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Haunted House
by Dana Goolsby 9-10-11Plunder
In The Pines
by Dana Goolsby 7-11-11
Buried treasure in Elkhart and a ghostly nun who roams
the old historic Pilgrim Cemetery Lubbock
Ghost Stories by
Mike Cox 4-7-11
Two Lubbock ghost stories and one strange tale of a man who
made his amends for a ghastly crime one brick at a time. |
| The
Haunting of Old Memorial Hospital In Palestine by
Dana Goolsby 4-1-11
The old hospital has been abandoned as a care facility,
however locals claim the facility has not been entirely deserted. Supernatural
tales have lived within the old hospital far prior to the closing of the facility. |
| The
Wolf Girl of Devil's River
by Gary Humphreys 4-4-11
The story begins on the Chickamauga River in Georgia.
John Dent was a trapper working with his partner, Will Marlo... East
Texas Woolly Booger – Creature Seekers Beware
by Dana Goolsby 2-1-11
East Texas is home to many creatures of the night that
humans fear, and occasionally claim to encounter. East Texas has given way to
Bigfoot sightings, alien encounters, and close calls with blood–sucking creatures. |
Ghost
Indians and Spirits of Confederate Soldiers Wandering Houston County
by Dana Goolsby 12-17-10
The oldest county in Texas is believed to be hallowed
ground, on which the spirits of Indians and Confederate soldiers roam freely.A
Huntin’ Ghost Story
by Linda Kirkpatrick 10-25-10
Besides being the time of ghosts and goblins,
it is almost time for hunters to arrive. Those of you who manage hunting leases
and should any of you hunters arrive early you might want to read this story very
closely. “Demons
Rd” in Huntsville
by Dana Goolsby 10-26-10
Bowden Rd, perhaps better known as " Demons Rd,” leads
to an old cemetery known as Martha’s Chapel Cemetery... Haunted
Huntsville
by Dana Goolsby 10-29-10
Oakwood Cemetery, and the oldest prison in Texas -
the Walls Unit...Haunted
Jacksonville
by Dana Goolsby 10-27-10
Jacksonville City Cemetery, Mother Templeton Statue,
Killough Monument, and Lon Morris CollegeHaunted
Nacogdoches by
Dana Goolsby 10-24-10
Stephen F. Austin State University is allegedly home
to numerous spooks. The Turner Fine Arts Auditorium at SFA has more than fine
art in the building. A ghost named Chester is believed to haunt the building...
Parker
Cemetery
by Dana Goolsby 10-22-10
Parker Cemetery has long since been the most talked
about haunted place in Grapeland.The
Perfect Haunted House
by Bob Bowman 10-17-10
It’s time to remember the old Bonner house west of
Lufkin, which has been called the perfect haunted house... |
The
Haunting of the Old Travis County Jail
by Mike Cox
10-14-10
Harvey, 34, had the distinction of being the last of nine men legally
hanged in the castle-like stone jail, built for $100,000 in 1876 at the corner
of 11th and Brazos streets — present location of the Dewitt C. Greer Building,
headquarters of what is now the Texas Department of Transportation. Ghosts
of the Pineywoods
by Bob Bowman 10-8-10Sea
Monster of Port Isabel
by Mike Cox 8-12-10
The monster showed up in the Gulf of Mexico off the small
fishing village of Port Isabel in the summer of 1938. That Aug. 10, in a short
article buried on a back page, the Brownsville Herald devoted five paragraphs
to “the sea monster that is attracting so much attention in the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico.”...Telferner
Entity by Ken
Rudine 5-18-10
Wolf Girl
by Mike CoxCollecting
ghost stories by
Bob Bowman
It’s time to put the ghosts into a new book. If you have a favorite
story, here’s your chance to see it in print, whether you beleive it or not...
A
Very Personal Ghost
by C. F. Eckhardt
Even if you see a ghost, you may not realize at once what
you’ve seen. I know. It happened to me... In
Search of Seguin's Headless Walker by Ken RudineEast
Texas Ghosts
by Bob Bowman
So, you don’t believe in ghosts? Well, read on and we may make
a believer of you... Columbus’
Live Oaks and Dead Folks Cemetery TourThe
Great Airship Mystery
by C. F. Eckhardt
In 1896 and 1897 what had to be a lighter-than-air craft—a
dirigible—was seen by credible witnesses in California, Oregon, Washington, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, what became Oklahoma ten
years later, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan,
Indiana, and Ohio...Ghost
Road in Hardin County
by Bob Bowman
Skeptical, solid-thinking men and women have driven down the
arrow-straight stretch of woodland road between Saratoga and Bragg--and emerged
from the Thicket convinced they “saw something.”The
Murder Maverick
by C. F. Eckhardt
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 HillsThe
devil and ghosts
by Bob Bowman
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
"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
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
"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
Many
versions of the tragedy of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise
is the same...La
Llorona by Elizabeth
Bussey Sowdal
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
Houses, Cemeteries, Churches, Depots, Hospitals, Jails, Forts, Libraries, Bridges,
Rivers, Roads, Caves ... |
Plunder
In The Pines by Dana Goolsby 7-11-11
Buried treasure
in Elkhart and a ghostly nun who roams the old historic Pilgrim CemeteryGhost
Indians and Spirits of Confederate Soldiers Wandering Houston County by Dana
Goolsby 12-17-10
The oldest county in Texas is believed
to be hallowed ground, on which the spirits of Indians and Confederate soldiers
roam freely. “Demons
Rd” in Huntsville by Dana Goolsby 10-26-10
Bowden
Rd, perhaps better known as " Demons Rd,” leads to an old cemetery known as Martha’s
Chapel Cemetery... Haunted
Huntsville by Dana Goolsby 10-29-10
Oakwood Cemetery,
and the oldest prison in Texas - the Walls Unit...Haunted
Nacogdoches by Dana Goolsby 10-24-10
Stephen F. Austin
State University is allegedly home to numerous spooks. The Turner Fine Arts Auditorium
at SFA has more than fine art in the building. A ghost named Chester is believed
to haunt the building... Haunted
Jacksonville by Dana Goolsby 10-27-10
Jacksonville
City Cemetery, Mother Templeton Statue, Killough Monument, and Lon Morris College |
| | Parker
Cemetery by Dana Goolsby 10-22-10
Parker Cemetery
has long since been the most talked about haunted place in Grapeland.The
Perfect Haunted House by Bob Bowman 10-17-10
With
Halloween upon us, it’s time to remember the old Bonner house west of Lufkin,
which has been called the perfect haunted house. But it had also has a rich history...
|
The
Haunting of the Old Travis County Jail by Mike Cox 10-14-10
Harvey,
34, had the distinction of being the last of nine men legally hanged in the castle-like
stone jail, built for $100,000 in 1876 at the corner of 11th and Brazos streets
— present location of the Dewitt C. Greer Building, headquarters of what is now
the Texas Department of Transportation. Ghost
Road in Hardin County by Bob Bowman
The best time to visit the Ghost Road
in Hardin County is late in the evening when nightfall descends over the Big Thicket...Ghosts
of Old Waverly and the Old Waverly Cemetery, an East Texas Tale of Two HillsThe
devil and ghosts by Bob Bowman
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
"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
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 BridgeGalveston's
haunted places |
Lubbock
Ghost Stories by
Mike Cox
Two Lubbock ghost stories and one strange tale of a man who made
his amends for a ghastly crime one brick at a time.A
Huntin’ Ghost Story by Linda Kirkpatrick
Besides
being the time of ghosts and goblins, it is almost time for hunters to arrive.
Those of you who manage hunting leases and should any of you hunters arrive early
you might want to read this story very closely. Ghosts
of the Pineywoods by Bob BowmanGhost
Riders by Bob BowmanCollecting
ghost stories by Bob Bowman
It’s time to put the ghosts into a new book.
If you have a favorite story, here’s your chance to see it in print, whether you
beleive it or not... A
Very Personal Ghost by C. F. Eckhardt
Even if you see a ghost, you may
not realize at once what you’ve seen. I know. It happened to me... East
Texas Ghosts by
Bob Bowman
So, you don’t believe in ghosts? Well, read on and we may make a
believer of you... The
Many Legends of La Llorona by C. F. Eckhardt
"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
Many versions
of the tragedy of La Llorona (Weeping Woman) exist, but the basic premise is the
same...La
Llorona by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
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
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
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 |
| | The
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." |
About
ghosts, spirits, legendary creatures, superstitions, UFOs... & Halloween Traditions |
The
Night the Ghost Hounds Came by C. F. Eckhardt 10-8-12
"When I got outside the hounds had the house surrounded. I could hear
them baying in chase all around me. I could see nothing. There was no movement
in the grass, no shadows among the trees. The brilliant moon showed a tranquil
landscape—but all around me were the sounds of hounds in chase..."
Death
Superstitions by Bob Bowman 8-5-12
In early East
Texas, the death of a family member or friend was a serious event surrounded by
traditional rituals, a lengthy period of mourning and widespread respect for the
deceased. Death was also accompanied by a variety of superstitions, some of which
are still respected in the homes of our grandparents. The
Poison Spring by Mike Cox 3-15-12
For as long as
mankind has had the ability to tell and pass along stories, springs and wells
have provided a free-flowing source of legend and lore... |
| Dowsing
For Graves & Witching For Water by Dana Goolsby 10-16-11
Some
call it science others call it supernatural. Call it what you will, dowsing has
proven to be an effective method that has been used for centuries to find underground
objects of interest... |
| East
Texas Woolly Booger – Creature Seekers Beware by Dana Goolsby 2-1-11
East
Texas is home to many creatures of the night that humans fear, and occasionally
claim to encounter. East Texas has given way to Bigfoot sightings, alien encounters,
and close calls with blood–sucking creatures. |
Thunder
In January Pineywoods Weatherlore by Dana Goolsby 1-27-12
Thunder in January means more than rumbling in the sky to many East Texans.
For many, many years East Texans have been predicting the weather by trying to
make heads or tails of signs from Mother Nature. The
Black Beast of the Pineywoods by Dana Goolsby 8-19-11
Legends
of black cats run deeper than a little superstition in East Texas. Sightings of
mysterious black panthers that scream like women in the pine jungles are not at
all uncommon in the Pineywoods...The
Wolf Girl of Devil's River by Gary Humphreys 4-4-11
The
story begins on the Chickamauga River in Georgia. John Dent was a trapper working
with his partner, Will Marlo... The
Wolfman of Comstock
by Gary Humphreys 3-15-11
This is a true story told to
me by my mother, during the fifties……Weather
Folklore - Psychic Persimmons by Dana Goolsby
Folklore
reveals that superstitions about cutting persimmon trees may help cure warts,
cancer and even predict weather, even Texas weather. Sea
Monster of Port Isabel by Mike Cox
The monster showed up in the Gulf of
Mexico off the small fishing village of Port Isabel in the summer of 1938. That
Aug. 10, in a short article buried on a back page, the Brownsville Herald devoted
five paragraphs to “the sea monster that is attracting so much attention in the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico.”...Telferner
Entity by Ken Rudine
5-18-10Bigfoot
in East Texas by Bob Bowman
For years, people have claimed sightings of
a large, human-like creature in the thick woods of East Texas...
Wolf Girl by Mike Cox
When
the boy returned home that day he told his parents a story as horrifying as it
was unbelievable. Things
I bet you never knew - and then some by Delbert Trew
Columbus’
Live Oaks and Dead Folks Cemetery Tour - 2009The
Great Airship Mystery by C. F. Eckhardt
In 1896 and 1897 what had to be
a lighter-than-air craft—a dirigible—was seen by credible witnesses in California,
Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado,
what became Oklahoma ten years later, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio...Visitors
from space? by Bob Bowman
Mysterious objects supposedly visiting Texas
aren’t new. In the late 1800s, several towns in East Texas experienced aerial
phenomena. Denison
UFO by Mike Cox
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
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... 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."
PRAIRIE
DELL, Tranquil setting belies past by Clay Coppedge
The principle
set for the sequel to the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." |
Kingsbury
CemeteryFloating
at the Baker Hotel Cloud Room"Carter
may be a ghost - but it isn't dead."
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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