Pitot House
A house in New Orleans, Louisiana, Pitot House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1799 Creole house—where the mayor lived on the bayou. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The presences in its file go unnamed: the pitot dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.
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Is Pitot House haunted?
The record holds 2 claims, 2 legends, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed local folklore. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
The Pitot House was built in 1799 — the Creole colonial house on Bayou St. John that belonged to James Pitot, the city's first American mayor after the Louisiana Purchase, a house of the Spanish colonial era that survived the city's Americanization.
The file's documented spine is the house's double heritage: a Creole plantation-style house that held the transition from colony to America, the mayor's residence when New Orleans changed flags.
The Pitot dead
The lore reports figures in the house — the dead reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the colonial house's own: the people of the bayou's old plantation reportedly still in the rooms that watched the city change countries.
The Pitot dead are the file's entity — a Creole house that held the transition's people reportedly keeping them, the colonial rooms' residents still present.
Why this file matters
The Pitot House is the archive's colonial-transition file — a 1799 Creole house that held the city's first American mayor, keeping figures reportedly in its rooms. The documented house is the record; the dead are the lore of a home that watched the flags change.
A house that held the colony's last era keeps its people — the file's suggestion being that the Pitot House's residents outlasted the colonial world.
The Pitot House is a historic landmark in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Pitot House is an 18th-century Creole colonial country home located at 1440 Moss Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pitot House is currently owned by the Louisiana Landmark Society, which uses the building as its headquarters. The house is situated on Bayou St. John and was moved several blocks from its original site in order to prevent its demolition.
Pitot HouseThe record of claims
Reported figures in the house. A house with New Orleans's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Pitot House'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Pitot dead. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Pitot House'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
Reported figures in the house. Pitot House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed. The report keeps its place in the record.
The dead are reportedly seen. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'Pitot House' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.
Alleged entities
The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Pitot dead. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The account appears in 'Pitot House'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The Pitot dead.
Documented history
The 1799 house is documented. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Pitot House' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. It remains the site's standing claim.
Sources on file
- 01Pitot HouseWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
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