{"id":2465,"slug":"arnauds-new-orleans-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Arnaud's is the watched — the 'Count's tuxedo' that's the founder checking, the 'proprietary smile' that's the still-owned. The 'CPA's glass' is the appeared — the 'inventory night' that's the skeptic's count, the 'half-full cocktail' that's the materialized. The 'staircase woman' is the walked — the 'wall passed' that's the '50s layout, the 'stairs once there' that's the ghost's route.","The 'Germaine's museum' is the kept — the '22 queens' that's the record held, the 'misty form' that's the daughter's watch. The '1918' is the founded — the 'wine salesman' that's the Count's start, the 'Grand Dame' that's the restaurant's rank. Arnaud's is the staffed — the 'tuxedo gentlemen' that's the waiters seen, the 'busiest nights' that's the founder's check.","The file keeps Arnaud's: the watching Count, the CPA's glass, the staircase ghost, and the museum's queen.","Arnaud's is the archive's Louisiana file — the restaurant the Count still runs."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Arnaud's is the archive's Louisiana file — where the Count checks service from the afterlife.","A restaurant keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Arnaud's hold is the watched: the 'tuxedo smiles' that's the inspection kept, the 'stairs walked' that's the old layout, and the 'queen guards gowns' that's the daughter's post."]}],"name":"Arnaud’s","aliases":[],"type":"RESTAURANT","type_label":"Restaurant","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"\"Count\" Arnaud’s 1918 restaurant—and the Germaine Wells museum.","full_desc":"A restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, Arnaud’s is filed here for what the record attaches to it. \"Count\" Arnaud’s 1918 restaurant—and the Germaine Wells museum. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Germaine Wells. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still serves diners.","address":null,"city":"New Orleans","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.05342,"lon":-89.934502,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Restaurant/bar","research_notes":"Restaurants/bars batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1919,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Germaine Wells is reportedly seen in the restaurant she ran. Arnaud’s, a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Germaine Wells","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Arnaud’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Founded 1918; the Wells museum documents Mardi Gras royalty. The restaurant's documented history in New Orleans, Louisiana is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Arnaud’s'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1918","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Arnaud’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Germaine Wells is reportedly seen in the restaurant she ran. Arnaud’s' file is the sort restaurants and bars collect over decades — staff sightings, closing-time sounds, the building after hours. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Arnaud’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Germaine Wells","claimed_identity":"Germaine Wells","verified":null,"summary":"Germaine Wells is reportedly seen in the restaurant she ran. An old restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana gives the account a setting with real history behind the bar. The file keeps Germaine Wells on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The file stays open on it. The reports keep the address on the map.","behavior":"Germaine Wells is reportedly seen in the restaurant she ran.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Arnaud’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Arnaud’s","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%27s","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}