Alice High School
It is said that there is a ghost in the library. The ghost is supposed to be of a man who died when the library was being built. The ghost has thrown books off their shelves.
Old Hospital
There are reports of a call bell going off on the second floor when no one is in the room, even after it was unplugged.
The Reservoir (Alice Lake)
When you go out to the reservoir after the gates are locked, you can feel cold spots and see orbs on the pier. People have also said that when they're fishing that they hear a little girl screaming for her help as she falls into the water.
The Old Rialto Theater
This movie theater located on Main Street closed in the 1980s. Former employees and an occasional patron claimed to have seen shadowy figures in the upper hallways and to have experienced feelings of dread. Feelings of being watched from the upper levels were a common experience.
Wal-Mart
There is said to be a ghost who roams the aisles of Wal-Mart who plays practical jokes on the associates. There is also a spirit who has caused major problems in the store by making accidents happen and causing damage to the merchandise and equipment at the store. The associates have nicknamed the practical joker Matilda. On the other hand, the problem causing spirit has never been named because the associates prefer no contact with that spirit. The Wal-Mart is built on an old homestead site of the original Collins Family who founded Alice. The Old Collins Cemetery is adjacent to the Wal-Mart.
William Adams Junior High
A young teenaged girl is said to roam the place looking for her love, who is said to have killed her.
U.S. Highway 281
The image of a woman in black has been seen by motorists in the area where she was murdered. She is most often seen at the Farm Road 141 Underpass, south of Alice.
The ghost of a lady in black haunts a section of this modern highway. She is Leonora Rodriquez, wife of Don Ramos, who lived in a hacienda in Falfurrias in the 1700s. At the time the area was a flat chaparral cut by a single dirt road. Leonora was hanged from a large oak along that road, by her husband's vaqueros. Don Paul had accused the woman of becoming pregnant by another man. Now her spirit haunts the place where she died. Her ghost is seen along the road wearing the same black dress she wore the night that she was murdered. Numerous motorists have pulled off the road to help the forlorn phantom, only to see her vanish.
Leonora Rodriguez was hanged at this site by her husband's hired hands after she was accused of adultery. To this day motorists stop to help this sad lady in black.
Caliche Pit
In September 1989, a school bus fell over the ledge of a caliche pit full of water. Twenty-one 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 some 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.
Two news accounts of the tragedy:
The community of Alton, TX, remains stunned following yesterday's school-bus accident that killed 19 youngsters. Authorities said the crowded bus plunged more than 40 feet into a water-filled gravel pit when it was hit by a delivery truck. Investigators quoted the truck driver as saying his brake failed. Sixty-five people were sent to hospitals. At least one student is believed missing.
[In] 1989 [there was an] accident in the Rio Grande Valley town of Alton that killed 21 Mission junior high and high school students. The teenagers drowned after their school bus was hit and went off the road, landing in an abandoned quarry 20 feet from the roadside. At the bottom of the unfenced 40-foot-deep chasm was 12 feet of water.
Highland Avenue
We have a haunted road called Highland Avenue. I was told that if you drive down it at 3:00 AM, you'll see apparitions walking down the road. I was also told never to stop and get out because something bad will happen to you. I've driven down it before and never saw anything except orb-like lights.
Bandera Pass
According to a book in the Kerrville Library, Bandera Pass is one of the most haunted places in Kerr County. Bandera Pass a line of hills that separate Kerr County and Bandera County. Bandera Pass has its own ghost lights that nobody can explain, like those of Marfa and Anson. The lights are believed to be spirits that are protecting a lost treasure that settlers hid from Indians back in the 1800s. Bandera Pass also has a headless horseman who rides from Bandera, Texas to Center Point, Texas. He is said to be the ghost of a mail carrier who got his head cut off by Apache Indians, and 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 through local ranchers' pastures. People have reported seeing all of these three things in the surrounding area.
Charco Rd at 181
If you hear a baby cry, stop your car before it flips and the child may lead you to treasure. I have also heard reports of flying heads in this area.
Fort Clark Springs
The only reports so far are a strange cold spot in the bathroom of Patton Hall. We are unaware of any other phenomena at this time, or any possible cause/source for the cold spot.
Fort Clark Area
There are 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.
Camp Lulu
Camp Lulu was a camp for young kids until it was closed down after a 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, the owner of the property (who tries to preserve the souls of the young girls) might shoot you.
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 late at night people have encountered what are known as ghost cows in this stretch of road. 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 or living creature in sight.
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.
Simon Rivera High School
A girl is said to have been murdered in the shower stalls of the girls' locker room. During late practices, students sometimes hear the showers go off and see what looks like liquid pouring down the drain. They can hear a blood-curdling scream that makes them run out in a heartbeat. And even the volleyball coach said that when he was painting the raider logo on the wall, he heard a scream and noises that sounded as if someone was being banged against the lockers.
Showers will begin running by themselves. In last stall, the toilet flushes by itself numerous times. When you're alone in the locker room, the slamming of lockers can sometimes be heard.
There is said to be the ghost of a teenager who died while playing basketball roaming the gym. If you are alone in the gym you can hear a basketball hitting the ground. The janitors are said to have seen and heard the ghost.
Stanolin Road
When you're driving down this road, it starts to curve. A man was driving too fast and his car crashed. Now in the spot where they put the cross memorializing his death, you can see him standing there grinning, and he will start 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
The school was known as Fort 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 university's reputation for paranormal activity stems from the school's location. The university land was once part of old Fort Brown, an army outpost that dates back to the Mexican-American War. Sounds of soldiers parading across school grounds, books and doors moving in the library, encounters with nurses and mothers looking for their children at the old hospital, and a regiment saluting the flag have been reported to school officials as ghosts.
Old Morgue: This is used as a storage building and a three room accounting office. There are strange noises in the building, which cannot be identified. There are reports of the apparitions of a woman and small child appearing, books falling from shelves, chairs moving in the library, voices, and doors opening and closing. 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 items will move themselves. These incidents 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.
Channel 23
Apparitions show themselves to the janitors after hours.
Community Development Building
Strange organ music, shaking furniture, mysterious lights and shadows, disappearing items, ghost steps and a black figure in a hood are all part of the menagerie of phenomena reported here.
Strip Mall
Haunted by the spirit of a man who died in the Mexican War.
Casa De Colores
Native Americans who are attached to their property, which is on display in this museum, haunt this museum.
Choke Canyon
Although a historical cause is unknown, campers have reported seeing a strange man standing in the woods, holding a knife. They also report a general sense of being watched.
Carrizo Springs (Dimmit County)
Dimmit County Courthouse
An old sheriff has been heard walking the floors and rattling keys.
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.
Late at night, the sound of footsteps and keys rattling can be heard on the stairs leading to the second floor. Some think this is the spirit of a murdered sheriff.
I live in Carrizo Springs, which is located in Dimmit County. You have a bit about our courthouse and the sounds of the keys of the murdered sheriff Doc Murray. This is all true. I worked as a dispatcher on the late shift and I did hear the footsteps and keys. It is also rumored that, as Doc Murray did when he was alive, he still shows up at the jailhouse and prepares the dinner meal for the prisoners. You can smell the food cooking, dishes rattle, and steps upstairs too the cells. Many inmates and guards have actually seen Sheriff Murray. He is still dedicated to his job.
Glass Ranch
Hunters have reported hearing the sounds of children's laughter when in one particular deer stand. The story is that a busload of children disappeared in the area in the 1920s, and when the land was cleared in the 1960s, their bus was dug up from the ground.
Dimmitt Memorial Hospital
Late at night, from about 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM, people have reported seeing an old nurse dressed in old nurse clothes walking in the babies' room.
County Road 73 A
On County Road 73 A, by a small stream, witnesses claim to have heard spirits speak to them who seem to tell the future. Also knocks on trees are heard, and the feeling of being choked is reported. Children also seem to be possessed.
Corpus Christi (Nueces County)
Aviation Street
On this street near a naval base, reports of paranormal activity include spectral wolves and transparent Native Americans.
Blackbeard's on the Beach
Despite what is printed on the menu, Colonel Platt maintains that he demolished the original building in 1962. Moving chairs, roving cold spots and jumping saltshakers could be caused by one of two people. The ghost could be that of a man who was killed in a fight over a woman, or that of a man who committed suicide nearby after losing his wife.
Fort Lipantitlan
A lady in green is reported, who might be Señora Garcia, wife of Marcelino Garcia. She died when the Texians took the fort.
This old Mexican fort was home to a living apparition known as the Lady in Green. As Marcelino Garcia lay dying from wounds suffered when Texans captured the fort, the ghost of his wife appeared near his bed for several days in a row. Dozens witnessed the strange phenomenon, yet the woman was still alive in Mexico City. A friend's letter had informed her of her husband's plight, and somehow her spirit managed to be at his side. Even after he died, the Lady in Green continued to walk through the door and over to his former bed. For twenty five years, the uncanny image appeared at Fort Lipantitlan, and only stopped in 1810, on the day the woman died.
Headless Horseman Hill
A beheaded horse thief appears occasionally.
The ghost of a headless cowboy riding a steaming horse has been seen for over a hundred years here. The cowboy is said to be a horse thief captured by a posse and crudely beheaded because the men could not find a suitable tree from which to hang him.
Bill Witt Airplane Hangar
This old hangar is at an abandoned air base. Visitors report feelings of being followed on the stairwells.
The spirit of a man who hanged himself in the rafters haunts the hangar. He has been seen looking through the broken windows of the now abandoned hangar.
Sutton's Mott
[See also entry for Victoria]
The ghost of William Sutton has been reported in this patch of live oaks north of Corpus Christi.
USS Lexington
This battleship is now a museum. Workers have reported hearing the sounds of chains being dragged across the deck when no one was present.
The ghost of this battleship is polite, knowledgeable and kind. Smartly dressed in a summer white navy uniform, he's good looking, too, with light hair, a clear complexion and piercing blue eyes that haunt like a good ghost story. He is an apparition to write home about. Those who have seen him say he might be found in the engine room of the Lexington Museum, although none of the museum staff has seen those blue eyes for themselves. He wears no nametag, but is known solely by description.
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.
A handsome blonde haired, blue-eyed man in a white navy suit haunts the ship. He is said to be very helpful to patrons, and his image has been seen by many on the ghost cam!
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 the mother walks the river and moans in mourning for her baby.
Bokenkamp
The night shift has heard voices and footsteps, mainly in the front ICU wards and the first unit. Staff and residents alike have seen shadows, heard footsteps and whispering. Many of the staff has 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. Students who are there for extracurricular activities have sighted it once or twice. One of the janitors has seen the ghost of a young teenage girl roaming the halls when the students have left.
Days Inn Hotel
It is said that the spirit of murdered Tejano singer Selena still wanders restlessly about the doorway of the room where she was shot, as well as the hospital she ran to and where she eventually died. 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 Room 222: This room in the Memorial Classroom building is said to be haunted. Late night custodial staff, as well as security personnel, have reported noises such as howling and laughing coming from around the room. On one occasion, a security officer arming the building's alarm system heard what he described as furniture being moved around at approximately 1:00 AM.
Heritage Park Museum
There are four houses that are haunted. In one (the 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 people on the shoulder. On the second floor someone once heard footsteps leading up to the attic. In another house (a restaurant named The Christian House Bistro) there have been reports that 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 and to cause noises. Also 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.
The Old Courthouse
It has been scientifically proven that many people have been hanged and sentenced to death there. The rumor is that a young boy went to the courthouse on the night of Halloween in the early 1900s. He did not believe in ghosts 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 had what looked like blood on it, and some force threw him over the edge of the window. Specialists found blood from the rope on the windowsill where he tried to hold on. He hit the cement face first.
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, including stopping on different floors that are not lit up, accompanied by the eerie feeling of someone else catching a ride with you.
Frank Newman Middle School
It is said a coach died of a heart attack in the back office, near the girls' dressing room. Forty years later the lights turn off and you can feel something or someone going into the bathroom with you.
Unidentified 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 the lights are from the soldiers that were in the army that was killed there before the river came.
El Cascabel
El Cascabel is an old bar that is out in the country. It has been abandoned since 1995. It is said that two men got in a fight and one shot the other man. The ghost of a man drinking can be seen at midnight.
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.
Abandoned Radar Base
Many teens have gone out to the abandoned base to party. They have reported many strange apparitions and spirits that haunt the base grounds.
La Chimeneas Ranch
The impressions of screams and fighting have been heard here. Sounds such as those would have been heard when this was an active Spanish fort. Also, foggy images have been seen. This ranch is on the Chittim Ranch, 20 miles northeast of town.
This old ranch stands on the ruins of a Spanish fort, which was built in the early 1800s by the Vegas family. Screams, sounds of fighting and struggle, and wispy phantoms have haunted the site since the 1860s.The violence of years gone by have left their mark here.
Sounds of violence, fighting, and screaming can still be heard here, and apparitions have been spotted.
Railroad Hotel of Piedras Negras
Residents of this 1888 hotel report ghostly sounds, mumbling voices, objects that move and float in midair. The haunted hotel is across the border from Eagle Pass in Piedras Negras, Mexico.
Read an article on the haunting of this old hotel.
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East Bernard (Wharton County)
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.
Austin Elementary
Strange sightings have taken place there. It is located just a quarter of a mile from Hillcrest cemetery. It is said that late at night you can see figures walking on the school grounds.
House on Shunior and 18th
In Edinburg, there is a house that is haunted located on Shunior and 18th Street. This house has always been there for rent, and people that move in won't last more than three months, due to extremely horrible terrifying noises.
South Middle School
A couple of years ago, a student fell from the west side staircase and died. Come midnight you can see a white body walking around the staircase.
University of Texas Pan American
Troxxel Hall Dormitories: Legend has it that a girl got pregnant by a guy who took her as a one-night stand but she thought he really liked her. 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 students living at Troxxel say that at night sometimes they hear knocking on a certain door.
Train Depot
A ghostly conductor has been sighted and has also been known to set off a music box in the depot.
Captain Heard House
Ghost voices, ghost steps, a backwards running clock, balls of fire that shoot through the house, and a headless ghost are all reported here.
The Hills
On the west side of Falfurrias is a road filled with hills. It is said that there is a tree where early pioneers hanged a lady who was thought to be a witch. On some nights, when the moon is full, if you drive up to this tree and turn off the lights you can see the image of a woman with red eyes hanging from the tree. If you are really lucky you will hear a mob of people, and they will start to chase you for a few yards, and then they will disappear because they are mistaking you for the witch. It has been reported that some people have been knocked to the ground and then left alone.
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 whose 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.
Mission Espiritu Santo
There have been reports of the apparition of an Indian on horseback appearing, hearing the sounds of drums and the smell of pipe smoke. There have also been reports of a phantom wolf that runs in the woods and disappears.
Ghostly nuns have been spotted in the Mission Espiritu Santo.
Presidio La Bahia
This is an old Spanish fort, dating from the 1700s. It is reportedly extremely haunted, due to the many Texian revolutionaries executed there on Palm Sunday, 1836 by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Among other phenomena are the apparition of a very short priest that roams the chapel yard, a cold, misty area in one corner, moans and sighs that are heard throughout the main yard, and the apparition of a lady who is often seen praying in the chapel.
Many spirits are seen here, among them a mysterious woman in black. Some suggest that the spirits may be those of the people buried on the grounds of the chapel, and some believe that they are the ghosts of Colonel James Fannin and his troops. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered the Colonel and his troops executed after they lost the Battle of Coleto.
Presidio La Bahia, south of Goliad State park on US Highway 183, is haunted. People have heard babies crying, seen a ghost monk who is not too friendly, have heard women's voices singing, etc.
Courthouse Clock
This is one of the more powerful impressions left by a human. The main city clock has never told the correct time, on any of its faces, since a man about to be hanged cursed it. It is located about 25 miles east of San Antonio on US Highway 183.
The tower clock at the center of this town is still haunted by the spirit of Albert Howard, hanged on the gallows behind the Old County Jail on March 18, 1921. Howard became obsessed with the courthouse clock as his execution drew nearer, and he put a curse on the clock that would toll his death. Shouting that the clock would never work properly, would never again count the time against anyone, he walked up the gallows steps. He was the last man hanged in this county, and the clock has never worked properly since the day he died. Despite large sums spent for its repair, the courthouse clock has never since read the correct time, nor have all four faces of the clock agreed on the same hour.
Since Albert Howard cursed the clock prior to his hanging in 1921, the clock has never worked right.
St. James Inn
Footsteps heard upstairs are attributed to Walter Kokernot. Doors have also been known to slam.
Hargill Elementary School
Some think that a young girl haunts the girls' P.E. room at Hargill since they often hear her laughing. Lockers open and close, water turns on by itself, and the bathroom doors lock on their own.
In the girls' PE bathroom, the lockers are always opening and closing, the water comes on by itself, and the bathroom doors lock themselves. We think the ghost is a young old girl because kids claim to hear a girl's laughter.
Memorial Middle School
The school is said to be haunted by two little girls who died there mysteriously. Teachers and janitors have reportedly seen the little girl ghost and have heard her crying.
Harlingen Insane Asylum
This hospital is located towards Brownsville. It was used a while ago but is now deserted. Supposedly, if you go there at night you can hear people screaming and people walking around. Many people died there, so maybe their ghosts are walking around.
Disembodied screams have been heard in this abandoned building.
Matz Street
A crying young girl walks the street after midnight, 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. She haunts Shirley Street and the houses near. They say that she haunts Shirley Street because her family lived there and died there. Some people said that they have seen a white lady in back of the lake.
Stinson Middle School
It's known that during class that kids' books will be taken away, lights will go out, or you may hear screams. It happens all the time.
Grey Moss Inn
Three spirits supposedly haunt this restaurant: Mary Howell, an Indian maiden, and an unknown man.
Chela's Market
There are reports of thumping sounds 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.
Lights going on and off, doors locking themselves, and wayward costumes have been blamed on the ghost of a worker who fell to his death from the rafters during construction.
Texas A&M University
Turner and Lewis Dormitory Halls: Numerous people have seen apparitions. There are reports of cold spots and feelings of being watched in Lewis and
Turner Hall is said to be haunted by male student who committed suicide and Lewis Hall is said to be haunted by a female student who did the same.
The Bell: A guy was said to have hanged himself, and now at midnight you can see his shadow on all four corners of the bell.
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 hearing the sound of somebody breathing near them. At times, doors that are locked will unlock on their own and will open. Other girls have even heard chairs being dragged across a dorm when the room is not being occupied. Showers have been said to turn on and off when there is nobody in the bathrooms. Most of these experiences have taken place on the second and third floors. Some say it is the spirit of a young girl that went crazy by playing the Ouija board, and then hanged herself.
C. E. Vail Gym
In 1978, a young girl hanged herself in the gym. For many years, students and faculty workers claimed to see her. A custodian was once cleaning the gym at 5:30 PM 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 school. The gym has been demolished and was said to have been built on an old cemetery.
Old La Grange High School
Rosa Mieneke, a former teacher at this school, haunts the second floor of the school. Books fly across the room, papers tear themselves in half, footsteps can be heard by teachers at night on the stairs, a woman's voice can be heard in the dead of the night.
An old teacher haunts the school. Teachers and students have heard noises. Doors swing open and close when the school is empty.
Some say former teacher Rosa Mieneke haunts the second floor of the school. Footsteps and a woman's voice can be heard late at night, books fly across the room, and papers tear themselves in half.
Books are torn and fly off the shelves, a woman's voice is heard, and teachers hear footsteps late at night. The activity is attributed to Rosa Mieneke.
Highway 281
Many people have seen a man walking on the side of the road on Highway 281. If you stop and pick him up, he seems almost real. All he asks is that you give him a ride to the Lasara cemetery. While in the vehicle though you feel a sense of sorrow and coldness. Then as the man gets out of the car, he disappears without a trace.
Alma Pierce Elementary
There's a restroom that has been closed for years already and the say it's haunted. On Halloween, three girls at a party, Ashley, Maria, and Tiffany went to a party there. As a joke, Ashley and Tiffany locked Maria in the restroom. They forgot about her until Maria's mom called the two girls' houses, asking if they had seen her. They told Maria's mom that they were joking around and locked her in the restroom. They told her mom they forgot about her. They sent the police to the school at about 10:00 PM. They looked for her in the restroom but they only found her shoes and clothes. Maria's body was not there; only blood was found.
Cigarroa Middle School
It is said that in the sixth grade hall, you can hear a ball bouncing, 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
The apparition of a little girl wearing a sundress has been spotted, walking thought the aisles, carrying a carton of milk in her left hand and a package of Nutter Butters in her right hand. This convenience store is on McPherson Road.
Civic Center
A man had an accident in the dressing room. The weights that move the heavy stage curtains 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 where the dressing rooms are, stage left, you can still see the cracks on the wall and floor left by the weights' fall.
El Barrio / El Cuatro
Apparitions of a woman and child dressed in white have been witnessed.
Fire Station #2
This was believed to be an old gravesite before the station was built. It is 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 also reports of furniture shaking and moving, and reports of actual levitation.
Hamilton Hotel
Voices of children running and playing can be heard.
Supposedly a priest was pushed out of a window to his death a few decades ago. Now the hotel has furniture that moves itself, lights that go on and off on their own, and an elevator that functions on its own. There may have been more murders than just the priest, but we don't have anything more solid than that at the moment.
The Hamilton Hotel was originally constructed in two phases: the first in 1923 and the second from 1927-1928. The building consists of two towers and contains a total of 165 apartments, along with common and retail areas. The sounds of children running and playing can be heard.
Health Department
There are apparitions of people (figures more than actually human forms), who walk around once the offices close. Lights flicker on and of. The janitors often walk into cold spots, are left with eerie feelings and find that their cleaning supplies move without anyone being around.
H.E.B. Guadalupe
An apparition of a man dragging himself from section to section, trying to get out of the store, can be seen at night in this grocery store.
The apparition of a man has been spotted at night, dragging himself about as if looking for a way to get out of the store.
J.P. Oscar Martinez's Office
This was the old DPS office. Several employees have witnessed a deceased DPS officer wandering around the building at different times. He turns lights, computers, etc. on and off; he slams doors shut; he shuffles papers and files around. You can actually see the doorknob turning, but there is no one on the other side of the door. Visitors report strange sensations of being watched and feeling cold chills.
La Posada Hotel
This hotel is set beside the Rio Grande River and just to the side of St. Augustan Church. The building used to be a convent. 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. Other occurrences such as sightings, cold spots, someone calling out your name, objects moving and falling with no explanation have been reported. 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 a ride to her house. When she got out, she left her necklace in the car. Mario looked around and she had disappeared. He got out of the car and rang the doorbell at her house. He told the man who answered the door about the lady he had given 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 five 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 in her right hand and she is crying for her mother. They say her clothing is about the mid 1900s.
Martin High School
It is haunted because there was once a cemetery where the school is now. The people who were in charge of the cemetery only took the head stones and didn't move the bodies. At night you can here the sound of welding, or see shadows in the school gym.
Mercy Regional Diagnostic Center
This used to be an old apartment building just south of St. Augustin High School in the old heights area. There have been reports of a demonic-looking figure being witnessed, who has glaring eyes, a wide grin, and a reptilian like tongue that hangs down to his chest.
Nixon High School
During the 1970s, 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 chinking in the dark.
A dance team member's ghost has been reported wandering the school, and the spurs of her boots are supposedly heard in the gym at night.
Old Mercy Hospital
The hospital has been haunted since they closed it, and they say that you can still hear voices of all the people that died in the morgue.
It is said that in the old Mercy Hospital in Laredo there have been sightings of a nun walking around in the fourth floor. Now that the hospital is no longer open, many people have gone into the hospital and say that there is blood on the walls and there is a horrible odor in the morgue. Some people have said that when they go into the hospital they hear noises and footsteps from the third floor and, from what I have heard, no one has been able to go any further than the second floor.
It is said that dead nuns and patients that never made it out alive supposedly haunt the Old Mercy hospital. I have a friend that told me that he and his dad went inside and they could both feel a strong presence of someone watching over them, and they actually saw a man dressed like he was in prison. They looked away for a second and he was gone.
Old Police Station
Every time you go there you hear footsteps and you can hear whispers behind your back. There are some spots where you can feel a freeze, and sometimes a cat without a head will appear. People said that they used to do witchcraft there after they closed the police station.
Rio Grande River
The river is haunted by a woman named Maria, who pushed her three children off a cliff. Later, she took her own life the same way. She haunts the river until this day. Every night you can hear crying and calling out her children's names along the river. They say if you see her, she will come after you, thinking that you are one of her children.
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 something in the dirt. Others say an Indian haunts it. 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, 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 back on. He went back, and found the trash had been thrown on the ground and desks were messed up again.
United Middle School
There is a section of the school that is closed off because it is said that a girl was killed after a basketball game. It is said that you can see her shadow and hear her.
A closed-off section of the school is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who was killed after a basketball game.
V.M.T. Magnet School
There are reports of footsteps on the second floor even when no one is there. There is a foul odor that travels around the room and also a cold spot.
Zacate Creek
A lady covered in mud wearing a white dress is seen walking through Zacate creek in La Azteca area. There is usually a foul odor in this area. 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.
Bracht-Fisher House
This 120+ year-old building is home to an odd fog, ghost steps, self-operating porch lights and kitchen doors. Perhaps Leopold Bracht is responsible.
Laredo ISD
The Azios building is home to a specter who plays with lights and doors, and likes to startle the ladies by showing up.
Perez Elementary School
They say that Perez Elementary School is really haunted. It is said that if you go in the girls' restroom and say "I don't believe in you!" five times and then look in the mirror, a little girl of about five appears in the mirror. My sister, who's in that school in fifth grade, already tried it and she said that it is true. You can see the sad face of the little girl. People sometimes say that you can hear a little girl crying.
Industrial Junior High
Apparitions of an elderly gentleman who can speak through telekinesis have been reported, along with reports of doors closing after hours, footsteps, and orbs with bright lights.
County Road 1400
Many years ago a little girl out looking for her dog was killed by a drunk driver. When you go down this road late at night and turn off your lights, your car will accelerate without you even pushing the gas. 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.
La Casa de Palmas
The third floor is extremely haunted.
Toys R Us
A young boy was climbing the ladder to get to the loft and when he got to the very top he fell and broke his neck, dying instantly. Every once in a while during night shift, you can hear a young boy laughing and running around in the loft. Lights sometimes turn off and on and certain locked doors will open but remain locked.
Old McAllen High School
Students killed during World War II have returned to haunt their alma mater.
Several former students who were killed during World War II returned as a group to haunt their old high school. The ghostly students most often appeared in the first floor corridor. Witnesses described the four apparitions as a red haired girl in a green print dress; a blond haired, blue eyed boy; a shy boy with large brown eyes; and a dark-haired thin boy. The youthful ghosts had apparently returned to the best life they had known in their short time on earth.
La Lomita Mission
Many people have reported seeing hooded figures walking about.
This old mission has just recently been opened to the public. In the mission's heyday, priests were rumored to be having intercourse with the nuns, and burying the resulting children's bodies on the grounds. One night some illegal immigrants, who were aware of what was going on, went in and killed two of the priests. The third priest went to get help, but died while searching. The robes and bones of the priests were on display until a couple of years ago. Thereafter, it became an asylum for the mentally challenged. Many of the people working there reported seeing figures in robes walking around the grounds at night. The asylum shut down completely recently, but the grounds are still open to tourists during the day. You may not be able to go inside the old mission, but it is still worth going the trip.
Mission High School Football Stadium
A young girl at this school fell from the top of bleachers and died. Her ghost now haunts the bleachers at dusk.
Some believe a young girl at this school fell from the top of bleachers and died, and her ghost now haunts the bleachers at dusk. There are conflicting submissions that say no one has ever fallen off the bleachers. There may be other reasons as to why it is haunted.
Shary Mansion
Mr. Shary, who is buried across the street from what used to be his home, has 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. There have been stories done on it by the local TV news stations.
City Cemetery
It is said late nights there are small troll-like creatures that have chased or frightened people off.
Mission Junior High School
This school was formerly Mission High School. At night, you can just make out the shadow of a man walking up and down the stairs in the science wing. It is supposedly the ghost of a teacher who fell down the stairs when he was leaving one night after school. During the daytime, that side of the building is colder than the other and lights and other electronics do have trouble.
La Bodega
It is said this place has claimed the lives of many. There have been many sightings and stories about noises when there is nobody but the people who clean. There are reports of people hearing noises that sound like the place is in working order. Workers report hearing laughter from rooms that are not in use. People claim to feel chills and see shadows. People have died from accidents and shootings. Don't get caught by yourself; you might get surprised.
Ghost Riders
The ghost riders started haunting the Texas plains in the 1870s, when a cattleman driving his herd to market came across a new homestead blocking his normal route. It was a time of intense hatred between ranchers and farmers, and the cowboy was so angry that he stampeded his cattle right through the farmhouse, crushing everyone inside. Their screams are still heard whenever the phantom longhorns are sighted above the dusty plains. The legend inspired the popular song, "Ghost Riders in the Sky."
Junior High School
It is said that while constructing the school several years back, a construction worker was killed. When all lights are out at the school he is heard roaming the sixth grade hall, opening and closing classroom doors.
Whalen Road
There's a dirt road that leads to a cornfield and around the cornfield there used to be a ranch that had two barns and a small house. There's proven evidence that the family had died in the burning of Pharr in 1963. They say to this day you can hear the family talking and running through the trees screaming for help. They also say that the family throws rocks and sticks at the people that walk and drive by. There are also reports that the father is seen searching for his cattle, dressed in black and carrying an ax.
Tarpon Inn
The old hotel was built in 1886. The rooms are very small and cramped, and they haven't been restored. Our bathroom was glowing pink at about 3:00 in the morning. Last time I checked bathrooms are not supposed to glow pink. Our room was on the second floor, which was the top floor, and you could hear footsteps above us. You could also hear voices in the shower, which was this really old concrete slab thing. There were cold spots everywhere.
In 1886, Frank Stephenson, a boat pilot and assistant lighthouse keeper, built an inn at this site, using surplus lumber from Civil War barracks. He called the facility Tarpon Inn for the abundant trophy fish in the nearby Gulf of Mexico waters. The inn served as a landmark for sailors, and Port Aransas was then known as Tarpon, Texas. Numerous strange events have been reported here
Beulah's Tarpon Inn Restaurant
Pots and pans clatter when no one is there, an apparition of a woman has been spotted, and mysterious footprints appear in wet spots on the floor.
Padre Island
Apparitions of long-dead pirates have been known to roam this island, especially if they think that their treasure is in danger of being discovered.
The spirits lingering on this island are probably all searching for lost treasure. Tourists visiting this giant sandbar have been finding Spanish jewels and gold coins for the last century, along with encountering the ghosts of long-dead treasure seekers. The artifacts, which originate from dozens of ships sunk in the Gulf, are churned up by storms and deposited on the beaches here. A whole city has even been discovered under the sand. The town of Southern most was buried by tons of sand during the hurricane of 1875 and was unveiled by the blowing winds of another hurricane in 1961. John Singer, brother of the sewing machine tycoon, was shipwrecked here in 1847. He liked the island so much that he established a cattle ranch. During digging of the foundation for his house, he discovered a metal chest filled with eight hundred thousand dollars worth of doubloons and jewels. Just after the start of the Civil War, Singer fled the island for the Texas mainland and buried the treasure, along with his own sizable fortune, in a huge cast iron bathtub between two oak trees. When he returned after the war, the trees were gone, and he spent the rest of his life searching for the treasure. To date, it has not been found.
Premont Sewer Pond
Late at night it is said that a shadow resembling that of a dog with wings can be seen on the mounds surrounding the pond.
Unidentified School
There is a school in downtown Premont that is supposedly haunted by some soldiers from a war.
Refugio County Court House
A man named Henry died while in the detox cell of the old jail. After all the lights are turned off, he will turn them back on. Doors leading from the courtroom to the old jail will open by themselves and lights will turn on and off by themselves. Henry has been known to move things around and some things have ended up in employees' cars.
Rio Grande City (Starr County)
City Hall
The original owner has been seen in the building, and a baby cries in the back rooms.
Fort Ringgold
Lots of poltergeist activity is reported in this fort.
La Borde House
Doors open and close, lights turn on and off, cold breezes are felt, disembodied giggles are heard and strange shadows are seen.
Law Office
"Ventura" has been known to appear frequently beside a particular file cabinet.
Lechuza
A gigantic black bird with no feet has been reported flying around this small Texas community. Reports were so numerous in the 1970s that several Fortean researchers traveled here to catch a glimpse of the creature. But Mexicans of the area already knew what it was. The bird was the legendary Lechuza, the whistling giant that appears to evil people. The greater the evil, the longer Lechuza will linger.
Burger King
The restaurant is built next to an old cemetery. The resident ghosts of children have been spotted on the play yard.
Historical Plaza
The ghost of a young girl who died after a fall during her first communion has been reported in the plaza. She wears her beautiful white communion dress.
Back in the 1940s, a young girl about to receive her first communion fell, struck her head on a rock, and died. Now some say you can see her walking through the plaza dressed in her communion dress. Also, loud noises have been reported with no explanation.
A young girl who was about to receive her first communion fell, hit her head on a rock, and died. Now, legend has it that she haunts the community's historical plaza. Citizens of this small town have claimed to see her walking through this area in her beautiful, white dress. At other times, they have complained of hearing loud noises in the middle of night when no one else is in sight.
Highway 666
Chipita Rodriguez is rumored to haunt this area. She was the first woman executed in the state of Texas. She was executed for a murder that some say her long-lost son committed. She went to her death proclaiming her innocence, but refusing to implicate him in the crime.
La Minita Creek
In the early 1950s, during a severe thunderstorm, a vehicle traveling across La Minita Creek on old Highway 83 seven miles north of Roma, struck the concrete guardrail. The vehicle, with its three occupants, flipped over the railing and plunged into the swollen creek. The driver of the vehicle, fighting the raging water, managed to extract his unconscious wife from the vehicle. Upon his return to the vehicle, he was unable to rescue their eight-year-old daughter. The little girl's body was never recovered. Since then, some locals in the area have reported sightings of a little girl wandering the fields and woods adjacent to the creek. Numerous sightings of this lost little girl have been reported in the area where the creek meets the Rio Grande River. Illegal aliens crossing the river have reported seeing a little girl running along the bank of the river. Dove hunters and campers have also reported seeing a little girl running through the woods, accompanied by sounds of a crying child.
The Alamo
Cold spots and a feeling of melancholy can be felt throughout the fort. One hundred and eighty-nine Alamo defenders, and at least 1200 Mexican soldiers, fought and died here in San Antonio. Many died without the benefit of a proper burial, thus leaving a lot of lost souls in search of an eternal resting place. This makes San Antonio one of the most haunted cities in America.
Gruesome images are still seen around the grounds.
Read an article on the history and hauntings of the Alamo.
Read an article about the history of the Alamo, and the hauntings currently manifesting: Part I • Part II
Alamo Quarry Theater
The theater was built over an old cement factory and rumor has it that there are bodies trapped in the foundation. Witnesses that work there have seen a child in the projection room, and have felt various cold spots on the second floor on both sides of the theaters. And at night, the auditorium's light inside would dim slowly down then up and the process would repeat itself until you left the auditorium.
Alamo Street Theater
There is a ghost by the name Margarite that haunts the establishment. The theater is in an old church building and she is usually seen in the choir loft in Victorian garb.
"Miss Margaret" shows up in the choir loft in Victorian dress. She is believed to be Margaret Gething, an actress who lived just a few blocks away.
The building is home to a variety of very friendly ghostly figures that appear from time to time, and has been written up in ghost books and publications, and has been featured on local and national television programs and documentaries.
The Alamodome
Before the Alamodome was built, the area was a bad neighborhood where a lady got raped and killed. Years passed and the neighborhood was demolished and the dome was built. Now, the ghost of the woman has been seen walking around the parking lot, as if she is lost.
While constructing the dome, a worker was walking on a high beam and made a wrong step, falling to his death. He is seen walking the long halls of the dome. Last but not least, a famous daredevil died while performing a stunt. It is reported that you are sure to hear footsteps, screams, mumbling, and moans and see shadows walking along about their business.
Kindred Elementary
It is said that a plane crashed in the field and you can hear voices while you walk on the field, and when you enter the restrooms the sink will turn on.
Spanish Main Apartments
These apartments are on Rittiman Road. If you're sitting at the bottom of the stairs you can see a little boy at the top of the stairs from the side of your eye.
Railroad Tracks at Shane and Villa Main
In the 1920s, a bus full of kids was struck by a train on the southwest side of town. I have been there; it is real. If you put your car in neutral, something pushes your car over the tracks. Sometimes if you look you can see small handprints. People believe this is from the small children who died in that accident.
There are railroad tracks here that are said to be haunted by some kids that were hit by a train while riding in a bus. When people come here and park their cars about ten to twelve feet away from the tracks, the ghostly kids push the car to safety.
The ghosts of children haunt this rural railroad crossing. They were victims of an accident in which a freight train hit a school bus. As a memorial, streets in the area were named after those who died. It is said that the ghosts try to push cars across the tracks to safety. An investigation led by Melissa Fuentes provided startling evidence. She parked her car on a dirt road facing the tracks and sprinkled flour all over the car. To everyone's amazement, small handprints appeared on the windshield. In 1995, a national television show sprinkled baby powder on a car parked at the tracks. In front of their cameras, a child's handprint appeared.
The San Antonio railroad tracks are haunted. Last summer I went to San Antonio and my uncle took me over there. He put the car in neutral and didn't touch the gas and the car started moving. There were handprints on the car windows. He told me that there was a bus passing a long time ago and then a train hit a school bus. All the kids died and now they haunt the railroad tracks.
The spirits of children who were killed in a bus accident at the intersection cars off the tracks. This has been documented on film. Put your car in neutral and the car will roll up the hill and over the tracks.
In an area of town known for its historic Spanish missions, there is a railroad track that was the scene of a train and bus accident. The bus was carrying children home from school when it got stuck on the tracks. The train hit it and all children were killed. Now if you put your car in neutral about 100 yards from the track, it will begin to roll uphill, over the tracks. It is said that the ghosts of the children push you over the tracks. There is also a heavy Satanic presence in this same area...it can almost be felt.
These tracks are haunted by the children killed in a 1930s fatal school bus accident. The bus reportedly stalled on the tracks and was consequently hit by a train, killing all in the bus. It is said that if you pull your car onto those tracks, the children will push your car over the tracks to safety. Baby powder placed the bumper of the endangered car is said to show the handprints of the small children.
This site was made famous by an investigation in which the spirits of children killed in a railroad accident now push disabled cars across the railroad tracks to safety. The tracks cross Villa Main Street on a small hill near the Stinson Airport just outside San Antonio.
The legend has it that a busload of kids were killed when their bus stalled on the tracks and was hit by a train. Now if you stop on the tracks and put your car in neutral, your car will roll over the tracks. The legend also states that if you powder your car you'll see the kids' fingerprints in the powder, and that the streets in the neighborhood are named after these kids. However, it is said that there is no record of any bus being hit by a train here, the streets in the neighborhood are named after the developer's kids (who are alive and well), if you don't wash your car down thoroughly first you'll see your own prints in the powder (and those of any kid who has touched your car recently), and it can appear that you are rolling uphill when you are actually rolling downhill.
This is a very popular legend that has been made famous in recent years by the press. The local police department is tired of dealing with the traffic problem caused by people testing the tracks (and the drugs and alcohol that seem to find their way there), and the local residents are tired of the traffic congestion caused by people stopping on these tracks.
Brackenridge Villa Mansion
Built in the 1840s, this mansion is said to have paranormal activity. Strange shadows are spotted from its windows. Further, there is documentation that this campus had been inhabited for nearly 7,000 years by Native Americans, who were attracted to it since the campus is the source of the San Antonio River.
Brooks AFB
When fog rolls onto the base at night, it is known that you can see a young lady walking around with a pack on her back. Cops on the base have reported that when they fall asleep on duty she will tap them on the shoulder to wake them up.
The Cadillac Bar
The ghost of an old owner is seen in the storage basement of the building. There is another ghost named Beatrice who was a former employee. She is a negative spirit because she was very unhappy and not pretty when she was alive. She turns on sinks and throws kitchen utensils. Many employees have seen both ghosts.
The alarm goes off, dishes fly off of the shelves, faucets come on, a male apparition has been seen on the back steps and a homely female apparition is seen in or near the party room.
The ghost of the previous owner and a spirit named Beatrice haunt here. The owner frequents the basement but Beatrice, who was a former employee and quite unhappy in life, turns on the sinks and tosses utensils about.
Camberly Gunter Hotel
The Camberly Gunter Hotel is haunted by the ghost of a prostitute who was murdered there by one of her tricks in the early 1800s. The room in which she was murdered was found covered in blood but her body was never found. Her portrait hangs in the lobby bar. The man who murdered her was said to have checked in to the Menger Hotel in San Antonio three blocks away, where he also disappeared without a trace.
Chinese Graveyard
Go down Zazamora and after you pass Loop 410 keep going. The road will make a slight turn to the right and on the right (it is hard to see, so go slowly) there will be a big white cross. Pull in, turn the car off along with the lights, and roll down your windows. Quickly flash your lights five times and look and listen for voices, and white apparitions around the very small graveyard.
Comanche Park/Comanche Lookout Hill
Sources say they have seen the ghosts of the men that were stationed at this fort. They also have reported that they have seen Indians there.
Many ghosts have been seen on the grounds of Comanche Park, also known as Comanche Lookout Hill. There have been sightings of old soldiers who were stationed there. And many people have also reported having seen the forms of Indians there. Another place that ties in with this area is Old Nacogdoches Road. Many people, usually driving down this road during the night hours, have claimed to see Indians and soldiers walking along side the road. There is also a creek that intersects the road that has been the host for many Indian apparition sightings.
This area is haunted by soldiers who were stationed there. Reports indicate that Native American spirits can be seen in the area as well.
Crown Plaza St. Anthony
There are stories of sightings of strange shadowy outlines, the feelings of a presence in the rooms, and doors that open and close on their own. Some also say that they hear footsteps behind them as if someone were following them.
Unidentified spirits have been experienced in the basement-level male employee's locker room, and feelings of being followed on the tenth floor. The doors to the roof garden open by themselves. Ghostly footsteps, ghostly feet and a pair of unknown apparitions spotted by a guest have also been reported here.
Devil's Bridge
It is so dark in there that even if you shine your high beams you will only be able to see few feet ahead. Also if you find a big rock, throw it into the bridge; do not be surprised if you do not hear the rock land.
Douglass Elementary
Some say that Douglass Elementary was built on an Indian burial ground and that a janitor died in the auditorium. The doors slam shut by themselves and the piano will start playing. Witnesses report hearing people walking and talking, but every time they checked, there was no one there.
Edison High School
Teachers and janitors have seen ghostly children in their classrooms late at night. Some even say that at night if you listen closely you can hear the sounds of laughing children in the hallways.
Eisenhower Middle School
A country boy has been seen in the cafeteria. The school used to be a ranch.
The Emily Morgan Hotel
Floor nine is a very active floor. Unaware that the building housed wounded soldiers during the battle of the Alamo, we stayed there in room 902. We were the only ones on the floor, yet doors opened and closed all night long. At one point the toilet seat slammed itself up and down about ten times while we were in the adjacent room. A bottle of wine slid off of the counter by itself as did the coffee pot the next morning. Upon leaving, the elevator would not take us to the floor we wanted. Once we did get moving the doors would open and shut about ten times before standing still long enough to let us out. Management had responded to earlier complaints of the same but the motor was fine.
Most of the activity can be found on the 12th floor, 7th floor and in the basement. Guests have reported apparitions and electrical equipment going haywire. The building used to be a medical facility.
Fort Sam Houston
There are several officers' quarters on this old army post that are said to be haunted. At one, you can hear the sound of a piano playing. There is another house where the ghost of a child will move items around the house. There is an older, large wooden quarters, where the residents the house hear footsteps.
"Harvey" hangs out in Service Club #2 and one of the pools. Ghost footsteps, the sensation of someone lying in bed next to you, and self-flushing toilets are reported in Quarters #1. Pershing House also has self-flushing toilets as well as a self-ringing doorbell, lights with minds of their own, and footsteps. In the old hotel building, there are cold spots, and items get thrown out of the closets. The old hospital building has lights that come on by themselves, and windows that open and shut.
Highlands High School
There are reports of doors slamming shut in bad weather, lights shutting off in meetings, kicking and screaming in between the walls of Room 111.
Hot Wells Motel
This is the site of an old burnt down hotel. Rumor has it that Hot Wells was known for its luxury spas and the numerous fires that took place in Room 13. The foul smell of the dead still lingers more than four decades after it was burnt.
Institute of Texas Culture
There are stories of pipe smoke being smelled there, footsteps near the audio/visual room, rearranged books in library, the back of 1898 glass hearse being opened and other activity around it.
Unexplained pipe smoke, rearranged books, and a hearse door that opens on its own have been reported here. None of these events have an explanation, and there is no obvious reason for this building to be haunted. Perhaps it's not the building, but the artifacts it contains.
Menger Hotel
The spirit of a chambermaid who was killed there by her husband haunts this hotel.
The hotel is haunted by 38 known ghosts, including Teddy Roosevelt, a lady in blue, Sallie White who is a murdered chamber maid, Captain Richard King, and many others. My sister, who is a little psychic, had an experience here. Our family was sleeping in the new portion of the hotel, and she woke up in the early hours and saw a misty cowboy-like person standing in the room with his back turned to her. He had a blank stare on his face and just stood for several minutes before leaving. Many of Teddy Roosevelt's rough riders haunt the bar.
This hotel is haunted by the ghost of a chambermaid who was murdered by her husband, a group called the Rough Riders and Mr. King of King Ranch fame. He reportedly haunts the King Ranch Room where he passed away.
North Star Mall
There are reports of shadows that walk by, and if you work there you will here your name whispered.
Old Onion House
This house is haunted by ghosts of people that used to live there with the last name of Onion.
Old Stone Ridge Road
[See also entry for Old Stone Ridge Road in Austin. There is a Stone Ridge Road in both cities, so it is unclear where the story originates.]
If you drive down this street at night with your lights off en route to the old children's cemetery, strange things happen. Once, the locks on the doors of our car went up and down. And they weren't automatic locks. Supposedly, the Donkey Lady is responsible for the hauntings. Killed and badly mangled in an auto wreck when some friends of hers were driving down the road at night with no lights on, she haunts the woods around the area and protects the souls of the small children buried in the cemetery.
Our Lady of the Lake University
[See also entry for St. Martin Hall]
This university is said to carry ageless stories of past inhabitants who still walk the halls and campus grounds. Some of the more famous ones include the once janitor who haunts the basement of the library, the ghosts of the dorms, ghostly nuns, and a famous headless apparition who walks the halls of what is now the elementary school across the street, but was once a dorm for the university.
The myriad of ghosts at this university include a janitor in the library basement, some ghostly nuns, and a headless apparition that haunts a former dormitory across the street (now an elementary school).
Plaza Marriott
The Lady has been at this hotel for years. The hotel property includes four buildings on the historic register, and The Lady was believed to be the widow of the owner of one of these buildings. She hanged herself and her cat in what is now the exercise facility (this was formerly her home, specifically the front room or living room). Now she can be seen on the upper levels of the main hotel building usually in a long white dress or nightdress, and holding her cat, stroking its head. She has been seen in the employee corridors in the basement, and standing among the trees in the garden. Lights come on and off occasionally with no warning and no reason, and drawers at the front desk have a tendency to open by themselves.
The former owner hanged herself in what is now the exercise area. Now her apparition is seen on the upper floors, in the basement and in the garden. Lights come on and off and the front desk drawers open on their own.
Providence High School
In the 1950s there was a nun who loved the school so much that when she passed away, her sisters decided that she should be buried on the school grounds. Years later, Providence decided to build a gym over the spot where the nun was buried, forgetting she was there. Today if you walk in the gym and step in a certain area it is hollow. Also at night the nun is seen walking the halls by the many freshmen that attend the lock-in. Even after death the nun continues to watch over her beloved.
A nun is reportedly buried under the site of the gymnasium, and freshmen attending the lock-in have reported seeing her wandering the halls at night.
A beloved nun was once buried on the grounds here. The gymnasium was later erected over her resting place and it is said she has been walking the halls watching over her charges ever since.
River Center Mall
This mall has been reported to have a river ghost, along with ghost fish that talk to you while swimming along the San Antonio River.
At the head of the river, near where the photo center is now, was one of the pyres that burned the remains of Alamo defenders. Strange shadows are now seen in the area.
San Jose and San Jacinto Missions
There are sporadic reports of cold spots in summer, raps, and knocks. Although some of the missions are still active, there have been reports of low chanting and mumbling from empty rooms.
A headless monk has been seen in the courtyard of the San Jose Mission at night, and a huge black dog has been seen in the area.
Santa Rosa Hospital
Many people do not like to work the night shift at Santa Rosa Hospital because they have either seen or heard about a headless nun who glides around. Many people have admitted to seeing the nun.
Santikos Century Plaza 8
It is said that at night when you're alone that you'll hear chains dragging on the grounds of the theater and you will hear banging on the ceiling.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
If you go to the very end of Six Flags Fiesta Texas, on the west side of he park right next to the Chaoz ride, you will see a giant ride called The Joker's Wild. That ride has been closed because one year in April, a little girl who was on the ride died while she was getting off. Some people reported seeing her riding next to them during the ride so the park just closed the ride.
St. Anthony Hotel
This 1909 San Antonio Hotel is haunted by a Hispanic employee named Anita, an elderly lady in a women's bathroom, a sad young woman who is in the roof ballroom, and a ghostly couple who frequently come back to a certain room to relive their honeymoon. More ghosts are there, but many are unknown. There are reports of being followed, people seeing shadowy outlines, doors opening and closing by themselves, and apparitions of two different women.
I stayed at this hotel approximately nine years ago for a conference meeting. I recall thinking it was a very elegant hotel probably visited in the early days by very wealthy people; everything seemed very old and antique. The hotel was really full and they put me in a huge room down on the end of the building; it was like a suite. I don't remember what floor but I know I took an elevator up. I rarely saw other people so I wondered if it was an overflow area. My room adjoined this other room that looked like a living room. That room gave me a strange feeling and the door lock between the two rooms didn't work well, so I immediately pushed furniture up against the door. Several times I was woken up during the night by lots of voices, like a large group returning from a night out, outside my door to the hallway, and also hotel room doors slamming like people returning to their rooms. However, every time I would get up and open my door, there wasn't a soul out there in the hallway and it was silent. The room had an eerie feeling, like something was there, but I was not overly scared. One night I was asleep on my back and was startled awake by a woman's face looking down into mine. I remember distinctly it was a woman's face, an older woman, with sort of a green glow, and I had the feeling she was looking at me out of curiosity. It went away when I jumped up. Luckily I had family members who had come up and met me that last night and stayed in my room, or I would have left the room and stayed up all night in the lobby! No one in my family experienced anything. When I checked out I told the staff I had experienced a lot of unusual stuff and they told me that a lot of people believe the hotel is haunted and that they have had a lot of experiences like voices in the halls, doors slamming, and knocking on doors. I had no knowledge of the hotel's history or that it was haunted when I went there.
St. Martin Hall
[See also entry for Our Lady of the Lake University]
This place is the elementary across from Our Lady of the Lake University. It is said that when it use to be a border school there was a girl that was killed in the restroom. Unusual things have happened such as lights being on after they were turned off and things have gone missing.
Stinson Field Cemetery
The cemetery next to Stinson Municipal Airport (formerly Stinson Field) is haunted by blue lights over certain graves at night, which are in fact visible from the road when you're driving by. One of the old hangars at the airport itself is also haunted, presumably by a man who was killed while starting his plane, though it's a condemned hangar used for long-term storage only. Both of these, interestingly enough, are on the way to the ghost tracks of Shane and Villa Main roads.
The image of a giant Asian woman has been reported in this abandoned cemetery located on Mission Road near Stinson Field.
An old cemetery near Stinson Field is haunted by the ghost of a Chinese woman. The woman was seven feet tall and was teased mercilessly because of it.
In the late 1930s, she committed suicide. Now, her apparition hovers nears her grave in this abandoned graveyard. For many years, an unidentified admirer placed flowers on her grave.
This cemetery on Mission Road is haunted by the ghost of a Chinese woman who committed suicide. Update: this may be a hoax perpetrated by a popular paranormal-themed magazine.
Terrell Castle Bed and Breakfast
This bed and breakfast is haunted by the original lady of the house and some children. The lady has been sensed in the library, and the children play on the stairs.
Footsteps that sound like a woman in high-heeled shoes have been heard on the stairs. Guests reported the sound of a toilet seat slamming every 30 minutes or so, only to find out that the toilet seat was fine. The same guests changed rooms and ended up with a ceiling fan that spun wildly then stopped (the switch was off), and a television set that jumped off the table and landed upside down on the floor. Housekeeping staff report seeing the shadow of someone pass by when no one is there.
Terrell Castle was built in 1894 as the residence of Edwin Holland Terrell. The Terrell family is a prominent state and local family to this day. It's said to be haunted by Mrs. Terrell as well as some children, who often play on the stairs.
Trinity University
The Chapman Graduate Center: At the graduate center bottom floor, you walk by and you feel that you need to get out of there fast. It's a nasty feeling. Many housekeeping and officers experience the same feeling.
The Holt Center: At the Holt Center, some members of the housekeeping will not enter there alone or at night. Police officers have felt that same feeling, to include supervisors.
University of the Incarnate Word
Dubuis Hall: A former nun is said to haunt students in the night. Many reporting uneasy feelings and the sensation of being watched. Another girl claimed that she awoke one morning to find her stuffed animals had been totally rearranged in neat order during the night.
Main Administration Building: Built in 1922, this building has cold spots and there are reports of a student's radio dial (analog) scanning through stations on its own. This same administration building's top (fourth) floor was once used as a quarantine center for victims of tuberculosis, and has seen its share of deaths, which might account for the activity. Additionally, on the third floor of the building, a five-year-old boy chasing a bouncing ball has been spotted regularly.
Victoria's Black Swan Inn
There have been numerous ghostly experiences.
Milam Square
Frightening images of hollow-eyed spirits have been seen. Images of Native Americans and Spanish soldiers have been seen walking the square, located just north of El Mercado Street, downtown.
The ghoulish figures of hooded skeletons with pitch black holes for eyes haunt this modern plaza. They are the ghosts of Spanish settlers and Indians who battled for this land. In 1718, Milam Square was the site of a Catholic cemetery that held the bodies of many of those who died in the violence. Today, their spirits are said to rise again in response to feelings of hatred or anger in persons who walk the sidewalks where they rest. The phantoms have also been reported along San Saba Street and Commerce Avenue.
The site of an 18th century cemetery, ghosts of Natives and Spanish settlers have been experienced here.
Witte Museum
Activity typical of malevolent inhuman spirit infestation is in evidence. A grey form has been seen in the halls.
Employees here find doors mysteriously unlocked, personal items moved, and other evidence of spirit activity. Some have seen a gray figure moving through the halls. The best candidate for the presence is Ellen Schulz, founder of the museum, who was always moving about straightening up things.
Poltergeist activity and apparitions have been reported here. Many think that the ghost is that of museum founder Ellen Schultz.
Aggie Park Facility
Electrical problems, cold spots, items that move by themselves, shadows and strange noises have been experienced here.
Bexar County Medical Health Building
Toilets flush themselves, doors open, items move and the warehouse emits loud band music.
Botanical Gardens
San Antonio has its own headless horseman.
Brooks House
Pipe smoke, ghost footsteps, and a tall apparition of a man with a mustache showing up in the upstairs bedroom are reported here.
A pipe-smoking ghost haunts this Victorian house. Former residents have reported smelling pipe smoke and hearing the footsteps of the ghost just before he makes an appearance. In 1967, the tall, mustached figure tried to crawl in bed with a woman sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, but she made it clear she did not want any company and the apparition vanished. Once, the ghost was asked to leave the bathroom while a lady undressed. The amorous, though polite, specter has been sensed by both guests and residents of the house, but no one has ever identified him. The house was built in 1890 by the Hertberg family, and Purchased in 1909 by the Brooks family. It was the home of Cadet Sidney Brooks, Jr., for whom Brooks Air Force Base was named. The twenty-two-year-old pilot died on November 13, 1917, when he crashed during a training exercise.
Bullis House Inn/International Hostel
Male voices have been heard arguing loudly, and the apparition of an Indian brave has been seen here. General Bullis helped capture Geronimo; could that be the brave?
Cafe Camille
Doors open and close, items are picked up off the wall then moved and dropped, and the activity is attributed to the wife of the former owner.
Central Texas Parole Violator Building
The spirit of murdered prisoner Hugo Saenz has been seen roaming the halls of this old prison building.
Chabot-Reed House
Old honky-tonk music, muffled conversations and eerie presences have been reported in this old home.
Crockett Hotel
There are reports of moving curtains and an unexplained apparition in the executive offices. No one is certain who the spirit(s) might be, but it should be noted that the grounds were a part of the battlefield of the Battle of the Alamo.
Dienger Building
Charley Dienger slams doors, plays with the lights and rattles the windows in the cellar. Other activity includes voices, items that disappear, a male apparition, a female apparition, and footsteps.
El Camino Real
This building is near Salado Creek and Austin Highway. A woman murdered by her husband and buried under the house is heard in this abandoned residence.
Express-News
While the name of this ghost is not known, a sensitive has identified him as an Irish immigrant who worked in a carriage house that stood nearby before the current structure was erected. Those who have experienced this spirit have deemed him to be benign.
Fort Clark
Ghostly footsteps at the end of Officer's Row are attributed to the ghosts of a black cook, Ollabell Dahlstrom, and her cat. A colonel killed her. Ollabelle enjoys touching people. Visitors report a hearing a strange voice, and beds that shake in Buildings 8 and 9. You can smell food cooking in Building 10 when no one is in the kitchen, and you might see a wispy female apparition. An unknown spirit in Building 11 calls out people's names.
Gatlin Gasthaus
There are reports of trembling flowers and haywire lights. During one Christmas celebration the locked front door blew open and the gust of wind that accompanied it blew out all of the lit candles and knocked over the antique crystal candleholders, but remarkably, nothing was broken.
Gunter Hotel
This hotel is near the Alamo. A blonde apparition is seen in the vicinity of room 636. Apparently she was the victim of a grisly murder.
Harlandale High School
The story goes that a teacher hanged himself when he couldn't be with one of his students with whom he'd fallen in love. Now cold spots, shadows that resemble ropes, and disembodied voices are reported in the room.
Hertzberg Museum
Cold spots, shadows, odd noises, falling items and ghost steps are attributed to John McMullen.
Hope Farm
This old house is the site of self-opening doors, ghost steps, rattling windows, disappearing objects, and freshly made beds that get disturbed.
Inn on the River
Cold spots and shaking lamps are attributed to a female ghost. Rooms 11, 13 and the dining room are the most active.
Jesse's Bar & Restaurant
An apparition with a handlebar mustache has been seen climbing the back stairs. Another apparition, a female with stringy blond hair and an overbite, has been seen on the top of the stairs and looking out the window.
John F. Kennedy High School
Gus Langley, a teacher, gets blamed for cold spots, footsteps, moving items and banging lockers.
John J. Wood Federal Building
Strange voices in the elevators, hammering sounds coming from the roof, self-opening doors, lights that turn on and off, and an apparition in the courtroom are among the occurrences reported here.
Jose Antonio Navarro State Historical Park
A face has been seen looking out of the attic dormer window by state employees working on the restoration. Other apparitions include a Confederate soldier, a child, a prostitute, and a bartender.
La Villita
Objects that move of their own accord and a female apparition are reported in Chamade Jewelry Store. A female apparition in white frequents the River Art Gallery. Shadows, moving items and a 19th century female apparition are experienced in the Starving Artists Gallery. A little girl's spirit is reported in La Villita House.
The Linden House
This house has ghost steps, electrical disturbances, doors that open and close, and objects that move on their own.
Long Acres
A female spirit named Elsie may be the one causing items to disappear.
Mission San Francisco
A black dog or wolf, with a chain dangling from its neck, has been seen here. Is it the same one as the dog spotted at the San Jose Mission? Also, an Indian in full ceremonial dress has been seen at the altar.
Mission San Juan
The apparition of an Indian has been seen by the altar in the chapel.
Oge House
Named after its most colorful owner, this antebellum plantation cottage has had lights turn on and off. One spirit even protested the spices selected by the cook. Every time the cook went to add the spices, they were blown all over the kitchen.
Old Menger Soap Factory
Ghost steps, apparitions and cold spots are reported inside this 150+ year-old soap factory.
Old Salinas Homestead
A pair of phantoms is reported here: one male and one female.
Old Spanish Tower
San Antonio's very own set of ghost lights can be seen here.
Reed Candle Factory
The factory is still being visited by founder, Peter Reed.
The Riverwalk Inn
The television in the common room comes on, doors close by themselves, and ghostly footsteps head up the stairs.
Royal Swan Guest Inn
The apparition of a Hispanic woman has shown up from time to time. Guests have reported violently shaking beds, and the feeling that someone just sat down next to them on the bed.
San Antonio Academy
A haunt in the upstairs of the Stribling Building is attributed to Professor Jim Roe.
San Antonio College
Ghost voices and strange lights are reported in McAllister Auditorium.
San Pedro Playhouse
The ghost of a plump, balding elderly gentleman has been reported frequently.
Sartor House
A friendly presence is reported in the parlor and hallway.
Schilo's Delicatessen
Lights turn on and off, staff gets pinched, strange shadows are reported, and objects move by themselves.
Spanish Governor's Palace
The property contains a well that is haunted by a maid whose murdered body was dumped in it.
Spanish Ranch House
Ghost steps, misty apparitions, odd noises and cold spots are reported here. It is located near the Mission District.
St. Mary's University
A Marianist brother was practicing on some acrobatic rings that were in the current administration building. His hands slipped and he fell, breaking his neck. Now, when the sun begins to set behind the building, you can see a figure working out in the attic, and you can hear his footsteps.
Ursuline Academy
Apparitions of a priest and a nun have been sighted, and some unfortunate folks have been shoved. The buildings are now part of the Southwest Craft Center.
Weinert House B and B
The piano and drums play by themselves, lights turn on and off, doors open and close, items move on their own, and a female apparition identified as Clara Maria Bading Weinert has been spotted.
Westin Hotel on Market St.
The apparition of a cobbler at his booth has been seen in one room on the fourth floor of this hotel.
Wolfson Manor
This manor is on Broadway. Slamming doors, ghostly footsteps and a floating China cabinet are among the poltergeist activity experienced in this old home.
Whenever anyone removes Mr. Wolfson's collection of portraits, they are quickly replaced by ghostly hands.
Yturri-Edmunds Home
Cold spots and fleeting glimpses in one's peripheral vision have been attributed to Miss Ernestine, a former resident.
Thomas Jefferson High School
Thomas Jefferson is said to be haunted by many spirits such as the janitor who died a tragic death in the auditorium. During his night shift, while he was fixing the clock on the upper stage level, his ladder tipped over and he fell to his death. It is said that if you put down all the chairs in the auditorium, turn off the lights and walk out that the four front center stage chairs will be pulled up once you turn the lights back on. Strange noises have been heard in the auditorium and there have been some cases where the janitor is seen sweeping the stage.
The girl in the blue dress is one of Thomas Jefferson's roaming spirits. She is said to be the spirit a little girl who roams the halls of the second floor at the school. I really don't know who the little girl is or why she haunts the school; no one really knows. There are a lot of students and teachers who have witnessed her roaming the halls at night. I have a friend who told me that she had a choir concert at the school, and it was a night concert. After the concert, my friend went upstairs to her locker. It was around 10:00 PM and there she was, the girl in the blue dress. My friend really thought nothing of it until she heard the story about her, then she realized the girl she saw was a spirit.
The haunting of the Lassos Room is one of the most popular stories Jefferson High. There are a couple of well-known spirits that have been seen and heard in the Lassos Room day and night. One of the spirits is a girl who hanged herself. This happened back in the 1950s. During homecoming at Jefferson, all the Lasso Girls wanted to run for queen but there was one girl who especially wanted to be queen. The Lasso Girls all showed up to the homecoming dance and they announced the winner of homecoming queen. Well, unluckily, the Lasso Girl who so badly wanted to be queen didn't win. Devastated, she ran down to the basement to the Lasso Room and hanged herself. Strange noises are also heard in the Lassos Room. At night, girls are sometimes heard laughing in the Lassos Room.
Thomas Jefferson High School was built in 1930 and the door opened in 1932. Thomas Jefferson is one of San Antonio's historical landmarks because of its architecture and beauty. It is also one of the first schools to be built with a gymnasium. No one has been able to trace the artist or workers who built the school so therefore it is left a mystery who sculpted the beautiful and unique designs of the schools outer walls.
Insane Asylum
I am 17 years old and I have lived in San Antonio all my life. Just recently, I was introduced to the story of the haunted insane asylum in south San Antonio. Past the famous haunted tracks and off of Southton Road there is a dead end street. At the end of the street there is an abandoned building, and it's super creepy just to look at. There are a couple of holes in the fences that you have to crawl through to go into the building. I've been there a few times already, but I have never gone inside. Well I just went this weekend and I went inside this time. I went with a group of friends; mostly guys to protect us if anything bad were to happen. We took flashlights because it is pitch black inside. There are still old patient records on the floor and, believe it or not, there are strait jackets too. Well when we were in there we kept hearing noises, but we didn't run out, not until we heard this noise. I can't explain it but it sounded like a sort of noise you make when you're struggling to get free of something or someone. It came from a room where they did that electric shock therapy. As soon as we heard that we were out of there in the blink of an eye. People say that the spirits of the patients still haunt the building and it is stupid to go there because if those spirits were crazy when they were alive, they are going to be crazy dead too. I was really, really scared, but for sure I am going to go again sometime soon with Halloween just around the corner.
Unidentified Apartment Complex
I'm 14 years old and I used to live in this really old apartment complex. People would always tell me these really freaky stories that actually happened around there. I hated living there. At night I would just get these really weird feelings that there was another presence in the room and I would sometimes hear things that were unexplainable. There was also some sort of weird writing on the closet door. I would always see something like dark shadows run across the room. I don't know if they were ghosts or whatever. I thought maybe I was schizophrenic or something. I also have a vivid imagination. Anyways it would always just freak me out. The apartments are really old; anything could've happened in the past. Well anyways, my brother has this "sixth sense." I think his is stronger than mine. He told me one day that when he was sitting on the couch in the living room, playing with his action figures, he dropped one on the floor. While he bent down to pick it up, he turned his head to see a little girl sitting on the floor. He said she had long black hair and was wearing a white gown. She did not speak to him though. As soon as he saw her, he ran right out of the room and into mine and my sister's room where my mom was cleaning. He did not tell her. My brother was quiet for the rest of the day. Last time, my dad had gone to the restroom in the middle of the night. As he was about to go back into his bedroom he stopped and saw a smoke that was leading into the living room. It couldn't have been smoke from fire because the alarm didn't go off, and it didn't smell like smoke from fire. There was no fire. He tried waking up my mom but she was into a deep sleep. I heard them talking about it the next morning. My mom had once told me that when she lived there when she was a little girl, her sister (my aunt) would see things too. She would always see little kids play and sing "ring around the rosy" around a tree. That freaked me out. My so-called "friend" had once told me that a girl was found hanged naked on a tree (not the same one) a long time ago. But in a way I didn't believe her because she would always tell lies.
Incarnate Word High School
Madelane Hall: This hall is now filled with classrooms and such, but it used to be the dormitory for the girls who boarded and the nuns. This was back in the day when the nuns use to wear the long black dresses made of thick wool. Well one year during cheerleading tryouts, a few of the girls from the dormitory decided to try out. They were all excited the day they were going to find out who made the team, because they all thought they would make it. Unfortunately one of the girls did not make the squad, and she pretended like it did not bother her. So the others thought nothing of it and went on with normal routine. That night the girl who did not make the squad walked into the bathroom and there hanged herself from the showerhead. She was found dead the next morning by one of the nuns. To this day that bathroom is still there, same stalls, showers, and all. Sometimes when I would go in there alone or even with one of my friends we could here the crying of young girl. I would search all the stalls and the showers, but find nothing. I would only use that bathroom if I really had too. Ask any girl who attends Incarnate Word; she will tell you the story of the haunting of the Madelane Hall bathroom.
Old San Benito High School
It is said that in the old high school you can hear screams, crying, and see a little girl who walks the halls of the abandoned school, which use to be a hospital during WWII.
High School
There is a ghost named Fred. He was a custodian there and one day he was fixing the lights on the roof, he fell off of the ladder. He hit his head on some chairs that were there and died instantly. Now there is a red chair in front of the auditorium where he died, and every time they have a play, they must dedicate the show to him or else he will destroy the show.
Austin Middle School
A ghost of a basketball player haunts the gym. Around 6:00 PM you can see the lights turn on by themselves and hear a basketball bounce on the floor, dribbling and also footsteps. Thirty minutes later, the lights go off and all noises stop. There are restrooms next to the gym that are closed because of a girl who committed suicide. Many students reported seeing this girl in a white gown staring at them while looking at themselves in the mirrors or washing their hands.
The old PSJA Auditorium
It has been said that years ago in the old auditorium, a janitor or tech was putting up a light on the top and he fell and died. To this day if you look up, the light has never been placed. The story goes that if you happen to do a production there, you have to put his name in the program because if not he will do something to ruin the show. Either he will drop the set, or something else horrid.
El Toro Road - Devil's Lagoon
In the late 1800s or early 1900s a horse-drawn carriage drove into the lagoon and everyone was killed. Now on certain nights around midnight the carriage will come out of the lagoon drive around it and then return.
Iglesia Antigua
In this church you can hear noises at night. There is a tunnel under the church. It was a cemetery.
La Llorona
Long ago a restless spirit haunted this town. She was called La Llorona or "the weeping woman." She would walk down the streets of one of the villages called El Rincon Del Diablo or "Den of the Devil." She would weep for her children who had drowned in a canal not far from the village. The town had to make a huge exorcism to put the restless spirit to rest. Nothing has happened in the village since then, but some say if you walk up the canal at midnight you can still hear her wails.
Von Minden Hotel
Room 23 may be home to the ghost of a railroad worker who died of a disease in that room. Room 37 may be home to the ghost of a WWII veteran who committed suicide after finding out that his girlfriend had married another during his absence. An unknown female ghost has also been seen asking for directions. She's about 20 years old, wearing a polka-dot dress, a broad-brimmed straw hat, white gloves, and carrying a cardboard suitcase. After you give her the simple directions, she disappears.
Billmore House
People have claimed to see a small child haunting the attic of the house. The owners also claimed to have heard crying and laughing through the walls at night. They also say that they hear dripping (they think it is blood) from the spot under the ceiling fan. The owners and townspeople say there is a ghost still haunting the house because a father killed his child in the basement by hanging the child to a ceiling fan.
Randolph AFB
Eberly Park: A young man crashed his plane and died in the early days of the base. Many things are said to happen in the maids' quarters and old water tower.
Fort Clark
Once a POW camp during World War II, the former officers' quarters are now private residences. Some residents have reported the smell of bacon cooking at 4:00 AM (just about right for a soldier's breakfast) and poltergeist activity.
Victoria County Courthouse
Flashing lights and orbs have been witnessed as well as an apparition which sometimes appears in the southeast corner of the second floor.
Many construction workers have claimed to have seen moving flashes of light out of the corner of their eyes. Some of the same construction workers and many courthouse employees have claimed to see floating balls of light and an apparition that appears periodically on the second floor in the southeast corner of the building.
Victoria Regional Airport
There are some old rundown military barracks out by Victoria Regional Airport. Everyone says that they are haunted. My friends and I went out there the other night and we swore we saw something (a person in a window) but we're not sure if it was a ghost or just a bum staying there.
Cinema 4
At Cinema 4 there is a ghost woman that watches the workers clean. She is very playful and likes to call you name. While looking down some employees have seen a little boy run up to the concession stand but when they look up no one is there. At all the theaters, everyone has seen trash cans roll up ramps, and has felt cold spots through out the buildings. The ghost only seems to mess with you if there is nothing fun going on.
Tanglewood Townhouses
Witnesses have reported things moving all by themselves, lights going on and off, things flying through midair, and temperature drops and chills once in these houses.
Hopkin's Park
In the 1990s a lady was decapitated by her boyfriend on the slide of the playground at Hopkin's Park. Those who live close to the park have reported seeing two figures walking around.
Sutton's Mott
[See also entry for Corpus Christi]
The image of grisly bodies hanging from trees, and the image of an old goat herder have been seen here. Animals such as cats and dogs don't like it here much. From I-10, follow Highway 77 for 61 miles south. Victoria is 95 miles north of Corpus Christi.
This picnic grove got its name from the cantankerous ghost who is seen there. William Sutton was a goat herder who lived in the area in the 1850s. He was murdered one Sunday while walking up the church steps in the nearby town of Goliad. Since then, his ghost has haunted this serene patch of live oak trees. Horses and dogs refuse to enter the grove, and tales of drifting phantoms and ghostly bodies hanging from trees abound. Some believe Sutton returns to protect a strongbox of gold he buried here.
Weslaco High School
It is said that several years back, a classroom of students witnessed the sudden death of their teacher in the J-Wing of the school. Today his voice can be heard every Friday during lunch, teaching in a quiet classroom. Some students claim to have even seen words appearing on the board, with no one there.
Old Catholic Hospital
The old Catholic Hospital third floor is haunted by an entity which has become known as the "blue nun." She is a nun with a blue haze surrounding her who worked the maternity ward. The hospital is now closed, but my mother had three children there. On the last child, the maternity section of the hospital was overcrowded and she had to endure most of her labor on the vacant third floor. There was one nurse on duty on that floor, but the nurse that tended my mother during her labor was a nun. No nuns worked at the hospital at this time. My aunt worked at the hospital as a nurse before it closed. She remembers working on the third floor and seeing the blue nun. Sometimes her paperwork would be in disarray, and she remembers it was always cold. I think the blue nun is just a kind soul who wants to bring comfort to those in pain. The old hospital is now vacant and is located on the corner of Orth and Hubbard near the Catholic Church. The old convent is about a half block away where the blue nun is thought to have once lived.
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