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Nicole Beauchamp

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 Nicole Beauchamp

Nicole Beauchamp is a world-renowned paranormal researcher and author based in Bay City, Michigan. She founded the Tri-City Ghost Hunters Society in 2009 following her first visit to New Orleans, Louisiana. Beauchamp has investigated haunted sites across the globe and her work has been featured in international publications including That’s Life, the Belfast Telegraph, and Sunday World. In 2019, she appeared on the cover of Paranormal Underground and is affectionately known in New Orleans as “the local who is not a local.”

Schedule

9:00 am to 9:45 am 
State Library, Fourth Floor
Louisiana Spirits: Haunted History
Nicole Beauchamp, Haunted French Quarter Hotels
Michael Wynne, Haunted Central Louisiana

10:00 am to 10:45 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Haunted French Quarter Hotels

Join world-renowned paranormal researcher and author Nicole Beauchamp on a tour of ten of the most haunted hotels in the Quarter. 

The French Quarter, New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood, brims with eerie history and supernatural lore, drawing those intrigued by the unexplained. Explore the legend of Maurice Bergere at the Hotel Monteleone, the sinister spirit in Room 208 at the Andrew Jackson Hotel, the restless souls haunting the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, the phantom Axeman lurking in the shadows of the Haunted Hotel and the spirits that crawl into bed with guests at the Olivier House Hotel―and many more.