The Times-Picayune ArchiveOne can almost imagine a ghost feeling at home at One Eyed Jacks, which reportedly is haunted by a broken-hearted woman.When Ponderosa Stomp booker Ira Padnos put Shreveport guitar slinger James Burton up at the St. Vincent Guesthouse in 2000, he said, the musician reported sleeping poorly because of children running and playing in the halls all night.
“When they asked at the front desk, ” Padnos said, “it turned out no children were staying there.” During a 19th-century epidemic, however, the building, then an orphanage, had seen many young charges die of yellow fever. It seems the ephemeral kids had kept many guests up over the years.
A block away from the guesthouse, The Saint bar is home to a tale that has given bartenders and customers an extra shot of chills for more than two decades. Former proprietor Chris Lee (he sold the bar in 2008, ) after hearing rumors, finally sat the building’s owner down to ask. In the early ’80’s, the story went, a prostitute was renting a cheap room by the week above the bar, which was then called the St. Mary.

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