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Haunted Hotel: Hotel Maison de Ville in New Orleans, Louisiana

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The Bottom Line:

Cottage Number 4 in the Hotel Maison de Ville is said to be home to a country music-loving soldier. Dressed in military uniform, the man first appeared to a hotel employee twenty years ago. Reportedly, he changes the radio station to a country music channel and turns up the volume.

The Haunting:

Spirits of the less ghostly kind also have a history at the Hotel Maison de Ville. A former resident of the building, Antoine Amede Peychaud, was a pharmacist who invented the modern "cocktail."

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