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Hauntings
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The
Murder Maverick
by C. F. Eckhardt 4-15-09
The tale of a phantom
steer called ‘the Murder Maverick.’ Ghosts
of Old Waverly and the Old Waverly Cemetery, an East Texas Tale of Two Hills
10-22-08The
devil and ghosts
by Bob Bowman 10-20-08
Devil’s Pocket, Devil’s
Race Track on the Neches River, Widow’s Bend on the Sabine River, and the Laughing
Ghost of Todd Springs.The
Hairy Man of Round Rock
by Maggie Van Ostrand 10-1-08
"Round Rock's
Hairy Man's the real thing and he's been there back since pioneers built cabins
and helped conquer the West. Want to tell your kids how the Hairy Man of Round
Rock came to be? Well, one day..." Fort
Concho - Ghost in No. 7
by Mike Cox 9-4-08
A small light flickered through
a broken pane of glass in the dilapidated old officer’s quarters at Fort Concho.
Glancing at the light, the folks who occupied the adjacent officer’s quarters
bolted their doors and left a loaded gun in a convenient location—just in case...
The
Many Legends of La Llorona
by C. F. Eckhardt
8-12-08
"To set the La Llorona story straight
once & for all. I've been digging into La Llorona for nearly forty years. This
article pretty much sums up what I've found."La
Llorona: Does She Seek Your Children?
by Maggie Van Ostrand 8-10-08
Many
versions of the tragedy of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise
is the same...La
Llorona by Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal 8-31-08
I grew up in Las Cruces,
NM which is near the Rio Grande. I often head stories about people who had seen
and heard La Llorona... |
Haunted
Hotels Catarina:
Catarina
by Mike Cox
"If you’re looking for a ghost, it figures you’d
go to a ghost town to find one.
But when Terry Cole came to the Dimmit County
town of Catarina from McAllen several years ago, he sought employment as a construction
worker, not an encounter with the supernatural. Even so, he ended up with both..."Laredo:
La Posada
Hotel by Mike Cox Piedras
Negras: The
Haunted Railroad Hotel of Piedras Negras by Luke Warm Mineral
Wells:
The Ghosts of the Baker Hotel by Bob Hopkins
It may be one of the
most haunted places in Texas, if not the country.Mineral
Wells: Ghosts
of the Crazy Water Hotel by Bob Hopkins
"… Another Crazy Water
Hotel employee stated that a little girl's spirit, who has called her "Dizzy",
a nickname that only her family knows, frequently follows her around in the kitchen.
…"Schulenburg:
Haunted
Hotel - Schulenburg's Heartbreak Hotel; the Uninvited at the Von Minden. by
John TroesserSan
Antonio: The
History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel by
Docia Schultz Williams - a book review
Haunted Courthouses
Hanging
Tree - The Haunted Tree of Shelby County's Courthouse Square by James L.
ChoronLady
of the Clock, DeWitt County Courthouse by Lou Ann HerdaLegend
of the Gonzales County Courthouse Clock by Lou Ann Herda
Haunted
TheatersGranbury
- Granbury Opera House by Joan Upton Hall
Haunted Schoolhouses
Center
- School Days by James L. Choron
The
mystery of Center High School's second floor
The
Levelland High School Ghosts Old
Eola School
Trio
Schoolhouse Fly
Schoolhouse
Haunted Houses, Cemeteries, Churches,
Depots, Jails, Forts, Libraries, Bridges, Rivers, Roads, Caves ...
Ghosts
of Old Waverly and the Old Waverly Cemetery, an East Texas Tale of Two Hills
10-22-08The
devil and ghosts by Bob Bowman 10-20-08
Devil’s Pocket, Devil’s Race Track on the Neches River, Widow’s Bend on the Sabine
River, and the Laughing Ghost of Todd Springs.Love
in the Time of Diphtheria by Luke Warm 10-14-08
The
Haunting of Liendo Plantation, “Miss” Elizabet Ney and Dr. Edmund MontgomeryThe
Hairy Man of Round Rock by Maggie Van Ostrand 10-1-08
"Round
Rock's Hairy Man's the real thing and he's been there back since pioneers built
cabins and helped conquer the West. Want to tell your kids how the Hairy Man of
Round Rock came to be? Well, one day..." Fort
Concho - Ghost in No. 7 by Mike Cox 9-4-08
A
small light flickered through a broken pane of glass in the dilapidated old officer’s
quarters at Fort Concho. Glancing at the light, the folks who occupied the adjacent
officer’s quarters bolted their doors and left a loaded gun in a convenient location—just
in case... The
White Lady of Rio Frio by Linda Kirkpatrick
A ghost that haunts the banks of the Frio River...
Houston's Basement-dwelling, Tree-planting, Violin-playing, Dog-loving, Butter-making
Ghost. by Johnny
Stucco
Houston Library Ghost Story
There's nothing to not like about
"Cra" the building's civilized resident spirit.Saratoga
Ghost Road by
Ken Rudine Pollok
and a Mystery Light on the Bodan by Ken RudineAlamo
Ghost?La
Lomita Chapel
"My photo proved
that I saw and photographed something." - Ken RudineThe
Big Thicket Light by Archie P. McDonald
"The Big Thicket Light,
aka the Saratoga Light, shows up at night on a seven-mile stretch of road connecting
Farm Road 1293 and Saratoga, a former health spa/oil town/Big Thicket gathering
area in Hardin County.."Dead
Man's Hole by Mike Cox
The expression
"he just dropped out of sight" had both figurative and literal meaning in Burnet
County during and after the Civil War... Flight
from ghosts helps stomp some berry juice by W.T. Block, Jr.
"As
children, Broomtail and I had grown up, listening to our sisters’ tales on Halloween
nights, about the ghosts that wandered around the cemetery. And to augment their
stories, a river man named Old Rob, who worked on our farm, had bottomless pits
full of ghost stories of his own."Flowers
For Sarah Herndon by Clay Coppedge
"On the east side of Donahoe
Road, not far past the Donahoe historical marker, is a single grave protected
by an iron-wrought fence..." Haunted
Hill Clay Coppedge
"Joyce Woods Cox, a local historian based
in Moody, was told when she was a child that at night you could hear the rattling
of chains."Ghost
of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Galveston Graveyard by W. T. Block, Jr.
If you should ever pass near the Old City Cemetery in Galveston on the night of
January 8th, you might hear a screaming voice out of the ocean mists...Alamo
Ghosts by James L. ChoronDeWitt
County - El Muerto, the headless horseman by Lou Ann HerdaEdinburg
- A haunted depot by JohnTroesserFort
Concho - Dead Ellis by Mike Cox
Docents guiding
tours of Fort Concho's reconstructed hospital still tell the story of “Dead” Ellis.
Fort
Concho Ghost - Shannan YarbroughKatherine
Fleischer Park - Cow Ghosts in the Old Log Cabin
by Mike Cox La
Grange - The Haunted Jail by John TroesserMarfa
- Mystery of the Marfa Lights by John TroesserMilam
County Jailhouse Ghost by Lou Ann Herda Nameless
Cave by Mike CoxWeatherford
- The Baker Mansion by Bob HopkinsWilliamson
County - Jake, the Bridge Ghost by Mike Cox
Woman
Hollering Creek by John TroesserCry
Baby Creek in Lufkin by Bob BowmanLone
Wolf Bridge 6-19-08Galveston's
haunted places |
The
Many Legends of La Llorona by C. F. Eckhardt
8-12-08
"To set the La Llorona
story straight once & for all. I've been digging into La Llorona for nearly forty
years. This article pretty much sums up what I've found."La
Llorona: Does She Seek Your Children? by Maggie Van Ostrand
8-10-08
Many versions of the tragedy
of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise is the same...La
Llorona by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 8-31-08
I
grew up in Las Cruces, NM which is near the Rio Grande. I often head stories about
people who had seen and heard La Llorona... The
Legend Of Bone Hill
by Bob Bowman 7-7-08
Bone Hill,
a landmark standing about four miles northeast of Center, reportedly got its name
from a herd of cattle who died atop the mill, leaving their bones to whiten in
the East Texas sun. But, as with all legends, there’s more to the story...
Longhorn
Branded Murder 1889 by Murray Montgomery 6-2-08
To the cowboys who rode the range in West Texas during the [1890s] there was one
longhorn steer that was always an object of dread. He was a big, white fellow
with “Murder 1889” branded in huge letters on his left side. His appearance among
their herds brought a chill of terror to the superstitious...Sarah's
Dream by C. F. Eckhardt
Josiah Wilbarger's Ordeal - Scalped Alive
on Onion Creek Stampede
Mesa by C. F. Eckhardt
"Stampede Mesa was-and may still be-one
of the most thoroughly haunted places in Texas."The
Legend of the Olive Ghost Train by W. T. Block Jr.
"...That's
the old Olive ghost train and it makes one round trip every Halloween Eve..."
The
Ghost on Highway 281 by C.F. Eckhardt
"... John wasn't the
only person who'd seen Lackey trying to hitch a ride north toward Johnson City.
A lot of people were aware of him. Truckers don't like to drive that stretch on
fall nights..." The
Legend of the Headless Yankee Cannoneer of Sabine Pass by W. T. Block ("Cannonball's
Tales")
"I already foresee that some character will accuse me
of stealing this yarn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but I'm going to tell
it anyway. The anniversary of the Battle of Sabine Pass is almost here, and if
I don't repeat it once more, the story might be lost to posterity for all time..."
The
Ghost on Milam Street by C. F. Eckhardt
Seguin's Headless GhostA
Monument to the Killough Massacre by Mitchel Whitington,
Excerpted
from "Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods", 23 House, 2005 Daddy's
Favorite Song by Sandy Williams Driver, from "Haunted Encounters:
Departed Family and Friends"The
McDow Hole by Bob Hopkins
"The story of the McDow ghost became
very popular by the end of the 19th century ... many people would come to the
water hole hoping to get a glimpse of the specter." "With so many sightings
over so many years coupled with documented sightings of those who died there,
it is obvious that this story far exceeds the status of mere myth or urban legend."
TUMBLEWEEDS'
TALES: Ghost Towns and Town Ghosts
by Stephen Osmon
Town ghosts
of Evanesce, Texas; and Coyotes’ Story of the Great Spirit.The
Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton by Clay Coppedge
"Despite Johnny
Horton's wild-at-heart looks and voice, he was a man haunted for years by ominous
premonitions of his own death. He often promised those close to him he would contact
them from beyond the grave."The
Lady in Blue by Bob Bowman
For longer
than anyone can remember, the story of “the lady in blue” has existed on the fringes
of East Texas history and religion.The
Poltergeist by George LesterThe
Haunted Boots by George LesterPhantom
of the Oilwell by George LesterGhost
in East Texas by Bob Bowman
The ghost of Bouton Lake, resident
ghost in Lady Bird Johnson's family home at Karnack, phantom of the opera in Nacogdoches,
Diamond Bessie in the Excelsior House, and more ghosts in East Texas cemeteries.
Ghost
Road by Bob Bowman
"Does
the lantern of a headless brakeman haunt Hardin County's Ghost Road?..."
Texas'
Favorite Ghost Story - San Antonio's Overworked Ghost Children by Raoul
Hashimoto Bailey's
Light - A Brazoria County ghost tale by Murray Montgomery
"Best
Tales of Texas Ghosts" by Docia Schultz Williams. A book review"Ghosts
in the Graveyard, Texas Cemetery Tales" by Olyve Hallmark Abbott. A book
reviewA
dog ghost in Stephenville by Mike Cox' |
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Keeper of Seul Choix Point
by Ken Rudine
Ken and Yvonne Rudine
recently toured forty-two lighthouses along the shores of Lake Michigan. Like
many places where mortals spend a lot of time lighthouses are frequently thought
to be haunted. This is one such case. |
Skull
Island on Mermentau River, A Slave Ship's Inhumanity by W. T. Block
("Cannonball's Tales")
"... It was the story of 200 starving
African slaves abandoned on a marsh ridge on Mermentau River, where they were
left to die horrific deaths..." The
Ghost In The Bell Jar by Loyd Auerbach
from "A Paranormal Casebook:
Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium", Atriad Press, 2005
The
House on Nikitski Pereulic by James L. Choron
A Russian ghost story
Our
Little Hero by James L. Choron
"This isn't a "Texas" story, but
it's one that I think Texans will identify with. A "different kind of war story",
it's one of the saddest, but most heroic paranormal cases I've ever dealt with."
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Denison
UFO by Mike Cox 3-13-08
The
January UFO sightings in Stephenville gave the national news media a brief respite
from politics and conferred on the town millions of dollars in free advertising,
but the Erath County incident isn’t the Lone Star State’s first rodeo when it
comes to mysterious objects in the sky.The
Wail of the Wampus Cat C. F. Eckhardt
1-3-08
The words ‘wampus cat’ usually denote a mythical bugbear or bugaboo used to scare
small children and the incredibly credulous. However, for a period of about forty
years—the 1920s through the mid-1950s—at least in certain parts of Texas, a ‘wampus
cat’ was something very real... Chupacabra
by Mike Cox
Does a zoologically unknown, blood-sucking creature prowl
the South Texas mesquite?‘Mysterious
Cattle Deaths’ Not So Mysterious by C. F. Eckhardt
In the news
over the past several years there has been a rash of ‘mysterious’ deaths of livestock,
most notably cattle. Apparently the animals have been sucked dry of blood, as
a general rule the genitals have been cut out, apparently surgically, the eyes
are usually gone, often the tongue is gone, and the rectum has been removed. These
have been blamed on everything from UFOs to Satanic cults. Apparently, they are
the result of neither... Lubbock
Lights and UFOs by Clay Coppedge
I've seen some weird things. But
I never saw the Lubbock Lights. They came along a couple of years before I was
born, in 1951. As far as I know, which isn't very far, they haven't returned but
their mystery and the legend surrounding the lights has never quite gone away...
Death
Superstitions by Bob Bowman
In early East Texas, death was accompanied
by a variety of superstitions, some of which are still respected in the homes
of our grandparents.
Mr. Acton's Story C.
F. Eckhardt
"...We headed for that light. It was slow going, but
we made progress-but when we got to it, there was no house. There was just a glowing
ball of light, maybe a foot or a foot and a half across, in the branches of a
little tree..."
The Undead by Maggie Van Ostrand
Not only is Halloween right around the October corner, but this week has
a Friday the 13th in it. If that's not enough to get your hackles raised, it's
time to reconsider the Bridey Murphy Syndrome... Friday
the 13th by Maggie Van Ostrand
"...Is the fear of Friday the
13th based on the fear of the number thirteen itself?... Who were the three scariest
guys to be born on Friday the 13th?..."Some
old-time superstitions prevail by Delbert Trew
When I began asking
friends about this subject I learned many early-day superstitions are alive and
well today.The
Case of Beaumont's Missing Marble Corpse by W. T. Block, Jr.
It
was July of 1901 in Beaumont, and the frenzy of oil excitement rushed on unabated...
In the midst of all the oil madness, there emerged one of the strangest tales
ever to unfold in the "sawdust city," the case of Beaumont's missing corpse that
had turned to stone... TV
Corpses at Halloween by Maggie Van OstrandDead
Men Don't Talk, But Dead Women Do by Maggie Van Ostrand
"...Who
will be the Main Dead Person of 2005?
We nominate the still-great-though-dead
Frida Kahlo..."
Live
Oaks and Dead Folks
Columbus City Cemetery Tour
"Just
because some of the more interesting people in Columbus happen to be dead doesn't
mean you can't get to know them."Wild
Woman of the Navidad by Murray Montgomery
"The Navidad isn’t
really much of a river, as rivers go – it’s not very famous and can’t be compared
to the stunning Guadalupe or majestic Colorado, when it comes to beauty. But the
little old Navidad just might have a claim to fame that the others can’t equal.
You see, the Navidad has a past of mysterious and wild creatures, of the two-legged
variety, living along its winding path..."Punkin
Center by Mike Cox
The Punkin Center Phenomenon, and the old Irish folktale
about Jack-O’-Lantern, the enduring symbol of Halloween.
Halloween
- Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties by
Elizabeth Bussey SowdalLechuza
by Mike Cox
"Lechuzas have been scaring people in Mexico and
South Texas for a long time. ... Lechuzas are witches - brujas - who transform
themselves into birds...."
Superstitions
by Bob Bowman
Ghosts, witches, graves, black cats, Halloween, Friday
the 13th...
"Never slam a door. You might hurt a ghost, who'll haunt
you for the rest of your life."
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Carter,
Texas...- Tarrant County Investigators of the Paranormal, June 13, 2006
Subject: Haunting in San Antonio
I am seeking your help in locating information. As a former long-time resident
of San Antonio, I am familiar with many of the local legends about ghosts and
the like. I know all about the "haunted" train tracks, and the optical illusion
responsible for the phenomenon, I remember tales of Midget Mansion (actually hiked
up that way a time or two), and I have heard fascinating, and rather scary, stories
of the ghostly activities in the old Hertzberg Circus Museum. More specifically,
I have heard tales of what occured in the basement, used at least at the time
by the library for storage. The mother of a personal friend of my brother actually
worked in that basement, and had her own stories to tell. Cases of a man in dark/black
clothing, often very threatening, books moving, being "grabbed" by nothing visible,
and more. While looking around online for these old stories, I found many of them,
but can locate nothing on the circus/library building. I did visit the museum
there once, and only once, and was rather uncomfortable, for lack of a better
word, the entire time. I am hoping that you might have some information on this
"haunting". Thank you. - Deborah Fisher, May 25, 2006Sterling
City - Main Street landmark buildingGhost
Soldier or Under the Overpass at Alice -Melisa SammonsHouston
Ghost
Hello, I question why not one of your featured
writers of ghost articles has failed to investigate downtown Houston`s
most noted haunting... "The Old Downtown Houston Library" rumor has it that an
old caretaker lived in the basement of that building with his dog... this caretaker
loved to play his violin (fiddle) after hours.... He no longer is alive.... but
the tunes he played can still be heard softly coming from the basement... this
story was reported 20 maybe 25 years ago.... I have not heard anything of it since..
however I did see it featured on a TV program, but i don't recall which.. Could
have been "Unsolved Mysteries"..... but I may be wrong........If you go to the
old Library... they won't let you down into the basement if your only a visitor...
but I think that someone with credentials can surely gain access.. And write a
story that needs to be told. Thanks for this website, its GREAT!!! - Chris
M Bird, August 10, 2005 Haunted
Jails and Jail Museums in Texas
Shannan Yarbrough, Fredericksburg Chamber Assistant, March 11, 2005My
wife and I live in Mission, Tx. One time we heard a story that there was a chapel
that was haunted. Now this place is located about three miles south of Mission
in a town called Madero. One night my wife, a couple of friends from Houston and
I decided to go and see if this was true. It was around 11 p.m. when we got there
and saw this big chapel with a balcony. The gates were closed and it look like
it has been abandoned for a while. The first thing we saw was a man standing in
the balcony with his arms wide open. We all got scared and quickly started to
drive off. Suddenly a very big noise came about and we saw a light flashing in
our windshield. We really had never believed in ghosts, but this was something
very special. - R Reyna, March 14, 2003
I was born and raised in Beaumont and heard many stories about the "ghost"
of Saratoga.... A friend of mine once told me that her car was actually
attacked and dented by an unseen force when she was in Saratoga. .... On a double-date,
I was taken out there late at night, but nothing occurred. ... I would like to
know more of the story (legend), whether it be true or not. ... - Thank you, Rhoda
W., January 02, 2002The
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