Ask Arthur Tours

If you're looking for the average walking tour, then move along. But if you want to delve deeper into local culture and lore, with commentary powered by a curious mind adept at arcane facts and in-depth research, then you've come to the right place. Arthur Morgan Smith is the gentleman behind Ask Arthur Tours, a retired New York ad-man and Tulane grad with a penchant for uncovering the most interesting bits about New Orleans, a place he's called home, on and off, for decades. The names of his tours are the first hint: Cities of the Dead, Bards & Barflies of Bohemia,and Marigny Happy Hour all sound tantalizing, yes? Eschewing the usual ghost tour approach, Smith dives deep into Voodoo/Afro/Catholicism on his St. Louis Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 tours, points out haunted sites on his French Quarter tours and adds tidbits about 19th-century Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, seances, mediums, that sort of thing.