Haunted Arnaud's Restaurant - New Orleans, LA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 29° 57.329 W 090° 04.115
15R E 782917 N 3317468
Located at 813 Bienville St. in the French Quarter.
Waymark Code: WMQ3Z2
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member neoc1
Views: 4

This 10/29/2004 Times-Picayune article (visit link) discusses several New Orleans restaurants which are haunted. The portion dealing with Arnaud's informs us:

" Arnaud's ghosts are well-turned out, and one of them may be Germaine Cazenave Wells, as well as her father, "Count" Arnaud Cazenave, who founded the restaurant in 1918. This place, at 813 Bienville St., is also on Montz's list of sites investigated by the paranormal research society.

The building's supernatural aura gave serious childhood chills to Katy Casbarian, the restaurant's spokeswoman and daughter of Arnaud's current owner, Archie Casbarian.

"I would always get so scared in certain areas, " said Katy Casbarian, adding that family members still spook her from time to time by slamming a door shut behind her or turning out the lights. She said that the Count's Room is the scariest open space in the restaurant, where some report seeing the late founder.

There's also a chill to the restaurant's Richelieu Bar -- even on a steamy afternoon, and Casbarian says that an employee doing an after-hours audit found a highball glass half full on the bar. That was strange enough, considering the restaurant's strict clean-up rules, Casbarian said, adding that the experience took a really creepy turn when the solitary worker glanced back a few moments later to find that the glass was empty.

Arnaud's ghosts are well-turned out, and one of them may be Germaine Cazenave Wells
A workman in Arnaud's Mardi Gras Museum reported an apparition bearing a striking resemblance to Germaine Cazenave Wells, Casbarian said. Even without a ghost, the museum has a slightly eerie cast, since each of about two dozen Mardi Gras gowns on display is draped on a mannequin that bears a wax-museum likeness to Wells herself.

There's nothing to be afraid of really, Casbarian said: "I think they're pretty nice ghosts.'"
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During Restaurant hours: Monday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Tuesday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Wednesday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Thursday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Friday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Saturday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Sunday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 6:00 – 10:30 PM


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Monday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Tuesday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Wednesday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Thursday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Friday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Saturday 6:00 – 10:30 PM Sunday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 6:00 – 10:30 PM


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