Ugh. Those morons. Several of them were arrested a few years ago for actually bringing ladders to St. Louis I at night and bringing tour groups in over the gate after hours. Spoooooky.

Of course you're right. The name thing is really weird (and dumb), but I'm having a hard time with the likeness part.

Well... I mean... Everybody who wears cartooney eye makeup looks like a comic book squirrel, right? What?

Right? He looks like Rocky in Rocky Horror. Prettyboy asshole.

If you look at the narrow drawers on the left and right sides of the dresser you can see the difference. The ones in the historic photo all line up vertically and are the same width as the little pedestals on top, the ones in the current photo are wider than the ones in the pedestal. It's a minor difference. I'm a…

Not the same, but similar (the drawers in the lower section are different). It was a very common (but very pretty) machine-made Eastlake furniture style. You can still find intact suites that aren't horrifically expensive.

OK, let’s talk about something really important: Who is the dumbass motherfucker who put fake (probably vinyl) shutters on this historic house? And why are the idiot fake shutters hung backwards? Good god. Can we please have a little historical verisimilitude?

Just re-found this from a few years ago:

Well, obviously he has! Ugh. Wish somebody would take services away from him.

dingdingdingdingdingding!

:) Glad I had one to share!

When you come back you should check out the cemetery tours by Save Our Cemeteries (particularly the St. Louis I Cemetery tour) and Friends of the Cabildo tours. I’ve found them to be the most reliable tours since they’re both run by historical societies. You should also go to Islands of Salvation Botanica Vodou, which…

The Gallier House Museum. It was the home of a local architect and his family. As far as I know nothing particularly spooky has ever happened there, even though we went so far as tying to use a Ouija board in the house (nothing out of the ordinary happened). If it’s haunted, it must be by the ghosts of ladies who are…

Well, a nice counterpoint to your sad story. Maybe it's not all bad news at the end? :)

It was the Gallier House, which is affiliated with the Hermann-Grima House - you can buy tickets to see both of them, though honestly I've never really heard any particular ghost stories about either of them, and have spent enough time in both! However, both of them were used in AHS' Coven as stand-ins for the…

That’s what I’m talkin’ about! Lambies to the rescue!

A dear friend died of natural causes a few years ago, leaving behind three daughters. The middle daughter started using her mom's phone since she didn't have one, and on her birthday she got a voicemail that was just the sound of a party - talking, laughing, glasses clinking, but only women's voices. She's convinced…

I used to work in a French Quarter house museum, and had a similar thing happen. I was working a party where we were all stationed in different rooms of the house and people came through in waves. I was in the dining room that had a door that opened onto the scullery and hall into the kitchen. I was keeping the door…

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! (that was too scary for me)

Well, thanks to our idiot governor (the alleged health care guru no less!), even the mentally ill ghosts won't have a home, because the state's talking about demolishing Jackson. It wasn't good enough to close it down so there's no place for psych patients to go, now the ghosts are getting evicted too! I wish a whole…