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East Texas Ghosts by
Bob Bowman | |
So,
you don’t believe in ghosts?
Well,
read on and we may make a believer of you, especially since this week brings Halloween.
On Bragg
Road, near Saratoga
in Hardin County, many people have seen a ghostly
light that appears out of the woods and often perches on automobile hoods,
Hundreds have seen “the ghost of
Bragg Road.”
At Bethel Church at Bold Springs in Polk County, you can hear the stumbling of
a man walking in the church. Supposedly, the ghost is that of a man whose leg
was cut off after he raped a girl. The sound resembles a man walking on one leg
and dragging the other.
Around
the 1970s, a group of workers, acting on the orders of county officials, tried
to cut down Center’s famous hanging
tree on the courthouse
square. A photographer for the Center Champion said when a worker’s chain saw
bit into the tree’s seasoned wood, the still summer day was pierced “by the most
horrifying, bloodcurdling scream...that seemed to originate deep within the old
oak.” Some said it was the scream of a former hanging victim whose spirit lived
in the tree.
West
of Lufkin, you can reportedly hear
at night the cries of an infant who died with its mother when their car ran off
an old wooden bridge. The creek is known as “Crybaby Creek.” A similar story exists
on a creek near DeKalb in Bowie
County.
An
Patriot’s Hill, which stands beside the Sabine
River, soldiers in the Civil War guarded the hill to keep Union soldiers from
entering Texas. The men stayed at their posts until
the war’s end, but some died from starvation and sickness, and, reportedly, their
voices can be heard on the hill and some people claimed they have seen men in
Civil War uniforms standing guard in the woods.
At Danville Cemetery in Gregg County, a story claims a woman was killed by radiation
while working at a power plant in Oklahoma. She was buried in the cemetery and
some claim that her grave glows at night.
At
SFA State University, a ghost
known as Chester haunts the Turner Fine Arts Auditorium. His face reportedly has
been seen on a stage curtain and even in a play while it was in production. |
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