Hanging Ghost In New Orleans

by Erica Guillot
(New Orleans, Louisiana)

This picture was taken by me while I was a guest on the on a haunted history ghost tour in New Orleans Louisiana on October 30th, 2008. The story goes that back in the 1800's or early 1900's there was a young girl who was a prostitute. She and a sailor fell in love and the sailor was called to duty. He promised the young girl he would return to her and when he did they would get married. The younger waited for his return and when his ship finally did return she waited to greet him. She then realized that the sailors that were lower ranks than him started to get off the boat. She knew he should have been off the boat and she stopped a random young sailor and asked about where he was. The young sailor knew who she was when she asked for her lover and he took her in to the bottom of the boat where they had her lovers body in a casket. He had been killed at sea and before he died he asked the crew to make sure his body returned home so that he could return to her just as he had promised. She was so heart broken that she went to where this tree is and hung herself from the lowest branch. Now they say sometimes if you take a picture of the tree she would see the image of her hanging from the tree.

When I first took this photo I didn't see anything and thought nothing of it. When i got home and begin to re-size the photos I saw that there seems to be a figure hanging from the tree.

I have never had an expert or anything look at the photo so it could be a trick of light or something. All I can say is I know I took this photo myself and that it HAS NOT been tampered with in any way other than the red circle I made to pin point where there seems to be a figure.