Photo by Cheré Coen

October 2011. T’Frere’s Bed & Breakfast: Where Maugie, Pat and a ghost named Amelie provide an award-winning overnight experience.

Some say that the personalities of ghosts in the afterlife are much like the ones they had while living. Amelie Comeaux who haunts T-Frere’s Bed and Breakfast in Lafayette was a “canaille,” a mischievous girl, and her antics in death reflect this wily nature.

“She’s typically Cajun,” said Maugie Pastor, who owns the bed and breakfast with her husband, Pat, and runs the business with the help of her sons, all of whom have experienced Amelie’s presence.

Amelie Comeaux married young in the late nineteenth century, then quickly became pregnant. She lost the child and soon afterwards lost her young husband. Amelie moved in with her brother, Oneziphore Comeaux, known as “T-frere” or little brother. At his house in Lafayette, she mourned her family, later working as a math teacher to area youth.

At thirty-two, Amelie caught a fever and stumbled to the back yard well for water late one night and mysteriously fell in. Because the Catholic Church labeled it a suicide, she was not buried on sacred  .

“Amelie doesn’t like change,” Pastor said, noting that the majority of Amelie’s hauntings came within months after they had purchased and moved into the bed and breakfast. She would hear banging and things breaking in the kitchen—only to find nothing out of place. A visitor claimed to have had his toes pulled in the night.

The most unusual experience happened to her son, Jeremiah, when they were moving in. Maugie told him to bring everything he needed to the new house because they weren’t making any more trips that night. Jeremiah forgot his math homework and was stressing on how to tell his mother when the math paper suddenly appeared.

“I heard him come bounding down the stairs,” Pastor recalled. “He said the paper that he needed floated down from the ceiling.”

Family members searched the room but couldn’t find a logical explanation, chalking it up to the petite math teacher who remained in the house.

Today the bed and breakfast offers four bedrooms in the main house and two guest rooms in the Garçonnière out back, but only the main house has paranormal experiences, Pastor said.

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