MURIEL’S JACKSON SQUARE
Restaurant — New Orleans, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/muriels-jackson-square-new-orleans-louisiana/

The restaurant that keeps a table set for its resident ghost.

Muriel’s is a Jackson Square restaurant in an 1800s building where owner Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan reportedly killed himself in 1814 after losing the house in a card game. The restaurant keeps a séance room and a table set for him nightly—one of the Quarter’s best-documented resident-ghost traditions.

Muriel's is the set — the 'nightly table' that's the bread poured, the 'Mr. Jourdan' that's the guest kept. The 'poker lost' is the told — the '1814 wager' that's the legend's turn, the 'second floor' that's the suicide's spot. The 'sparkly light' is the seen — the 'not human' that's the form took, the 'Séance Lounge' that's the room named.
The 'glasses flew' is the thrown — the 'courtyard ghost' that's the second kept, the '2001 thrice' that's the bar's poltergeist. The 'Trepagnier first' is the layered — the '1718 grant' that's the land's start, the 'Marigny sold' that's the fire's cost. Muriel's is the fed — the 'bread wine' that's the ritual kept, the 'presence felt' that's the staff's claim.
The file keeps Muriel's: the nightly table, the poker's loss, the sparkly light, and the flying glasses.
Muriel's is the archive's Louisiana file — the restaurant that sets a ghost's place.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Muriel's is the archive's Louisiana file — where the table is always set for the man who lost it.
A restaurant keeps its ghost — the file's suggestion being that Muriel's hold is the hosted: the 'table set' that's the ritual nightly, the 'wager lost' that's the legend told, and the 'light sparkles' that's the form kept.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: Jourdan is said to occupy the séance room where the restaurant sets him a table. Pierre Jourdan is the name the reports keep returning to. Muriel’s Jackson Square, a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. 'Muriel’s Jackson Square' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Muriel’s Jackson Square (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Square_(New_Orleans))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The 1814 suicide is documented in local history; the table-for-the-ghost tradition is real. The restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana has a documented past — this entry belongs to that layer, not the lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Muriel’s Jackson Square'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Muriel’s Jackson Square — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Square_(New_Orleans)

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