Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Who haunts the houses and buildings of Acadiana, a region rich in culture and history? Those who refuse to leave hang in shadows, tease us with weird happenings, and some even show themselves in the dark of night. Here are a few scary places to visit in Lafayette, but only if you’re brave enough to face the unexplained.

1905 Verot School Rd
Lafayette, LA

One of the most haunted houses in Lafayette, T-Frere’s story of a young widow named Amelie, who died in the well out back, has been passed down for decades. Amelie supposedly lost her husband and child, worked as a math teacher, and either fell or jumped into the well after acquiring a fever. However, there are other stories.

Downtown

Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Some say a one-legged brother haunts the gym of Cathedral Carmel School in the heart of downtown Lafayette, a Catholic school affiliated with the De La Salle Christian Brothers. People have heard sounds of footsteps and seen lights going on and off. One parent even captured the image of a man in black within a photograph — who wasn’t there in real life. When Dat Dog opened a location on Jefferson Street, they were amazed to find that the building was once a mortuary and that someone — whether an owner or a deceased client — still haunts the upstair’s bar.

110 Benoit Patin Rd
Scott, LA

The nearby town of Scott welcomes visitors at a historic home once belonging to the Begnaud family. The Acadian-style home was donated to the city for use as a tourist information center by the descendants of Joseph Begnaud, and the house moved to its current location. However, Joseph may still be living there.

1304 W Pinhook Rd
Lafayette, LA

People have witnessed a man sporting a handlebar mustache in the bar. But most of the paranormal activity has been bottles falling off shelves, unexplained cold patches, and cash registers acting on their own. One of the weirdest events happened within a second-floor room that had been boarded up, a room containing several old paintings and an oversized map of Louisiana. When the owners opened the door later, the map and paintings were ripped and lying on the floor, the brown paper on the backs destroyed as well... but that isn't all. Click below to head to our blog!

104 E University Ave
Lafayette, LA

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a university campus without a ghost story. Many are similar, such as the suicidal co-ed or the girl who fell down the elevator shaft, which both fit the now torn down Denbo Dorm, Baker Hall, and Huger Hall all have ghost stories. One Baker resident reported what sounded like someone clawing at the wall in her suitemate’s bathroom. When she opened the door, no one was there.

515 Cathedral St
Lafayette, LA

Downtown owns two gorgeous cemeteries, St. John Cemetery next to the cathedral, where thousands of early Lafayette settlers were buried beginning in 1821, and Hebrew Rest Cemetery, created in 1869 for the town’s Jewish residents. At the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church cemetery in Rayne, graves were buried in an unusual north-south direction instead of the traditional east-west formation to greet the rising sun. Because the graves were situated in this way, the cemetery has been mentioned in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”

109 S 2nd St
Eunice, LA

Employees have felt people lingering beside them, lights have turned on by themselves. Some workers and visiting paranormal experts and mediums have seen actual apparitions or picked up electronic voice phenomena (EVPS). Some believe it’s a woman named Alice dressed in white. Another deejay spotted a man in blue coveralls in the front office. Deejay Layton Thibodeaux witnessed a tall, skinny man with white hair in the reflection of the TV, but when he turned, there was no one there. And then there’s the knocking that comes in threes.

Broussard

Broussard, Louisiana, United States

It’s here that a young girl named Mary Jane refused the advances of her drunk date. In retaliation, he struck her with a whiskey bottle and threw her into the bayou below. Called “Mary Jane’s Bridge,” locals claim the young woman haunts the bridge in a long white dress.

101 E 2nd St
Broussard, LA

In the hallway hangs a portrait of Edmund Joseph Comeaux II, a child of the first owners who is believed to have died in the home from a fever when he was only four years old. Some believe young Edmund still hangs around his former home, moving items about and turning on hand dryers in the women’s restroom. He’s harmless, a waitress once told us, just playful and mischievous.