a gambling dispute on the morning of their wedding. It's said that Millie's grief consumed her as she continued to wear the wedding dress after the incident. Millie is reportedly seen in her dress by hotel guests till this day, earning her the name The Lost Bride of The Dauphine Orleans Hotel.

Some of the sites original structures still stand today, and the carriage rooms are the oldest part of the existing building, but more importantly, according to the hotel the carriage rooms used to be an extended rear wing of May Baily's, and chillingly was the part where May and her sister, Millie, actually lived.