Haunted Places in Texas!!!

Alexander

• Mc Dow's Hole - It is said that there is a headless woman that walks the creek bed with her head in one arm looking for her baby. The story goes that she, her husband, and their baby lived in a small house in the late 1800's. Her husband left her and the baby there while he was out farming. Indians came in killed the wife and threw the baby into the creek. Cars stall, banging on the outside of cars and reports of a ball of light chasing passersby.

Allen

• Eagle Stadium - It is said that Eagle Stadium is haunted by an ex-football player that died 65 years ago. There have been sightings of a shadow running down the field at midnight, but the ghost has only been seen on Friday nights after a game.

Alpine

• Sul Ross State University - The story is of a young woman who killed herself in the Fletcher resident hall. To this day a girl can be seen walking around late at night in a skimpy nightgown. Also, things end up missing even if the doors had been locked all day. People report seeing strange apparitions at the foot of the bed. Whenever there is a mention of the "Fletcher Ghost", a door slams, there is a loud bang, someone screams, or some other jolting noise.

Alton

• Alton bus crash - In September 1989 a school bus fell over the ledge of a pit full of water. 21 children drowned that day while struggling to get out of the bus. Now it is fenced in. People have claimed to hear the screams of the children. Though most of the locals figure it is the teens that hang around there. Some people even claim to have seen figures sitting on the ledge of the pit. Park and get off to see everything up close. There is a definite sense of sorrow and gloom surrounding the area.

Alvin

• Harby Jr. High - This place is teeming with weird things. During the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, some bodies were buried where the school was built. Teachers have reported seeing the faces of people in windows. Also showers in the locker rooms will turn on without anyone ever being in the locker room.

Amarillo

• Gebo's - Formerly Bonanza Supermarket - back in the 1980’s, before Gebo's ever opened a second store, a supermarket called Bonanza was there. People say that an employee there was killed in the meat department one night. Present day, stories of the ghost haunt Gebo's, moving items and misplacing them at night. Since then, the employees try to avoid night inventory. In the morning, things would be out of place. Lots of employees have seen what the ghost has done.
  
   

• Tradewinds Airport - Rumor has it that back when the place was a private air strip, a woman caught her husband with his mistress in their private plane and killed both of them then committed suicide. This would explain the distinct smell of perfume, which comes and goes (even in the strongest breeze) Also strange lights (like a plane gearing up), can be seen coming from an abandoned hanger. From this same area the sounds of arguing have been heard but there is no one there.

Andice

• Blue Light Cemetery - Babies cries are heard accompanied with the feeling of being watch and a blue light, has also been spotted.

Andrews

• Andrews Middle School - they say that when you go to the school when its dark you can park your car in an angle with your headlights on in front of the school and you can see a shadow that spells out " Thirteen" because the legend goes that a young boy used to always tag drawings and that he died on his birthday the 13th and that was the same day he died.

• Shafter Lake - Just north of Andrews, Texas, west of Highway 385, is the original location of the county seat of Andrews County, Shafter. It was named after a Confederate general of the same last name. The town was almost completely wiped out by a smallpox epidemic around the turn of the last century, possibly sometime before 1910. Up until about ten years ago, the cemetery where the victims were buried was located on the near edge of the small lake (which comes and goes as it pleases), but the bodies were moved and reentered elsewhere. Legend was that a "lady in white" haunted the graveyard, possibly the reason for its removal. Sometime during the fall of the year, you may also see a troop of Confederate soldiers and their horses galloping across the lake, usually during a full moon. Most think it is General Shafter and his men, who did patrol that area before it was settled, trying to escape Comanche Indians pursing them. By the way, the lake wasn't (and isn't) always there. It just appeared sometime in the forties, according to my mother, who lived in the area from 1948 on. The water is very salty, not good for anything, and there is no explanation for its being there at all.

Anson

·         Haunted Bridge on the outskirts of town - An old metal bridge in the outskirts is supposedly haunted by some hanging victim. It is extremely loud if you drive on it and if walked upon footstep can be heard underneath and wind blowing on one side yet be calm on the other.

·        Anson Lights - The story was covered by the television series Unsolved Mysteries about a year ago. Many residents from Anson and the near town of Abilene have gone to witness these phenomenal lights. The cemetery is located going towards the country. The lights are viewed by driving down the dirt farm road equivalent of about a half mile or more. As you drive closer to the cemetery towards the lights they disappear. As for the actual story for this occurrence, is unsolved. Local myth says that this light is the ghost of a mother carrying a lantern looking for her missing child. The child had left the house on cold winter day and was lost and froze to death. The mother's spirit still searches for her child.

Aquilla

·         Lavanot - there this really old cemetery that’s back in the woods, it’s a historical marker but you have to go through a field to get to it. But once you get back there there’s an opening in the trees were you can see into the field around you. If you flash your lights toward that opening then you'll see this 18 wheeler-diesel (w/o a trailer) coming right at you. If you don’t leave right then it will come to you.

·         Aquilla - trains on the invisible railroads - There used to be a railroad track here. A long time ago the city burnt down twice because of the trains throwing sparks, so they decided to just take up all the rails. Well every now and then around 12:00 midnight you can here the train. Residents say it’s so loud that it will wake you up from a dead sleep! You can see the light on the front and hear it blow its whistle! But it never stops it just goes right through town.

Arlington

·         Arkansas RoadHouse- A big house on a hill (a boy murdered his family in the 90's). It's said that if you go into the house mysterious people run out, weird noises our heard like footsteps, doors slamming, windows breaking. The house was built in the 40's. The whole area around it was a ranch, and that's where the family lived. The murders happened in the 60's or early 70's. There are two stories, the first being the family had a retarded son they kept in the cellar, but not abusively. He lived down there, had everything he need, bathroom, bed, television. There is a large walk in freezer down there too. Apparently he murdered his parents and kept the bodies in the freezer, and eventually died himself. The second story is that the kid that lived there wasn’t retarded, and after his parents died of natural causes lived there. It's said he was a pedophile and a child murderer and would kill children and hide their bodies in the freezer. Right now it's zoned for commercial use, so companies keep buying the property with plans to level it and put a building there. About two or three weeks later, they'll sell it. Reports of a family who bought it and started to renovate it stated new shingles, new windows, all the graphite on the outside is gone, but 3 weeks later, all work on the house stopped. There is a fence around the property, and the road has been lowered, but you can still see it.

·         Arlington High School Auditorium - A boy committed suicide in the drama room and if you're alone there in the room you can hear a boys voice even though nobody is there it is in the backstage area of the stage you can hear him talk as if he is reciting something and than just stop. As James was reciting a monologue he shot himself, and died. Also if you do not leave him a seat on opening night to each play in the auditorium it has been known for plays to go bad very quickly so the theatre crews always leave him a front row seat empty.

·         Bowie High School - It's rumored that a man was either killed during the building of the school or was a custodian there, and we have nicknamed him "Leonard." He lives in the catwalk in the auditorium, and has reportedly thrown small rocks onto the stage. Noises have been heard like machines going off in the shop room, and bells chiming in the catwalk. One student was spit on during a rehearsal for "Grease" in 2000. The left side of her face was wet, and no one was standing on that side of her.

·         Cinemark Tinsel town 9 - Supposedly, during the construction of the theater, a construction worker died while making the sixth theater. Customers say they have seen a chair move or actually see a guy sitting next to them when there wasn't before and get up, start to walk away, and disappear. Many employees have reported objects being moved when their back was turned and weird or banging sounds & the door shutting in the projection when there was nobody around.

·         Martin High School - 2 years after the school was built a boy who was in the theater department was dismissed from his duties on the play. He loved the theater program there so much that he hanged himself from the catwalk. Another story says he went naked to prom and was taken off of the theater crew.  He was upset so he hung himself in the auditorium catwalk. If on the catwalk alone, you hear strange voices and footsteps along with winds that come from nowhere.

·         Parklane Apartments - Noises in bedrooms, hearing babies cry, faucets turn on and off.

·         River Legacy Park - Hells Gate - It's a long trail with swamps on either side and shaded over by large trees. At the end of the trail is a large mound of dirt and two fence posts that were once a gate. As it is said this was the trail walked by captured spies of the union army on their way to be hung. This gate was the last thing they saw before being led to the tree that stands beyond the gate where they died. Walking the trail one can still hear the sobs and whispered prayers of the men and some women who walked there last steps here.

·         River Legacy Park - walking on a narrow path away from hell's gate you will see what used to be a clearing. There are reports of moaning and sightings of a red haired general clad in a Confederate uniform.

·         River Legacy Park - Screaming Bridge One night after a high school football game a carload of kids were driving fast on a country road just outside of the park. Coming to a narrow bridge over the Trinity River they met their fate when they did not see another car coming hitting it head on. Both cars erupted into flames and plummeted into the river below. All involved were killed and since then the road has been closed and can only be walked to through the park. Legend has it that if you find the bridge you will see the dates of the occurrence and the names of the deceased glowing as tombstones in the water and if after that you still dare you can sit in the middle of the bridge on the night that it happened and at midnight you will witness a heavy fog coming up from the river as you see headlights approaching from either side of the bridge.

·         River Legacy Park - The Hobo Near the park are some railroad tracks that run through an area called Mosier Valley so the park is a good getting off place for the train hoppers since the train has to slow down here. One night an old hobo was staying in the park and was awoken by the sounds of screams. Wondering to the edge of the woods from where he had been sleeping he saw a car parked and what appeared to be a man and a woman fighting. Walking closer he saw the man hitting the woman and the woman knocked unconscious. Opening the door he grabbed the man but in the struggle that ensued was shot. The next day the woman was found wondering through the park delirious and half naked but the hobo lay dead next to where the car had been. However, lovers parked late at night still catch a glimpse of the old hobo. Legend has it that late at night if you are still in the park after closing you will hear a tap on your window and there will be an old man standing there in rags.

·         Six Flags Over Texas - In the Texas section next to the entrance of the "Texas Giant" is a yellow candy store. It is the oldest building in the park. It was said that in the early 1900's a young girl (8 or so) drowned in Johnson's Creek. She supposedly can be seen walking the railroad tracks or in her room in the yellow house turning the light on and off or opening the curtain and then closing it. Security guards at night also have problems locking the upstairs door because "ANNIE" feels playful.

·         Sigma Chi Fraternity House - Before building Greek Row, there was an orphanage on this property. It burned and most of the children died. One girl named Mary still haunts the place and likes to play tricks on girls that come over.

Austin

·         Austin's Inn at Pearl Street - 809 W Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Austin, TXA ghostly woman carrying a baby is just one of the things guests claim to have seen at this Austin B&B.

·         Austin Pizza Garden - stories of faces appearing and disappearing in the walls.

·         Central Market - Formerly the site of Austin State School - There are several buildings that have had sightings and sounds by staff members. This old place was built over a cemetery. The cemetery is that of the patients that expired in the early part of this century. But recently to show proof that this never took place a coffin popped out of the ground right next to one of the condemned buildings. The school has since been torn down. If there was any evidence of the bodies, they have been removed.

·         Bedicheck Middle School - Billy, a student, was playing the Phantom in the Phantom of the Opera. He was on the new catwalk in the auditorium and the rope slipped, he fell, and hung himself. Billy is said to push students off the catwalk, and also to help them remember their lines.

·         Crockett High School - The story is said that there is a little girl roaming the basement of the school cause it is said that she in search of her family. At night by the big gym when teachers work late that you can hear a little girl crying walking up and down the hall.

·         Driskill Hotel - people claim that they hear people playing upstairs. They also claim that they feel something touching their face and arms. Some people even say that they see figures in their windows and sitting in chairs. On the 3rd floor of the Driskill Hotel in one of the hallways there is a painting of a little girl holding flowers, witnesses report when they all looked at the picture a weird sensation came over them. It was like something was lifting up the heels of their feet. It was like a tingling sensation causing their equilibrium to be off for the next few hours. Legend also has it that Col. Jesse Driskill haunts the top floor and elevators of the hotel he built in 1886.

·         Garrison Park - The Park is located on Manacaha rd next to Crockett high school. It is said that if you drive down the road that takes you around the park you can see kids playing on the basketball court and see people putting flowers on the graveyard that are in the back of the park before the football field. There are 3 graveyards in the back there are of the historic people.

·         Governor's Mansion 1010 Colorado St. - Sam Houston supposedly haunts the mansion, but the loudest noises apparently come from another man who shot himself here.

·          Harris Park - The family began to see objects moving above them at night, heard loud thumps in their attic, and every time the husband would come near his wife he'd feel an odd force pushing him away. They went around looking for old historical facts and information about their house. They found out that in 1985 a little girl named Doan was abused by her uncle and was raped by her cousin. She was later murdered by her uncle for telling her mother about it so now the family believes that she hovers around protecting any girl that is touched by a male.

·         Home Depot at Brodie Laneand US 290 - This store is said to be haunted by a Ghost referred to by employees as "Fred". There is a supposed turn of the century grave yard nearby. People have reported seeing human figures in the outdoor garden section of the store. A visitor to the site thinks this may be her father. She states, "My father was a "craftsman" carpenter as some people call it and he built a lot of things around Austin and loved nothing better than to make things in his shop which was our garage. People would see the garage door open and stop to talk to him and he would help anyone who needed anything made. He was 74 when he died in his shop doing what he loved. He left me and my Mom in debt and a rundown house so we could only afford a cremation. I am a big believer that people should be buried where their happy doing what they loved. So me and my friend took my dad to home depot on Brodie, mainly the garden section because there were people around. I let my father's ashes go there because he had a love for making things and helping people. His name is Herbert, nick name herb. I am a little freaked out about this because I wanted to do right by him by placing him where he loved to shop and run up his home depot credit card! He is bald and short and Blue eyes, has always walked very fast so if someone sees him tell them not to be afraid just ask him for help and he will find it."

·         Jacob's Hill - There is a bridge on a road beyond I-35 to the East, off of Wells Branch Parkway. If you put your car in neutral and turn everything off, your car will roll across the bridge. Supposedly the ghosts of two children who were killed by their father around the area push your car, away from their dangerous dad.

·         Landon Lane- The family began to see objects moving above them at night, and heard loud thumps in their attic. Facts and information on their house can not be found.

·         Logan's on 6th street- Ghost that died when the building was a coffee plantation refinery and now glasses swing by themselves, doors swing open and a loud cackling can be heard on the second floor in the middle of the night.

·         Metz Elementary - An elementary school east of IH-35 is haunted by the students. Construction workers on site heard the kids laughing from the walls. Mysterious events would happen to the crew who were working. Some had minor injuries.

·         Omni Hotel - downtown- a man committed suicide by jumping from balcony. His name was Jack and since he never paid his room his name still stays in the computer log in stays. Night maids have said to hear him in his room still moving around when the rooms not occupied and guest report noises at night.

·         Richard Moya Park - There is an old bridge by the park that people say is haunted by ghosts. The bridge is closed because it is very old, but people still risk it for the chance of seeing these ghosts.

·         Spaghetti Warehouse - It is said that the second floor of this building is haunted. This was where the employees break room was. As some employees would walk up the stairs to the break room, they would hear strange noises coming from above them. Some of them were so terrified; they refused to go up there. A former worker at the spaghetti warehouse in Austin, reports there have been numerous occasions when the lights begin to flicker on and off throughout the restaurant. The basement though is where a lot of the employees don't like to go because of the fact it has a strong presence of someone watching you that sends chills down your spine.

·         St. Edward's University - Doyle Hall - All female dorm - Haunted by a nun ghost. She's nice though. Some times the showers will turn on by themselves and you'll hear someone taking a shower but when you step out, the rest of the showers are dry as if no one was there at all.

·          St. Edward's University: Mary Moody Northern Theatre - Reports of a shadow of a young man who committed suicide. He hung himself by the sandbag ropes and if you listen closely, not only can you see the shadow of the body swinging across the stage (even when the ropes are missing) but you can hear the creaking of the rope.

·         St. Edward's University - Premont hall - All male dorm - The spirit of a former RA still haunts the dorm. During spring break, he came back early and slipped and fell in the showers and died instantly. he was left there for a week. he slams doors and windows and turns on all the showers at once.

·         Tavern Restaurant, on North Lamar Blvd.912 W 12th St.- Has a female ghost, nicknamed "Emily". She has been seen through the upstairs window at night after closing, has broken dishes and glasses and loves to change the channels on the television.

·          Littlefield Home - The daughter of Littlefield for whom this dorm was built is said to haunt the halls of her former college home. She plays practical jokes on the current residents such as turning lights and stereos on and off.

·          Treasury Department - Employees report seeing chairs move without explanation. They also say that they can hear their names called but when asking fellow employees, they find out no one called them. Weird stuff has also happened in the library.

Balch Springs

·         Dunston's Steak House - Haunted by the ghosts of 2 men who died right after leaving here. One was an older man who had a heart attack on his way home. The other died in a motorcycle accident when struck by a car. Both apparently enjoyed the food so much, they decided to spend eternity here.

Ballinger

·         Texas Burger House - This place used to be a restaurant but do to loss of sales the restaurant closed down. It is said that the ghost that started this business haunts the second floor of the place. It has now been turned into a Mexican Restaurant and the second floor is now used as a storage place but some of the employees said they get a cold felling when entering the second floor.

Banana Bend 

(Subdivision off the San Jacinto River)

·         A story states that a man was murdered on Grace Laneand he could be seen and felt in the vacant lot where he used to live in his fifth wheel trailer. Witnesses claim when going to the vacant lot and going into the trailer and feeling cold and despair and had to get out of there fast.  Another version of this story is that the man was not murdered, but that he committed suicide.

Bandera - Kerr County - Bandera Pass

·         According to a book in the Kerrville Library, Bandera Pass is one of the most haunted places in Kerr County. Bandera Pass is actually some Hills that separate Kerr County and Bandera County. Bandera Pass has its own unexplained “ghost lights” like those of Marfa and Anson. The lights are believed to be that of spirits that are protecting a lost Treasure that settlers hid from Indians back in the 1800's. Bandera Pass also has a Headless Horseman who rides from Bandera Texas to Center Point Texas. He is a Mail carrier who got his head cut off by Apache Indians his fate is to ride for eternity looking for his head. Bandera Pass also has a ghost wagon of settlers that were murdered by Apache Indians. These settlers now ride on certain nights and cut thru local ranchers pastures. People have reported seeing all of these three in the surrounding area.

Bangs - hwy 67

·         On Christmas Eve their is said to be a yellow glare coming through the door you can drive by and see it the story was that a man not very long ago killed is wife and kids and then set the house on fire it didn’t completely burn down but you can see the damage drive by on Christmas eve and you will see!

Batson/Moss Hill

·         Cemetery - Busted open graves from the late 1700's early 1800's and wrought Iron fences are all mangled up around the old tombstones. If you try to mess w/ the graves weird things will happen like ants crawling all over you coming out from no where.

Baytown

·        Premiere Cinema 11 - On the night shift, during the week, around 10 or 11 or at a later time, you will start getting an eerie feeling that somebody is watching you, In the ticket box, sometimes the computers will go crazy, and start printing tickets out. In the Projectionist room (1-7) when you are threading the last movies before you go home you can hear people talking and feel somebody walking behind you, they have even had the little window's open by themselves as well as movies start and stop by themselves mysteriously w/out any reason. CD ROMs open and speakers turn up by themselves w/no reasonable explanation. Sometimes all the breakers will shut off in projection. There is even somebody talking as if they’re talking to you.

Belton

·         University of Mary Hardin - Pressor Hall - The ghost of a girl who was killed by her boyfriend haunts this University. The top floor has been converted to storage due to unexplainable events like hearing a piano, elevator doors closing and opening, and the sound of footsteps. A campus police officer only locks the building from the outside because of the phenomena he witnessed here.

Big Sandy

·         Old Ambassador College - negative presence felt around isolated parts of the campus especially around the library & the guys dorms, anybody that stay the first couple nights there they've had the feeling like somebody is grabbing at their throat & brushing up against them.

 Big Spring

·       Center Point Road- It's a road a little past the outskirts of town. On foggy nights you can see a truck, but after a little while, it disappears. You can see its headlights and it even looks solid. Also, you can feel like there's something in the backseat, staring at the back of your head. There's a bunch of old, abandoned houses dotting the sides of the road. Some of those could be haunted.

Brazoria County

·         Bailey's Prairie - During the 1800s, Brit Bailey died a natural death. His widow arranged his burial according to her wishes and let out a few of his requests, namely his jug of moonshine. He is said to return every 7 years in search of his jug in the form of a large fireball. He is even said to have caused a gas well blowout when they drilled too close to his actual grave. His resting place is a little off State 35 between West Columbia and Angleton. This is and remains a very old haunting, as this area is quite active in the paranormal sense.

Beaumont

·         Forrest Lawn Memorial Cemetery - The Kissing Statues - If you go to the cemetery at night and find the statue of a young man and woman, take the drive way that goes behind them and shine your bright lights on them and they will turn around and start kissing. You can see the girls face moving and the guy’s arms moving all over her back.

·         Saratoga Road- Hundreds of people have witnessed a ghostly light that appears and hovers, then zooms past and even has sat on the hoods of cars. This story is so amazing because so many people have witnessed it and it can be viewed with almost a 100% probability of appearance.

·       Lamar University - Sigma Phi Epsilon House - The house was built by a farmer. They say it was his dream house.  After the man passed, it was supposedly a whorehouse. The fraternity bought it in the late 80's. The house sits on old farmland. There is the main house in the front and also a huge house in the back (just a structure with two bathrooms and a small bar). Everyone that has lived in the house knows about "Chester" (that's what they call him). He likes to knock on the guy’s doors when no one else is home. Opening and closing doors, & walking on the stairs. This ghost is very friendly with the guys and protects them from strangers.

Bedford

·       Bank One Processing Center - The automatic doors open with no one there. Cold spots have also been noticed around these times.

Belle Plain - 20 miles south of Baird Texas on HWY 283

·       Reported a green light doing a figure eight in the middle of the field and cold spots.

Belton

·         Mary Hardin Baylor - There is a building in University of Mary Hardin Baylor called Presser Hall; that is said to be haunted by a young woman who was murdered. They say you can see her in the window as you walk by at night. Many students have actually come in to close contact with this ghost.

·          Wal-Mart - There have been two separate sightings a night time manager was walking by the toy aisle and saw a woman with a Wal-Mart smock on but no one was supposed to be in the area so she stopped and went back to the aisle and the woman was nowhere to be found. On a different occasion a night associate was in the receiving area and turned to find a little boy, she heard a noise and turned her head away for a moment and turned it back and the boy was gone.

Big Spring

·       Big Spring High School - A ghost named Harold reportedly haunts the auditorium. It is said that he fell from the catwalk while hanging up the lights. There is even a strange footprint on the ceiling. When people paint over the footprint, it reappears. Witnesses have also claimed to see him walking around backstage with a flashlight.

·       Flight Line Prison - Shut down many years ago. Occurrences started happening before the prison was even completely finished. Some building materials were stolen from the site so a guard had to be posted there. During the first night our control center got a frantic call from our guard asking for back up because he knew some one was out there he could hear them but he couldn't find them. Upon response loud music could be heard in the mess hall, but as soon as they would open the door the music would stop. The entire facility was searched and no trace could be found of anyone. Guards were doubled up due to the fact that no one would go out there alone. Strange noises, lights, and whispering reoccurred every night. The prison was completed and staffed. A fire safety inspection, area shakedowns and an outer perimeter fence check is conducted every night. While doing these checks guards have reported seeing an old woman in the education wing that will walk the halls at night and give you a quick glance and disappear only she leaves behind a white powder everywhere she has been spotted. A mischievous entity that haunts the mess hall will clank and rattle the pots and pans as well as move things to and from. A shadowy figure walks the living quarter wings. A small child loves to scare the life out of anyone who so happens to be in the perimeter truck at that time. It has appeared on several occasions in the back of the truck looking in at you through the back window, or in front of the truck as you drive around, and has even decided to wake up several guards who dozed off by tapping them on the arm. It has caused several wrecks from trying to swerve to miss him, rounds being chambered into their firearms, and on a couple of occasion’s guards to quit on the spot.

·       Runnells Junior High School - You can see what appears to be a little girl walking the halls through the windows. Also the lights will come on and off by themselves.

Blooming Grove

·       Lone Oak Cemetery - down on the old dirt road, there is a small cemetery located about 2 miles down the road. I have encountered with these strange noises myself. Late at night you will here whisperings and here the barbed wire near the cemetery flick.

Boerne

·       Public Library - many feel the ghost when inside, if you drive by late at night you can see lights in the building going on and off.

Brackettville

·       Fort Clark Area - Reports of the ghost of a woman asking for a ride, once in a while touching the witness sending a chill through them and disappearing.

Brady

·       Soldiers water hole - There's a historical marker outside of Brady that is an old water hole used by soldiers at war. The story is, is that the soldiers were camping by the water hole one night and were attacked on, by Indians. The Indians burned their wagons, stole their horses, and killed all the women and children. And now if you go there at night, you can hear cries of people, also you can hear arrows flying by as if shot at you, also on occasion you can see camp fire glows out in the woods. Also a very rare incident occurred there. One night a group of friends were trying the legend out. While all the friends were talking a couple of girls walked off on their own. When the girls were walking back one of the girls noticed that her friend had not said a word while walking she would just nod her head to everything she would say. Then she heard her friends calling her from a distance, but to notice her best friend was not with her, she was with the group of people off at a distance. So she gasped and started to run towards her friends knowing she had been accompanied by an unknown figure, not her friend.

Bridgeport

·       Hells Gates - A presence is felt, always cold, a black figure of a 4 foot man with glowing red eyes spotted.

Brooks

·       Falfurrias - The Hills - On the West Side of Falfurrias is a road filled of hills, it is said that there is a tree were a lady who was thought to be a witch was hung by early pioneers, on some nights when the moon is full if you drive up to this tree and turn of the lights you can see a image of a woman with red eyes hanging from a tree if you are really lucky you will hear a mob of people and they will start to chase you a few yards then they will disappear because they are mistaking you for the witch. (BEWARE TO BET OF AND WALK TO THE TREE) it has been reported that some people have been knock to the floor and then left alone.

Brownsville

·       Camp Lulu - Camp Lulu was a camp for young kids until it was closed down after the counselor went crazy and raped and killed the girls. Now if you go at night you can hear the crying of the girls. But if you are caught trespassing, you might get shot by the owner of the property who tries to preserve the souls of the young girls.

·       Farm Road 511 - Farm road 511 is a fairly well traveled road, but it has been reported, in the local newspaper and other media, that if you travel these roads late at night People have encountered what are known as "ghost cows" in this desolate stretch or road in the middle of the night. As you drive down the road you may suddenly see a cow six feet in front of you and try to avoid it... only to find out that your evasive action was unnecessary, since there was never really anything there. We have had some people get into serious accidents, causing great damage to their vehicles and person only to get out of their vehicles and find no sign of any animal of living creature in sight.

·       Fort Brown - University of Texas at Brownsville - there was a war at Brownsville, also known as Fort Brown. The date is not really positive yet. Some rumors were reported to have said you'd hear bombs exploding, men screaming all over the place. Some claim a sighting of ghost. A witness claims to have seen some soldiers by the side of her car though they didn't seem to pay any attention to her. The sighting and noises are heard at night past 10.

·       Garcia Middle School - They say that the Library of the school is haunted because one night a couple of teachers and students that stayed over and that when they came back they had seen all the TV's on and there was a couple of things missing there was also books falling of the shelves.

·       Paredes Line Road- A sheriff was once killed in an accident with a drunk driver. At night if you pass the red light without stopping he will put the siren and stop you. He will just give you a warning and tell you to be careful and not drive too fast.

·       Rivera high school - A girl was said to have been murdered in the shower stalls of the girl’s locker room. On late practices Students sometimes heard the showers go off and what looked like liquid pouring down the drain, and you could hear a blood curdling scream that would make them run out in a heartbeat. And even the volleyball coach said when he was painting the raider logo on the wall he heard the scream and as if someone was being banged against the lockers. In last stall, the toilet flushes on its own numerous times. When you're alone in the locker room slamming of lockers can sometimes be heard.

·       Stanolin Rd. - When you're driving down that road it starts to curve and a man was said to have been driving too fast and his car crashed so now where they put the cross of his death he stands there grinning and starts to walk to your car. But when he gets to the window you'll know he's a ghost so start driving.

·       University of Texas - Was known as Ft. Brown during and after the Civil War. It was occupied by both Union and Confederate troops.  Soldiers, horses, cavalry officers, etc haunt it. The buildings that house the University are historical monuments. Sightings and sounds have been experienced in almost every building on campus. The last battles of the Mexican American war occurred in Brownsville.  One of the battles was the siege on Ft. Texas (later named Ft. Brown, in honor of Maj. Jacob Brown who died in the siege) It started May 3rd and ended May 9th, 1846. There were only 2 Americans killed and 7 wounded, so the hauntings (or occurrences) are likely related to residual hauntings. (Or from the Mexican army that was slaughtered both at the fort and at the other two battle sites).

·       University of Texas - The old morgue building - used as a storage building and a three room accounting office. There are strange noises in the building, which cannot be identified. There are eports of apparitions of a woman and small child being seen, books fall from shelves, chairs move in the library, voices and doors opening and closing are heard, and a lady dressed in black has been seen sitting on a wall in front of the Old Morgue. Also, electrical devices in the building will suddenly stop working or break for a while. Later they will start working again. Plugs will also pull out of sockets by themselves and stored items will move themselves. These are supposed to be caused by the ghosts of soldiers whose bodies were stored here. A picture was taken in May of 2001 of what appears to be a hanged body.

·       Resaca Middle School - has been said that when the janitors are cleaning up in the gym they would feel as if kids were throwing stones at them.

·       Rivera High School - There is said to be a ghost roaming the gym of a teenager how died while playing basketball. If you are alone in the gym you can hear a basketball hitting the ground. The Janitors are said to have seen the ghost and heard him.

Brownwood

·       Keys Crossing - By the River at night, there are three ghosts on the edge of the bank on their knees throwing roses. Probably because they lost a family member, and everybody that goes down there at night has to drive real slow or they will flip exactly 3 times at die or get severely injured and people say it is cursed by the Indians. When you just go down the road you see shadowy figures staring at you.

·       Lake Brownwood - Flat Rock - Many people have experienced problems with their boats while they attempt to load or unload using the boat ramp here. People have also mentioned receiving damage to their boats like they hit a large rock, but no rock would be anywhere near the location. Several people have also drowned in the swimming area around this portion of the lake. Legend has it that a small girl drowned in the Pecan Bayou before the lake was built. Some residents in the area have mentioned hearing a little girl laugh at night. Another resident said they have seen a little girl run down the walk to their dock and jump in.

Bryan

·       Bryan College Station - A&M Consolidated High School- Rumors abound of a very nasty metaphysical presence that walks (or rather floats) in the career technology wing of this newly renovated high school. This presence is supposedly named Toby. Several young students have tried, but have been unsuccessful in documenting the scary and mysterious haunts.  (I, founder of T.R.I.P. recall a tragic car crash in that area, before it was built.  Back when I went to school there; In April of 1994 a senior at A&M, blond haired female in a red car crashed and died. One of my teachers tried to conduct CPR but told me he couldn’t because there was too much blood. She died on site. It was really tragic and I had written it down in a journal).

·       Bryan - College Station - Schulman Theater - The upstairs projection rooms are said to be haunted by the ghost of a young man. The man was supposedly closing alone one night when he heard a knock on the door. The theater was closed but he went down stairs to see his partner at the door He let his partner inside, where they began to fight. The partner fled in anger, only to return to kill the man. The opening crew discovered the body the next day. The haunting is said to take place upstairs, which consist of projection rooms and an office. The man will appear behind you and whisper. He is also seen standing next to projectors. The partner/killer is said to be in jail serving his sentence as we speak.

·       Bryan - College Station - Plantation House - Doors slammed shut in the middle of the night to trap a feral dog that was wandering through the rooms where my family slept. Also footsteps have been heard in the attic and in dead space between the rooms.

Burkbennett

·       Goat Man's Bridge - Gilbert's Creek has a bridge out past the golf course between Burk and Sheppard Air Force Base. We use to party down there all the time. It was nicknamed Goat Man's Bridge. There was a man who was man from head to waist and goat from waist down. People say if it's really quite you can hear him. And if you park your car in the middle of the bridge it will not start. They say you can hear children screaming. A friend of mine said he was out there alone one night and he saw someone standing by a tree. He threw his pocketknife at the man and it went right though him and stuck in the tree. I have also heard that a few miles back behind the bridge is a church. Not just any church but, a satanic church. A lot of strange things happened out at that bridge. If you're from Burk and want to go out there ask anyone from Burk they can tell you right where it is. But, don't go alone!

Burleson

·       Bethesda Rd.- Apparently, a school bus full of children was driving down one day and got stuck on a road with railroad tracks. It was hit by an oncoming train, most of the children died. On most nights you can go there and drive your car on to the tracks, stop it, put in neutral, and the children will come and push you off the tracks to keep you out of harms way.

Burnet County

·       Joppa Bridge - When you go onto the bridges at night, you are supposed to be able to hear something running and breathing hard underneath the bridge. There are two bridges, and they were both built in the 1800's. Many say that noises that come from under the bridge are from trolls.

Canyon

·       West Texas A&M University Lobby - The lobby is known to be haunted a girl who got murdered there a while back.  She's young lady who walks in the dorms and in the halls of the dorms. She has also been seen on the elevator.  Also to be said there is one dorm room that has they say like an underground thing that leads all over the dorms.  At midnight if you park your car at the Wal-Mart parking lot you will see a light go on and the girl will be standing there looking out the window.  Also if you live in the dorms you will smell popcorn popping at 12:30.

Cactus

·       Cactus City Park - some kids were playing basketball and it was when the ball rolled on to the street.  One of the kids ran after the ball without noticing that a car was coming.  The car hit him.  It is said that the little boy is heard every single day crying and mourning that he never will grow out of this misery.

Caldwell

·       Caldwell - Caldwell High School - Located on Highway 21 basically in a field of cows sits Caldwell High School, a fairly new building (less than 30 years old). The spotlight projection room in the auditorium and the sound booth is haunted by an unknown spirit the theatre trope referred to as "George". The soundboard and light dials will move and the lights will dim or flicker during rehearsals (but never during actual shows) despite the electrical wiring being checked repeatedly. Folks working in the spotlight room have reported chills and strange noises.

Canyon

·        The Panhandle Plains Museum - At the Panhandle Plains Museum, there is an old ambulance-wagon that sits in the middle of the car/wagon room. A ghostly woman known as "Sara Jane" is sometimes seen standing near the ambulance, and several visitors have experienced headaches, feelings of panic, and the smell of blood as they pass by the old vehicle.

Carrizo Springs

·       Dimmitt County Courthouse - Late at night you can hear footsteps walking up the stairs to the second floor and the rattling of keys. The footsteps are those of the old sheriff who was slain at his residence by two men.

·       Dimmitt Memorial Hospital - Late at night like about 8:00 pm-2:00am people been saying they see an old nurse dress in old nurse clothes walking in the baby's room.

Carrollton

·        DeWitt-Perry Homestead - Rumors say that the ones who lived here may be still around. On different nights, nearby railroad crossing lights would flash and no trains would be there.

·       Newman Smith High School - Abigail reportedly died while storing boxes under the stage. Now she is sometimes seen on the catwalk, and plays with the gels on the spots. Students hit the stage with a hammer 3 times to keep her from interfering with a show, and sometimes, when reviewing a tape of a show, they can spot her standing in the set's shadows.

Cason

·        Slaton Cemetery- Blue Light Cemetery - This is due to the various occurrences to locals such as a young couple went to the cemetery to make-out one night , and were found several days later laid against a tombstone with their faces frozen in fear. It is said that if you go into the cemetery after dark, you will see a blue light floating around the cemetery. If you go in the middle you will reach places in the cemetery that are ice cold, also there are bushes planted inside that if stood in front of on a still day, one side of the bush will be moving as though being struck by a tornado. One report is of a man in his car actually being pulled inside the cemetery with his car not going into any gear but drive while something outside was calling his name repeatedly. It is a matter of belief, but I have been both during the day and at night, and I wouldn't recommend doing so unless you are a believer of faith, and a strong believer of paranormal activities.

Carthage

·       Marshall Hwy 2792 - On 2792 you take a right and a little ways down the road there is an old broken down house with bushes and weeds overgrown. The story behind the house is in the mid 80's a young woman lived there with her husband and newborn daughter. On Halloween night her brother came to her for money (possibly for drugs) she told him no. He was already messed up he turned violent when she told him no. He picked her up and slammed her on the hot stove then shot her. It was rumored that he even broke the gun and stabbed her with it, but after she was already dead he drowned her in the bathtub. The police found him wandering the streets all bloody. The child was unharmed. Reports of strange feelings, not being able to breathe & people have seen a light come on in the attic & a white figure in the window and some have said to have even seen her face in the hallway of the house.

Cedar Hill

·        Hangar Lowe Rd. - There is the ghost of a jogger that was run over and he shows up every now and then on the side of the road, just laying there. When someone tries to call help for him, he disappears.

·        Pleasant Valley - it is said if you go there late at night carry a book of matches with you and you have a little boy who is unknown sit in the passenger seat and talk to you and also your radio starts changing stations suddenly the car jumps into drive and the car doesn’t move.

·        Witch Mountain - There is a hill that on some nights, you can see a lit up cabin, when you try to drive to it you cannot find it anywhere. In the late 1800's there was a witch that lived there and it is said that her ghost is still there trying to attract people so she won't have to be lonely.

Central

·        Co. Rd73a, by small stream - Witnesses claim to have spirits speak to them and seem to tell the future. Also knocks hear on trees, being chocked and children seem to be possessed.

China Spring

·        Copper's crossing - Copper's Crossing gives you a feeling of being watched. The closer that you get to the river, the stronger the feeling gets. Also there are claims of feelings of being brushed up against.

·        Patrick Cemetery - There is a little graveyard just outside of Waco in China Springs. I have been out there a few times and get a really creepy feeling. Cold chills are common, pictures get interesting, and the animals act weird. And rumor has it that if you knock on a certain headstone at midnight, an apparition appears and runs at you screaming extremely loud. Also headstones tend to move around frequently.

Cleburne

·        Old Foamy - When you go to this little water stream you go at night turn off your headlights and honk three times. Then a goat man will appear in front of you. Others say strange things happen to your car.

·        Wright Place - many experts have claimed it to be haunted. The first floor is still a small restaurant, and the second floor is rarely used. People have seen the figure of a young woman near a window and have claimed to smell oranges when it is not being used as a haunted house. Legend says that she was pushed out of a window and killed by an angry boyfriend.

Coahoma

·       Junior High Gym - During cheerleading practice about 15 or more years ago it was reported that the lights mysteriously went out and there were sounds and headlights of a vehicle getting closer and closer to the girls as the girls tried to run the lights and the sounds of the vehicle chased them.

·       Coahoma Junior High - The Junior High of Coahoma is supposedly built on Indian burial grounds. People have reported opening and shutting of doors. Claims of footsteps and mysterious voices.

Colorado City

·       Ruddik Park - there is supposed to be a ghost of a woman searching by the river for her baby which she buried alive because here mother made her.

Comal County

·       The Devil's Backbone - Ghosts of Monks and Native Americans have been seen. At one time a large group of riders who looked liked civil war soldiers rode by a group of men. There cabin shook from the force of the horse’s hoofs hitting the ground. When they had passed no one plant had been damaged.

Combes

·       Orphanage Rd.- a long time ago on Orphanage Rd.there used to be a orphanage with little kids, well it burned down and now if you pass by late at night you can hear the screams and cries of the little kids that died in the fire.

Commerce

·       Texas A&M University - Commerce - Hubbell Hall - The male residence hall Hubbell Hall at is haunted on the third floor. An older ghostly woman has been seen numerous times in the northwest lobby of the third floor. The ghost is believed to be Julia B. Hubbell the woman the dorm is named after. Hubbell Hall was once a female dormitory when it was East Texas State College.

Coppell

·       Bethel Cemetery - Bethel Cemetery is a historical cemetery established in 1853. The location is just east of Moore Roadjust north of Beltline. There is a grave that was supposed to be haunted. It is marked with odd symbols. Apparently, the gravesite does not like its picture being taken because the submitter went through a roll of Polaroid instant film with every picture of the headstone overexposed. Only one picture was normal, a picture of the landscape away from the gravestone.

Conroe

·        Huntsman Chemical Plant - Witnesses have heard doors slamming and opening, voices, and apparition of a tall pale man, and also footsteps. They always get a strong feeling that they're being followed or watched as they patrol through the company's training building, which was used as a makeshift hospital during a plant emergency about 4 years ago where 2 people lost their lives in an explosion.

Corpus Christi

·       Bill Witt Park Airplane Hanger - Haunted by the spirit of a man who hung himself in the rafters of the hanger. He has been seen looking through the broken windows of the now abandoned hangar.

·        Bokenkamp - The night shift has heard voices, and footsteps, mainly in the front of the ICU wards and the first unit. Staff and residents alike have seen shadows, heard footsteps and whispering. Many of the staff complained of cold spots and the feeling of something or someone brushing up against them

·       Calallen High School - The elevator by the Theater Arts room is said to be haunted. At night it opens and closes by itself when no one is there to push the buttons. It's been sighted once or twice by students who are there for extracurricular activities. One of the janitors has seen the ghost of a young teenage girl roaming the halls when the students have left.

·        Center Theatre - The Center Theatre was opened in 1942. The story is her husband murdered a woman as she walked out of the upstairs women's bathroom. But there are seats up stairs, looking over the stage, and if you go to the top of those stairs, where it is said she and her husband were sitting, you can feel her standing there. It’s almost like she doesn't want you there at all. She'll try to make you move, and it gets really cold standing there. At times, if you "bother" her during a show, she will find ways to shut you up. My boyfriend was on his cell phone, and she turned it off and pushed him down the steps.

·       Days Inn hotel - It is said that the spirit of murdered Tejano singer Selena still wanders restlessly about the door way of the room where she was shot as well as the hospital she ran to and eventually died in. Though she is never seen, people have reported hearing faint singing as well as the smell of roses followed by an overwhelming sense of sorrow.

·       Del Mar College {east campus} - Rm.222 - in the Memorial Classroom building is said to be haunted. Late night custodial staff as well as security personnel has reported noises such as howling and laughing coming from around the room. On one specific occasion a security officer arming the building heard what he described as "Furniture being moved around." Mind you, it was 1:00 am.

·        Downtown - The Smith Building - The building has been under construction for some time now and some of the workers complained that they would hear things that would move and fall. At times the doors would close by themselves. One worker has said to seen a little girl in a white dress. Nobody seemed to have believed them so one man took a home video camera and went throughout the rooms on the second fall and you can see the doors close after he had passed by and three times you can see the little girl standing in the corner. Of course he ran but went back and saw her again but this time she looked liked she was going towards him so he took of running again and you could see stuff being thrown at him. The video is real its something that if you see you will believe.

·        Heritage Park Museum - There are four houses that are haunted. In one (Sidbury House) a Child supposedly haunts the children?s room by playing with the dolls and moving stuff and knocking things down. In another (The Galvan House) a ghost is said to tap unexpected people on the shoulder a on the second floor and someone once heard footsteps leading up to the attic. In another house(A restaurant named The Christian House Bistro there have been reports that at night a lady with a long old fashioned dress and a big hat and shoes is seen walking into the front door and disappearing. People have only seen the backside of her. Then in another house (The MacCambell House) a ghost named Mary, who died of pneumonia, is said to not let tour guides in the house or to cause noises or if you go on the patio on the second floor she has locked tour guides out on the porch by slamming the door shut then locking it so all you have to hope for if you get locked out is that you can wave somebody down and they'll come help you.

·        Nueces River - Many years ago a woman and her baby were home alone when their house caught fire. They both perished in the fire. It is said that she walks the river and moans in mourning for her baby.

·        The Old Courthouse - it has been scientifically proven that many people have been hung and sentenced to death there. The rumor is that a young boy went to the courthouse on the night of Halloween in the early 1900's. He did not believe in ghost until this incident. He went up to the 10th floor where all the death sentences went through. He walked over to a window to look at a rope that what looked like blood on it. When some force throw him over the edge of the window. Specialists found blood from the rope on the window seal where he tried to hold on. He hit the cement face first.

·        The USS Lexington - It has been said that in the boiler room of the ship there is a spirit of a young man in a sailor outfit who will tell you where things are located.

·       Wilson Tower - The Wilson Plaza historical development started in 1927. In 1951 Mr. Wilson built a 17-story office tower with a four-story penthouse. The penthouse was Wilson's pride and joy. The 20th floor was finished out as a game room with a private bar constructed on a grand scale of mahogany and trimmed in tufted leather and brass. The view from the penthouse was described as rivaling that of the Top of the Mark Restaurant in San Francisco. It was the scene of many "invitation only" parties attended by Corpus' elite, where Wilson negotiated many of his major business deals. Most of the talk centered on "Sam's" parties and card games. The 21st floor contained guest rooms for "out-of-town" clients. After Mr. Wilson's death in 1957, Mrs. Wilson hosted society, civic, bridge and debutante functions in the penthouse. Today the Tower is said to still be inhabited by Mrs. Wilson, overseeing what goes on in the building. Many Tenants have witnessed shadows and sounds while alone in their offices, especially in the early mornings or late nights. Elevators also have unusual happenings. Stopping on different floors that are not lighted up, you will get an eerie feeling of someone else catching a ride with you.

Corsicana

·        Emhouse - Emhouse School - This is an old school house that was closed in the early 1950's. It is a small two story building located in Emhouse, outside of Corsicana. Witnesses have seen lights on in the inside (the building has no electricity) go off. They have seen apparitions. All the desks, chalkboards, chalk, and pencils where left in the school from when it closed. Even the shower curtains from the showers where still there.

·        Navarro County Courthouse - Stairs and District Clerk's Office late night users of the law library or persons in the Courthouse have heard footsteps descending from the third and second floors. It is rumored to be the ghost of the old District Clerk. He was shot by the County Sheriff after a political dispute on the Court House steps.

·        The Old Navarro Regional Hospital - The building is now torn down, but it is said that the area is extremely haunted because of the many lives that were lost there. You can still here voices and other hospital noises if you sit, close your eyes, and listen for a while.

Cotulla

·        Frank Newman Middle School - It is said a coach died of a heart attack in the back office, near the girls dressing room.40 years later the lights turn off and you can feel SOMETHING or SOMEONE going into the bathroom with you.

Crosby

·       The Town of Crosby - This haunted neighborhood has been written about in the novel, "The Black Hope Horror". The neighborhood was constructed over an old slave cemetery and many of the residents were terrorized by the angry spirits that dwelled below. No one had a clue as to what was causing it until a couple, while digging a swimming pool, unearthed the remains of a couple who had been buried in their backyard. It is a story that is very similar to the movie "Poltergeist", but it is frighteningly real. Most of the activity is centered at the east end of Poppets Wayand the side street that connects at the east end. According to the book, people would rent a house on the street and abruptly leave within a month...and this was a very regular occurrence.

Crystal City

·       One spooky river - if you park your car next to the river you can see balls of glowing light and a glowing shadow it is said that it's the soldier that were in the army that were killed there before the river came up.

Del Rio

·        Denim & Diamonds - believed to be haunted by woman. Ectoplasm said to be in photos.

Dallas

·       Capital Building - Reports of people walking around during the night hours and sightings of Ghostly shadows by employees.

·        Flag Pole Hill Ghost- Near Flag Pole Hill on Northwest highway. There is a narrow horseshoe shaped road with lots of trees; a few obscured houses in between. Once you start down this narrow road, you must continue. No place to turn around. Mysterious events such as rocks flying from impossible angles towards cars; sudden unforeseen vehicular body damage, etc, have occurred. The local police department will verify this as far back as 1976. Do not drive down at night.

·       Gus Thomasson/ Ferguson - On the corner of Ferguson Rd.and Gus Thomasson, is an Eckerd's that is haunted by a man name Wayne. It is said that this man was a late night loader, and un-loader. He was a good, honest, family man until one day at 6:00am going home after finishing his shift, 3 men assaulted him for his money. These men had been doing this for a while now. Well so then Wayne finally decided to defend himself this time, not knowing the 3 men had a GUN. He was shot 3 times in the heart and 3 times in the head. Reports state that employees say that in the upstairs part of the building, where Eckerd's keeps its Boxed products is said to be haunted by Wayne. Employees say mysteriously boxes fall down, Radio is turned, Cold areas are felt, and footsteps are heard going up the stairs.

·        Hospital (shut down) across from Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children - Voices heard, apparition of a girl by a tree that says, "You’re too late to help." screams, and then vanishes. There is a story of a little girl that fell out of the tree and died.

·        Jerry's Super Market - they say that at night on the second floor the managers who close and lock the doors where they keep their merchandise they hear noises and they come running down the stairs and now they sometimes take someone with them so they wont go by themselves. This store is on the corner of Jefferson and Llewelyn.

·        Lake Highlands High School - Supposedly sometime in the early 1970s, a girl named Elizabeth jumped out of one of the second story windows of Lake Highlands High School off of Church Rd. and White Rock Trail (near Flag Pole Hill) and killed herself. Most sightings or strange occurrences have taken place in the auditorium; however the technical theatre teacher claims he can sense her presence throughout the school. Tools were found missing from the locked tool room, trashcans and other large objects thrown across room, doors (w/ hydraulics to keep from loud slamming) were slammed shut, and random cold spots throughout the room. Some kids from LHHS made a movie about it this summer, called Ghost light.

·        Lawrence Hotel - opened in October 1925--crying and shadows on 10th fl. allegedly woman jumped or fell from presidential suite back in the 40's--often heard voices and footsteps and many cold spots---high heeled footsteps back and forth across the lobby between midnight and 6am---gentleman gambler on 2nd level where there used to be an illegal casino during the late 20'-30's--lots of movement in the basement areas too.

·        LBJ House - Supposedly there is supposed to be blood on the walls and some areas of the house where the wife and children were sacrificed and there is a really cold feeling if you stand in a certain place, but I've never talked to anyone who has seen that personally. Also the property has been abandoned for several decades and no one will buy the lot.

·       Majestic Theatre 1925 Elm St-Some say that when no one is around, a theatre benefactor moves backdrops, operates phone lines and emits strange smells.

·        Millermore Mansion - A two story Greek revival home completed in 1861, is currently the center piece of Old City Park Museum. This 1860's mansion was the home of the same Dallas family for over 100 years before becoming part of the museum. Over the last 30 years there have been continual stories of a haunting in the house. Many unrelated individuals (museum guests, volunteers, and staff) have sensed the presence of a ghostly female spirit in the house. The activity seems to center around the former nursery and master bedroom on the second floor. They all have felt the presence over the last 25 years.

·       Oak Cliff - Combs Creek St- This is about a little girl in a bike that haunts a street called Combs Creek by the railroad tracks. The story is that a little girl was riding her bike on the railroad and supposedly she got stuck and got run over by the train and now she haunts this little deserted street by the railroads.

·       Oak Cliff - Wilbur StreetPlay ground - They say in the 1920s that a little girl got permission from her parents, to go play in the playground of Wilbur St.around a creek. A drunk driver was out of control and hit the girl, which was happily playing on the swing. People now say that if you look closely at the swings you will see the happy little girl swinging.

·       Pleasant Grove Christian Church - Reports of seeing Children who run by and disappear. Banging and howling noises from all over the grounds. One witness has taken pictures with a digital camera at this site and obtained pictures of floating orbs, a child’s face in what was an empty hallway, and what appears to be an adult hand holding an axe. The children spirits are not too intense but the adult spirit seems very angry and seems to want to be left alone. Rumors are of the adult possibly murdering the child.

·       Rylie Academy - The lights turn on and off, strange sounds reported.

·        Snuffers Restaurant - Numerous people have seen this unidentified ghost, some say that part of the restaurant's remodeling included inviting an unidentified spirit into the building.

·       White Rock Lake - The Lady of the Lake - or White Lady has been seen here and on the road by the lake - dressed in a 1920's evening gown and soaking wet - she asks drivers for a ride to a house on Gaston Ave where she disappears leaving nothing but a wet stain on the seat. The story is that she was the daughter of a wealthy family in the 1920's. She was on her way home from a ball when her car wrecked in the lake - she drowned, but the others lived.

·       Turtle Creek Center - A successful businessman worked at this building through the 1980's. His name was Harold and on the 13th of September 1989, he died from unexplained reasons in his office at approximately 9 p.m. His spirit has been seen in the fire exit/ stairways by a few working in the building. They have reportedly seen a man walking between the 13th and 14th floors with blood falling from his eyes and a look of shear death on his face. When they follow him into the hallway he disappears without a trace.

Dekalb

·        Cry Baby Creek - It is said that on a clear night you can drive to a bridge outside this small town and hear the screams of an infant. The story states that a mother and her baby had a horrible accident there and the infant drown in near freezing waters. This child's ghost still haunts there.

Denton

·        The University of North Texas - Bruce Hall - There is a spirit of a pregnant women trapped in the building who in the 1930's tried to starve herself to cause an abortion There have been sightings of a young women roaming the halls when the building is closed. Also, the students are bothered by minor annoyances.

·        The University of North Texas - Union Suite 324 -The CSRR and SLA offices of the university have a wandering ghosts. Those who stay later after hours tend to hear the fax machine turn on and off. This ghost "nicknamed" Brandy likes to lock employees in copy rooms and offices, run blank pages through the copier, and turn on and reboot computers.

Diboll

·       The Diboll House - Owners of the house would have coinciding nightmares, smelling bad odors that seemed to come from no where, feelings of being watched, strange banging noises, apparitions, and reports of being physically attacked (smacked, thrown). Diboll House Experience

Donna

·        EL Cascabel - El Cascabel is an old bar that is out in the country. It has been abandon since 1995.It is said that two men got in a fight and one shoot the other man. The ghost can be seen at midnight of the man drinking.

·       Silver Nugget Saloon - late at night some people have said they have seen lights turn on by themselves others have said they have heard music dancing and laughter coming from the building.

Dumas

·        Dumas Jr. High - In the North Gym at Dumas Jr. high there was a group of JR High girls practicing Volleyball. After practice everyone left except this one girl. No one came to pick her up so she decided to go back into the gym to wait for her ride. The janitor went into the gym and stabbed the girl and then his self. If you are in there by your self you can hear the girl screaming for help and the janitor laughing at what he was doing.

Eagle Pass

·       Abandoned Radar Base - Many teens how have gone out to the abandoned base to party there have reported many strange apparitions and spirits that haunt the base grounds.

·       Old Texas Ballroom - In the late 1950's it was said that an old man went crazy and shot himself. If you take pictures you will find out for yourself!

East Bernard

·       East Bernard High School - There is an old High School in the small town of East Bernard. In the gym there are orbs and spirits everywhere. If you go down to the girls weight room the punching bag will start and stop moving

Earth Springlake

·        Earth High School - Many Students that have attended the high school have been killed over the years in car accidents. It is believed that some of them, possibly along with a teacher that was killed in a car wreck, may haunt the gym, the auditorium, and the band hall. If you go into the gym alone, you can hear people talking in the girls' locker room. No one wants to go into the auditorium alone, because the janitors have reported hearing the same ghostly sounds every day while cleaning. It's so bad that they now turn a radio up full blast just so they won't have to hear it.

Edinburg

·        18th St. - In Edinburg, there is a house that is haunted located on Shunior and 18th street. This house is right in the corner on 18th streetand Shunior. Well this house has always been there for rent, and people that move in wont last no more than 3 months, due to extremely horrible terrifying noises.

·       Austin Elementary - strange sightings have taken place there. It is located just 1/4 of a mile from Hillcrest cemetery. It is said that late at night you can see figures walking on the school grounds.

·       Museum of South Texas History - The Museum of South Texas History was formally the old Edinburg courthouse and jail. In the original part of the building you get an eerie feeling as you walk up the stairs to the tower. The tower was the hanging room, were they would hang the convicted prisoners that were sentenced to death. It is recorded that only one man was executed in the tower, however, some people claim that more than one was executed. You can feel a cold spot in the tower. Some claim that the rope that is still hanging there swings back and forth. Shadows of a man hanging have been seen by some and many people who have passed by the building at night claim to hear voices, sounds, and wails coming from the original part of the building where the tower stands.

·        South Middle School - a couple of years ago a student fell from the west side staircase and died. At midnight you can see a white body walking around the staircase.

·       University of Texas Pan American - Troxxel Hall Dormitories - Legend has that a girl got pregnant by a guy who took her as a one-night stand but she thought he really liked her. Well when she found out that she was pregnant she attempted to give herself an abortion in her dorm room, she didn't think she could so she committed suicide. Some student living at Troxxel say that at night sometimes they hear knocking on a certain door.

El Dorado

·        North-East section of town - The time of day plays no concern for the unusual sightings that occur. During the daylight hours, voices of children playing and adults talking can be heard. At night strange orbs can be seen floating along the roadways some as large as a basketball. In some of the homes, sounds of dishes breaking, and none were ever seen to have been broken. Closets in the home would have auras of foreboding, as if some one was staring at you as you passed. One homeowner shot a trespassing dog at night only to find that it vanished before his eyes at point blank range. As children walk from one home to another, they would here additional footsteps along side. During a family get together several family members slept out in the back yard under a night-light placed in the yard, during the night they awoke to see a hat that belonging to the owner of the house rise from the table, lift about 6 feet in the air, go toward the back door. Once there the screen door opened and the hat proceeded inward after a brief pause. The screen door shut after the hat entered. All of this time there was no wind, and it was all done in silence.

El Paso

·        The area around El Paso- is supposedly home to "El Muerto," meaning "the dead one" or "the dead man." This is a common Mexican tale of a beheaded man who rides his horse through the desert with his head either carried in his lap, or hung on a rawhide thong from the saddle. "El Muerto" can also be found basically anywhere in West Texas/South-East New Mexico/Northern Chihuahua Mexico.

·       Cathedral High School - This school's most haunted place is the third floor, which is also the floor of the freshmen lockers and most of the freshmen classes. One time an unsuspecting freshmen went up to go get something from his locker that he had left up there and saw that towards the end of the hall a locker was left open. He started heading down the hall to see whose locker it was when the locker was slammed close and a white figure started running in the opposite direction of where the guy was that was walking down the hall. The guy started running after it but once the ghost turned the corner it disappeared. Another part of Cathedral that is haunted is a staircase that leads up into a separate classroom that is attached to the third floor. Once you walk into this classroom you can feel an eerie presence in the room. The hairs start standing up on the back of your neck and you get the feeling as if someone is either watching you are is right behind you, but no matter how much you search around the room you can find no trace of anything living or once living.

·       Chase Building - Woman in red dress is said to haunt top floor. Strange red lights can be seen coming from top floor at night from a distance.

·       Clint - Clint High School - In the Old Gym above the Theatre, it has been said that the body of a girl, raped by a janitor, can be seen hanging. Also in the Band Room where all instruments are stored, one can hear someone playing an instrument at night, and just being in there gives an eerie feeling that makes you run out.

·        Concordia Cemetery - Traffic noise is a factor but how do you explain sounds of children playing and laughing at two in the morning. There is a section of the cemetery were score of children were buried after they died during a small pox epidemic. You can hear the hoof beats of Calvary soldiers, and just general conversation, but never really understanding the words just recognizing the human voices.

·       Cristo Rey Catholic Church - This church with is part of a cloistered convent, is only open to the public during Holy Week. Many visitors have spoken of a kindly older nun dressed in traditional habit of the order. She is usually seen praying at the altar's communion rail and slowly fades away when approached.

·       Crockett Elementary - The building is aged back to the 1920's and supposedly served as a hospital to war veterans. It's said that on the second floor that a child not knowing the history the building had witnessed a man walking down the hall with bloody gauze on his head and amputated arm.

·        Del Valle high school - It's been known that in this school three young guys killed band members from there. And now it's been known that at night you can hear the screaming of the killed band members, screaming for their lives.

·        Desert View Middle School - One night a coach came to this school and heard punching noises on the lockers when no one was there. Another story is a lunch lady got to the school early in the morning and saw a white figure run through the gym. When no other students where there.

·        El Paso Community College - Photo lab - Students and faculty have reported feeling a presents in the back of the photo lab. The revolving door has opened by its self and the curtain has opened as if someone is watching you. Some students have even reported that they felt someone touching their shoulder and breathing on the back of their necks. The school was built on top of the old Prices Dairy, and some believe a presents from the dairy has found a new home in the school photo lab. Some of the janitorial staff refuses to clean the photo lab area after dark.

·       El Paso High School - At this high school, there is a hall that leads to a balcony that is closed off. Every single day, mist and fog roam the hall and there seems to be some "gooey-stuff" on the ceiling. Over 35 years ago, a teen committed suicide by slitting her wrists in the hall. Then she walked towards the balcony, eventually, jumping off. A wall that was built in front of it closes off the whole stairway and hallway that leads near there. Nobody can even tell now that there was even a hallway there, but people do wonder how to get to that hall.

·       El Paso Museum of Art - It was located on Montana Street, but now they moved it to the Downtown area of El Paso. Old woman was sited on various times looking at you from a window on the top floors. Lights would flicker on and off. Doors would open and shut. Moaning sounds were heard coming from the basement.

·       Escontrias Elementary - A high school was built on top of a cemetery and in the girls looker room a girl named Mary was said to be getting a towel when a large gate fell on top of her pressing a deep wound in her neck. Later this high school was turned into a Elementary school were f you go to the girls restroom before you exit the back side of the school you will see five girls hung from the ceiling with many bloody hand prints on the wall.

·       Evergreen Cemetery - As you drive by the cemetery you can see a boy standing on the sidewalk asking for a ride during the early hours of the morning and near the railroad tracks that are behind the cemetery there is a mist accompanied by a strong smell that might be encountered.

·        Fire Station #9 - It is said that a firefighter died in a fire at this fire station. He has now come back to haunt the place. Whenever there is a fire to go to at night, the ghost will turn the lights on and off and flush toilets to wake up the firefighters before the alarm. He has even been known to do this before the station gets a call about a fire.

·        Fort Bliss - Building #4 - #4 is a story of an old Military Medical Center that has been condemned for a decade or 2.Anyways there has been haunts there ever since a medic was let down for "accidentally" killing a soldier whom had been shoot in the chest back in the 50's.Even though its condemned certain soldiers of high ranks are in the possession of some keys to open the building once again.

·        Fort Bliss - Building #13 - built in 1893 for soldiers of the 18th Infantry. A Calvary soldier was forced to retire because of his age-he may have been a doctor. This depressed man apparently hanged himself in the rafters of building 13. Also in building 13, the swinging doors in the courtroom have a habit of swinging by themselves at times. A cavalry soldier has been seen walking through the halls as well.

·        Foxglove Apartments - Occasionally late at night one can hear what sounds like a cat jumping around on the furniture. Also large fleeting shadows out of the corner of your eye and nothing there when you turn to look. There was also the sound of books slamming to the ground in the bedroom while the occupants where in the bedroom.

·       Henderson Middle School - Reports of six students which went to the place at night and heart footsteps in back of them and herd someone screaming on the dark hall.

·        Horizon City - Ascension Blvd - On Ascension Blvd going towards Mountain View High School, one can see a man walking when you turn your lights off and look back when either coming from the school or going towards it. It has been said that there are many bodies buried along the sides of the road.

·       Horizon City - Carrol T Welch – There is rumor of a little girl who got killed during the construction of the school. Hearing noises and seeing the ghost, of the little girl, have been reported.

·       J.C. Machuca Apartments - It is said that these apartments where built on an Indian burial ground. Late at night you can actually hear foot steps and see dark shadowy figures in the apartments. There are also reports of things flying across the rooms and things that are moved from their original place, and put somewhere else.

·       Kennedy Memorial Apts. - used to be a cemetery long time ago. Footsteps and crying have been heard. A little girl is always wondering around and you can actually see shadows. They open cabinets and wonder in the second floor.

·        Kennedy Memorial Apts. - Gym - late at night you could hear someone playing basketball, you see a shadow standing in the stage. The restrooms are haunted as well, they open the water and the toilets flush by themselves, and slam the doors. When you're standing in the middle of the gym or even walking around they push you and start messing with you. Security has reported this strange activity, but it's nothing but ghosts!!

·        La Hacienda Restaurant - This restaurant is on the riverbanks of the Rio Grande which separates El Paso, Texas from Juarez, Mexico. It is said that on certain nights the apparition of a woman can be seen walking near the restaurant weeping loudly and asking for her children who have drowned in the river.

·        Loretto Academy - At night the bell tower is illuminated. The bells do not ring anymore and haven’t for years. Yet at night you can see the movement in the bell tower. Some say it is a colony of bats, or birds. But this shadow wears the same habit as the rest of the nuns teaching at Loretto. What this shadow represents is the spirit or energy of a much beloved sister who taught at this academy for many years and died of an illness, which kept her from continuing her duties at Loretto Academy. Her existence is well documented by the Concordia Cemetery Association, as well as her personal information and final resting place.

·       Main Police Department - The building itself used to be a hospital and the room that gets the most activity was supposedly the surgery room. The room is currently the weight room, people have said to have been in there and the radio will turn on or off by itself, the lights will turn on and off, or people will pass the room and see nobody in there but the weights will be moving.

·       McKelligon Canyon - The men's dressing room at the amphitheater is said to have lights flickering and the sound of someone running across the room and banging the walls. A man was said to have died while constructing the buildings there.

·        Plaza Theater - Is said to be haunted by a Fort Bliss Military Soldier that died of a heart attack while smoking in the men’s room. A man dresses in a military uniform has been seen on the right side of the stairs smoking a cigarette. There are also reports of hearing someone choking in the basement.

·        Sacred Heart Catholic Church - There have been at times a woman seen in a turn-of-the-century bridal dress by many parishioners weeping in the side chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is believed to be the ghost of a young Mexican woman who was left at the altar and died not long after. She comes back in hoping that her deserting groom will come back.

·       Six Poles - There is a place near interstate 10 were it is say that at night this lady is said to haunt the place since six poles was used as a slaughter site for animals early in the century. This lady that is said to work at this place accidentally killed herself with the non mechanical machine used there and it is said that late on nights her spirit haunts the place and that she appears to carry her head on her waist and a bloody scene appears every time you hear her moan in pain. This place is located behind a new community college built about 2 years ago and close to an amusement park now closed because this kid got killed in the unsafe wheel of fortune ride.

·       Thunderbird Road- When driving down thunderbird towards Mesa St.you will come upon a downward sloping hill. Go down the hill to the point where there is a slight upwards slope, stop, put your car in neutral and turn off the lights. After a couple seconds you will begin to roll up the slope with your speed increasing the longer you let it roll.

·        Transmountain Road - There have been many reports of a monk and his donkey walking this road, which runs through the Franklin Mountains of El Paso, causing many car accidents. It is said he is protecting a lost goldmine where Spanish missionaries had a large fortune. The University of Texas at El Paso confirms that this goldmine did in fact exist...but the archaeological department has had no luck in finding it.

·       University of Texas - Cotton Memorial & Semon Hall - Ghosts and strange noises are reported to haunt both areas, many people have heard footsteps and echoes and screams late at night.

·       University of Texas - Fox Fine Art Building & Recital Hall - there is a figure that many Theatre students see on the top balcony.

·       Ysleta High School - There seems to be a lot of ghosts in that school. A cheerleader in one of the restrooms committed suicide after her boyfriend broke up with her and every night she seems to appear in there. According to one of the teachers, she saw a little girl in front of her and all of the sudden disappeared. Students went there on Thursday July the 18, and four of the girls heard the horse of the horse rider around the stadium. Then they heard a girl screaming in the old gym. In the Auditorium there seems to appear a little boy that died when he fell of the stage. And there's a janitor that appears there too.

Elgin

·       Elgin Elementary school - The girls restroom is said to be haunted so don’t go in alone is the advice to students.

Elwood

·       Allphin Cemetery - There’s an un kept grave marked the year 1870, but once a year there will be a single fresh rose laid upon it.

Eola

·       Old middle school - It is said that some children died when a boiler blew up. You always get a weird feeling when you’re walking through it. During Halloween it’s sometimes opened up into a haunted house, since the school is no longer open. During the setups and the "haunted tours" actual weird things have happened such as doors slamming and footsteps being heard.

Euless

·       Midway Recreation Center - at night people have reported a strange spirit moving around in the building turning on lights and working out to rap music. The grunts of his workout can be heard from inside the buildings. Some of the janitors say it looks like one of the old co-workers who had died a couple of years ago

·       The Old Nursing Home - Back behind the new nursing home, and the drive through pharmacy, right off of Industrial Blvd.(Hwy 157), there exists an old nursing home in which all of the patients and doctors just up and left for unknown reasons. The halls are littered with the wheel chairs and medical supplies of the former residents. It is said that the moans of the elderly patients can be heard up and down the halls. And if you find the dining hall, a table stands in the center of the room stained with blood and the stench of something rotting lingers in the air.

Fabens

·       Alemeda road - There is a ghostly man in white can be seen. This is between the city of Clint and Fabens. It appears he is running towards cars.

·       Cattleman's Steakhouse - An apparition of a man can be seen from the corner of your eye at night. Mainly this man haunts the area around the bar, as well as the Buffalo room and the Greenhouse room.

·        Fabens head start building - apparitions of century guards at the corners of the building can be seen. They appear to be wearing old Mexican army uniforms and holding rifles.   When you car lights are turned on they fade into the dark.

·        Old Port of Entry - ghost horsemen ride across the border then fade out. the cross both ways, on the way back to Mexico they appear to fire revolvers.

Files Valley

·       Goat man tunnel - There are claims of footsteps, women screaming, odd lights, stained blood dripping from top of tunnel.

Fischer

·        Stage Stop Ranch - If you go there at 12:00 to 2:00 you will see a ghost of a man hanging from a large oak tree that is found to the left of the main plaza. He was hung in the tree in the early 1800's for killing a sheriff’s deputy. It is said his corps was left to hang until the buzzards picked him clean. You will also hear the wheels of the wagons that once past through.

Fort Bliss

·        Building 4 - Many current and former members of the U.S. Army and Department of the Army civilian employees confirm stories of strange activities in one of the oldest remaining buildings on the Military Installation. One tale tells of an old Army Cavalry soldier seen in the upstairs window of the building on several occasions. Others tell of similar situations in which men and women are seen roaming the halls of the now unoccupied building. Building 4 was once used as a secondary morgue to hold the bodies of slain soldiers.

·       MacGregor Range Asa P. Grey Recreation Center, "Tumbleweed Tavern" - Old stage is haunted with a feeling of desertion, clicking and unexplainable noises in the night. Many soldiers and visitors have died on the shooting ranges and adjacent trails. Come visit the tavern any evening, bring cameras.

Fort Davis

·        Fort Davis Historical Site - There are ghosts of several soldiers there. The hospital walls are said to change color, and others have claimed to have actually seen specters in several places.

·       The Hospital - There has been a "presence" felt in the hospital part of this fort, colds spots and a feeling of being watched.

Fort Hood

·       BLORA - A soldier in PT uniform that appears in the early morning hours, skipping rocks across the lake. He seems to take no notice of you, and disappears when the sun starts to rise.

·        III Corps Headquarters bldg - personnel working security late at night hear footsteps and doors opening and closing when no one is in the building.

Fort Worth

·       Barbers Bookstore On 8th - Ghostly footsteps. Sounds of pages being turned, strange shadows on staircase and an apparition are also reported. Building is now an antique store.

·       Castleberry High School - Students say that the building was built on an old Indian burial ground. According to the rumor, if you go up the flight of steps that leads to the roof, you will hear voices that do not belong to anyone living.

·        Del Frisco's Steakhouse - In the 1800's, this area of Ft. Worth was known as "Hell's Half Acre" because of its numerous saloons, brothels and gambling halls. Used to be a bathhouse in the 1800s where a man was shot in the head. His spirit roams the banquet halls and the upstairs bar.

·        Fort Worth Zoo - The zoo is home to more than just the exotic animals. The elephant keeper was crushed and killed in the elephant yard in the 1980s, is still seen near the elephant and zebra areas of the zoo. There is a woman who is dressed in a white dress and carries a parasol; walks slowly back and forth near the spot where the zoo cafe is. She dresses in attire from the late 19th century and no one knows who she is.

·       Lake Worth - Witnesses say at night you can see a woman out on a boat looking for her lost children with a lantern.

·        Log Cabin Village - When up in the top floor you can smell lilacs, people say that it is the perfume of a settler that was killed there. You can also hear doors slamming. Sometimes a evil spirit that resembles a man with a broken neck will scream and can be felt chasing you out of the building.

·       Old Opera House - Some people have said that the Opera House right out side of Fort Worth is haunted. They don't know who it is but some people have said that you can hear screaming every once in a while.

·       Peters Bros. Hats 909 Houston - The ghost of Tom Peters moves hats around. When they acquired the space of the former pizzeria, they may have acquired the ghost of the dishwasher, Jack Martin. Jack would baptize new employees with a good spray from the dishwasher.

·        Red Lobster on Hulen St.- Mainly seen in the kitchen a ghost of a girl likes to tease the cooks. At night employees have seen her walking the restaurant.

·       Scott Theatre - A young actor, Ken Yandell apparently hanged himself from a pipe in the basement of this theater. His ghost seems to spend most of time in the strange corridor filled basement where he died. A wardrobe woman was so frightened one night by cackling coming from the stage, she left and never returned.

·       Spaghetti Warehouse - Is haunted by at least 3 separate ghost. A small girl in the bathroom that turns on water, flushes toilets, and scatters paper towels. A woman dressed in white, can be seen on the balcony late at night. There are also claims of an old cowboy, who throws glasses and knocks over stools.

·       Stockyards - Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast Hotel; Located in down town. This former bordello has had a few apparitions spotted within its walls.

Fredericksburg

·        Admiral Nimitz Museum - Some employees have heard footsteps late at night. They say you can see shadows of men walking through out. Lights will suddenly go on/off and no one else was in the building.

Fremont

·       School- in downtown Fremont that is supposedly haunted by some soldiers from a war.

Galveston

·       Ashton Villa - The Ashton Villa doesn't have a particularly sad or tragic background but it is one of the houses that survived the hurricane of 1900. Reports of apparitions, male and female dressed in old style clothes. Claims of feelings of not being alone, and strange noises of movement when no one else is around.

·       The Hotel Galvez - It's on Seawall Blvd.and is the oldest hotel on the island. One room, room 505, is supposed to be haunted and most people how stay in that room, do not stay overnight. Most just feel incredibly uncomfortable there. You can also smell Gardenias in and around the room at times. There are two other ghosts there but no one seems to know much about them. There are several locations in Galveston that are haunted including the Tremont House hotel on Mechanic's Street and the Peanut Butter Warehouse to name a few.

·        Luigies Italian Food - Workers have seen figures of the lady and hear her whimpers as she walks down the stairs.

·       University of Texas Medical Branch - Old Red The building is a fairly modern one with a grid type pattern on one side. The building is concrete with sandstone like finish. The old man's face appeared on one of the grids (there were nine total) the face is a lot like a shadow picture but is quite clearly visible. The story is that the grid where the face appeared was sandblasted to remove the face, only a few days later the face reappeared in a different grid. It is possible that the sandblasting was repeated at least one time with the face appearing yet again in a different spot. The building is quite close to the bay edge of the island and the site is very difficult to see without being on the actual grounds of the building. Someone might be able to see it from the water.

Garland

·       Lakeview High School - Ever since it was opened in the 1970's, it was always consider the "bad" school. Over the years it was given the name of "Suicide High". It was given this name because sometime in the late 70's a boy shot himself in the bathroom. Later on in the 80's a girl broke the mirror and slit her throat, and two girls found her. To this day, there are no mirrors in the girl’s bathrooms. Later, one girl and boy killed themselves in the school. Many students that attended Lakeview in the mid 90's committed suicide. In the bathrooms, sometimes you can hear footsteps when nobody else is in there. There's no windows in the school, that's what some students feel that make rooms so cold. There are cold spots in some places, and you can hear voices too.

·        Smiley's Grave. - A story of a man who had slaughtered his entire family. It is said that if you lay on his grave at midnight on Halloween....it is a bit of a struggle to get up.

Gateville

·        Mt. View Correctional Facility - This is now a women’s prison but was once State School for boys. When you first start to work there the prisoners will tell you that there are little boys haunting the dorms. I witnessed this first hand more then once. One night while working 3rd shift I was standing at the sink area of the dorm and was looking in the mirror when I saw someone walking in the dayroom area. I went to investigate and saw movement, but no one was no one there. Also during a 3rd shift watch one of the female guards was making her rounds when something ran out from one of the small cubical in front of her causing her to scream and wake up the prisoners. She quit not soon after that.

George West

·       Live Oak County Courthouse - People have reported hearing the sounds of children playing and laughing although there were never any children harmed or killed within the courthouse. There is also a picture in the District Courtroom of an ex District court justice who's eyes will follow you all over the courtroom. It has also been told that if you walk on the south hall on the second floor you will hear footsteps following you. The City founder George Washington West has been seen in the same hallway, I witnessed this for myself while standing on the ground outside the courthouse one night.

Georgetown

·       Annie Pearl Elementary School - Everyone called her the nine o'clock ghost. A little girl was killed on the play ground by her own mother because she could not take care of her. Now every night if you drive by with your lights off and windows down you can see one of the swings moving back and fourth and you can hear a small sweet voice sing "ring around the rosy pockets full of poses ashes, ashes will you come and play with me please!"

Gilmer

·        Cherokee Trace - At different locations fog will rise up on the road that’s thick enough that you have to slow down. Barely seen though the thick fog a woman and several small children have been seen crossing the road.

Goliad

·       Mission Espiritu De Santo - Reports of seeing an apparition of an Indian on horse back, hearing the sounds for drums and the smell of pipe smoke. There have also been reports of a phantom wolf that runs in the woods & disappears.

·        Presidio La Bahia - This is an Old Spanish mission dating from the 1700s. It is reportedly extremely haunted, due to the many Texan revolutionaries executed there by general and President of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna on Palm Sunday, 1836. Among other phenomenon is a very short priest that roams the chapel yard, a cold, misty area in one corner, moans and sighs heard throughout the main yard, and a lady who is often seen praying in the chapel.

Granbury

·        Driftwood Theatre 6 - In theatre 6 you can hear children playing after close. They run up and down laughing and talking. Also their have been occasions to where people have seen a woman in a white dress walking through that theatre and through the projection booth and offices upstairs. Employees get a creepy feeling going in that theatre because of this. Also things get moved and doors open and close by themselves.

·        El Tesoro Camp - The camp is haunted by Indians. Many campers and counselors have seen visions of Indians walking and crying, and some on horses at night. Witnesses report, "We saw an Indian in full headdress sitting on a white horse.”

Grand Prairie

·       Confederate Graveyard (near Joe pool lake) - this place has a sign that says - 'posted - no trespassing' - and a man does own this land, and lives very deep into the graveyard. This graveyard is said to be a burial ground for dead soldiers from the civil war. Late at night/early morning (from midnight to about 3 am) you will see a red light down the road into the darkness, when you get closer to it, it goes away. When you go in the graveyard you hear voices, random wind gusts, feel cold spots, hear gunshots, and screaming men. It has been reported that a couple of teenagers who went to the graveyard came back to the car, to find all the doors unlocked. When they made sure it was locked before they went inside. There was a small child’s handprint inside the car which no human hand could reach (it was near the bottom of the windshield, meeting the dash board). When you leave the graveyard, if you look back you will see flashing lights, as if a gun is emitting a light. Some have also reported strange things happening in the month visiting this haunted graveyard.

·       Estes Cemetery - There is an old cemetery near Joe Pool Lake. It is full of mostly women and small children. Also, there are strange lights over the tombstones late at night. Also witnesses have heard a strange laughter coming from nowhere.

·       Grand Prairie Memorial Cemetery - Strange blue lights, a girl in a long white dress runs across the road in front of your car and disappears

·       Old road near Beltline Blvd- A girl fell off the bridge and drowned. The police and the ambulance were going opposite directions and collided into each other. The paramedics were killed. Late at night you can hear sirens and screaming.

·       Palace of Wax and Ripley's believe it or not. - Believed to be haunted by victims of a fire. Strange presence felt, electrical malfunctions that could not be explained, strange noises Like Bells & someone screaming, the motion detectors would go off and there wouldn't be any one in the building but a few staff members.  

Grayson

·       Sherman Woodman’s circle - This building has served as an orphanage, school, and asylum. Reports of seeing the apparition of a woman wandering the grounds, as well as strange noises ranging from voices, cries and screams.

Gregg Longview

·       Old Caddo Indian museum - Museum off Farmed Market road also known as loop 1845 has been closed down for many years. The museum displayed artifacts that were found in burial sites in East Texas. Several people have seen a little ghost girl standing beside the road or in front of the museum during the night and strange sounds can sometimes be heard while driving down the street in front of the museum late in the evenings. The ghost girl is said to be that of a little Indian girl that was killed from a head injury. Her skeleton was on display in a glass case for many years.

Gruene

·       Adobe Verde - In the 1920's this Tex-Mex restaurant was one of the first electric cotton gins. Back in the early days of the cotton gin, a grounds keeper known to present employees as "Frank" supposedly hung himself from the rafters of the vaulted ceiling. He couldn't bear to live without his recently deceased lover. "Frank" now roams the restaurant playing practical jokes like turning lights on and off, throwing things off counters, and bumping glasses together. Sometimes you can even hear someone with boots on running back and forth along the upstairs dining area, but when you go and look around know one is there.

Hale Center

·       The Old Cole House - It’s an old slave house were many slaves were killed. They Still Wander in the house when you walk in you feel sick very sick. If you make it far enough to go outside in the back is another slave shed go in and all the way to the back and a sudden coldness sweeps over your body.

Halingen

·       Memorial Middle School - it is said to be haunted by two little girls who had died there mysteriously. Teachers and janitors have reportedly seen the little girl ghost and have heard her crying.

Haltom City

·        Broadway St Bridge - down behind the old Haltom High School (Now its Shannon High) The story goes that a High School boy was killed and thrown down in the creek, a group of kids skipping school and going down by the creek to smoke found his body. This was in the mid 90's. There are two places that he can be heard and one that he has been seen. On nights that the moon is not out if you stop and go under the bridge its really cold and you can hear heavy breathing and moaning. Also if you walk through the woods there at night you can hear breathing and a feeling of being watched. A young man has also been spotted walking along the road that runs parallel to Broadway back in the forest but as you get close to him he disappears.

Hamilton

·       Pecan Creek Trail - On Highway 36 East, past the fill up station and before the old antique shop, there is a bridge. Under that bridge lays a bike trail. If you follow the trail North, stop under the Highway 36 bridge and turn towards the creek you will see a drainage pipe. Go across to the pipe and crawl in on your hands and knees past two turns. Shine a flashlight down the tunnel and you should see a head look at you and then duck around the corner. Also you should hear metal banging ahead of you and grunting noises. Rumor has it this is some sort of goat-man.

Haslet

·        Blue Mound - In the 1800's as white settlers came to Texas, Indian tribes were being removed of their homelands. Blue Mound Hill was an Indian lookout for the tribe. The white settlers wanted to use the land for cattle and homes. This tribe was slaughtered by white settlers. Now every full moon around midnight you can see the ghosts of the Indians circling atop Blue Mound Hill, chanting and screaming for revenge. The next day ashes can be found atop the hill where the fire of the Indians anger went out. To get to Blue Mound Hill, take either North or South 287(depending on where you come from), then take a left or right onto Blue Mound Road. Follow until you get to a hill with a white shed on top of it.

Hargill

·        Hargill Elementary School - In the girls PE bathroom, the lockers are always opening and closing by their selves. The water comes on by itself and the bathroom doors lock them selves. They think the ghost is a young old girl because kids claim to hear a girl's laughter.

Harker Heights

·        Soccer Field - Its said that there is a cowboy with red eyes that walk across what is now a soccer field then disappears in to the sewage plant and it said to be looking for the Indian tribe that had killed his family in captive, and when the cowboy disappears into the sewage plant, an Indian runs out of the trees the towards the direction of the sewage plant, before he gets to the sewage plant you hear gunshots and the Indian falls in the tall grass and if you run over there you cant see the Indian but long a dent in the grass like he was dragged where dragged by the cowboy we believe. And you can hear light screams from a distance.

Harlingen

·       Dishman Elementary - Teachers have reported that fifty years ago a child was beaten to death by another student in the old girl's bathroom and if you stay alone in there you can hear soft cries coming from the last stall.

·       Harlingen Insane Asylum - Towards Brownsville; There is a place that was used a while ago but is now disserted. Supposedly, if you go there at night you can hear people screaming and people walking around at night. Many people had died there so maybe its there ghosts walking around.

·       Matz Street- a young girl walks after midnight crying but will not answer when you try to talk to her, she vanishes.

·       Shirley street - Some have said that they have seen a little girl next to the canoe and haunts Shirley streetand the houses near. They say that she haunts Shirley Streetbecause her family lived there and died there & some people said that they have seen a white lady in back of the lake.

Helotes

·        Stinson Middle School - It's known that during class that kid’s books will be taken away, lights will go out, or you will here screams.  

Hemphill

·        Patriots Hill- Patriots Hill is located on the boarder of LA and TX. Patriots from the Civil war set up camp there fearing that the red coats would come across Sabean Lake and fight there. The patriots stayed there and guarded their posts until the end of the Civil War. Some of the med perished there from starvation and sickness. You can hear voices on the hill and see men in Civil War attire standing guard in the woods.

Henderson

·        Howard Dickinson House - The house is 3 stories, 2 floors and a basement. What is seen, is a lady who walks out onto the balcony at midnight. She is seen often, but the alarms never sound.

Hereford

·       Tower - It is said to be haunted. A while back these guys killed a young boy at this tower. They took him out there because they said there were going to go drink out there, so the boy went with them. The story is to be that when they got out there with the boy they chopped him up and ate him. The cops had found these men and they were convicted Now when you drive out there while your driving you drive on pavement and when you get to the middle a dust of smoke appears and you drive threw it and once you get to the tower if you roll your window down you will hear screams it's said to be the young boy screaming for help. No one has yet entered the tower. But there is also another past to this tower. Hereford was a war ground they fought here and they say that the tower was where they kept the prisoners.

Hidalgo

·        Hidalgo High School - One of the buildings of Hidalgo High School called the "G Wing" is completely haunted. It is said by teachers that in after school hours books are thrown off the shelves. It is also said that teachers and janitors have seen the ghost of a janitor who passed away a couple of years ago walking in the halls very early in the morning.

·        Mission - Shary Mansion - Mr. Shary, who is buried across the street of what used to be his home is said to have been seen walking across the street at night, from his burial place to his home. He is also said to have been seen by some sitting on a rocking chair on his front porch.

Hillsboro

·        Canberyvilla - in the laundry room a ghost that like to drink coke they say if you leave a open coke and you go back that it will be half way gone

·        Old Junior High Building on Walnut Street- When this school was a college in the early 1900's, students often got into fist fights with each other in the cafeteria. One day, a fight got out of hand when a student threw a tray at another student's head and cracked it open. The student died before the paramedics arrived. People have reported seeing him roaming the halls of the now deserted building.

·       The Shadows - It is said that if you go into the shadows late at night and park your car and turn everything off you can hear voices and people walking around. After a while rocks will even be thrown at your car. It knocks on your back window. If you try to get out of your car you will feel a cold presence even in the middle of summer.

·        The Tarlton House Bed & Breakfast - It is said that he hanged himself on the third floor after the death of his second wife. Greene Duke Tarlton, the builder of the Tarlton House in 1895, built his family home with love and spared no money creating a lasting legacy for his family. Rumor has it that Mr. Tarlton himself is said to be wondering the halls at night. Witnesses have heard the footsteps and felt cool brushes, like soft kisses to their brow. Eyewitness accounts can be read in the journals that are found in every room, left behind from the weary traveler or vacationer.

Hockley

·        Schultz middle school - a girl hung her self in the bathroom said to be haunted.

Houston

·        Treebeards - 315 Travis St.Located in the Travis building (the second oldest in Houston), some staff have reported ghost sightings and other unexplained activity.

·        Ale House Pub and Eatery - There has been numerous sightings and mischief here. Beer mug's go sailing across the room, food plates being flipped up for no apparent reason. Customer's getting hit with thing's, one so bad that he files a lawsuit against the pub stating they were responsible for his injuries (of course it was thrown out). - July 2005 Update: The Pub was torn down a few years ago and now has a book store and strip mall on the site.

·       Austin high school - Most of the times when students are walking alone they feel the presence of some one following them, but only on the third floor. Many students have said they have seen a young girl running down the halls.

·       Bellaire - Episcopal High School - People have claimed to hear her walk across the hallways and slam doors shut, sometimes even locking them. Some of the school faculty does not stay after 10:00 so they will not run into her either.

·        C.E. King High School - It is said that a woman roams the halls looking for her love who was said to have killed her.

·       Christman Road- Reports of an apparition of a girl dressed in a purple dress.

·       Cinemark Tinsel town 17 - Ghostly figures; little boy and man both died in a trailer park one murdered another burned to death when the whole thing went up. Doors opening, voices at night, lights turn on by themselves.

·       Cypress Springs High School - This is a fairly new school, built about 5 years ago in 1998. They say that a construction worker died while building the school and his body was left in the schools foundation and was never found. Noises are heard in the bathrooms

·        Edison Middle School - Reports of hearing screaming in the girl's locker room.

·        Episcopal High School - Episcopal High has expanded greatly in its 20 year existence, however, many other schools have stood in its place before. The Convent, the oldest building on the campus, has four stories, but students are only allowed on the first three because one of the nuns living in the convent almost a century ago hung herself on the fourth floor. The Catholic Church would not perform a service for her funeral, and out of respect, no classes of Episcopal High School are held on the floor where she supposedly still resides.

·       Esperson Building at 808 Travis St.- Legend has it that Mellie Esperson's spirit still roams the building's halls and elevators (which are said to manifest cold spots).

·        Federal Court Building 515 Rusk - The 10th floor believed to be haunted by the spirit of U.S. District Judge Woodrow Seals, who died after surgery in October 1990. The judge's former chambers are said to always be colder than the rest of the floor and the smell of smoke from his cigars still lingers in the air late at night. Janitors and security guards report being touched and hearing voices and doors rattling when no one else is around.

·        Fiesta Elementary School - An old teacher who was accused of abusing children was reported to have killed herself in the bathroom of this school. At night, janitors and teachers staying after hours have seen the bathroom door open and close on its own and report hearing someone walk the halls and messing with the bulletin boards.

·        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.

·        H.E.B on Harrisberg - Many people have seen an image of a little girl walking in the back warehouse where she was kidnapped and killed before the store was bought by H.E.B.

·       Hogg Middle School - In the mid 30's or 40's a famous gangster of the Heights Area was dug up and hung up on the flag pole as a practical joke. Janitors and Late Night Librarians have said to seen and heard his shadows and footsteps.

·       Jackson Middle School - It is said that two girls drowned in the pool and now haunt the place.

·       Jefferson Davis hospital - the hospital has spirits such as nurses, doctors, and patients that still roam its halls. Many have gone into this establishment and have had their own personal experiences such as being watched, seeing shadows, and smelling sterilization solutions in certain spots. The spirits are restless and have been agitated from all of the visitors they've been receiving. It was built upon a site of about 3,000 graves of civil war and yellow fever victims, from when it was a cemetery in the 1800's. It is now patrolled fairly heavily by the local fire department, which is right next door. Explores/ghost hunters suggest that it not be visited unless you are with a fairly large group that can respect their domain.  As with any abandoned building, they may be structurally unsound or you can find yourself being robbed as these kids did or much worse.

·       Kingate village - during the time in the apartment complex a girl was killed because she saw her boyfriend cheating on her. Her boyfriend killed her and threw her in the bayou on Halloween. They say she came back to get revenge on her the person who killed her. She spotted him and killed him because of what he did. In the complex building 1501 there is a haunting of a girl that wonders around in the rooms. Some people who lived there said that they spotted her in the dark wondering as if she were lost. When they tried to call out to her she disappears. They said that the stroke of midnight that a soldier walks with a arm cut off and a twisted neck. As he passes the homes they say he breaks all the windows as if someone was shooting out bullets and when morning comes its back to normal.

·       Klein Collins High School - Klein Collins is a brand new school that was made in the middle of the woods recently which was actually built over a burial ground. Most students have been mentioning how they hear and sometimes see two 5 years old holding hands and running down the hallways.

·       La Carafe - La Carafe is located in a pre-Civil War building on Houston's historical Market Square.The second floor seems to be the seat of the haunting. Employees have reported hearing footsteps and the sound of heavy objects being dragged across the unoccupied second floor. The figure of a large black man has also been seen standing in the second floor window after closing time.  Also seen is a shadowy female figure.

·       Mendel Elementary School - The school is said to be built on top of an old graveyard. Footsteps and whispers can be heard in the halls and in the restrooms faucets turn on and off and stall doors open and shut on their own.

·       Milby High School - People report to have seen a janitor walk in the second floor hall. Student hear footstep down the hall and door slam shut. In the library people claim to see a ghostly figured of a Librarian.

·       Northshore High School - many witnesses working late at night have seen a girl wearing high school gym clothes in the hallway leading to the girls locker room who mysteriously vanishes.

·       Office Building 1011-South Highway 6 - Workers staying late at the office building often hear footsteps, elevators open as you pass them, things move, disappear and appear in strange places.

·       Old Greenhouse Road- The ghost of an old woman who died in a car wreck appears here. If you turn off your headlights and drive around the corner to the bridge VERY slowly, a mist forms over the bridge and comes together to form the shape of a person. They say if you stick around long enough, the apparition will begin to approach the car. My friends and I have seen this ghost appear on even the clearest of nights. The ghost seems to prefer warm or cold clear nights or nights just after it has rained.

·        Old Park - A little girl wanders at night saying “where’s my mommy?” She has a white dress, and looks around behind trees. You can she her behind a tree or walking.

·       Old Woman Hollerin' Creek - Located off of Interstate 10 between San Antonio and Houston, this forest-surrounded creek is said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman who drowned her two children in the creek, and now walks along the bank searching for them. Many have claimed to hear and see her, and it is said that if you get too close to the creek, her hand will reach out and pull you in.

·        Patterson Road- Patterson Roadis located between Highway 6 and Eldridge in Houston. This place is rumored to be the site of a Civil War battle and the bridge closest to Eldridge is haunted. If you park in the center of the bridge, turn your car off there will begin to be tapping noises all over your car. They aren't just the sounds of your car settling. They are mostly on the sides and the back of the car. It is said to be the spirits of the soldiers who died. Be careful, this road is absolutely pitch black at night, however you can see cars coming from either direction at quite a distance.

·        Patterson Street- While driving down the narrow road slowly, black objects start to chase the car. Handprints start to appear on windows and cold spots are felt in the car. Sometimes the black object runs right next to the passenger side of the car.

·        Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School - An old custodian who worked there in the 80's died in his sleep. He was an older man who loved his job. In many occasions he has been heard and felt by the staff. He often opens and closes closet doors and will sometimes call out in a whisper using the person's name.

·       Spaghetti Warehouse - This former warehouse's long-ago owner allegedly died after falling down an elevator shaft. Reported ghostly activity includes a lady in white and moving utensils.  Also reports of salt and peppershakers being moved and even fully or disembodied apparitions, strange feelings of not being alone, & photos of orbs and mists throughout the building.  This building does not have a basement. The upstairs seating area is the area that is supposed to be haunted.

·       The Old Downtown Library Building - is said to have a ghost that plays a violin in the dead of night. Some say it’s the sprit of one of the old maintenance man that worked there in the 20's & 30's.

·        Spring - The Wunche Bros Cafe - Spring is really a portion of Houston on its north side. The building has served many purposes including rail station, brothel and restaurant. Many have seen an apparition of "Old Man Wunche" on the upstairs balcony. Several waitresses claimed to have seen him.

Hidson

·        Largent Cemetery - Many reports of paranormal activity revolve around this cemetery and its surroundings. It is also rumored that the ghost of Robert Faigen goes from house to house looking for his family. He is reported to be a rather mischievous ghost.

Humble

·        1960 Over Pass Area/Train Track - The East 1960 overpass is now built over what was once a cemetery. The overpass was built to cross a set of train tracks. Workers dug up the cemetery and moved it to the woods beside it. Now It is a extremely evil area. Several businesses along the tracks have reported violent disturbances. There was a Putt Putt course along the tracks in the area that became a church, when the church would be closed in the night demonic screams could be heard from inside. The woods are very active as well, There are images seen floating through the woods as well as red lights, which are believed to be a gateway into pure evil.

·        Old Dollar Theater - This Theater is located along a area believed to be haunted by demons and demonic forces. It is part of the 1960 overpass haunting. The workers of the theater would be attacked by the evil entity. It would throw things at them and corner them with shadows. The theater was once blessed with holy water and a cross was put in the projection booth, but everyday the cross was moved from one booth to another unexplained. Some mornings the person who was opening would hear voices from the projection rooms, and footsteps outside the hall. There was one morning when the projectionist went in and found the word "SATAN" carved in the wall of projection booth 2, this booth was where most of the bang and violent attacks occurred.

Huntsville

·        Bowden "Demons" Rd. - Reports of handprints being left on witnesses 92 vehicles by unseen hands, apparitions, and a strange creature with no face.

·        Oakwood Cemetery - This is the cemetery where General Sam Houston is buried, and also where the statue college kids call black Jesus is located. It's a bronze statue on the far north edge of the cemetery, kind of in the middle. It is in a gorgeous spot with palms and it is recessed into the woods a bit, with benches and such. All the graves in the cemetery are laid out with the feet facing east, the families graves are the only ones where the feet face west. A family erected the statue when there 5 yr old son died.  The bronze soon weathered to a black color that could not be cleaned. The Jesus is a classic pose with the hands out stretched and palms up, except sometime when you go out at night the hands are turned down!

·       Sam Houston Memorial Museum - When you're in the loft of The Woodland Home at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, you can hear people walking around underneath you, and see their footprints in the gravel leading up to the house. You can also see things fall off of Sam Houston's desk sometimes in his law office.

·        Walls Unit (Tex. Dept. of Corrections)- Walls Unit (Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice.) - Ghosts and unexplained noises on the original death row (first floor of the South Building, not used since the 1950s), the East Building, and the catwalk connecting the two. One Halloween a correctional supervisor put a voice-activated tape recorder on the now abandoned old death row. When he played it back later for several correctional officers, they heard the clanging of cell doors and at the very end an unidentified voice saying "Hey captain, Hey captain." Source: Austin-American Statesman, October 29, 1999, pp. A1, A8.

Hurst

·        Bellaire Theatre - Rumored to have had a projectionist pass away due to a heart attack in the building. Other spirits floating around include a young girl and a not so nice guy named Neil. Strange sounds, doors closing and actual interaction with the young girl have all been witnessed.

Hutchins

·        Lancaster Country Club Lake - People have reported that the purple mist has approached them while they were out on the lake at night. The phantom approaches from the north side of the lake and disappears a few feet from boaters.

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."

Iowa Park

·        Building and Bridge - If you go between Vernon and Iowa Park there is a road close to Buffalo Lake, you turn off the main highway. You go you'll come to a "T" in the road turn left go strait. The road will get very narrow," by the way if you go in straight you'll have to back out backwards" but if you go right you should see a bridge it will be burnt down. The saying is that a girl and guy coming back from the prom ran out of gas on that bridge the guy went to get some gas the closest gas station was 20 miles away later the girl herd a knock on the door when she looked up it was two weird looking guys she tried to lock the door but they opened it and pulled her out the raped her then tried to burn the car and her, while doing that they also burnt down the bridge they ran to a ten building about 50 yards away the police came and found the men in the shed there was a struggle and in the end the two men were killed. They say if you go park your car get out go underneath the bridge you will hear screaming and all of the sudden a teenage girl will come out of no were and get up in your face thin she will vanish; the bars well start vibrating usually by this time everyone runs away while running they say you see a beam of light shoot from the ten building it will fly by through the trees and then vanish.

Irving

·        Crockett Middle School - A young pregnant girl killed herself in the old ladies dressing room. There have been sightings of this young girl and screams heard before and after gym class in the new dressing room

·       Texas Stadium - It is said that the whole stadium is haunted but sometimes after the games when everyone has left except workers you will see an old man and his grand daughter walking around on the second floor. She is dressed in a cheerleaders outfit and waving a flag. If you talk to them they won’t answer, they will only pass you and disappear into the darkness.

Jacksonville

·        Jacksonville City Cemetery - There is a statue by the name of Mother Templeton. It is said that during full moons she changes her positions. Some have seen her holding one hand over her heart and her left hand down by her side, some have seen her holding a bible in the palms of her hands, and some have seen her holding flowers in her hands.

·        Killough Monument - The history of Killough Monument involved the Killough Family who settled there and built a home. Eventually Indians came along who wanted to take over their land and massacred the family, and destroyed their home. The monument was supposedly built in the same place the house was located, with the graves of the family members surrounding it. The monument itself is a brick pyramid formation on a concrete foundation. The foundation is approximately 4 feet tall and the pyramid is about 15-18 feet from the ground to the top. On top of the foundation there is 4-5 inches from the edge, to where the bricks begin. On the south side of the monument, the second layer of bricks from the top, which was 3 bricks side-by-side, with bricks surrounding the top and bottom, the center brick is missing. Since this monument is the same formation on four sides, not sure if it is hollow or not, believed to be nearly impossible for any human to remove that brick.

·       Lon Morris College - Craven-Wilson Dorm - The dorm is haunted by a supposedly female ghost and each year she chooses a resident to live with. Sources say the ghost is apparently the former dorm director Ms. Brown who died of cancer before her term as director was completed. Sources say her spirit feels the need to complete her stay as the dorm director. Harmless activities are noticed by residents in the chosen room such as: things being moved on shelves, drawers being opened, electronics turning on and off, radio stations changing on their own, noises being heard from the room while the occupants were away for the weekend, clothes moving in closet, dishes being re-arranged, items jumping off shelves as if pushed from behind, unexplained steaming water from the cold water pipes, and the shower curtain would be pushed in with great force towards the occupant while showering.

Jefferson

·        The Excelsior House - The Excelsior House is an old hotel haunted by a headless man on the second floor, and a woman in black who has a baby. The woman has appeared and frightened many guests, including the famous film director Stephan Spielberg. They are possibly the spirits of guests or former employees.

·       Hotel Jefferson - is occupied by a few ghosts. A maid has claimed to hear voices coming out of room 19 when not occupied. Some occupants had been known not to stay in room 19 due to the feeling of being watched.

Jonestown

·        Travis Lake - Haunted by a woman killed in a car accident.

Keller

·       Old Stone Rec Building - Footsteps have said to been heard by the nightshift janitors. Also, sounds of splashing water are around but the pool is empty...

Kerrville

·       Kerrville's Court Yard - it is known that a young woman was killed here by her boy friend in the late 1800's and her bf then hung him self after killing her he was a very jealous guy people have experienced seeing her and her boy friend fighting around midnight then you will see him kill her then later on in the night you will see him hanging in a tree whoever goes there at night will feel sad and start to cry for no reason then you will feel some one breathing down your neck and there would be no one around then your car will lock and unlock lights will flicker in the court house then you will see a young woman running real fast trying to escape her jealous boy friend then your car will shake and there will be a banging noise on the top of your car.

·       Schreiner University - Delaney Hall - Most in Kerrville, already know that Delaney Hall on the campus of Schreiner University is haunted by 8 spirits. Rumor has it this school suffered several freak accidents in the 1950's and 1960's.The Deaths include: One kid who killed himself and yet another who suffered a fall down the steps of Delaney hall in which he died instantly from a broken neck. Recently the students of Delaney hall tried to reach a spirit using an Ouija board. This is how the students learned of the other 6 spirits as one of the spirits told of the news. Many strange occurrences have gone on in Delaney Hall such as apparitions of kids are seen late at night. Once when the building was empty the security on the campus of Schreiner witnessed a light being turned on and off. When the Kerrville police department arrived nobody was in the building. Delaney Hall is also full of cold spots. Students are also awakened by their televisions and radios being turned on and off by themselves.

·       Tivy High School - Claims of strange feelings of not being alone and apparitions.

·       Y.O. Ranch Hotel - Apparitions of cowboys walking around the courtyard after 3:00am in the morning near the swimming pool and vanish.

·       Y.O. Ranch Hotel - The Sam Houston Cafe' A phantom patron has been know to ask to use the bathroom.

Kilgore

·       Danville Cemetery - During the 80's a woman was killed by radiation while working at a power plant in Oklahoma. She is buried in the cemetery and it is said that her grave glows green at night.

·        Kilgore College - Several years ago, a girl committed suicide on the eighth floor of Stark Hall, which was the girls' dorm at that time. The college closed that floor for several years after the fact because people complained about strange noises, footprints on their bed, extremely cold spots, and the feeling of being watched. The floor has been reopened ever since the dorm was remodeled. The residents of the eighth floor still complain however of strange happenings, such as knocking and scratching on the walls along with cold spots.

·        Pirtle Cemetery - A boy died in the cemetery and he was afraid of the dark so his mother sat at his grave every night for a year holding a lantern. Then she died and every night the light would still appear. From time to time the lantern still appears in the far corner of the cemetery.

·       Sabine River - In the 1800's and old lady named Annie lived deep in the woods off the river bank. She was accused of being a witch. A group of men went to her small shack one night to kill her. They drug her outside, chained her to a tree and beat her to death. If you can find the remains of the old shack, you can hear chains dragging across the floor, screaming, and the sounds of whips.

·        Tywhiskey Creek - In the bottoms of the creek there is said to be a chicken man. Many sightings occurred during the late 60's and 70's. If you go into the bottoms at night you can hear loud sounds as if whole trees are snapping in half and loud strange sounds deep in the woods.

Killeen

·        Randall’s Food Store - currently Hastings - It was felt by many managers that there was a ghost roaming the managers office and the store aisles. This ghost would knock off magazines from the check stands onto the floor. Also, it was seen that the ghost would make pyramids by food cans on the aisles. There was also a door leading to the catwalk of the store in the manager’s office, late at night many times you would feel a cold chill and wind blow papers off the desk.

Kingsville

·       Chela's Market - reports of thumping and lights flickering on and off at night and of people seeing figures in the windows

·        Jones Auditorium - There was a worker who fell out of the rafters during construction and passed away. He now haunts the theater. There have been reports of lights turning on and off, doors locking, and costumes falling off the racks.

·        Texas A&M University - Apparitions have been seen by numerous people. There are claims of cold spots and feelings of being watched in Lewis and Turner Dormitory Hall. It is said to be haunted by a male student who committed suicide (Turner Hall) and a female student who did the same in Lewis Hall.

·        Texas A&M University - The Bell - A Guy was said to of hung himself and at midnight you can see his shadow on all 4 corners of the Bell.

·        Texas A&M University - Bishop Hall - At night you can hear a girl in the halls. You get feelings of coldness in some places. Some girls have even felt the presence of a person in their room. Sometimes girls feel somebody playing with their hair along with the sound of somebody breathing near them. At times doors that are locked will unlock and will open. Other Girls have even heard moving of chairs being dragged across the dorm when dorm rooms on not being occupied. Showers have even been said to turn on and off on their own when there is nobody else in the dorm bathrooms. Most of these experiences have happened on the third and Second floor. Some say it is the spirit of a young girl that went crazy by playing the Ouija board and hung herself.

·        Turner Hall - On the second floor in restroom to the north side, it is said that late at night you can see in the corner of your eye a passing black shadow flowing from the last toilet near the window to east exit. While showering, you can also see a passing shadow on the curtain.

La Feria

·        C.E. Vail Gym - In 1978 there was a suicide by a young girl who hung herself in the gym. For many years students and Faculty workers claimed to have seen her. A Custodian was once cleaning the gym at 5:30 and claimed to have seen her walking with a rope in her hand. Also students reported to teachers that the young girl had chased them out of the gym. Back then the school use to be a high school now it is an elementary. The gym has been demolished and was said to be built on an old cemetery.

Lake Jackson

·        Jackson Lake - The lake for which the town was named, Jackson Lake is a slave-built structure with a strange history. The Lake was made to serve the Jackson Plantation, owned by two brothers. During a particularly ugly spat, one of the Jackson brothers murdered the other and threw his head into the nearby lake. From that day, apparitions have appeared as well as sounds of the headless brother searching for his head. The plantation was moved decades later to make way for a new subdivision. People who live in the now-called "Lake Jackson Farms" have reported apparitions outside their homes, strange noises, and in at least a few cases, full hauntings. All that remains on the site of the original plantation house is the fireplace, made of mud brick.

Lampass

·        Sulpher Springs - In the 1800's the only daughter of the richest man in the town fell in love and got pregnant by one of there slaves. She told her father and he had the slave hung. After she had the baby she went and jumped into the Sulpher springs with her newborn baby and drowned. But the body mysteriously floated up to the top of the springs 15 years later. It is now said that the ghost walks around the grounds were her house used to be but is now a Intermediate school and wandering around the old slave house with her baby looking for her lost love to show him the baby.

LaMarque

·        LaMarque High School - When people go up to the cat walk , people can hear voices when you are with 1 other person. It is said that someone was climbing the ladder and fell straight down killing instantly. If you go further down, there use to be an elevator shaft which people say the line broke and it fell while people where in it.

LaPorte

·        Battleship Texas - Supposedly haunted by a sailor named Red. Some visitors to this state park attraction also claim to have seen the ghost of an unidentified sailor on the second deck.

Laredo

·        Alma pierce elementary - There's a rest room that has been closed for years already and the say its haunted because it was in Halloween that there was a Jamaica and the was 3 girls Ashley, Maria, and tiffany. They locked Maria in the restroom. They had forgot about her until Maria's mom called 2 the two girls house asking if they had seen her. They told Maria's mom that they were joking around and locked her in the restroom. They told Maria's mom they had forgot about her. They send the police to the school it was about 10:00 pm already. They looked for her in the restroom but they only found her shoes and cloth. Maria's body was not there only blood.

·        Laredo Children’s Museum - The children’s museum first floor used to be a morgue before a newer building was built and the old one with was torn down. Sometimes you can see shadows and there have been reports of voices and cold spots.

·        Clark Middle School - In the 7th grade hall, room 28, janitors have reported hearing voices at night. It has been reported that you can hear children laughing and playing in the room. In some cases the computers have turned on and off and lights have flickered.

·       Cigarroa Middle School - It is said that in the section of the school known as the sixth grade hall, you can hear the bouncing of a ball which is being chased by a young boy. Janitors say that at this exact time the clocks posted at every hall start to spin like crazy and they have never been able to set them on time.

·        Circle K McPherson rd. - an apparition of a little girl wearing a sundress walking thought the isles carrying a carton of milk in her left hand and a package of Nutter butter in her right hand.

·        Civic Center - A man had an accident where the dressing rooms are. The weights that make the curtains move, fell down on his head killing him. It is now said by the janitors that you can hear him walking at night and that he even pinches you! If you go up the second floor were the dressing rooms are, stage left, you can still see the cracks on the wall and floor left by the weights!

·        Laredo Community College - The site of the Laredo Community College is actually an old fort. A lot of the old buildings are still up and either used as classrooms or offices. The thing is if you check the campus maps there used to be a cemetery that went with it, which is where people claim to have seen apparitions.

·        El Barrio / El Cuatro - Appriations of a woman and child dressed in white.

·        Fire Station #2 - Believed to be an old grave site before the station was built, and haunted by a firefighter by the name of Lupito. Firefighters feel their legs being pulled off the bed while they try to sleep. There are claims of furniture shaking, moving, and of actual levitation.

·        Hamilton Hotel - Voices of children running and playing can be heard.

·       Health Department - There are apparitions of people, figures more than actually people, who walk around once the offices close. Lights flicker on and off, and the janitors often walk into cold spots, left with eerie feelings and find that their cleaning supplies move without anyone being around.

·        H.E.B. Guadalupe - An apparition of a man is to be seen at night to be dragging himself from section to section trying to get out of the store.

·        J.P. OSCAR MARTINEZ'S OFFICE -The Old Department of Public Safety office - This was the old DPS office and several employees have witnessed a deceased DPS officer wandering around the building at all times. He turns lights, computers, etc. on/off; he slams doors shut; shuffles papers/files around; you can actually see the door knob turning (like someone on the other side trying to open the door) but there is no one in the other room; strange sensation of being watched and cold chills.

·        La Posada Hotel - This hotel is set aside the Rio Grande River and just aside of St. Augustan Church. The building used to be a convent and many have seen a nun roaming around the hotel as well as a spirit that takes the form of employees and looks just like them but will not talk. On occurrences there are sightings, cold spots, someone calling out your name, objects moving and falling with no explanation. You can clearly hear footsteps and running in the St. Augustan Ball Room when there is no one there.

·        Lake Casa Blanca Ballroom - one night after a dance at the Casa Blanca ballroom a guy named Mario gave a young woman wearing a necklace a ride to her house. When she got off she left her necklace in the car. Mario looked around and she had disappeared. He got of the car and rang the doorbell at her house. He told the man whom answered the door about the lady he gave a ride to and how she left her necklace. The man explained it was his daughter's necklace, but that she had been dead for over 5 years because she had drowned at the lake.

·        Laredo Mall - around 10:30 some say they see a little girl walking around she has a doll on her right hand and they heard her crying for her mom they say her clothing is about the mid 1900?

·        Main Boy's Club - Through out the years there have been reports of sounds coming from all over the building when rooms are empty or even after hours. In the gym for instance people have heard laughter and basketballs bouncing only to come in to an empty room and in the swimming pool area people have heard the water splashing around and the diving board being used, again when it is empty. There is a rumor that a child drowned in the pool which could explain things.

·       Martin High School - it is said to be haunted because there was a cemetery where the school is. The people who were in charge of the cemetery only took the head stones and not the bodies! At night you can here the sound of wielding, or see shadows in the school gym.

·       Memorial Middle School - They have said to have seen a priest at the top floor of the school, it has been said that memorial used to be a all boys school and that the priest lived there and some how died there.

·       Mercy Regional Diagnostic Center - This used to be an old apartment building just south of St. Agustin High School in the old heights area. Reports of a demonic looking figure that has glaring eyes and a wide grin from ear to ear with a reptilian like tongue hanging down to his chest.

·        Nixon High School - During the 1970's, a girl on the school dance team was killed by her jealous boyfriend. She was supposedly decapitated. Witnesses have claimed to see her spirit roaming about the school with no head. It is said that if you are by the school gym at night, you can hear the spurs on her boots chiming in the dark.

·       Old Mercy Hospital - that hospital has been haunted since they closed it and they say that they can still hear voices of all the people that died in the morgue.

·        The Old Police Station - Every time you go there you hear footsteps and you can feel whispers behind your back and some spots in there you feel a freeze and some times would appear a cat without the head people said that they used to do witchcraft there after they closed the police station.

·        Gym- People have said that a little boy with a red backpack has been seen a night just roaming around the school especially in the gym, cafeteria, and the 400 wing. Teachers, coaches, faculty, and some students have seen this little boy but they say that he looks like a real person but does not talk.

·        Rio Grand River - The River is hunted by a woman named Maria who pushed her 3 children off a cliff and later took her own life the same way the next day. But she hunts the river till this day every night you could hear crying and calling out her children’s names along the river. They say if you see her she will come after thinking that you are one of her children.

·        The Texas Rural Legal Aid building - The Texas Rural Legal Aid building is about a block south of the Magnet School and is rumored to have been inhabited by monks at sometime. Workers have stated that they have seen a dark shadow walking around from room to room and stopping at one of the desks and pausing for along while, they say in the area where he pauses there used to be a bell which one of the monks would ring in order to announce things. At one point the staff left a tape recorder on overnight on a staircase to see if they could record strange noises and they recorded footsteps going up and down, an abrupt stop and someone screaming no just before what sounded like someone kicking the tape recorder down the stairs where it was found the next morning.

·       United High School - United High School has been haunted for years. Some say they would see a dirty little girl under the portables playing or looking for some thing in the dirt. Others say it is haunted by an Indian. Janitors have experienced this haunting at night. One night a janitor was cleaning one of the portables, picked up the trash, put it in a bag and fixed the desks, turned off the lights and locked the door. As he was walking away he looked back and saw that the lights were on. He opened the door and the trash had been thrown on the ground and desks were messed up again.

·       United Middle School - There is a section that is closed off because it is said that a girl was killed after a basketball game when the ball went rolling down the stairs. It is said that you can see her shadow and hear her.

·        V.M.T. Magnet School - Reports of footsteps on the second floor even though no one is there, there is a foul odor that travels around the room and a cold spot.

·        Zacate creek - A lady covered in mud wearing a white dress is said to be seen walking through Zacate creek in La Azteca area. There is usually a foul odor in this area and people say it is the sewage that smells, but others say it’s the smell of a ghost which is most likely to be that lady.

LaSara

·        From Raymondville heading to Lasara (281) - On the way to LaSara,  people have seen a man walking on the side of the road. If you stop and pick him up he seems almost real. All he asked is that you give him a ride to the Lasara cemetery. While in the vehicle, you feel a sense of sorrow and coldness. Then as the man gets out of the car he disappears without a trace.

League City

·       Clear Creek High School- On several occasions, people have witnessed spectral forms sitting in a small gazebo outside the band hall and auditorium. The gazebo was set there along with a stone, commemorating students that have died while attending school there.

·        Nasa Road1 - this part of Nasa Road1 was completely within the last couple of years, and runs through two sets of neighborhoods. On the new road, witnesses have seen several shadow forms crouching at the edge of the trees, seen more shadows crossing the road and felt presences watching me. At the end of Nasa Road1, there is a neighborhood that has been there for several years. Within that neighborhood, first is a large tree that radiates a dark presence. There is house next to it that is almost constantly lit, but that tree remains dark. A cemetery near by is reported to have demonic looking creatures roaming it.

Liberty Hill

·       Witches Grave - Supposedly in the 17-1800s, a black slave was accused of being a witch. She was hung in a nearby tree (which is still there) and buried in the cemetery. Her grave marker says something like "whoever passes over this grave, shall die as I died"... the words are so worn off that you can hardly read them. On Halloween night, people claim to hear the "witch" and sometimes see her hanging in the tree.

Lindale

·        Old grade school gym - it is said that while playing basketball in the gym that you can hear kids voices coming from the underground classrooms that haven’t been used in many years. If you go downstairs you could hear the voices even stronger and while leaving the lights will turn on behind you and the dangling light fixture will be shaking around. Some have even heard chains rattling.

Littlefield

·        Lennox/Church School - In a small church house or school house, there is to be seen lights turning on and off and black shadows have been seen in there. It has been said if you drive there around midnight you can see both shadows and lights on.

Lockhart

·        Lockhart County Court and Jail House - Closed in the early 70s, it was made into a museum that is opened on the weekends. The top three levels are what was once the old jail. The jail section is filled with so much pain and sadness and death, it's hard to breathe! The whole place gives off bad vibes. You can sense that a lot of people died up there, and there was a lot of suffering. It's sad and creepy at the same time.

Lolita

·        Industrial Junior High - Apparitions of a elder gentleman whose spoke through telekinesis, doors closing after hours with footsteps, Orbs have been seen with bright lights.

Lubbock

·        Broadway Ave - There is a sort of strip shopping center that has a couple of bars and a few stores. The building was a hotel at the turn of the century, and there are several restless spirits.

·        O.L. Slaton - Originally posted as J.T. Hutchison - it has been said that a substitute teacher killed him self. Every now and then you will see light go one and off and hear strange noises. Also, the light is in the theater, and the ghost has also been known to make the stage lights shake violently from time to time. Supposedly, it has tried to push people down the stairs a few times. As for the identity of the ghost, it was supposedly a teacher who died near the theatre when it was being built.

·        Texas Tech University - Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House - Many accounts have been reported of ghost sightings in lodge since it has been built recently. Pledges report that during pledge-ship, there were many sightings of male ghosts watching them through the windows and have been reported to haunt certain date parties whispering to the girl dates that their date is gay. One certain pledge said that a 5th year senior alumni has had strange behaviors towards the pledges and has been seen at night wandering the lodge talking to shadowy male figures.

·        Texas Tech University - Geosciences Building - Supposedly during the night of the Tech Carol of Lights, you can see an image in the top center window standing there looking out just as all the lights surrounding Memorial Circle are turned off.

·       Texas Tech University - Horn/Knapp Hall - There is a storage room that many people do not know about on the third floor.- August, 2004 correction - formerly posted as being on the fourth floor. There is no fourth floor, just a small attic.- A little boy died up there and you can now hear him throwing a ball down the stairs. Sometimes he will knock on the door if you knock first.

·        Texas Tech University - Ranching Heritage Center - The two story house at the Southwest end of the complex has been reported to have a white female in one of the upper windows. The police have responded to the reports of the female and have checked the building only to find it empty. The female is believed to be the wife of the rancher that built the house.

·        Texas Tech University - Thompson Hall - Thompson Hall was where Gross-Anatomy was located for its med school until they built a separate building for the med school. There are rumors that it was used for the morgue at one time also. There are reports of seeing people on floors that are locked and electronically monitored when no one had opened the doors. The lights will go out and sometimes turn on when you are directly under them.

·       Texas Tech University - water tower - On the coldest night of the year you can often see what looks like 5 or 6 young men on the top catwalk which goes around the water tank. They appear up there all night as if they are spending the night. It is always the coldest night that year, so you can't predict in advance when that may be. The first reported sighting was about 1949 or 1950 and seen almost every year since when observed. There is no knowledge as to who they are.

Luling

·        Banks of San Marcos River - An invisible "thing" haunts the marsh and surrounding woods in this vicinity. Hunters and fisherman have had numerous terrifying encounters with this entity. It is not visible to the human eye, but makes its presence known by weird sounds and the disturbance or "pressing down" of nearby foliage. No one really knows what this frightening creature is that haunts the desolate swamp and nearby woods on the San Marcos.

·       Edgar B. Davis Hospital - the ghost of the man who created the hospital (same name) nurses and doctors have reports about doors opening and closing medicine being knocked on the ground when only 1 person in the room

Luther

·       Old Gay Hill School - Just outside of Big Spring, Supposedly the school's ceiling collapsed and killed students in the auditorium. The principal knew about the safety hazard concerning the ceiling, and didn't do anything about it until it was too late. He felt guilty and went home and hung himself (his house is just down the road from the school). The principal haunts the house, and the children haunt the school. Strange lights, sounds, and apparitions can be observed at both the house and the school. The school was reported to be a place for devil worship after the disaster occurred. Feelings of being watched and stalked occur at the school. Another story is, is that a young girl had hung herself in the girls bathroom. Reasons floating around are that she had failed a class, had been rejected, and was murdered. After her death the school, then town, began to fade away. With the town in repression, the school was in trouble. Press and families were putting a lot of heat on the school, and it was too much for the principle. He shot himself in his office. After these events, the school was shut down, and the town no longer exists. But you can still visit this school. BECAREFUL, IT IS FALLING APART, THE ROOF HAS CAVED IN, AND THERE IS METAL AND ROCKS EVERYWHERE. It is said, that the bathroom and the principle's office, are very cold, with a sense of being watched, almost breathed on, it feels, on the back of your neck. In the bathroom, with no lights, if you can stand it, as you stand in the bathroom, unable to see anything you can almost see a girls face, RIGHT in front of your face, LOOKING you right in the eyes!

Lyford

·       Country rd 1400 - Many years ago a little girl was killed by a drunk driver while searching for her missing dog. When going down this road late at night, and turning off your lights, your car will accelerate without even pushing the gas. And you can even see lights and a car braking in front of you. If you’re lucky you can still see a little girl searching with her flashlight.

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 nursery. 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 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 and 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.

·       Stagecoach Road- Reports of a spectral stagecoach, & apparitions of men carrying a coffin.

Matador

·        US HWY70 - 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 they 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. (I (founder of T.R.I.P.) have been to Maxdale Bridge, and it is closed off and is no longer in use. I had an amazing experience. I was with one of my investigators and I saw a mist fly over the bridge and start to glow. It started to turn in to legs on the bridge. My investigator started screaming as I was running towards it. By the time I got my camera out I caught the end of it going off the bridge. The picture looks all white and in a moth shape. But it was over 2 feet big kind of like the size if a bed pillow. We did not go to the cemetery due to rumors of the care taker shooting at those who come in at night. It is dusk to dawn rules).