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If you take a "ghost tour" of New Orleans' French Quarter, pay attention to your innate psychic intuition, or your gut feeling. That's what we did during an April 2005 visit to America's most haunted city.

We had seen the infamous LaLaurie Mansion on Gov. Nicholls Street; our photos showed very little paranormal activity there. In fact, we saw very few orbs in most of our ghost pictures that evening.

Further up Governor Nicholls Street, while the other tourists were taking photos of a house connected with President Kennedy's assassination, we turned our cameras towards a home across the street.

This home is a private residence, which means that you should not intrude on the owners' privacy. It's also a site where we see more orbs in digital and film photos than many of the "haunted" sites on the tour.

The history of this home suggests that it was built in 1834 by Gabriel Correjolles, who had moved to New Orleans from St. Domingue (now Haiti).

Correjolles' son, Francisco, also has a connection to haunted houses. In 1826, he designed the Beauregard-Keyes House at 1113 Chartres Street, which is one of New Orleans' most famous haunted houses.

We're not sure why this house on Gov. Nicholls Street seems so haunted, and we hope that ghost hunters will not disturb the owners of this home.

However, if you're on a New Orleans "ghost tour," try taking photos when your intuition tells you to. Your pictures may be as surprising as ours were. We can see at least a dozen orbs in every photo that we took at this house, although these pictures don't reproduce well online.

And, for the skeptics: None of the orbs are the moon or a reflection of it. It was not a humid night; most of our photos show few--if any--orbs, even just a few feet away from this house. While there were probably a few insects in the air, we didn't see any. These orbs were all too far away to be dust or pollen, especially in the digital pictures, and it was too warm for anyone to use a fireplace.

Like many cities, New Orleans can surprise even seasoned ghost hunters. The ghosts may be where you least expect them. Follow your intuition, your instincts, and your "gut feelings."

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