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Marion - Jefferson - Good
Shepard Clinic - The Clinic used to be the old
Jefferson Hospital, The ambulance crews use one section of the old
hospital as living quarters, the work out room used to be the nursury.
There is one room in the quarters that they will not go into. Some have
said that they have seen shadows in throughout the building that are
not in the living quarters, after the clinic has closed late at night.
Marfa - the Marfa Lights -
It is a great tourist attraction. For years
everyone has gone to this place on the road between Marfa and Alpine.
No one knows if the lights are in fact spectral or of UFO origin.
Marshall - Marshall
Pottery - HWY 31 - A patron of the business
reports seeing an apparition of a head. It was looking up towards the
ceiling, long curly black hair, pale face, no expression at all, only
at second glance it was gone. Strange cold and warm spots felt as well.
Marshall - Marshall
Pottery - HWY 59 - When they were building the
new plant, they apparently found one of the workers dead by a tree when
the construction first started. That tree was located what is now, the
center of the warehouse. Unknown causes of death. The second story is
that the plan was built on ancient sacred Indian grounds, it may be
both. Workers will very clearly hear their name called, even with the
roaring of machinery.
Marshall - Stagecoach Road
- Reports of a spectral stagecoach, &
apparitions of men carrying a coffin.
Matador - US HWY 70 - Though much of it unconfirmed highway 70 between
Matador and Paduca, TX has a lot of deadly history. Many car accidents
have occurred here. The nearest hospital being over 80 miles away many
accident victims do not survive. Driving through at night can give you
a complete sense of dread. Some drivers claim that on the highway the
became very agitated wondering if what they were feeling was real.
Wondering if they were alive or dead. Paranoia is the strongest emotion
felt here. Many have claimed to see lights and refractions coming from
the Matador Cemetery. This desolate highway has very little to offer in
the way of peace. It however has much to offer in the way of death.
Maxdale - Maxdale Cemetery
- It is believed that this very old cemetery is
haunted by an old man with a limp, some say he was the caretaker of the
cemetery. There is also a small old iron bridge you have to cross to
get to the cemetery which is also believed to be haunted if you go at
night to visit the cemetery and you stop on the bridge turn off your
headlights and count to ten then turn them back on there will be a man
hanging from a noose. Who is believed to have hung himself when he
could not save the life of his girlfriend who had drowned in the river
under the bridge. Another story is that a man committed suicide by
driving his truck off a small bridge on the road to the right side of
the cemetery. Witnesses report a phantom old truck appearing behind
them. Chasing them for a moment, along with a sad presence felt through
out the entire cemetery.
Maypearl - Greathouse
Cemetery - Strange heartbeat sound has been
reported.
McAllen - La Casa de
Palmas - the third floor is extremely haunted.
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McAllen - Toys R Us - Four years ago a young boy was climbing the ladder to
get to the loft. When he got to the very top he fell and was killed
instantly by having his neck broken. Every once in a while during night
crew u can here a young boy laughing and running around in the loft.
Lights sometimes turn off and on and certain locked doors will open but
remain locked.
McKinney - Buffalo Joes - A fine dining restaurant located in downtown McKinney
on the east side of the old city hall. The restaurant has four areas.
the lower level, the main dining room upstairs, the private banquet
room, and the storage area behind the banquet room. A mischievous
spirit occupies the storage area. Sometimes our toilet paper would be
strung out, other times forks would be pinned into walls. All the
employees left at the same time just because we were easily freaked out
being by ourselves up there. The restaurant used to be a brothel when
McKinney was first founded. Also check out the jailhouse restaurant, a
couple blocks west.
McKinney - McKinney
downtown. - In the old court house there is a
lady in white. At night, she is looking out the window. They say back
in 1896, she hung herself.
McKinney - McKinney Public
Library - Many books in the library are
misplaced, bookcases are being knocked over, and money being taken out
of the register and books not paid for being put in purses and other
personal belongings.
Mesquite - Eastfield
College - Built in the early '70's on the site of
the old Motley Mansion. The Motleys donated the land for the school
after the house was burned down by vandals. The family cemetery is
still there and includes a grave for an severed arm! Anyway, the
theater of the school is said to be haunted by a man who watches
practices of plays, etc. He has been reported several times in the past
twenty years or so.
Mesquite - Galloway
Elementary - Several stories are told from
employees too visitors whom went through personal experiences of that
school. Children heard running up and down the halls at night, from
janitors that work there. Chairs moving in the lunch room. A women
spotted by a janitor at night walking down the hallway at night dressed
in 19th century clothing. And a gym were children have been spotted in
the daytime that don't exist. There is a story of a teacher that told
his children they couldn't use the restroom in the gym without
permission a child stood in front of the restroom watching and ran in.
he said hey you cant go in there. When he went in there too get him, no
one was in there and there's no other way out. and on the last day of
this employees job he said out loud in the gym, "you can have it I
don't have too deal with you anymore”, as he was walking out, a hockey
stick was thrown across the gym and no one was in there. This was after
school hours. Witnesses there at night and heard children on the
playground with no one there. There are many stories about that school
for many years.
Mesquite - Hampton Inn
& Suites Convention Center - reports of a
male apparition with black pants and brown shoes when there is no one
else there. Employees even spoke to a ghost girl before they realized
she was a ghost. Feelings of being watched.
Mesquite - Old Holloman's
Road - Hollomans Road is a small dirt road that
curves between Lawson Rd. and Bruton Rd. There is a solitary home that
has sat for many years abandoned on this small street. It is the only
structure on the road. Brave teenagers have tried to walk the street at
night only to disappear never to be seen again. The road became such a
danger that the city closed the road off. Witnesses become overwhelmed
by a sense of dread and of being watched, even in broad daylight. In
the 80s, a Dallas man killed a young woman and her young son and dumped
their bodies on that dark and brooding road (this is easily checked, as
the case was just solved in the last year or so).
Mesquite - Trail Dust
Steak House - It is said that there was a man
working on the upstairs railing above the dance floor when the
restaurant was being built. He was adding something to the railing,
when he fell to his death on the left side of the dance floor. His name
is John Brown, he has his own table in the upstairs dining area. Table
#218, it sits between the entrance to the kitchen and the grill window.
The upstairs lights are on a timer, set to go off at exactly 1am, but
John likes to keep the light above his table lit till way after that
time. Also, managers and employees have quit there jobs there because
around 4am, some nights, they have seen lights turn on and off, phones
ring off the hook, printers spit out whole rolls of gibberish, doors
swing by themselves, and also hearing footsteps on the dance floor. He
is also known to haunt the men and women's restrooms upstairs, no
matter what, the lights find a way to mysteriously turn themselves on
in the restrooms. There has also been reports of cold spots felt in the
women's restrooms.
Mexia - Battery Road - (urban legend since at least the 60's) - Legend is you can go down it at midnight and turnoff
your car and lights and you will see a ball of fire and as you watch
this ball of fire it seems to come right at you and flashes real
bright.
Mexia - Wal-Mart - ghost keep unstocking the shelves as you are stocking
and know one is in that part of the store. The new super center opened
up a short distance from the old store and it still is happening. If
you tell "Oscar" to leave you along and stop tearing the place up he
will stop and sometimes, he just may go bother some other stocker.
Midland - Museum of the
Southwest - The ghost of it's murdered owner
when it was a mansion haunts upstairs.
Mineral Wells - Baker
Hotel - A young man and his friend were
fraternizing with the laundry women in the basement or what used to be
the laundry rooms. His boss was going to check on them so the first man
jumped into the elevator the second man however was caught in between
the closing door and died. It is said if you go by the elevators at
night you can see him. Another legend is that a mistress was so
distraught that she could not have her lover killed herself in the
Baker. You can smell her perfume of lavender at night in the hall where
she killed herself. Numerous orbs have been seen in pictures along with
amazing ecto photos and sounds, apparitions and smells.
Mineral Wells - City Park
- While sitting in the bleachers, you can see
figures in baseball uniforms walking across the field. Orbs have been
photographed by the jungle gyms.
Mineral Wells - Fort
Wolters Complex - Y.A.C.C Youth Program 1980'S - Man's
Dorm room 1ST Building from road It was reported that during WW2 when
they use to train pilots there, their was a young man who did not want
to go to war so he shat himself and now he roam the old barrack where
he died.
Mineola - ”Cry Baby
Bridge" - The story goes that when the American
Indians roams the hills of East Texas they were being massacred by the
white man. The chief learned of a planned attack and had separated the
women and children from the his men. The white man planned for the
split and killed the chief and his men by the huge trees by the bridge.
The women and children were slaughtered right by the bridge. There are
a couple of trees that are still there and with the leaves &
branches are shaped like a Chief's head gear with the shape of a face.
If you go to the bridge at night and turn your engine off right on top
of the bridge, roll your windows down, you can still hear the cries of
the women and children that were massacred.
Mission - City Cemetery - It is said late nights there are small troll-like
creatures that have chased or frightened people off.
Mission - LaLomita Mission
- This old mission has just recently been open
to the public. In the mission's heyday, priests were rumored to be
having intercourse with the nuns and burying the children's bodies on
the grounds. One night some illegal emigrants, who were aware of what
was going on, went in and killed two of the priests. The third priest
went to get help, but died while searching. The robes and bones of the
priests were on display up until a couple of years ago. Thereafter, it
became an asylum for the mentally challenged. Many of the people
working there reported seeing figures in robes walking around the
grounds at night. The asylum shut down completely recently, but the
grounds are still open to tourists during the day. You may not be able
to go inside the old mission, but it is still worth going the trip.
Mission - Mission Junior
High School - Science Building East Stairwell- formerly Mission High School At night, you can just
make out the shadow of a man walking up and down the stairs (
supposedly a teacher who fell down the stairs when he was leaving one
night after school.) During the daytime, that side of the building is
colder than the other and lights and other electronics do have trouble.
Mission - Mission High
School Football Stadium - Some believe a young
girl at this school fell from the top of bleachers and died, & her
ghost now haunts the bleachers at dusk. There are conflicting
submissions that say no one has ever fallen off the bleachers. There
may be other reasons as to way it is haunted.
Monahans - Monahans High
School - Auditorium - Supposedly a girl
hung herself in there and now in the basement you can see and feel the
spirit. She is known to go through the costumes and hide things in
really odd places.
Monahans - Rudy park - in 1981 a woman was beaten, raped, and brutally
murdered in the park, at night if you stand under the the water tower
you can hear her screams, there have also been many sighting of strange
lights near the tower
Monte Alto - La Bodega - It is said this place has claimed the life of many.
There have been many sightings and stories about noises when their is
nobody but the people who cleanup. Noises that sound like if the place
is in working order. Workers report hearing laughter from rooms that
are not in use. People claim to feel chills and see shadows. People
dying from accidents, shootings. Don't get caught by yourself you might
get surprised.
Montgomery - Community
Building - The Community building is where the
town used to hold all there meetings including trials. there are two
cages located in front of the building were they used to hold
prisoners. It is said if you walk inside the doors of the cages at
night you can hear moaning and other sounds of pain.
Montgomery - Conroe - CISD
Administration Building - Formerly Sadler
Hospital - now offices for the Conroe school
district. Double doors swing open for no reason (not electric). Sounds
like someone whistling a tune, when no one in the room with you.
Toilets flush for no reason. Deceased loved ones perfume filling the
room.
Montgomery - The woodlands
- Terramont Park - This is a very new park, and
while the park was being built 3 men died in a truck from heat
exhaustion. Now when you are at the park at night, it is said that you
will suddenly get really hot flashes. Some people claim to see a truck
parked out on the field, which as they get close, vanishes into the
woods
Moody - Moody High School
- The new High School going towards Temple is
"said" to have been built on an Indian burial ground. Teachers would
tell of times they would be up there at night alone, and would hear
lockers slam or glass break.
Mount Pleasant - Pizza Hut
- in the 80's, four people were murdered after
close one night. you will see a girl who worked there at the time walk
past the front windows. there are still bullet holes in the windows and
back freezer where one guy was stabbed and another shot. also, when you
put silverware on the tables after close for the next day, with no one
there, you leave then come back 5 minutes later, all the silverware is
slid to the opposite side. the intercom phone rings which its not
suppose to do in the first place and when you pick it up, there is a
whisper but you can't tell what they are saying.
Nacogdoches - Stephen F.
Austin State University - Griffith Hall - 3rd Floor - A female resident assistant jumped out of her window
after playing with a Ouija board. Her spirit is said to Haunt the
floor. The lights in the community shower flicker at the same time
every night which is said to be the time she died. Residents have
reported seeing a girl at the end of the hall in tattered clothes and
when they look back she is gone. Also, around 2AM every night, people
on the South wing here footsteps running by. One resident has reported
watching out the peephole and seeing no one but feeling a gust of air
rush under her door as if someone had ran by. - Febuary
2005 Update: no longer used as a dorm, but a women's dorm at one time
Nacogdoches - Stephen F.
Austin State University - Mays Hall 11 - Before
the building was a dormitory, it was a hospital, with a morgue in the
basement. On the other end of the building is a deep, ruined bomb
shelter from the early 40s ar 50s. In the basement is a very negative
feeling, very hard to describe. It is usually locked, but occasionally
residents break in and wander around. It is mild there though. The bomb
shelter has been locked for years but last year was broken into.
Recently we discovered what appears to be a false wall in there,
because the lining on the wall ends (no one noticed before because of
the lighting and the junk all over the floor).. The negative feeling
from the basement is present in the bomb shelter too, but grows as you
near the false wall. Dorm residents are curious to explore but don't
want to get caught. No one knows any specific stories, but we all
speculate it would have to deal with someone dying in one fo the
hospitalrooms. No ideas about what's behind the false wall, though. - Febuary 2005 Correction:there was never a morgue. The
first floor of the original wing was the campus clinic which did have a
couple of overnight observation rooms, but the city hospital was (and
still is) less than half a mile away and the campus clinic was never
used for long term care. The clinic closed when the "short wing" was
built in the 60's, and the clinic was renovated into rooms (which is
why those rooms resemble the short wing rooms more than the rooms
above. The false wall in the bomb shelter and it was a bomb shelter at
one time it still had emergency rations (not sure if they are still
there) covers an alcolve that to hold air filtration gear. A shaft
behind the wall runs into the main basement.
Nacogdoches - Stephen F.
Austin State University - Griffith Hall - Its
still used as a women's dorm building and one of the elevators always
skips the third floor where the girl committed suicide.
Nacogdoches - Stephen F.
Austin State University - The Theater It
has been said that in the construction of the theater a worker died and
has been haunting the place since. The spirit has killed a professor
there.
Nacogdoches - Stephen F.
Austin State University - Wilson Hall building # 13- November 2005 Update: Has recently been torn down. - Reports of stereos will turn themselves on, speakers
will increase in volume until they blow, chairs will move themselves,
books will re-arrange themselves, and apparitions.
Nacogdoches - Sterne-Hoya
House - A former housekeeper reports feeling a
gentle pressure on every inch of her body and suddenly felt like the
room was spinning. She could feel a happy presence. It went away as she
descended the stairs but she seldom entered the attic after that and
didn't clean the house much longer. Possibly the children of the house.
But in the cellar the feeling was more negative.
Nacogdoches - Turner Fine
Arts Auditorium - "Chester" haunts the theater
building on the Stephen F. Austin University campus. Reputed to be the
ghost of the architect who died before the building's completion--some
think the blueprints were misinterpreted and the building was erected
backwards. Other people believe that "Chester" is the ghost of a former
drama student. He has been seen as a face on a stage curtain and even
once appeared onstage as an extra ghost in a play in the 1960's.
Students have reported cold spots and strange noises in the halls of
the building. November 2003 update/correction:
Chester was the architect of the building. When learning his plans were
set backwards, he killed himself in disgrace. Chester was seen
originally in a photo of the original theatre cast of Hamlet. With the
actor playing the "ghost" in Hamlet sick, the director found the only
person who knew the lines. When the cast picture was taken that night,
only a faint glow comes from where the ghost portraying the character
was standing. Members were dumbfounded. Also, a spiritual team has done
readings within the building and found a mediocre feeling within the
halls but a strong feeling within the theatre itself.
Near Oakalla - The "OZONE"
- It a long winding road with lots of sharp
curves, hills and bridges. It is said that the headlights of a truck
will just appear out of no where and chase you till you run off the
road in which many people have died on that road. There is also an old
bridge that is still there but condemn now, that a school bus full of
kids fell over side down into the river killing them in the process.
Since then, the have a new road and bridge near an intersection by a
white church leading away from the old creepy one, which is in the
vicinity of east of the new bridge. You will see a large metal road
block next to a Historical Marker which I think someone stole. In the
mist of the trees you can see the metal beams of the bridge. You can
still walk over the old bridge which base road is made out of wood
planks; and you're quiet and listen, you will hear the cries of the
screaming children. There is also a grave yard across the road from the
bridge which has been rumored to have a witch's grave in it. The
headstone glows a shimmering orange color like the reflection of flames
from a fire when there is a full moon.
New Braunfels - The Hotel
Faust - Newspaper articles about the hotel
ghost, noted for drifting in the hallways of an upper floor, entering
closed doors, turning water and lights on and off, etc.
Noack - Lawrence chapel - Late nights corpse's candle's can be seen in the
graveyard behind the church. After dusk the preacher who died while at
the church can be heard.
North Richland Hills - Knob
Hill - People have reported seeing dark figures
moving through the trees late at night at the top of the hill.
Residents also report shouts and hollers early in the morning before
dawn. It is reported that a local outlaw Known as Sam Bass took two men
up to the top of the hill in 1870 and shot both of them in the head.
Some residence have reported over the years of seeing men with old
cowboy hats walking around by their fences, but when they go out to
investigate no one is there.
Odessa - headquarters of
Gulf Oil - October 2007 Has been removed.
Odessa - Odessa High
School - A ghost called "ghost Betty" who
actually went to this school killed herself in the auditorium. Many
have witnessed voices screams or even visions of her hanging. School - December Update/correction: The story about betty that
is already on the website is incorrect. Betty was a student back in the
60s, and her real name was Elizabeth. Her boyfriend took her out to a
stock pond around Notres and he shot her and weighed her body down and
dropped her in the pond. The next day he was taken out of class and she
showed the police where he dumped her body, and she haunts our
auditorium because she was big into theatre.
Olney - Hamilton Hospital
- At night the old part of the hospital is said
to be haunted. Many workers have experienced hot and cold spots
throughout the halls and even have tricks played on them such as lights
coming on when they have just been turned off, and files missing from
the file cabinets.
Olney - Johnson Road - It is said that if you drive down this road and turn
you lights off, that bright orbs will start flying and swarming around
your vehicle.
Olney - Padgett Cemeteries
- In this little town there are two cemeteries
that’s right two. However many people only know of one. The second is
usually impossible to get to due to terrible road conditions and the
weather. It is said that if you drive to the road of the second
cemetery and leave your lights on with your keys on the roof of your
vehicle that when you get back your vehicle will be started with the
keys in the ignition, and the doors locked. No one know exactly why
this happens. The other cemetery is haunted by the grounds keeper that
used to tend to the cemetery. He still tends to the cemetery at night
like he used to, to keep kids from destroying things in the cemetery.
many people have seen him raking leaves. Others have taken pictures
near or around a certain tombstone in the center of the cemetery
however when the pictures develop the tombstone is not in the picture.
Olney - Springcreek and
Ave. M Cemetery - The cemetery located on
Springcreek and Avenue M. is said to be haunted be some kind of unknown
source. Many claim that in the back of the cemetery there is a statue
of Jesus. In the day if you drive by or go look at it. His hands are
facing up. But at night if you go and see it his hands are facing down
with his thumbs broken off.
Olton - The Trees – witnesses report hearing drums that sounded like
Indian drums and seeing a white mist going around the car they where
sitting in.
Palestine - Palestine
Courthouse - There is a legend of when a baby
fell out of it's mothers hands and died. At night or anytime when you
are alone in the courthouse you can hear a baby crying. Some times you
can hear footsteps of a baby.
Pampa - Worley Hospital - Worley hospital was abandoned many years ago. It lies
in the middle of downtown Pampa. It has been broken into several times,
and graffiti covers the wall. There is an incinerator on the third
floor that shakes violently when opened. There is usually a distant
female scream immediately after opening it. The eeriest room in the
building is the nursery. It is extremely cold, and is the only room
that has not been touched by vandals. Several other noises are usually
heard too.
Paris - Gated House off of
FM 195 - Scores of people report seeing a small
boy crying in the corner of his supposed room of the very large house.
The House resembles an evil watcher of its woods, standing upright
looking out over the moon. Some claim to see wheelchairs creeping
across rooms. Contains large amount of missing boards.
Paris - Old Plantation
home in Slate Shoals - Most people get a bad
feeling just looking at this house because of the way that it seems to
just stare at you when you see it and you feel like someone is watching
you. People report seeing a woman in the attic and hearing strange
sounds. It has also been reported that you can see the wheelchair move
across the room. If you look down into the well on the corner of the
kitchen in the front of the house you can see a reflection and this may
be the son of the slave master. Out back there are eleven cabins, on
one side there are six and on the other there are five and if you go to
the middle cabin, known as cabin number five, on the side with only
five cabins you may hear screams. Cabin number five is where it is
believed that some of the slave girls were raped and killed.
Pasadena - Deepwater
elementary - this school has rumors of a teacher
tortured and killed student back in 1992 on the stage in the main gym
so now the stage is haunted and there have sightings of curtains moving
and people falling off and lights turning off and on and a screaming
voice of a little boy being tortured.
Pasadena - Deepwater Jr
high - there has been rumors that a girl drowned
in the swimming pool when the school was built and now she haunts the
girl's locker room by opening lockers and turning on the showers.
Pasadena - First Line
Apartments - Residents report hearing strange
noises during the day and night, heard footsteps coming upstairs and
the sound of keys in the door, but when they went to look who had
arrived, no one would be there. Also reported an apparition of a woman
coming from one of the bedrooms, walking past the small hallway and
continue to the next room and disappear. While she was walking down the
hallway, she would pause for a short time and turn and stare into the
living room as if looking for someone.
Pasedena - Gilleys - Gilleys is an old indoor rodeo that burnt to the
ground many years ago. Supposedly a few people died. You get an eerie
feeling that someone is watching you. You hear footsteps from the
catwalk. A spooky owl flies around as if to tell you to stay away.
Pasadena - Pasadena
High School - It is said that a janitor
who was fixing the light in the catwalk fell to his death in
auditorium. He fell in about the 6th row and if you sit there during a
production or in the sound room you will get chills. If you walk up the
stairs to the sound room there is a door to the roof and sometimes you
can hear it slam. Also there is a girl their who hung herself because
she did not get the lead role in a play and she is said to play tricks
on the students putting on a production.
Pearsall - Junior
High School - It is said that while
constructing the school several years back a construction worker was
killed. When all lights are out at the school he is heard roaming the
sixth grade hall, opening and closing classroom doors.
Pecos - Barrio
Santa Rosa - it is said that late at
night next to the railroad tracks in front of the Santa Rosa church you
can hear a women sobbing down the street with a gentle sound of her
high heels walking towards you.
Pecos - Bessie
Haynes Elementary - It is said to be
hauntings about a builder that was on the school roof when she fell
threw and died. So They named the school after her. many people have
seen her wondering the halls, and heard her in the girls restroom. Also
many lights have gone on and off. the haunting is mainly in the girls
restroom.
Pecos - Lamar
Middle School - It is said long ago a boy
swinging in right swing died after falling and cracking his head open.
Now a certain time between September and December the swing will swing
by its self and it will look like someone is swinging on it, but the
other swings are still and quiet on a calm day.
Pecos - Pecos
Elementary (shutdown) - It is said that
voices and strange apparitions will appear on top of the roof and in
the girls bathroom. Late at night children are heard playing the
rundown playground.
Pearsall - Leaving
Pearsall - When You are going towards
Charlotte there is a tree on the left side called the lizard tree an
old man died there when he was jogging and if you go and call him,he
will go and run after you even if you are in a car going 30 miles.
Pflugerville - Cinemark Tinseltown 20 - Feeling
of being watched and cold spots, cups and popcorn bags and buckets
knocked over often, customer's items [like watches and other jewelry]
vanishing.
Pflugerville / Hutto - Jake's hill road - story
has it that Jake (a farmer) killed his wife and 2 kids then hung
himself off the bridge and if you go to the bridge and put your car in
neutral and put flour on the back of your car the wife and 2 kids will
push you across the bridge to "save" you from Jake -the bridge has been
proven to be flat. Recently has been
visited and better directions have been given: Go east on 685 to a road
called Row Lane. Go down that way for a while until you reach Jakes
Hill Road. Then after going down a hill you will come to a bridge,
which is Jake's bridge.
Pflugerville / Hutto - Jake's House - Story
says that it too is haunted with hearing of footsteps, kids screaming,
and Jake yelling "I am coming for you." Will
get more info in the next update
Pharr - Whalen
Road - There's a dirt road that leads to
a corn field and around the corn field there used to be a ranch that
had two barns and a small house. There's proven evidence that the
family had died in the burning of Pharr in 1963. Almost exactly 40
years ago. They say to this day you can hear the family talking and
running threw the trees screaming help. They also say that they throw
rocks and sticks at the people that walk and drive by. And the addition
of the father searching for his cattle dressed in black with an ax.
Plainview - Carnado
Jr. High - A little boy died there and if
you walk down the hall by the Gym alone you can here a basketball
bouncing but there's no one there. And the stage if your there you get
the felling that's some ones watching you and you can hear little
whispers
Plainview - Masso's
department store - across from the
courthouse there is a store that is named Masso's it used to be a photo
shop at the turn of the century. The Masso's the owners of the store
used to live upstairs there and had their western store downstairs.
They said that they were ran out by weird stuff happening like they
would leave and come back and furniture would be moved. So they moved
out and used the upstairs for storage. But they still heard weird stuff
happening like furniture moving around.
Plainview - Old
Hilton Hotel - The hotel has been closed
down for years, but the place is said to be haunted. Several rooms
still have the curtains hanging in the windows that have been seen
moving even though no one is in the building. There is also a rumor
that the place was broken into by Satanists. They were said to have
called forth demons, which are now trapped there. There is even a story
about Room 529. It is said to have an open Bible lying in the floor. If
you enter the room, the air suddenly turns icy and the pages in the
Bible begin to turn.
Plainview - Plainview
High School - In the early 1980's some
student's were in the auditorium practicing for a school play and they
say that there was some students on the top balcony put up ornaments
for the play, it is said that, that after everyone one left one student
stayed there and later that night killed him self by hanging him self
from the top balcony. The next days where really hard on the school and
under the auditorium are some what big tunnels students have been
caught there skipping, about 2 weeks after that death some kids were
skipping and got caught instead of stopping when told the ran into the
tunnels going deeper in them, so they waited and waited for them to
come out but they didn't, finally they went in after them when they
found the students they were found dead with the throats cut back all
the to where the knife hit the bone, police went in there trying to
find the murder but then they found that there's a dead end at that the
end of the tunnel and if someone in there would of wanted to get out
they would of had to come out by the front. What killed them who knows?
Many students hear the kids that die screaming, "HELP" and "PLEASE DONT
KILL ME".
Plainview - Plainview
High School - Athletic Department - one day after school the football players went
straight to practice, after football practice they have to lift
weights, one of the football player was benching pressing by himself
with no spotter and they say that the weight was to much and when
trying to pick it up he couldn't any more and that weight fell right on
his throat, he tried to call for help but that weight wouldn't let him
talk or breath, about 20 minutes later the coaches found him dead. It
is said that when no one is there and you can hear the weights moving
and you can hear the man screaming and sometimes see the guy walking
with his head down
Point - Just
off highway 69 in-between Emory and Lone Oak - there is an old graveyard where a witch was hung and
burned. If you go to the very far back right of the cemetery around 1
to 2:30 a.m. and stand with your back to the tree, usually up on the
hill you will see a dark apparition of a man in a suit. Witnesses also
report hearing footsteps all around them.
Port Aransas - Tarpon Inn - The old
hotel was built in 1886, which is almost 100 years older than me. The
rooms are very small and cramped, nor do they have any restoration
done. Our bathroom was glowing pink at about 3;00 in the morning. Last
time I checked bathrooms were not supposed to glow pink. Our room was
on the second floor, which was the top and you could hear footsteps
above us. You could also hear voices in the shower, which was this
really old concrete slab thing. There were cold spots everywhere.
Port Arthur - West
7th railroad crossing - A lady got her
head cut off by a train one night trying to cross it when it had
stopped. every now and then you can see a lady walking down the tracks
and when you go look for her she disappears.
Port Isabel - Port
Isabel Lighthouse - it is said that one
day a guy turning 17 on that day was dared by his friends to go to the
17th step of the light house and stay there for 17 minutes. as a
result, he died. Now everytime you climb the lighthouse, the 17th step
creaks.
Port Neches - Sarah
Jane Road - Sarah Jane was reportedly a
union sympathizer during the Civil War who was betrayed and drove her
wagon off the bridge into the water trying to escape from Confederate
soldiers. She was shot by a soldier while trying to save her baby, who
was in the wagon with her. People have reported hearing Sarah Jane and
also the babe cry while standing on the bridge at night. Here is
another explanation of the Sara Jane Haunting... A woman left her
abusive husband, so to get back at her, the man took their 5-year-old
girl, and jumped of the side of a bridge. The woman searched for the
girl for years, and finally got so distraught that she hung herself off
the side of the same bridge that her daughter and husband jumped off
of. It is said that at midnight, if you drive across the bridge, you
can see the noose on the side on the railing and you hear a woman's
voice saying, "Sara Jane, Sara Jane, where are you my Sara Jane".
Possum Kingdom - Camp Constantine - Reports
of apparitions of 2 cowboys standing there staring, also screams and
yelling are heard.
Post - The
Town - The small town of Post is haunted
by C.W. Post, the founder of the town and of the mega dollar cereal
company. I have spoke with police officers who, while patrolling at
night enforcing the curfew law, have seen a person walking down the
main street and around a corner. When the officers speed up to the
person he vanishes or walks around corners and no trace of him is
found. The local museum was an insane asylum in which Post reportedly
killed himself and is said to be haunted too.
Premont - Premont
Sewer Pond - late at night it is said
that a shadow resembling that of a dog with wings can be seen on the
mounds surrounding the pond.
Presidio - Park
- Once there was a beautiful woman that
was killed in that park at 12:00pm. and people claim to have seen her
every Tuesday night at exactly 12:00pm. and people can also hear her
voice crying and asking for help.
Princeton - Princeton
& McKinney Water Tower off the Airport Road - Reports of an apparition of a woman falling from the
Water Tower.
Refugio - Refugio
County Court House - A man named Henry
died while in the detox cell of the old jail. After all the lights have
been turned off, he will turn them back on. Doors leading from the
courtroom to the old jail will open by themselves and lights will turn
on and off by themselves. Henry has been known to move things around
and end up in employees' cars.
Richardson - Shopping
center at Yale and Beltline - When it was
Herman's sporting goods in the late 80's an ex employee was let in
after hours where he killed almost every one in the store. People who
have worked in their later say they hear boxes moving, people laughing
and than dead silence.
Richmond - The
Old Jail House - This old jail house is
located on Preston Street and is currently the local police department.
It used to be a killing place for slaves and is now said to be haunted.
Ghosts have been seen by police working the late night shift.
Rio Hondo - Rio
Hondo High School - In the Rio Hondo High
School when it was being constructed a man got electrocuted and died.
Now the janitors that are cleaning late at night claim to see a shadow
of a man in the sophomore hall chemistry hall were he died. Teachers
who stay at night to grade paper also claim to here stuff and steps in
the halls
Roby - Fisher
County Jail - There is an inmate here
that does not appear to be human. The ghost has made himself known to
inmates through various forms of physical contact. Inmates have
reported the spirit touching them, throwing things, flushing toilets,
and just making noise. He has even been seen by the sheriff. One time,
the ghost lit a stove for a jailer. The origin of the spirit is
unknown, but it is believed to perhaps be the ghost or ghosts of a
sheriff and deputy that were murdered by an inmate in 1927.
Roma - La
Minita Creek - In the early 1950's, during
a severe thunderstorm a vehicle traveling across "La Minita Creek" on
old Hwy83-seven miles north of Roma, struck the concrete guardrail. The
vehicle, with its three occupants, flipped over the railing and plunged
into the swollen creek. The driver of the vehicle, fighting the raging
water, managed to extract his unconscious wife from the vehicle. Upon
his return to the vehicle, he was unable to rescue their eight-year-old
daughter. The little girls body was never recovered. Since then, some
locals in the area have reported sightings of a little girl wandering
the fields and woods adjacent to the creek. Numerous sightings of this
"Lost Little Girl" have been reported in the area where the creek meets
the Rio Grande River. Illegal aliens crossing the river have reported
seeing a little girl running along the bank of the river. Dove hunters
and campers have also reported seeing a little girl running through the
woods, accompanied by sounds of a crying child.
Roma - Roma's
Historical Plaza - In the 1940's, a young
girl who was about to receive her First Communion fell, hit her head on
a rock, and died. Now, legend has it that she haunts the community's
historical plaza. Citizens of this small town have claimed to see her
walking through this area in her beautiful, white dress. At other
times, they have complained of hearing loud noises in the middle of
night when no one else is in sight.
Rome - Deep
Creek Cemetery - About a half a mile down
the dirt road there is a place called whispering bridge where some kids
fell off on this 30 foot drop and you can hear the cries of the
children!
San Angelo - Angelo
State University - Girls High Rise Dorm - 9th Floor - Ninth floor of the girls high rise dorm is haunted by
a college student who was killed in April 1978. She is a very nice
ghost.
San Angelo - Angelo
State University - The Housing Office - is haunted by the spirit of a young co-ed who was
murdered there in the 1970's by an ROTC cadet. He apparently was
infatuated with her and went into a murderous rage when she refused his
advances.
San Angelo - Howard
Johnson Inn - There have numerous
sightings and occurrences in this hotel. One room at the far end of
second floor has had reported cases red eyes looking at guests, sounds
of someone inside when the room was vacant, staff members have entered
and found nothing. One staff member was in the room and started to
leave the door handle spun around. As he tried to leave sounds were
heard from within the empty bathroom. After several more tries the door
opened. A little later he opened the door from the outside on the first
try and left the room on the first try. The door has been fine ever
since and was never examined by maintenance. A figure described as a
cowboy like figure in casual clothes has been observed in the lobby,
bar and pool area. Spied just for a moment it vanishes instantly. Room
doors on second and third floor have been heard opening and closing
behind staff members when the entire floor was vacant. A misty figure
has been seen flying down halls. Both staff and guests have observed
this sight. Guests have heard voices call out from the back office the
clerk at the front desk. What the guest didn't know, the clerk was
all-alone. There is more but this is enough.
San Angelo - Santa
Rita Park - A woman named Marie, who
apparently used to reside in the Santa Rita area and frequently walk in
the park, still hangs around the park, just to the left of Santa Rita
elementary. She died without much family. Stray dogs tend to roam the
park at night, whether they are looking for food or a place to sleep,
and their behavior is very peculiar - jumping up in the air, excitable,
running to and fro, barking in a direction where no one or nothing can
be seen. Marie seems to enjoy the dogs' company, and she tends to sit
at the bench closest to the school - anyone who stands near or sits on
that bench at night is sure to feel a chill and a sense of
restlessness. One will also find that looking into the creek (which
runs through the park) at night takes much courage, though nothing has
reportedly been seen in the water.
San Angelo - Sun
Set Mall - In one of the closets of the
old Luby's restaurant, you can hear two little kids playing and
talking.
San Angelo - Fort
Concho - Many ghosts haunt this "best
preserved" frontier army fort in America. The buffalo soldiers were
stationed here in the late 19th century for protection against Indian
attacks. Many of them are still there along with others. Officers
Quarters' #1 still has a little girl upstairs who died of an illness.
She can be seen from time to time. Ask any employee for details. Conrad
McClure, and employee and re-enactor have had many ghostly encounters
there during his career.
San Angelo - Fort
Concho - It is haunted by many of the
buffalo soldiers, a young girl playing on the floor in an upstairs
bedroom of Officer's Quarters #1 accompanied by cold spots.
San Angelo - Regan
Elementry - It is haunted by 2
chearleaders in the girls bathroom.they were brutily killed one had
their heads cut off and the other hung. Female janitors conserned yet
scared run out screaming.
San Antonio - The
Alamo - Cold spots and a feeling of
melancholy can be felt throughout the Fort. 189 Alamo defenders and at
least 1200 Mexican soldiers fought and died here in San Antonio, many
without the benefit of a proper burial leaving a lot of lost souls in
search of a eternal resting place, thus making San Antonio one of the
most haunted cities in America.
San Antonio - Alamo
quarry theaters - well the theater was
built over an old cement factory and well rumor has it that there are
bodies trapped in the foundation, witnesses that work there have seen a
child in the projection room , and have felt various cold spots on the
second floor on both sides of the theaters. And at night when the
auditorium's light inside would dim slowly down then on and the process
would repeat itself until you left the auditorium.
San Antonio - Alamo
Street Theater - There is a ghost by the
name Margarite that haunts the establishment. The theater is in an old
church building and she is usually seen in the choir loft in Victorian
garb.
San Antonio - The
Alamodome - Before the Alamodome was
built, existed a bad neighborhood where a lady got raped and killed.
She has been seen walking around the parking lot, as if to be lost.
Years passed and the neighborhood was demolished and the dome was
built. While constructing the dome, a worker was walking on a high beam
and made a wrong step and fell to his death. He is seen walking the
long halls of the dome. Last but not least, a famous daredevil died
while performing a stunt. It is reported, that you are sure to hear
footsteps, screams, mumbling, moans and see shadows walking along about
their business.
San Antonio - Bexar
- Caribbean Apartments - Now known as the
Willow Run apartments. These apartments have been in business for over
60 years. Before they were turned into apartments, it was a Motel
business. The doors were painted in light yellow and blue pastels.
Existing in what used to be the outskirts of town and just outside of
Castle Hills, it would bring many customers of all races and origins.
It was during this time that a rape and murder occurred in the North
end of the complex. Every now and then in the middle of the night a
woman's cry can be heard in the rear hallways. And in one of the
apartment units, a suicide where a single mother overdosed on pain
medication leaving her two year old to fend for herself. The child
eventually died of starvation. The mother's body was found on the bed.
The child's body was found on the floor next to the bed. It is unknown
whether the overdose was accidental or intentional. When this
particular apartment is empty the occupants of the downstairs apartment
can hear the pitter patter of little feet walking up and down the
upstairs unit. On occasion, a woman can be heard crying. Loud thumps
can also be heard. Lights turn on and off by themselves and the toilet
will flush on it's own. An occupant of the downstairs apartment noted
that her young daughter told her "she was playing with a little girl".
Believing that the child had an imaginary playmate, the mother
discounted her little daughter's claims. Until one evening while the
mother was sitting in the living room watching TV and her little girl
was playing in the hallway with a small toy, she saw her daughter toss
the small toy across the hallway into the front bedroom. The door had
been left open. Then she heard her daughter talk to this imaginary
friend to "give it back". To the mother's surprise, something or
someone tossed the small toy back to her daughter. The mother kept
watching and realized that there really was "someone or something"
there. On another occasion while sleeping, she felt the touch of little
fingers playing with her toes or gently tugging at her blankets. The
apartment where the "suicide" took place is constantly vacant. Tenants
seem to come and go and never stay longer than three years. And when
the apartment is occupied, the "occurrences" diminish and or are none
existent until the apartment is vacant again.
San Antonio - Bexar
County Juvenile Detention Center - Building
two, built next to one of the original Missions, may sit on Indian
Burial Ground. Juveniles often wake in the middle of the night
screaming about Indians in the room. Some describe burning smells and
seeing fire. Detention Officers often smell smoke in Mod 9 and 10 on
third shift. (Graveyard shift) Also officers report seeing "something
run by the unit window" even though all detainees are locked in rooms.
The ghost of a beloved female staff member that died in the cafeteria
has also been seen in the windows of the new building late at night.
Officers report sightings, then think they saw their own reflections,
however, the reflection is clearly wearing a maroon shirt (The old
uniform). Not a week goes by without a blood curdling scream from some
poor kid in Mod 9. Responding staff report smelling smoke, burning
wood, about 8 out of 10 times.
San Antonio - Bexar
- Kindred elementary - it is said that a
plane crashed in the field and when you enter the restrooms the sink
will turn on and you could hear voices while you walk on the field.
San Antonio - Bexar
- Spanish Main Apartments - Rittiman Rd. - If
your sitting at the bottom of the stairs you can see from the side of
your Eyes a little boy at the top of the stairs.
San Antonio - Bexar
- The train tracks - In the 20's a bus
full of kids was struck by a train on the southwest side of town. I
have been there, it is real if you put your car there in neutral
something pushes your car over the tracks. Sometimes if you look you
can see small hand prints people believe this to be the small children
who died in that accident.
San Antonio - Bexar
- Tro Bridge - you'll see a long bridge
that is above water and if you look down while your walking across
you'll feel people grabbing your legs. no ever goes all the way cause
they get to scared from the grabbing.
San Antonio - Brackenridge
Villa Mansion - - built in the 1840's,
is said to also have activity. Strange shadows are spotted from its
windows. Further, there is documentation that this campus had been
inhabited for nearly 7,000 years by Native Americans, who were
attracted to it since the campus is the source of the San Antonio
River.
San Antonio - Brooks
AFB - When fog rolls onto the base, at
night, it is known that there is a young lady that walks around with a
pack on her back. Cops on the base have told when they fall asleep on
duty she will tap you on the shoulder to wake you up.
San Antonio - The
Cadillac Bar - The ghost of an old owner
is seen in the storage basement of the building and there is another
ghost named "Beatrice", who was a former employee. She is a "negative
spirit" because she was very unhappy and not pretty when she was alive.
She turns on sinks and throws kitchen utensils. Many employees have
seen both ghosts.
San Antonio - Camberly
Gunter Hotel - The Camberly Gunter Hotel
is haunted by the ghost of a prostitute who was murdered there by one
of her tricks in the early 1960's. The room she was murdered in was
found covered in blood but no body was ever found. A picture of her
hangs in the Lobby Bar. The man who murdered her was said to have then
checked in to the Menger Hotel in San Antonio three blocks away where
he also disappeared without a trace.
San Antonio - Chinese
Graveyard - Go down Zazamora after you
pass Loop 410 keep going the road will make a slight turn to the right
and on the right (it is hard to see so go slow) there will be a big
white cross. Pull in turn the car off along with lights its better with
the windows down. Quickly flash your lights five times and look and
listen for talking and white apparitions around the very small
graveyard
San Antonio - Commanche
Look-out Hill - Sources say they have
seen ghost of the men that were stationed at the fort. They also have
reported that they have seen Indians there.
San Antonio - Crown
Plaza St. Anthony - There are known
stories of sightings of strange shadowy outlines and feelings of a
presence in the room, and the opening and closing of doors. Some also
say that they here footsteps behind them as if someone were following
them.
San Antonio - Devils
bridge - It is so dark in there that you
shine your high beams you will only be able to see few feet ahead. Also
if you find a big rock throw it into the bridge; do not be surprised if
you do not here the rock land.
San Antonio - Douglass
Elementary - some say that Douglass
elementary was built on a Indian burial ground and that a janitor died
in the auditorium, there the doors would slam shut by themselves and
the piano would start playing. Witnesses could hear people walking and
talking when they would spend the night there but every time they
checked there was no one there.
San Antonio - Edison
High School - It's been said that
teachers and janitors have seen ghostly children in their classrooms
late at night. Some even say that at night if you listen closely you
can hear the sounds of laughing children in the hallways.
San Antonio - Eisenhower
Middle School - A country boy has been
seen in the cafeteria. The school used to be a ranch.
San Antonio - El
Cameronsita Dance Hall - There is a dance
hall that is said to be haunted by a guy who is very handsome and he
has hoof feet. It is said, he saw a beautiful women to dance with. She
was in a trance with his good looks that she danced with him. Everyone
around watched in horror, because he was not human (normal).
San Antonio - The
Emily Morgan Hotel - Floor nine is a very
active floor. Having been unaware that the building housed wounded
soldiers during the battle of the Alamo, we stayed there on floor nine
in room 902. We were the only ones on the floor yet doors opened and
closed all night long. At one point he toilet seat slammed itself up
and down about ten times while we were in the adjacent room. A bottle
of wine slid off of the counter by itself as did the coffee pot the
next morning and the elevator would not take us to the floor we wanted.
Once we did get moving the doors would open and shut about ten times
before standing still long enough to let us out. Management had
responded to earlier complaints of the same but the motor was fine.
San Antonio - Espada
Park - There are railroad tracks here
that are said to be haunted by some kids that were hit by a train while
riding in a bus. When people come here and park their cars about ten to
twelve feet away from the tracks, the ghostly kids push the car to
safety.
San Antonio - Fort
Sam Houston - There are several officers
quarters on this old Amy post that are said to be haunted. At one you
can at times hear the sound of a piano playing. There is another house
where there is of a child who will move items around the house. There
is an older, large wooden quarters, where those that live in the house
hear footsteps.
San Antonio - Fort
Sam Houston Old B.A.M.C. - This place is
known to be extremly haunted.sounds can be heard inside and even
outside of this building of people talking.Around toward the ambulance
area you get a strong sense of fear.There is also a light that remains
on even though there is no electricity in the building.
San Antonio - Highlands
High School - doors slamming shut in bad
weather, lights shutting off in meetings, kicking and screaming in
between the walls of room #111.
San Antonio - Historic
Spanish Missions - In an area of town
known for its historic Spanish missions, there is a RR track that was
the scene of a train and bus accident. The bus was carrying children
home from school when it got stuck on the tracks. The train hit it and
all children were killed. Now if you put your car in neutral about 100
yards from the track, it will begin to roll uphill, over the tracks. It
is said that the ghosts of the children push you over the tracks. There
is a heavy Satanic presence in this same area...it can almost be felt.
San Antonio - Hot
Wells Motel - Site of an old Burnt down
hotel. Rumor has it that Hot Wells was known for its luxury spas and
the numerous fires that took place in Rm. 13. The Fowl Smell of the
dead still lingers there even after its been burnt for 46 yrs.
San Antonio - Institute
of Texas Culture - There are stories of
pipe smoke (unexplained) being smelled there, footsteps near the
audio/visual room, rearranged books in library, back of 1898 glass
hearse being opened and other activity around it.
San Antonio - McKnay
Museum - This used to be the residence of
the McKnay family. Widow McKnay was an art collector who turned her
home into a museum. The West Wing of this musuem was beginning
construction when old lady McKnay passed away. It is said that "Old
Lady McKnay" has been seen walking the halls and passing through walls
when "floating" from one building to another. She's only seen at night,
mostly by security and museum personnel. She never speaks, but if
you're lucky enough, she might appear to 'look' in your direction. Also
a females voice "humming" an unrecognizable tune can be heard coming
from the downstairs area of the West Wing library.
San Antonio - Menger
Hotel - haunted by the spirit of a
chambermaid who was killed there by her husband. Other ghosts include
"Buckskin" and "the Ghost of the King Room."
San Antonio - North
Star Mall - Shadows that walk by and if
you work there you will here your name whispered.
San Antonio - old
Mental Hospital - an abandoned mental
hospital on South Alamo Street. It has been said that if you go inside
there, you can hear people screaming and moaning. Doors will slam shut
and creek open. If you do go there, be careful to not get caught
because trespassers will be arrested.
San Antonio - Old
Nacogdoches Rd Comanche Park Tower - Many
ghosts have been seen on the grounds of Comanche Park, aka Comanche
Look-Out Hill. There have been sightings of old soldiers who were said
to have been stationed there. And many people have also reported having
seen the forms of Indians there. Another place that ties in with this
area is Old Nacogdoches Road. Many people, usually driving down this
road during the night hours, have claimed to see Indians, and soldiers
walking along side the road. There is also a creek that intersects the
road that has been said to be the host for many Indian apparition
sightings.
San Antonio - Old
Onion House - Said to be haunted by
ghosts of people that used to live there by the last name of onion.
San Antonio - Old
Stone Ridge Rd - If you drive down this
street at night with your lights off en route to the old children's
cemetery, strange things happen. Once, the locks on the doors of our
car went up and down. And they weren't automatic locks. Supposedly, the
Donkey Lady is responsible for the hauntings. Killed and badly mangled
in an auto wreck when some friends of hers were driving down the road
one night with no lights on, she haunts the woods around the area and
protects the souls of the small children buried in the cemetery.
San Antonio - Our
Lady of the Lake University - This
university is said to carry ageless stories of past inhabitants who
still walk the halls and campus grounds. Some of the more famous ones
include the once janitor who haunts the basement of the library, the
ghosts of the dorms, ghostly nuns, and a famous headless apparition who
walks the halls of what is now the elementary school across the street,
but was once a dorm for the university
San Antonio - Plaza
Marriott - The Lady has been at this hotel
for years. The hotel property includes 4 buildings on the Historic
Register, and The Lady was believed to be the widow of the owner of one
of these buildings. She hung herself and her cat in what is now the
exercise facility (was her home, specifically the "front room" or
"living room"). Now she can be seen on the upper levels of the main
hotel building usually in a long white dress or nightdress, and holding
her cat, stroking its head. She has been seen in the employee corridors
in the basement, and standing among the trees in the garden. Lights
come on and off occasionally with no warning and no reason, and drawers
at the front desk have a tendency of opening by themselves.
San Antonio - Providence
High School- In the 1950's their was a nun
who loved the school so much that when she passed away her sisters
decided that since she loved the school she should be buried on the
school grounds. Years later Providence decided to build a gym over the
spot where the nun was buried forgetting she was there. Today if you
walk in the gym and step in a certain area it is hollow. Also a night
the nun is seen walking the halls by the many Freshman that attend the
lock in. Even after death the nun continues to watch over her beloved.
San Antonio - Rail
Road tracks - is a railroad crossing in
San Antonio that is said to be haunted. Some children were on a school
bus when it stalled and the train hit the bus killing them all. If you
go to that area at nightfall on the anniversary the arms will come down
the lights will blink and you will here a train and feel wind but there
is no train. You will feel your car being pushed away from the tracks
even in park. If you dust baby powder on the hood of you car you will
see imprints of little hands in the powder and when the "train" is gone
your car will have been moved back several feet. We went with 5 other
cars and all cars had hand prints and each car had been pushed back
about 4 feet.
San Antonio - River
Center Mall - Has been reported to have
river ghost along with fish ghost swimming along the San Antonio River
that talk to you.
San Antonio - Santa
Rosa Hospital - Many people do not like
to work the night shift at Santa Rosa Hospital because they have either
seen or heard about a headless nun who glides around. Many people have
admitted to seeing the nun.
San Antonio - Shane
and Villamain Roads - the spirits of
children who were killed in a bus accident at the intersection push
one's car off the tracks. This has been documents on film. Put your car
in neutral and the cars will roll up hill and over the tracks.
San Antonio - Santikos
Century Plaza 8 - It is said that at
night when your they alone that you hear chain dragging on the grounds
of the theater and you would hear banging on the ceiling.
San Antonio - St.
Anthony Hotel - A 1909 San Antonio Hotel
haunted by a Hispanic employee named Anita, an elderly lady in a
women's bathroom, a sad young woman who is in the roof ballroom, and a
ghostly couple who frequently come back to a certain hotel room to
re-live their honeymoon. More ghosts are there, but many are unknown.
Reports of being followed, people see shadowy outlines, doors opening
and closing by themselves, & apparitions of 2 different women.
San Antonio - St.
Martin Hall - This place is the
elementary across from Our Lady of the Lake University. It is said that
when it use to be a border school there was a girl that was killed in
the restroom. Unusual things have happened such as lights being on
after they were turned off and things have gone missing.
San Antonio - Stinson
Field Cemetery and the Stinson Field ghost -
It is said that the cemetery next to Stinson Municipal Airport
(formerly Stinson Field) is haunted by blue lights over certain graves
at night, which are in fact visible from the road when you're driving
by. One of the old hangars at the Airport itself is also haunted,
presumably by a man who was killed while starting his plane... though
it's a condemned hangar used for long term storage only. Both of these,
interestingly enough, are on the way to the Ghost Tracks of Shane and
Villamin roads..
San Antonio - Taft
High School - In the Taft High School
Auditorium there was a guy name Jimmy who use to work in the catwalk in
the auditorium .One day he fell out of the catwalk his body hit these
two chairs that are now missing today. People say that when your locked
in the auditorium and it is easy to get locked in the auditorium.
San Antonio - The
Menger Hotel - Haunted by 38 known
ghosts, including Teddy Roosevelt, a lady in blue, Sallie White who is
a murdered chamber maid, Captain Richard King, and many others. My
sister, who is a little psychic, had an experience here. Our family was
sleeping in the new portion of the hotel, and she woke up in the early
hours and saw a misty "cowboy" like-person standing in the room with
his back turned to her. He had a blank stare on his face and just stood
for several minutes before leaving. Many of Teddy Roosevelt's rough
riders haunt the bar.
San Antonio - Terrel
Castle Bed and Breakfast - This bed and
breakfast is said to be haunted by the original lady of the house and
some children. The lady has been sensed in the library, and the
children play on the stairs.
San Antonio - Trinity
University - The Chapman Graduate Center and the Holt Center
- are known places for things that are
unexplained. At the Graduate center bottom floor you walk-by and you
feel a feeling that you need to get out of there fast. Nasty feeling to
feel. Many housekeeping and Officers feel the same feeling. At the Holt
center, some members of the housekeeping will not enter there alone
or/and at night. Police officers have felt that same feeling, to
include supervisors.
San Antonio - University
of the Incarnate Word - Dubuis Hall - - a former nun is said to haunt students in the night
with many reporting uneasy feelings and the sensation of being watched.
Another girl claimed that she awoke one morning to find her stuffed
animals had been totally rearranged in neat order during the night.
San Antonio - University
of the Incarnate Word - Main Administration Building - built in 1922, has cold spots and reports of a
student's radio dial (non-digital) begin scanning through stations on
its own. This same admin building's top (4th) floor was once used as a
quarantine for victims of tuberculosis and has seen its share of
deaths, which might account for the activity. Additionally, on the 3rd
floor of the Admin building, a 5-year-old boy chasing a bouncing ball
has been spotted regularly.
San Antonio - Victoria's
Black Swan Inn - There have been numerous
ghostly experiences.
San Antonio - Villa
Main Railroad Tracks - Haunted by the
children killed in a 1930's fatal school bus accident. The bus
reportedly stalled on the tracks and was consequently hit by a train,
killing all in the bus. It is said that if you pull your car onto those
tracks, the children will push your car over the tracks to safety. Baby
powder placed the bumper of the endangered car is said to show the
handprints of the small children.
San Benito - Old
San Benito High School - It is said that
in the old high school you can hear screams, crying and a little girl
that walks the halls of the abandon school which use to be a hospital
during WW11 for the injured.
San Elizario - Adobe Horseshoe Restaurant / Dinner Theater - There have been sightings of a lady wearing a yellow
hat in the restaurant by people that are unaware of haunting. San
Elizario was once the County seat. This woman is well-dressed in a long
dress wearing a yellow hat. Since hat wearing is uncommon in this area,
customers inquire about the odd woman. They are amazed to find they
have just seen a ghost.
San Juan - Austin
Middle School - There is a ghost of a
basketball player haunting the gym. Around 6 p.m. you can see the
lights turn on by themselves and hear a basketball bounce on the floor,
dribbling and also foot steps. 30 min. later the lights go off and all
noises stop. There is restrooms next to the gym that are closed because
of a girl who committed suicide. Many students before reported seeing
this girl in a white gown staring at them while looking at themselves
in the mirrors or washing their hands.
San Juan - Garza
Pena - In the girls restroom they have
heard footsteps. While you are doing the restroom you could hear
someone turn on the sink and washing their hands, then paper towels on
the floor. When you get out you feel someone behind you. Then when you
turn around there is water on the floor.
San Juan - Old
Doedyns Elementary - Back when the school
was open, everyone would say that a little girl once went in the
restroom right outside the cafeteria and came out with scratches all
over her wrist. she was bleeding from all over her arm. SHe said she
never felt anything, so nobody knows what really happened.
San Juan - The
old PSJA Auditorium - It has been said
that in the old auditorium years ago a janitor or tech was putting up a
light on the top and he fell and died. Till this day if you look up the
light has never been placed. The story is if you happen to do a
production there, you have to put his name in the program because if
not he will do something to ruin the show. Either drop the set, or
something else horrid.
San Juan - San
Juan Motel - This motel is no longer
functioning. It is said that a prostitute was raped and murder. Now
when you pass by walking or with your car you could hear her screaming
and crying for help. It is also said that when you see up the second
floor at night she tends to wave and call you.
San Marcos - Belvin
St. - The Pike House - There is a huge
haunted hospital which has been said to have ghost roaming in the halls
of the hospital and there are secret passage ways that lead to
operating and emergency rooms. it was built in the 1950's. from the
road, there is a huge `pen field, and looming at the end of the field,
on top of the hill is a huge 4 story building. It used to be an insane
asylum, but was closed down. Years later, the Pike Fraternity, bought
the property, and made it the pledge house. During one of the pledge
processes, some of the pledges were killed...the brothers had the
pledges write down what happened in the pledge books, burn them, then
nail them to the walls. If you go in there, you can see the pledge
books, as well as Polaroid's, blood on the walls, etc. - October 2007 Update – The Pike House has burned down.
San Marcos - Job
Corps - the graveyard shift has lots of
stories of ghostly apparitions, lady in white that was murdered. Lots
of ghosts seen by the kids in barracks as well as the house aides, it
was formerly an Air Force base. There are to many stories to even begin
to tell. Just go ask anyone that works or lives there!
San Marcos - Old
Main - The building called "Old Main" has
two reputed ghosts, one a blatant fake, but the other seemingly real.
The fake is that the ghost of LBJ roams the halls. The other stems from
a time before the building was renovated. Before renovation (as it can
be seen in the movie D.O.A. with Meg Ryan) the three-story building was
open from the roof to the ground. Legend has it that a young student
fell (jumped or was pushed) from the third floor and died on impact.
Today, custodial staff has reported seeing the girl, still dressed as
she was then, clutching her books, trying to get to class.
San Marcos - Southwest
Texas State University - Theater building - A ghost referred to as "Ramsey" haunts the building.
He supposedly hung himself in the building. Random unusual events, such
as lights turning off by them have been reported. It has also been said
that since the building is round and surrounded by water, that it
attracts ghosts.
San Marcos - Texas
State University - Butler Hall - Butler
Hall is a three-story dorm located next to the theatre building, which
is also said to be haunted, and is more than 50 yrs old. The bottom
floor is partially underground, moist (bad plumbing, AC/heating, and
large laundry room), and feels very uneasy during quiet hours. The
feeling of being watched in the laundry/study room is common and
strange noises are heard. Tapping on doors, windows, and walls is also
common but usually assumed to be other students. Hallway lights on the
male side of the dorm tend to flicker or some will only some will be
lit.
San Marcos - Thompson
Island Bridge - The Thompson Island
bridge in San Marcos is said to be haunted by the ghost of a long dead
Confederate soldier. He died there at his post while guarding it during
the American Civil War. It is believed that he still appears there.
Dressed in his grey and yellow uniform. cap, and cape. and armed with a
kentucky longtom riffle. Although sightings are very remote, it is
reported that the dead soldiers ghost is more active before, and during
wartime.
San Patricio - Old Court House - San
Patricio, TX Ghost of Josefa Chipita Rodriguez The only woman legally
hanged in Texas was Josefa Chipita Rodríguez. She lived in a
shack on the Aransas River where she cooked for wary travelers and let
them sleep on cots on her porch. When a traveler named John Savage (no,
not that John Savage) fell victim to an axe murder, Chipita was the
prime suspect. $600 in gold was recovered from the Aransas River north
of San Patricio, as well as Savage's body, in a gunny sack. Josefa
Rodríguez and her son, Juan Silvera were indicted on
circumstantial evidence. After Chipita pleaded not guilty, the jury
recommended mercy, but the judge ordered her executed on November 13,
1863. Chipita was kept in leg irons and chained to a wall in the
courthouse until the day of her hanging. Her coffin was placed in an
unmarked grave (a moan was said to come from the closed casket). Many
people claim to have seen her ghost, a woman with a rope around her
neck.
San Perlita - El
Toro Road - Devil's Lagoon - In the late
1800's early 1900's a horse drawn carriage is said to have driven into
the lagoon and everyone was killed and certain nights around midnight
the carriage will come out of the lagoon drive around it and then
return.
Santa Ana - Santa
Ana high school auditorium - about 7
years ago a girl fell from a balcony in the auditorium during a play.
Whenever there is a play, a dim light can be seen from the balcony
above the stage itself. Dressing room doors close by themselves and
there are cold spots. Its a tradition that we bring her spirit flowers
before every play for a safe performance.
Santa Maria - Iglesia
Antigua - in this church you can here
noises at night. there is a tunnel under the church. it was a cemetery.
Santa Rosa - Long
ago a restless spirit haunted this town. She was called "La Llorona" or
weeping woman. She would walk down the streets of one of the villages
called "EL Rincon Del Diablo" or the Den of the Devil. She would weep
for her children that had drowned in a canal not far from the village.
The town had to make a huge exorcism to put the restless spirit to
rest. Nothing has happened in the village since then, but some say if
you walk up the canal at midnight you can still hear her wails.
Saratoga - Beaumont-
Bragg Rd. - Witnesses report a ghost of a
headless man with a lantern.
Saratoga - Bragg
Road - This is a road near Saratoga where
a mysterious light hovered, sped away from or toward drivers or
followed drivers. Some said it was the light from a lantern that
belonged to the ghost of a railroad man who was accidentally killed on
nearby railroad tracks.
Saratoga - Dirt
rd. by RR tracks - It is reported that on
certain nights a person can drive down the Saratoga light rd. and see
lights floating and following people. It is said that an engineer is
haunting the place where he was killed. There are several stories as to
what actually happened there.
Scottsville - Scottsville
Cemetery - This cemetery dates from before
Texas was a state. The haunting is actually on the grounds bordering
the west of the cemetery and church. There is a covered spring house at
the foot of a hill just outside the fenced off area leading to the
cemetery parking lot. Stairs lead up the hill from the spring house to
the top, where a large, two story house once stood. This house burned
in the 50's, but was reputed to be haunted. Old-timers told of standing
outside in their youth and listening to voices and furniture being
moved in the empty rooms inside. Youths of today say that if you stand
at the top of the stairs, you can hear a woman weeping several hundred
feet away, down at the spring house.
Seabrook - Camp
Casa Mare - Formerly a privately owned
mansion, now Girl Scout Camp "Casa Mare". Young woman who live in the
home near the shore with her father said to be very distraught over the
loss of a lover. She waited, watching for him to return from the sea
from her balcony every night until she met her untimely death and
collided with the ground below. The mansion was since torn down, and a
mess hall built where it once stood. Some say if you stand in a circle
around the spot where she died (it remains uncovered by buildings, but
now lies under a tile mural of a star), she will pull at you from the
center of the circle, so that everyone "leans" inward. Two campers
supposedly died after falling in a well and being trapped. It has since
been covered, but many report they still hear them screaming and
clawing to get cut. Also, the dorm nearest to the shore is supposedly
haunted (the dorm for those campers taking sailing). There are 3
showers, and when the first two are turned on, the third mysteriously
turns on. Lights turn on and off and campers report hearing things.
Seabrook - Toddville
Road - the former Toddville Mansion,
which has recently been torn down, the property turned into apartments
or condos. Reports of a strange creature roaming the grounds, noises,
feelings of being watched, shadowy figures.
Sealy - Sealy
High School - sounds of walking and doors
opening and closing on the second floor, elevator operating by itself.
Sealy - Sealy
high school - football field and track - There was a senior track star coming home from a track
meet. He fell asleep behind the wheel and somehow cut himself. When
they found him he had bled to death. It is said that if you go to the
track at midnight you can see him running around the track.
Sealy - Sealy Jr.
High Gym - There were twin cheerleaders.
The head cheerleader broke up with one of the football players. The guy
hung himself in one of the upstairs room. The sisters got into a big
fight because of it.(in the same room.) One pushed the other one down
the stairs (Head-cheerleader down the stairs.) Half killing her. So she
picked her up brought her back up to the top of the stairs, dragging
her by her feet so her head would drag killing her. If you go there on
Halloween night you can hear the screams of the one sister and her head
dragging across the floor. The other one always said she never wanted
to kill her just make her mad. But she ended up dying anyway.
Seguin - Texas
Lutheran University- There are two places
that are haunted here. One is the Wupperman Theatre building which is
said to be haunted by a little girl in a blue dress who wants to play
hide and seek. Also the stage lights flicker on and off for no reason
and the trap door has been said to open on its own. The other place is
a dorm room in the Trinity Building which is completely locked up, and
no one is allowed to live there. Some say you can see the lights go on
and off and the blinds fluttering.
Seminole - Shafter
Lake - There is a place known as Shafter
Lake in between Seminole and Andrews. It is known to have been a Indian
Burial grounds. It is said that if you go there at night and park just
off the road by the large rocks and flash your lights three times you
will see an apparition of a woman carrying a lantern dressed in a white
flowing gown coming towards you. You can also hear the sounds of drums
at the site.
Skidmore - Billmore
House - People claimed to have seen a
small child haunting the attic of the house and the owners also claimed
to have heard crying and laughing through the walls at night. They also
say that they hear dripping (they think it is blood) from the spot
under the ceiling fan. The owners and towns people say there is a ghost
still haunting the house because there was a child killed by his father
up in the basement, hung by a ceiling fan. I know because i lived there
one year ago.
Snyder - Snyder
Coliseum - First One day a young kid was
chasing a bat and fell from the top of the top of the stairs. He
tumbled and broke his neck. It is also said you can see him running
around the top of the building.
South Padre Island - The
Third Coast Bar - The Third Coast used to
be a Country and western bar on the island, and this bar has been
haunted for years. About 20 years ago, there was a guy that used to
help out at the bar and sleep in his car in the back parking lot. This
guy unfortunately had a drug problem though, and was found one evening
by the dumpster in the back close to death, having OD'd. He was dragged
inside the bar and passed on there. There is a very strong sense that
someone is watching over your shoulder, and not in a good way. Also he
likes to mess with the electricity, doors, he gets a little loud
upstairs, and makes all the employees feel very uncomfortable. He also
will mess with the juke box.
Southlake - Timmeron
- you can be walking down the street by
the pool and you will feel a sudden feel of cold energy and a feeling
you are being watched all the time. When you are in the bike trails you
can occasionally hear something walking near to you and people's dogs
always bark out of nowhere and you look outside to see what it is
nothing is there. Lights will flicker, you can hear loud noises
outside, so on.. many people have reported seeing ghost.
Spring - The Cat
House - Supposedly a girl about 12 was
playing in the loft when she fell. She had died from complications. She
is said to walk the loft.
Spring - Blue Light
cemetery- Reports of a blue light and
blue fog all over the cemetery, accompanied by heard voices and
footsteps and the feeling of being chased.
Springtown - Veal
Station Cemetery (just North of Springtown)- It is said that there is a glowing tombstone there.
It came on the news one night and reported about the glowing tombstone
and the ghost of a woman walking around her grave. Update:
but the cemetery is chained off at night now because of so many people
going there.
Stamford - Bowie Park - It is said that at night there are orbs inside bowie
park. Bowie Park is said to be the home of the hatchet lady.
Stanton - Convent
is haunted by the Priest who hung himself for being accused of a crime.
Reports of the lights being turned on and off at night. Some even
sayings of babies that cry at night that were supposedly buried under
the convent.
Stanton - St.
Joseph Convent - Supposedly haunted by
weeping nuns.
Sulphur Springs - Dead
Mans Run - word has it that around 1890 a
man was working on the railroad tracks that were being laid through
town. About 2 miles off of 19 on hwy. 11 to the right on a little black
top road is a desolate patch of railroad tracks. Now this man who was
working on it was having a bad time with his wife. So one night he took
her out there for a "romantic interlude" and instead he beat her badly
and tied her to the tracks. Well, thinking she was unconscious he sat
down beside her to rest and without him knowing, she tied his boot
laces to the track. He felt so guilty that he sat there on the tracks
and never moved until he saw the train barreling down on him. When it
was almost there he got up to move and couldn't. he looked down to see
his wife grinning up at him and his laces tied in multiple knots. He
tried to untie his laces, but to no prevail, and was killed with his
wife on the tracks. Now if you go to those tracks on November 12 at
about 2 to 3 am you can get out of your car and sit on the tracks and
you will witness the entire scene. You can hear the man screaming and
the woman laughing.
Sunnyvale - Barns
Bridge - One night in 1974 and lady and
her daughter were driving on Barns Bridge and flipped into the creek
and they both died. Legend is that at midnight you stop on the bridge
and turn your car off and sit there roll down the windows and drop your
keys onto the road. Wait for 3 minutes and get your keys and they say
that when you get home you will have a set of 3 finger prints all over
your car.
Sweetwater - Mulberry
Manor - Several ghosts have been reported
in this now bed and breakfast that has served as a field hospital in
the civil war and an insane asylum in the early 1900s. Workers have
spotted a civil war general in reflections throughout the house. The
distinct sound of nurse's high heeled shoes walking down 13 concrete
steps is heard often, although the stairs have been carpeted for many
years. Items are commonly found misplaced in the back of random
cabinets, and many visitors report feeling different presences.
Sweetwater - Sweetwater
High School - Footsteps are heard on stage
in the auditorium while cold spots are felt on the gridiron. Also a
playful ghost runs through the downstairs part of the school. Light
footsteps are heard on the steps and he/she is known to lock the doors
to teacher's rooms.
Sweetwater - Sweetwater
Lake - Mysterious orange lights have been
seen floating across the lake.
Sweetwater - Texas
Movie Theatre - Cash would disappear and
reappear in the cash register, strange noises, voices & apparitions.
Texarkana - Spring
Lake Park - The town that dreaded
Sundown. A couple was there making out and were murdered. Rumor is that
the girl was tied to a tree and stabbed to death, if you stand by that
tree, you feel rope being tied around you. - October 2005 Update/ Additional Info: The story is
that they both were victims of the notorious Phantom Killer of
Texarkana in 1946. They have gotten out of the High School prom and
went to a make out spot although they were told not to go there since
the Phantom hadn't been caught. The girl was indeed tied to a tree and
stabbed, but in a rather unique way: the Phantom tied his knife to the
slider of her trombone and pretended to play it while simultaneously
stabbing her. Today the Phantom Killer is STILL at large
Texas City - Cinemark
Movies 12 - All the employees of this
theatre are scared to death to go into one of the auditoriums alone.
Most workers have had some kind of an encounter with the ghost that
haunts this particular auditorium. It makes some people feel freezing.
Others became very hot. One employee said that every time she went in
it, her knees would become very weak...but when she left the room, she
was fine. Some employees have even seen this spirit.
Tomball - Spring
Creek Park - In the Civil War era, a
munitions factory existed in what is now the back portion of the park.
It was destroyed when something touched off an explosion, which killed
approximately 200 men. If you visit the sight today, even on a hot day,
you will get chills
Tyler - Tyler
Junior College - Wise Auditorium -
is haunted by a little boy who screams as you leave the building at
night.
Universal City - Randolph
AFB - Eberly Park - where a young
man crashed his plane and died in the early days of the base. And many
things are said to happen in the maids quarters and old water tower.
Uvalde - Flores
Elementary - (Every night on the six
grade side you can see an old lady wondering outside in a 40's white
dress and janitors their say when they work late they see her and if
you call out to her she just turns around and disappears.
Valley Mills - Middle
Bosque River - A witness reports, " while
on the top of this bluff I have felt like I was being watch ,or like
someone was behind me. There seems to be such a strong presence there."
Van Zandt - Edgewood
- Crooked Creek - Going back to 1958
reports of a woman in white walking the road at night and she has
accepted rides to say I am going home. She gets out at this deserted
house for 60 years and goes in. No lights go on or nothing and she
isn't seen again accept on rare times. Everything about her is white
they say. The story is on one website that has been around a few years.
I think its called bluebird something. The ghost of Edgewood seems to
be harmless and she doesn't appear often. But after reading about other
ghost this seems to be normal.
Victoria - Cinema
4, Salem 6, Playhouse 4 - At Cinema 4
there is a ghost woman that watches the workers clean. She is very
playful and likes to call you name. While looking down they have seen a
little boy run up to the concession stand and when you look up no one
it there. At all the theatres everyone has seen trash cans roll up
ramps and cold spots through out the buildings. The ghost only seems to
mess with you if there is nothing "fun" going on. - June 2008 Additional information: A Former employee
that worked there in 1994 and 1995 as a projectionist. The story is
that a woman named Dorothy fell out of an upstairs door that they used
to load food and candy before the theater was bought by Cinemark.
Apparently she broke her neck and died. The doors are still there, but
have been padlocked shut. There is a 25 foot drop-off straight to the
ground outside if you stepped through the door. When he worked there,
you could say "Dorothy" and a film would always break within the next
few minutes. They would always hear foot steps on the upstairs catwalk
when we first entered the building in the morning when nobody was in
the building. They would often see reflections of things in the windows
in front of the projectors, but nothing was there when we turned around
to look. Also, she enjoyed turning off lights, unscrewing light bulbs,
and closing all the doors when you were upstairs alone.
Victoria - Old
army barracks by the Airport - a shadow
of a little boy with a basket ball saying "come play with me" has been
reported. - October 2007 Additional
information: Footsteps, voices, and strange red glowing lights have
also been reported.
Victoria - Tanglewood
Townhouses - Some have reported things
moving all by themselves, lights going on and off, things flying
through mid air, and temperature drops and chills once in these houses.
Victoria - Hopkin's
Park - In the 90's a lady was decapitated
by her boyfriend on the slide of the playground at Hopkin's Park. Those
who live close to the park have reported seeing two figures walking
around.
Victoria - Regency
Apartments - the regency apartments which
is behind Rosewood funeral home is haunted. Reports of voices and
footsteps reported.
Victoria - Sutton's
Mott - This picnic grove got its name
from the cantankerous ghost who is seen there. William Sutton was a
goat herder who lived in the area in the 1850s. He was murdered on
Sunday while walking up the church steps in the nearby town of Goliad.
Since then his ghost has haunted this serene patch of live oak trees.
Horses and dogs refuse to enter the grove, and tales of drifting
phantoms and ghostly bodies hanging from trees abound. Some say Sutton
returns to guard his strongbox of gold he had buried here.
Victoria - Victoria
County Courthouse - many construction
workers claimed to have seen moving flashes of light out of the corner
of their eye. Some of the same construction workers and many courthouse
employees have claimed to see "floating balls of light"-orbs and an
apparition that appears periodically on the second floor in the SE
corner of the building.
Waco - Baylor
University - Some of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's original works are kept in the old Library on campus. She
has been seen walking the halls at night holding a candle, wearing a
white gown. Residents have seen her in the top floor window peering
outside at us. Also, a statue of her sits out in front of the library.
Her arms are at her sides, however, some nights the shadow that was
cast on to the library behind her showed her arms held up high above
her head.
Waco - Baylor
University - Baylor Residential - Formerly
listed as Brooks Hall - At Baylor
University, the oldest college in the state of Texas, exists a
mysterious phantom on the abandoned fifth floor of the oldest dorm on
campus. Violin music is heard in the dead of night and chilling
sightings of a cloaked figure in top hat and cloak staring down and
illuminated by an eerie candlelight have been widely reported by
spooked residents. Investigations have wielded little fact but the
enormous amount of eyewitness accounts and spine tingling sightings
have given the legend a grand following. One night the shattering of
glass was reported as the phantom peered down and paused his playing
and in a fit of apparent rage struck a window. Come morning when level
heads prevailed and the storm of the previous night had passed, no
damage was found. Still the unpredictable toiling of the phantom have
attracted audiences in the witching hour in hopes of catching a glimpse
of the mysterious floating candlelight that often hovers from room to
room and then vanishes only to appear in the other wing of the
building. One unsettling account recollects the viewing of a noose and
dangling of a shadowy corpse after the phantom finished the evening’s
mournful serenade. Still more haunting is the episode on record of the
lights failing the building and an ungodly tapping and cold sensation
filtrating the respective doors of the fourth floor of the building.
Only one resident dared investigate the unwelcome visitors calling. It
is claimed that he peered into pitch darkness to find the horrific
silhouette of a cloaked figure in a top hat turn and stare him down
through the darkness and calmly vanish out of sight as he glided
parallel down the corridor, needless to say it was not pursued. The
university has failed to satisfy rumors of hauntings and has downplayed
the events for close to half a century now. The Victorian styled
villain who roams the corridors of the uninhabited floor and
occasionally mingles with the living loves to make an entrance, the
hoax is to elaborate for any collegiate prankster and the tradition has
endured for too long. Perhaps the only explanation is that the phantom
is ultimately unexplainable. - October
2007 Update – This old hall was recently torn down. A new Baylor
residential college has been built in it's place.
Waco - Cameron Park
- Lindsy Hollow Road - Two
alleged horse thieves use to hang out on Lindsey Hollow Road. The
bodies of the two brothers were found hanging from a tree about 100
feet from the road, killed by vigilantes in 1880. Shadowy images of the
hanging brothers can be seen in the old tree. Reports of reflections of
unknown person, a spectral party, hearing screams, feeling paralyzed,
& apparitions.
Waco - Cameron park
- Witches Castle - this place
called The witches castle is in Cameron park, if you go up to it there
is a road and you turn right and go up all the way, you then start to
smell something terrible, the smell is the bodies the witches killed,
and you can hear screams, gasps, and banging. - October 2007 Update – An investigator reports that it
is unknown if this place even exists. They talked to a park
representative, from the Waco Parks and Recreation Dept and the
representative’s response was, "Yes, we've heard about this place, but
it's not in the park." The authors of "Weird Texas" claim that Witch's
Castle is really Proctor Springs in Cameron Park. This isn't the case
either. There is no building at all at Proctor Springs; there are just
picnic tables.
Waco - University
High School - There are strange noises in
the gym during basketball games when somebody goes in the boys restroom
they can hear two boys talking to each other there but when you go in
you won't see nobody.
Waco - Rainbow
Lake/Creek - The whole Rainbow Lake area
has been plagued with rumors of witchcraft, cult activity, and peeping
Tom's. Some homes that back up to the Rainbow Lake area have reported
seeing paranormal figures, hearing shrieks during the night, and cold
spots in the heat of summer. Rumors of a dead body being found further
upstream in the Rainbow Creek area have also turned up as well as a
sighting of a ghost-like male deeper into the woods. A few graves have
also been found in the area, some marked with simple wooden crosses
while others remain unmarked. - March
2008 Update: This location dose in fact exists. It is an area located
right off on the frontage road of Highway 84 and Hewitt/Estates drive.
It is right between Braughton fields and the Sherwin Williams paint
store. If you go to Google maps and in put the following location
(Rainbow Dr, Woodway, TX 76712) zoom in a bit and you will see the
lake. However This location is on a private drive. There
may be trespassing issues. Be safe and be courteous.
Waxahachie - Catfish
Plantation Restaurant -Update: recently
burned down 6/29/03 - This Restaurant is
haunted by past residents named Eliza Richards, who died at age 77 in
1925, and her son Jesse Thomas Richards, who died at age 68 in 1937.
Eliza is the "Elizabeth" Her spirit appears as her younger self, a girl
of about 19, the age she was at her first marriage, a happier time for
her. It is how she projects herself now, from memory. The "old farmer,
Will" is her son J.T. Richards, who was the local meat cutter and
grocer from the early 1900s until his death in 1937. The third ghost,
Carrie, has been correctly identified. Caroline Jenkins Mooney lived in
the house from the 1950s until her death in 1970. Waitresses and
customers are always reporting strange things that happen--rude patrons
having plates dumped on them, cold spots in the bathroom. Pictures have
been taken that show a slender young woman in outline form. One is a
farmer, one is an old woman who lived there, and one is a young girl
who was murdered on her wedding day in the house. Supposedly a burglar
attempted to burglarize the safe one night and seemed to leave in a
hurry. - September 2004 update: The
Catfish Plantation, which was partially burned in 2003, is now back up
and open for business. The owners say that the three ghosts (Elizabeth,
Will, and Caroline) are still present.
Waxahachie - Site
of the last confederate hanging by union army, Private John Hemerich,
is seen by some to be standing by the side of the road on Becky Rd.
Waxahachie - Waters
St. - A little boy is said to be
haunting the streets late at night in his bike. The story goes as is.
One day late at night, he was riding his bike, when a car of drunk
teenagers shot him for no reason. It is said that he still rides his
bike late at night, and if you approach him he takes out his revenge on
you.
Weatherford - Baker
Mansion - Originally built in 1894 it is
said to be haunted by Charles Baker, a son of the of the original owner
JD Baker. JD Baker died before the house was completed and Charles
mysteriously disappeared in 1908. It was purchased by the Fant family
in 1940 and reports of ghostly encounters are given by a relative who
lived in the house off and on during a 30 year period. She reports
seeing shadows on the staircase, feelings of being touched by an
invisible hand, seeing ghostly figures and on one occasion the sounds
of someone violently pounding the inside of the locked basement door
when she was alone in the house. The current owners have had no
encounters with any ghostly presence but a worker states that an unseen
person tried to push them off the stairs on the second floor. Source:
Bob Hopkins, The Baker Mansion Baker
Mansion
Weatherford - Diamond
Oaks - Late at night if you come around a
curve in the road on Diamond Oaks Trail there will be big rocks laying
in the middle of the street, then you will hear little kids laughing,
and playing. This has been reported many times.
Weatherford - Horseshoe
Bend - an old Victorian home sits off
little country road said to be haunted by little girl and mother
Weatherford - Lake
Weatherford - There have been reports of
a bull like creature with eyes like fire around the lake Weatherford.
Native Americans that used to live in the area called it the "Demon
Water Cow".
Webb - Laredo
- Zapata highway - In the early nineteen
ninety's a family was driving towards Rio Bravo, Texas and 5 miles
before getting there, they had an accident and they all died. The area
is marked by three crosses. Apparitions of the family have been
reported.
Weslaco - Airport
Elementary - when your outside in the
playground and you get close to the fence you could here footsteps and
you turn and look and there is nothing there they say that a person
died there years back.
Weslaco - Weslaco
High School - It is said that several
years back, a classroom of students witnessed the sudden death of their
teacher in the I wing of the school. Today his voice can be heard every
Friday during lunch in a quiet classroom teaching. Some students claim
to have even seen words appearing on the board, with no one in sight.
Weslaco - Weslaco
high school - J Wing - in the j
wing it is said that a janitor died several years ago and now you can
see him in the halls cleaning and singing at the same time during 5:00
West Columbia - Palmetto Thickets & Woods - This immediate area in and around West Columbia and
the old settlement of East Columbia and the surrounding woods and
palmetto thickets abounds in ghost tales. There is the lady in the gray
taffeta dress, and the ghost hounds of Orizimbo Plantation where Santa
Ana was detained, who still wait for the return of the deceased owner
of the plantation. They were reported to have been seen recently. Many
other stories also float like wisps in the wind. This is one of the
oldest parts on Texas to be settled, originally a part of Austin's
Colony, so these are old "haunts".
Weslaco - Central
Middle School - This is an old annex
building that was used as a classroom, a teacher went crazy and killed
all of her students. People now say that you can hear students
screaming and crying. Until this day the annex building still remains
but is not being used.
White Oak - Shilo
School - There is an old school that was
an all black school in the early 1900's. The school was burnt down by
the KKK and several black kids died. There are remains of the school
still standing and a historical marker in front of it. At night you can
hear voices, cries and the air gets cold.
Whitehouse - Bascom
Road - At night you can see a woman
dressed in white crossing the Bascom Cemetery road with a knife in her
hand, she is possibly the ghost of a woman who stabbed her husband then
stabbing herself. He lived but she died. He died sometime after that,
she is said to be searching for him to finish what she started.
Wichita Falls - Drunk Tom - Outside of
fallstown there is a place in between the North Texas State Hospital
and Southwest parkway, where a young college bound man, Drunk Tom, was
walking along the Holliday Creek reservoir. Drunk Tom had been drinking
heavily that night and either tripped or was pushed into the reservoir.
It is said if you go there at night and stand in the exact spot where
he died, you will hear a whiskey bottle breaking against the concrete,
and see something in the corner of your eye, which immediately
disappears.
Wichita Falls - Highway 79 Barn - There
was three men who raped and killed a woman and got hanged for doing it.
If you go to the barn it is said you can see the woman and the three
men wandering around. - Febuary 2005
Update: This place is reported to no longer exist.
Wichita Falls - Lucy Park - cemetery
behind Lucy Park - There is also a statue that's called "Little
Sister". It's a statue of a young women and it is said that she died
from a fever she caught in England when she went there to purchase
items for her home after her marriage. If you go there at midnight and
you truly feel sorry for her the statue will cry. - June 2008 Update: Although it has long been a ghost
story, Flora Kemp was never engaged, never married. She was on a
vacation in Detroit, Michigan with her family when she died of typhoid
fever in 1910. Even today, people visit her gravesite and put pennies
at the base of the statue called, "Little Sister" which is a statue of
a young girl walking down a staircase. It is said that she can
sometimes be seen at night with a tear streaming down her cheek. The
submitter to this update saw the tear once, and since has been back and
hasn’t seen it.
Wichita Falls - North Texas State Hospital -Administration
Building - Old building, built in the 1920's.
Used to house the insane, with many deaths occurring prior to it being
turned into offices. Lights can be seen going off and on. On quiet
evenings, can hear moans and wails coming from the third floor.
Security reports occasionally hearing chains rattling and doors opening
and closing. Employees see vague shapes at the ends of the hallways at
dinnertime.
Wichita Falls - North Texas State Hospital "M" Building - At night doors opening and closing and footsteps in
the hallways. An apparition of a "nurse in a white dress with the old
nurses cap on" checking on the patients, Security guards have reported
a hand on their shoulder but when they turned to look, no one was
there. Cold spots where also noted.
Wichita Falls - Old Insane Asylum - You
can hear water dripping in the basement although the place has been
vacant and no utilities for over 30 years. When up on the second floor
we heard heavy footsteps coming up the stairs, but no one else was in
the building. Also if you are very quite on a quite night, can hear the
faint sound of old printers and machines running. - October 2007 Update: It was located off of 287 on
California St. Building was renovated about 4 or 5 years ago.
Wichita Falls - Screaming Sheila Bridge - Bordering
an old ghost town, about 5 miles from church, there is a bridge. The
town of Clara was established in the 1800's. Sometime in the mid 1800's
there was a woman put to trial and convicted of practicing Wicca. She
was burned alive on a bridge. The whole bridge is burnt but in one
particular spot, there is a perfect circle burned all the way through.
She can still be heard screaming at night. - Febuary 2005 Update: This place is reported to no
longer exist.
Wichita falls - the witches gate - in
the 1950s there was a family that lived in a mansion and three men
broke in and stole the jewelry and caught the house on fire but the
father stopped the men and they all burned. About ten years ago some
reporters went out there and they never came back.
The Woodlands - Walgreen's, 485 Sawdust Rd - The store is haunted by the ghost of John Cedars, a
manager who was killed execution style during a robbery in 1996. Though
it wasn't at the time, the location is now 24 hours and employees say
that at nights Mr. Cedars can be heard walking the store or playing
jokes (he likes to knock over the stacks of diapers like he did when he
was alive). Several people have reported incidents while alone in the
stockroom at night, such as toys turning themselves on and off.
Occasionally things have been known to fly off shelves and break
without anyone nearby. The activity calmed after the convictions of the
perpetrators in 1998, but he is still a presence in the store.
Woodville - Foster
Hill - A man ghost and the sounds of
Indian drums that you can here echoing in the distance foot steps that
can be heard but never a person to make them. At the end of the road
sights of shadowy figures can be seen.
Woodville - Old
Cemetery - Outside of Woodville -Noises
heard, apparition of a man in a black suit seen only to disappear
moments later.
Zapata - Old
Zapata Middle School - Zapata Central - At
the Old Zapata Middle School gym (which is now Zapata Central), there
is a ghostly resident of a small boy that died there. Footsteps heard
in the bleachers when no one is up and walking.
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