Sul Ross University
Fletcher Hall: A dormitory room has showers and doors that operate on their own. A female apparition has been spotted there, named Beverly. During life she resided in Room 308.
Fletcher Hall: The story is of a young woman who killed herself in the Fletcher resident hall. To this day a girl can be seen walking around late at night in a skimpy nightgown. Also, things end up missing even if the doors have been locked all day. People report seeing strange apparitions at the foot of their beds. Whenever there is a mention of the Fletcher Ghost, a door slams, there is a loud bang, someone screams, or some other jolting noise. This is first and second hand experience when my best friend lived in that dorm.
Fort Davis
The smell of roses precedes a spirit's visit. Today, white roses can be found within the compound even if they are not in season.
The ghost of lovely Alice Walpole has been seen here since Civil War days. In 1861, when this fort was being used by Confederate troops, the young Alabama beauty disappeared. She was searching for white roses along Limpia Creek when she was abducted by Apache Indians. No body was ever found, but her ghost started showing up a few days later. She was most often seen outside the quarters where the women did their needlework. The mysterious odor of roses presages her appearance. Sometimes, even now, out of season white roses are found within the compound.
Delores Mountain
This mountain is named for a tall, dark-haired woman whose ghost is seen here. She was working as a servant girl in a large house outside Laredo in the 1880s when she fell in love with a sheepherder, who spent many weeks away from her, tending sheep in the mountains. While they were apart, the two lovers lit brush fires to communicate their love over the great distance. Unfortunately, the Apaches also saw the fires. They attacked and killed the sheepherder. After her lover's murder, Delores still climbed the mountain to light her fire, hoping to see a reply in the far-off peaks. She did so until she was old and grey, and her ghost continues to kindle a flickering flame to this day. Delores Mountain is near Fort Davis, twenty-three miles north of Alpine on Highway 118.
Big Bend National Park (Brewster County)
Bruja Canyon
This canyon has been thought haunted for hundreds of years. Bruja is Spanish for "witch," and the area can certainly be considered bewitched. Photographs taken here often cannot be developed, and unexplained flickering lights are observed. In 1978, two hikers encountered the silent apparition of a Mexican man wearing a serape and sombrero. Both witnesses sensed a "dangerous but non-malevolent power coming from the man."
Los Chisos Mountains
The name Los Chisos means "the ghosts," and these mountains are said to be home to several lonely spirits. The deserted mountain passes here are home to the phantom of Apache Chief Alsate. He was executed by a Mexican firing squad in the early 1800s.
Sometimes one can hear the sobbing of an Indian maiden who drowned herself in a mountain pond rather than be defiled by her white kidnappers.
The foothills are also haunted by a very unusual ghost--a bull named Murderer. One day in 1891, two cowboys got into an argument about who owned a maverick bull found grazing near their herds. Their heated words turned into a shoot-out and Fine Gilliland shot Henry Powe, killing him. Gilliland headed for the Glass Mountains, where two Texas Rangers hunted him down and killed him. Nobody wanted to claim the disputed bull. Instead, they branded it "Murderer—1891" and let it go. But the bull, or its ghost, kept returning and soon became legend in these parts. It appeared to Powe's son and at the Wentworth Ranch bunkhouse, where Gilliland had stayed. Every time there was a fatal shooting in the area, the ghostly bull showed up in the saloon in Alpine. Several people tried to capture Murderer, but none succeeded. For the next thirty years, it seemed that anyone who came upon the bull turned into a cold-blooded killer. To this day, some claim to see the phantom black bull silhouetted against the Texas horizon in the Big Bend territory.
Terlingua Abaja
This crumbling ghost town has been the site of several eerie encounters. Most of the buildings are adobe with the exception of the church, which is built of stone. The cemetery has twenty graves, including several infants who died in the harsh conditions here.
Big Spring High School
A ghost named Harold reportedly haunts the auditorium. It is said that he fell from the catwalk while hanging up the lights. There is even a strange footprint on the ceiling. When people paint over the footprint, it reappears. Witnesses have also claimed to see him walking around backstage with a flashlight.
Flight Line Prison
The prison was shut down many years ago. Occurrences started before the prison was even completely finished. Some building materials were stolen from the site so a guard had to be posted there. During the first night our control center got a frantic call from our guard asking for back-up because he knew someone was out there. He could hear them but he couldn't find them. Upon response, loud music could be heard in the mess hall, but as soon as they opened the door, the music stopped. The entire facility was searched and no trace could be found of anyone. Guards were doubled up due to the fact that no one would go out there alone. Strange noises, lights, and whispering occurred every night. The prison was completed and staffed. A fire safety inspection, area shakedowns, and an outer perimeter fence check are conducted every night. While doing these checks guards have reported seeing an old woman in the education wing, walking the halls at night. She will give you a quick glance and disappear, only she leaves behind a white powder everywhere she has been spotted. There is a mischievous entity who haunts the mess hall, who will clank and rattle the pots and pans as well as move things to and fro. A shadowy figure walks the living quarter wings. A small child loves to scare the life out of anyone who so happens to be in the perimeter truck at that time. The child has appeared on several occasions in the back of the truck looking in at you through the back window, or in front of the truck as you drive around, and has even decided to wake up several guards who dozed off by tapping them on the arm. It has caused several wrecks, has caused guards to chamber rounds in their firearms, and on a couple of occasions it has caused guards to quit on the spot.
Runnells Junior High School
You can see what appears to be a little girl walking the halls through the windows. Also the lights will come on and off by themselves.
Residential Area
A ghostly Indian warrior and his family appeared to a paper-boy on several occasions. They have not been seen since.
Clint High School
In the old gym above the theater, it has been said that the body of a girl, raped by a janitor, can be seen hanging. Also in the band room where all instruments are stored, one can hear someone playing an instrument at night, and just being in there gives an eerie feeling that makes you run out.
Denim & Diamonds
It is believed to be haunted by a woman. Ectoplasm has shown up in photos.
El Muerto
The area around El Paso is supposedly home to El Muerto, meaning "the dead one" or "the dead man." This is a common Mexican tale of a beheaded man who rides his horse through the desert with his head either carried in his lap, or hung on a rawhide thong from the saddle. El Muerto can also be found basically anywhere in West Texas through Southeast New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua in Mexico.
Cathedral High School
This school's most haunted place is the third floor, which is also the floor of the freshmen lockers and most of the freshmen classes. One time an unsuspecting freshman went up to go get something from his locker and saw that towards the end of the hall a locker was left open. He started heading down the hall to see whose locker it was when the locker was slammed closed, and a white figure started running in the opposite direction. The freshman started running after it, but once the ghost turned the corner it disappeared.
Another part of Cathedral that is haunted is a staircase that leads up into a separate classroom that is attached to the third floor. Once you walk into this classroom you can feel an eerie presence in the room. The hairs start standing up on the back of your neck and you get the feeling as if someone is either watching you are is right behind you, but no matter how much you search around the room you can find no trace of anything living or once living.
Chase Building
A woman in a red dress is said to haunt the top floor. Strange red lights can be seen coming from the top floor at night from a distance.
Concordia Cemetery
Traffic noise is a factor, but how do you explain sounds of children playing and laughing at two in the morning? There is a section of the cemetery were scores of children were buried after they died during a small pox epidemic. You can hear the hoof beats of cavalry soldiers, and just general conversation, but the words are not clear enough to understand.
Cavalry hoof beats and laughing children have been reported here.
Sounds of children laughing and playing long after midnight have been reported. Also, you can hear the sound of hoof beats and mumbled conversations.
Cristo Rey Catholic Church
This church, which is part of a cloistered convent, is only open to the public during Holy Week. Many visitors have spoken of a kindly older nun dressed in traditional habit of the order. She is usually seen praying at the altar's communion rail and slowly fades away when approached.
Crockett Elementary
The building is aged back to the 1920s and supposedly served as a hospital to war veterans. It's said that a child not knowing the history the building witnessed a man walking down the hall on the second floor with bloody gauze on his head and an amputated arm.
Once a hospital for war veterans, a sighting on the second floor may make you think this school is haunted. A child once witnessed a man with bloody gauze on his head and an amputated arm wandering the hallway here. This same child had no knowledge of the building's past.
Del Valle High School
It's known that in this school three young guys killed some band members. And now it's known that at night you can hear the screaming of the killed band members, pleading for their lives.
Desert View Middle School
One night a coach came to this school and heard punching noises on the lockers when no one was there. Another story is that a lunch lady got to the school early in the morning and saw a white figure run through the gym when no other students were there.
El Paso Community College
Photo Lab: Students and faculty have reported feeling a presence in the back of the photo lab. The revolving door has opened by itself and the curtain has opened as if someone is watching you. Some students have even reported that they felt someone touching their shoulder and breathing on the back of their necks. The school was built on top of the old Prices Dairy, and some believe a presence from the dairy has found a new home in the school photo lab. Some of the janitorial staff refuses to clean the photo lab area after dark.
El Paso High School
At this high school, there is a hall that leads to a balcony that is closed-off. Every single day, mist and fog roam the hall and there seems to be some gooey stuff on the ceiling. It is said that nearly 35 years ago, a teen killed herself by slitting her wrists in the hall, then walked towards the balcony, eventually jumping off. A wall that was built in front of it closes off the whole stairway and hallway that leads near there. Nobody can even tell now that there was even a hallway there, but people do wonder how to get to that hall.
Approximately 35 years ago, a teenaged girl slit her wrists and jumped from a balcony. The balcony is now closed off, but mists are seen in the hall on a daily basis.
El Paso High School is the oldest operating high school in El Paso. It sits on a mountainside at the foot of the Franklin Mountains overlooking the central portion of the city and its boundary with Mexico. Since its first year in 1916-1917, "Lady on the Hill" has graduated many prominent citizens of this community, and has captured hundreds of trophies, plaques, and championships in all fields. At this high school, some say there is a hall that leads to a shut off balcony. Many report mist and fog roaming this hall. It's said it was closed off after a student killed herself.
Escontrias Elementary
A high school was built on top of a cemetery and in the girls' locker room, a girl named Mary was said to be getting a towel when a large gate fell on top of her, pressing a deep wound in her neck. Later this high school was turned into an elementary school where if you go to the girls' restroom before you exit the back side of the school you will see five girls hung from the ceiling with many bloody hand prints on the wall.
Evergreen Cemetery
As you drive by the cemetery, you can see a boy standing on the sidewalk asking for a ride during the early hours of the morning. Near the railroad tracks that are behind the cemetery, there is a mist accompanied by a strong smell that might be encountered.
Fire Station #9
It is said that a firefighter died in a fire at this fire station. He has now come back to haunt the place. Whenever there is a fire at night, the ghost will turn the lights on and off and flush toilets to wake up the firefighters before the alarm. He has even been known to do this before the station gets a call about a fire.
Foxglove Apartments
Occasionally late at night one can hear what sounds like a cat jumping around on the furniture. Also large fleeting shadows have been witnessed out of the corner of someone's eye but nothing was there when they turned to look. Also reported was also the sound of books slamming to the ground in the bedroom while the occupants were in the bedroom.
Henderson Middle School
There are reports of six students that went to the place at night and heard footsteps behind them and herd someone screaming in the dark hall.
J.C. Machuca Apartments
It is said that these apartments were built on an Indian burial ground. Late at night you can actually hear footsteps and see dark shadowy figures in the apartments. There are also reports of things flying across the rooms and things that are moved from their original place and put somewhere else.
Kennedy Memorial Apartments
The Kennedy Memorial Apartments used to be a cemetery long time ago. Footsteps and crying have been heard. A little girl is always wandering around and you can actually see shadows. They open cabinets and wander in the second floor.
Late at night you can hear someone playing basketball, and you can see a shadow standing in the stage. The restrooms are haunted as well. The spirits turn on the water, flush the toilets, and slam the doors. When you're standing in the middle of the gym or even walking around, they push you and start messing with you. Security has reported these strange activities, but it's nothing but ghosts.
Loretto Academy
At night the bell tower is illuminated. The bells do not ring anymore and haven't for years. Yet at night you can see movement in the bell tower. Some say it is a colony of bats, or birds. But this shadow wears the same habit as the rest of the nuns teaching at Loretto. What this shadow represents is the spirit or energy of a much beloved sister who taught at this academy for many years and died of an illness, which kept her from continuing her duties at Loretto Academy. Her existence is well documented by the Concordia Cemetery Association, as well as her personal information and final resting place.
A nun imprisoned in the tower without food or water for becoming pregnant seeks the sisters who sentenced her to death.
Sometimes at night you can see a shadow moving about in the old, illuminated bell tower. Some think it may be bats or birds but it bears an eerie resemblance to the habits worn by other nuns at the academy.
Main Police Department
The building itself used to be a hospital and the room that gets the most activity was supposedly the surgery room. The room is currently the weight room. People have said they have been in there and the radio will turn on or off by itself, and the lights will turn on and off. People will pass the room and see nobody in there, but the weights will be moving.
McKelligon Canyon
The men's dressing room at the amphitheater is said to have lights flickering and the sound of someone running across the room and banging the walls. A man was said to have died while constructing the buildings there.
La Llorona
The ubiquitous ghost of a weeping woman, described as a shrouded, faceless lady with long white fingernails, has been sighted in the streets of this city. La Llorona was desperately in love with a man, who ordered her to get rid of her children if she wanted to live with him. She can still be seen in her flowing black dress, wandering along the banks of this river where she drowned them. She is always looking for her lost children but has been known to pause long enough to seduce and then murder young men.
Plaza Theater
The theater is said to be haunted by a Fort Bliss military soldier that died of a heart attack while smoking in the men's room. A man dressed in a military uniform has been seen on the right side of the stairs smoking a cigarette. There are also reports of hearing someone choking in the basement.
Old Railroad Tracks
It is said that a bus full of children died on this set of tracks when an oncoming train hit them. If you stop and cut your car off on top of the tracks, the dead children will push your car across the tracks. There are people that have placed baby powder on the car's bumper later to find children's handprints when there was nothing around.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
There has been an apparition seen by many parishioners of a woman in a turn-of-the-century bridal dress weeping in the side chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is believed to be the ghost of a young Mexican woman who was left at the altar and died not long after. She comes back in hoping that her deserting groom will come back.
Six Poles
There is a place near Interstate 10 where it is said that at night a lady haunts the area. Six Poles was used as a slaughter site for animals early in the century. The ghost is supposedly a woman who worked there and accidentally killed herself with the non-mechanical machine used there. It is said that late at night her spirit haunts the place and that she appears to carry her head at her waist. A bloody scene appears every time you hear her moan in pain. This place is located behind a new community college built about two years ago and close to an amusement park, which is now closed because this kid got killed in an unsafe ride called the Wheel of Fortune.
Six Poles is an area off the side of the freeway in the desert behind the community college. When you are walking through the desert you will see a number of stray black dogs of all types. The Six Poles area is known to be a sacred devil-worshipping place. There are six poles made out of concrete and a concrete table used to lay victims upon. The table has some kind of Roman symbols and letters printed all the way around it and in the middle of the six poles is the Devil's star.
Thomas Jefferson High School
In 1947, the devil is said to have made an appearance at an underclass dance here. The Master of Darkness was driving a convertible when he asked a girl walking down the street if she wanted to go to the dance. The girl's mother had refused to allow her to go to the function and the girl was pouting. She accepted the invitation but only danced one tune before her partner twirled her out an alley door. When other students heard screaming, they investigated and found the girl bleeding to death from deep claw marks. Next to her a large burning bush glowed menacingly. The witnesses were overcome by feelings of a malevolent presence. This story is typical of urban legends in which the devil shows up in our everyday world.
Transmountain Road/Lost Padre Mine
There have been many reports of a monk and his donkey walking this road, which runs through the Franklin Mountains of El Paso. The visions have caused many car accidents. It is said the monk is protecting a lost goldmine where Spanish missionaries had a large fortune. The University of Texas at El Paso confirms that this goldmine did in fact exist, but its archaeological department has had no luck in finding it.
Some have reported the ghost of a Spanish monk leading a mule. According to legend, the padre guards the entrance to a mine.
When driving through the Franklin Mountains on Scenic Drive, it is known that when you are by yourself at midnight, you can see a transparent monk and donkey crossing the road. When you drive through him and look in the rearview mirror, he appears in your backseat.
University of Texas at El Paso
Cotton Memorial and Semon Hall: Ghosts and strange noises are reported to haunt both areas. Many people have heard footsteps and echoes and screams late at night.
Fox Fine Art Building and Recital Hall: There is a figure that many theatre students see on the top balcony.
Ysleta High School
There are a lot of ghosts in that school. A cheerleader committed suicide in one of the restrooms after her boyfriend broke up with her and every night she appears there. According to one of the teachers, a little girl appeared in front of her and all of the sudden disappeared. Students went there on Thursday July 18, and four of the girls heard a horse cantering around the stadium. Then they heard a girl screaming in the old gym. In the auditorium, a little boy who died when he fell off the stage appears. And there's a janitor that appears there too.
El Paso Public Library
A Civil War soldier haunts the basement.
Camino Real Hotel
The staff of this hotel has spotted a woman in white in the basement.
L & J Café
Antonio Flores, the owner's grandfather, has been spotted. Maybe he's the one tugging on apron strings and playing with the windows.
La Hacienda
Pancho Villa's ghost has been spotted in his namesake room. Explorer Don Juan Onate has been reported on the patio, a third male spirit pulls hair, and a female apparition in the bar laughs at those guests lucky enough to see her.
This restaurant is located on the riverbanks of the Rio Grande, which separates El Paso from Juarez, Mexico. Some say the apparition of a weeping woman can be seen walking near looking for her children who had drowned.
This restaurant is on the riverbanks of the Rio Grande. It is said that on certain nights the apparition of a woman can be seen walking near the restaurant weeping loudly and asking for her children who have drowned in the river.
El Paso Museum of Art
Lights turn on and off, doors open and shut, there is moaning in the basement, and the apparition of an old woman has appeared on the top floors.
Lights flicker, doors open and close, moaning is heard in the basement and the spirit of an old woman can sometimes be seen peering down at you from one of the upper floor windows.
The museum was originally located on Montana Street, but they moved it to the downtown area of El Paso. An old woman was sighted on various times looking from a window on the top floors. Lights flicker on and off. Doors open and shut. Moaning sounds are heard coming from the basement.
Plaza Theater
The site used to be a residence in which a jealous husband strangled his wife. She now waters the theater's artificial plant life. Other specters reported here include a male who died suddenly en route to the water fountain. Some say the man was a teenager, others say he was older; some say he died of a heart attack, others say it was mysterious. There is another ghost who reportedly appears in the balcony when someone lights a cigarette.
Southwest General Hospital
A man called Charlie and an unidentified female were both killed in the elevator at different times, and now make themselves known to the staff.
Vilas Elementary School
According to local history, the school used to be a hospital, and from time to time, the attic light has been known to turn itself on and off.
Building 54 Fire Station #1
This is one of the oldest stations in El Paso, dating back to the 19th century when horse-drawn steamers were used to fight fires. Their ghost loves to slam doors, turn on lights, and walk between the engines at night toward the old horse tower. He must have been a dedicated firefighter, because he's been known to try to get on the trucks when a call comes in. When he gets particularly bothersome, the living firefighters tell him, "You can go home now; your shift is over," and he'll leave them alone for the night.
El Fenix Bakery and Grocery
This business is located at 8438 Alameda Avenue. This business was opened in the mid 1970s. It is said that its owner died in the early 1990s, leaving his business to his children. This man worked seven days a week and arrived at his bakery around 3:00 AM every morning. It is said that he would go outside and sweep the street and parking space for his customers every morning. Up to now, people drive by and see this man's ghost sweeping and taking out trash. The bakery is closed at that time but you can see the man preparing his bakery for opening time at 6:00 AM. Graveyard employees claim to hear noises coming from his office where it is said he spent hours doing paperwork everyday. They can hear the calculator and the cash register opening in the middle of the night. They hear footsteps, toilets flushing and often hear doors shutting. It is said that he has even spoken to customers who didn't know about his death. He welcomes them to the bakery and invites them to come in!
Pebble Hills Elementary
A couple of years ago a teacher died in the bathroom. People don't know what the cause of death was but there was blood all over the bathroom. Today there's a picture in front of the school office mourning her death. Students say that her eyes on the picture are caught looking at the bathroom in which she died. In the bathroom the toilets flush by themselves, and in the classroom in which she used to teach, she is seen looking in inside the window.
Highway just outside of town
A man and woman were killed in a car wreck. Sometimes passersby will see the body of a man lying by the crosses, or a woman asks for a ride back to town to call her kids. When you drop her off at a convenience store, she disappears.
North East section of town
The time of day plays no part in the unusual sightings that occur. During the daylight hours, voices of children playing and adults talking can be heard. At night, strange orbs can be seen floating along the roadways, some as large as basketballs. In some of the homes, sounds of dishes breaking have been reported, but no broken dishes are ever found. Closets in the home would have auras of foreboding, as if some one was staring at you as you passed. One homeowner shot a trespassing dog at night only to find that it vanished before his eyes at point blank range. As children walk from one home to another, they hear additional footsteps along side. During a family get-together, several family members slept out in the back yard under a nightlight placed in the yard. During the night they awoke to see a hat that belonging to the owner of the house rise from the table, lift about six feet in the air, go toward the back door. Once there, the screen door opened and the hat proceeded inward after a brief pause. The screen door shut after the hat entered. All of this time there was no wind, and it was all done in silence.
Old Middle School
It is said that some children died when a boiler blew up. You always get a weird feeling when you're walking through it. During Halloween, they sometimes open it up into a haunted house since the school is no longer open anyways. During the setups and the "haunted tours" actual weird things have happened such as doors slamming and footsteps being heard.
Alameda Road
A ghostly man in white has been seen running towards cars.
There is a ghostly man in white that can be seen on Alameda Road. This road is between the city of Clint and Fabens. It appears he is running towards cars.
Cattleman's Steakhouse
An apparition of a man can sometimes be spotted in the bar, the Buffalo Room and the Greenhouse Room.
An apparition of a man can be seen from the corner of your eye at night. Mainly this man haunts the area around the bar, as well as the Buffalo room and the Greenhouse room.
Junior High School
In the auditorium there's said to be a ghost in the bathrooms. They say that Bloody Mary appears there.
Building 4
One of the oldest buildings on this military installation, Building 4 once served as a secondary morgue, and is known to be haunted. The vision of an old cavalry soldier has been seen in the upstairs window many times and there are numerous reports of the spirits of men and women wandering the now unoccupied building.
Many current and former members of the U.S. Army and civilian employees confirm stories of strange activities in one of the oldest remaining buildings on the military installation. One tale tells of an old army cavalry soldier seen in the upstairs window of the building on several occasions. Others tell of similar situations in which men and women are seen roaming the halls of the now unoccupied building. Building 4 was once used as a secondary morgue to hold the bodies of slain soldiers.
It is unclear where these ghosts came from, but the building is one of the oldest on the base. The installation is used by the U.S. Army for training among other things. A cavalryman is sometimes seen in the windows, and other men and women have been seen to wander the halls. It's possible that these spirits are holdovers from days when the building served as a morgue, though now it is apparently unoccupied.
There is a story of an old military medical center that has been condemned for a decade or two. Anyway, there have been hauntings there ever since a medic was let down for "accidentally" killing a soldier whom had been shoot in the chest back in the 1950s. Even though its condemned certain soldiers of high ranks are in the possession of some keys to open the building once again.
MacGregor Range / Asa P. Grey Recreation Center / Tumbleweed Tavern
Many people report unexplained noises.
The old stage is haunted by unexplainable noises.
The old stage is haunted with a feeling of desertion, clicking and unexplainable noises in the night. Many soldiers and visitors have died on the shooting ranges and adjacent trails. Come visit the tavern any evening, bring cameras.
Building 13
Building 13 was built in 1893 for soldiers of the 18th Infantry. In this building, a soldier who was forced to retire killed himself and is now said to haunt the place. Also, the swinging doors in the courtroom open and close by themselves.
This building was built in 1893 for soldiers of the 18th Infantry. A cavalry soldier was forced to retire because of his age; he may have been a doctor. This depressed man apparently hanged himself in the rafters of Building 13. Also, the swinging doors in the courtroom have a habit of swinging by themselves at times. A cavalry soldier has been seen walking through the halls as well.
A depressed, retired member of the cavalry hanged himself from the rafters. An apparition has been seen walking the halls and the courtroom doors swing by themselves.
William Beaumont Hospital
Lights turn on and off, screams are heard, and an apparition of a man hanging has been seen through the windows at night. Even some of the MPs are afraid to enter this building after dark.
Fort Davis (Jeff Davis County)
Fort Davis Historical Site
There are ghosts of several soldiers there. The hospital walls are said to change color, and others have claimed to have actually seen specters in several places.
The Hospital
A presence has been felt in the hospital part of this fort. There are also reports of colds spots and a feeling of being watched.
The Sutlery
A strange, dark figure has been spotted near this old building. Locals call him El Bulto, which means "The Figure."
Ascension Boulevard
On Ascension Boulevard going towards Mountain View High School, you can see a man walking when you turn your lights off and look back. He can be spotted when you're either coming from the school or going towards it. It has been said that there are many bodies buried along the sides of the road.
Carrol T. Welch School
There are rumors of a little girl getting killed during the construction of the school. Hearing noises and seeing the ghost of the little girl have been reported.
Bridge
On the east side of town is a steel girder bridge where some say you can still hear the echoes of a long-ago car crash.
High School
Former students are still smoking in the boys' room, and at least one person has heard voices from the bathroom when he knew it was empty.
Kerrville's Courtyard
It is known that a young woman was killed here by her boyfriend in the late 1800s. Her boyfriend then hanged himself after killing her. He was a very jealous man. Now, at around midnight, people see them fighting and then they see him kill her. Later on in the night, they see him hanging in a tree. Whoever goes there at night will feel sad and start to cry for no reason, and then you will feel someone breathing down your neck when there is no one else around. Your car will lock and unlock, and lights will flicker in the courthouse. Then you will see a young woman running really fast trying to escape her jealous boyfriend. Your car will shake and there will be a banging noise on the top of your car.
Tivy High School
Strange feelings of not being alone and apparitions have been reported.
Y.O. Ranch Hotel
Reportedly, apparitions of cowboys can be seen walking around the courtyard after 3:00 AM near the swimming pool and then they vanish.
The Sam Houston Café
A phantom patron has been known to ask to use the bathroom.
Bad Lands Hotel
The hotel was the site of terrible domestic violence that ended in a grisly murder. Strange noises have been reported here.
Los Chisos Mountains
[See also entry for Big Bend National Park]
Ghost lights, not unlike the Marfa Lights, have been seen here.
Captain Shepard's Inn
Doors open and close, and unexplained shadows are witnessed.
Gage Hotel
Guests in Room 10 hear ghost music and are awakened at night by a ghost tapping on their shoulder. Some have reported ghostly poetry recitation and apparitions.
Arcon Inn B & B
Emmeline is seen gazing through the window of the north bedroom in her white dress. Doors open and shut, and cold spots are felt.
Marfa Lights
Over 75 local legends exist about the origin of these strange lights. As yet there is no definitive explanation for their occurrence. They are a great tourist attraction. For years everyone has gone to this place on the road between Marfa and Alpine. No one knows if the lights are in fact spectral or of UFO origin. The lights appear on the horizon in the dark. They flicker, dance, change colors, and have been known to respond to the flashing of headlights.
These famous floating balls of light have been seen in the mountains near Marfa for over 150 years. The greenish yellow lights appear just above the horizon at dusk and sometimes split into two or more separate lights. Apache legend says the lights are the spirit of Chief Alsate, who was condemned to wander the area after he offended a tribal god. White settlers attributed the lights to the ghostly lanterns of a family that got lost in the wilderness in the 1850s. Marfa was established in 1881 as a watering stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The first modern sighting was reported by a cowboy, Robert Ellison, in 1883. Recently, a driver on U.S. Highway 90 reported that one of the glowing balls entered his speeding car through an open window and stayed in the automobile for two miles. In July 1989, “Unsolved Mysteries” set up sophisticated monitoring equipment at the site and monitored the lights, but the only thing their guest scientists could agree upon was that the phenomenon was not manmade. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) researcher Dennis Stacy has cataloged report in which the lights seem to display intelligent behavior, such as following people or vehicles.
Monahans High School
Supposedly a girl hanged herself in the auditorium, and now in the basement you can see and feel the spirit. She is known to go through the costumes and hide things in really odd places.
Sandhills State Park
Closed doors manage to slam themselves, shadows are seen in employees' peripheral vision, and disembodied shrieks can be heard.
Odessa High School
The story goes that a drama student talked her boyfriend into shooting her, and now she haunts the auditorium wearing a white dress.
A ghost called Betty, who actually went to this school, killed herself in the auditorium. Many have witnessed voices screaming or even visions of her hanging.
Betty was a student back in the 1960s, and her real name was Elizabeth. Her boyfriend took her out to a stock pond around Notres and he shot her, weighed her body down, and dropped her in the pond. The next day he was taken out of class and showed the police where he dumped her body. She haunts our auditorium because she was really into theatre.
Ector Junior High
In the 1960s, Ector Junior High used to be a high school. The students always teased the janitor. So he climbed the balcony in the auditorium and hanged himself. Many have seen him walking around the balcony and stage.
Insane Asylum
This is an old building located on the west side of town in an old Spanish-looking hospital. Many of its patients killed themselves and it has been said that at late at night their spirits still wander the hallways looking for their doctor. Many times this has occurred and many people in the town of Odessa have been scared out of the hospital. The police have boarded up the windows and the doors. Some teenagers broke in and started a fire, but if you drive by late at night you might be able to see a light glow from the upstairs windows.
Weldon Ostrander House
The entire Ostrander family disappeared in 1889. Ghostly noises are heard coming from inside, and apparitions are sometimes seen.
Barrio Santa Rosa
It is said that late at night next to the railroad tracks in front of the Santa Rosa church, you can hear a woman sobbing as she goes down the street. You can also hear the gentle sound of her high heels walking towards you.
Lamar Middle School
It is said that long ago a boy swinging in the right swing died after falling and cracking his head open. Now during a certain time between September and December, the swing will swing by itself. It will appear that someone is swinging on it. The other swings are still and quiet on a calm day.
Pecos Elementary
This school is now shut down. It is said that voices and strange apparitions will appear on top of the roof and in the girls’ bathroom. Late at night children are heard playing on the rundown playground.
Reeves County Courthouse
Footsteps on the third floor, descending stairs, and shadowy figures in peripheral vision have been experienced here late at night.
Fort Leaton
After having Edward Hall murdered in his own house, John Burgess moved into Hall's home (the fort). Burgess was killed in retribution by Hall's stepson. From time to time, one might find a female spirit rocking away in the rocking chair in the kitchen. No one knows if it is Mrs. Burgess or Mrs. Hall. Edward Hall can still be found, lingering in the room in which he was murdered.
Angelo State University
Girls High-Rise Dorm: The ninth floor of the girls high-rise dorm is haunted by a college student who was killed in April 1978. She is a very nice ghost.
The Housing Office: This office is haunted by the spirit of a young co-ed who was murdered in the 1970s by an ROTC cadet. He apparently was infatuated with her and went into a murderous rage when she refused his advances.
The Housing Office: In 1976, a young coed who worked for the school paper was murdered by a jealous ROTC cadet (who worked as a photographer for the paper). He stabbed her to death with a pair of scissors and dragged her body to Room 200 (now the housing office). Footsteps and the sounds of their argument can still be heard late at night on the second floor. The elevator by the housing office operates independent of corporeal human influence. Some students have reported spotting the girl's apparition. Update: additional information indicates that the murder occurred in 1978 and that the killer was a math major from out-of-state. Rampage staff members refer to the ghost as Leandra.
The Housing Office: Strange footsteps and the sounds of a man and woman arguing are heard late at night in the deserted second-floor hallways of the administration building on this 26-acre campus. Several students and university employees have reported seeing the shadowy ghost of a young woman in the halls near Room 200. In 1976, a young coed was stabbed to death after an argument with an ROTC cadet. He was a photographer with the school paper, and she also worked there. The beautiful girl spurned the man's advances, and in a fit of rage he grabbed a pair of scissors and plunged them into her chest. Then, he dragged the body into Room 200 and ran to a priest to confess his crime. Apparently he was not forgiven, for the lonely ghost of the murdered girl still stalks these hallways.
The Housing Office: Those in the second floor hallways of the administration building hear arguments. There are reports of the image of a young lady being seen near Room 200.
The Housing Office: Back in the 1970s, a young coed was murdered by an ROTC cadet who was infuriated by her rejection of his advances. She is said to haunt the housing office and the surrounding building.
Hardeman Building: Unplugged radios in the Hardeman building have a disturbing tendency to plug themselves in and start playing.
Santa Rita Park
In this park just to the left of Santa Rita elementary, a woman named Marie (who apparently used to reside in the Santa Rita area) frequently walked in the park. She died without much family and now her ghost still haunts the park. Stray dogs tend to roam the park at night, whether they are looking for food or a place to sleep, and their behavior is very peculiar. They jump up in the air and they become excited periodically, running to and fro, barking in a direction where no one or nothing can be seen to the human eye. Marie seems to enjoy the dogs' company, and she tends to sit at the bench closest to the school. Anyone who stands near or sits on that bench at night is sure to feel a chill and a sense of restlessness. One will also find that looking into the creek (which runs through the park) at night takes much courage, though nothing has reportedly been seen in the water.
Sunset Mall
In one of the closets of the old Luby’s restaurant, you can hear two little kids playing and talking.
Fort Concho
Many ghosts haunt this best-preserved frontier army fort. The buffalo soldiers were stationed here in the late 19th century for protection against Indian attacks. Many of them are still there along with others. Officers Quarters 1 still has a little girl upstairs who died of an illness. She can be seen from time to time. Ask any employee for details. Conrad McClure, and employee and re-enactor, has had many ghostly encounters there during his career.
The fort is haunted by many buffalo soldiers, a young girl playing on the floor in an upstairs bedroom of Officer's Quarters 1, and cold spots.
Construction on this remote outpost started in 1867. The fort was abandoned in 1889 and the buildings were turned into private residences. Today, the ghosts of its former occupants are still struggling to make a go of it. The footsteps of invisible soldiers are heard in the old barracks, and a shadowy apparition has been seen walking there. Lights play games in the headquarters and court-martial room. The presence of the camp's surgeon, Captain William Notson, is sensed in the primitive post hospital. The museum library, formerly Officer's Quarters No. 7, is haunted by the luminescent spirits of several transients who were murdered in the building in the 1890s. One library staff member claims the ghosts locked her out several times by latching the heavy nineteenth-century lock.
Miss Hattie's Whore House
Two doors down from Miss Hattie's Cafe, the building used to be a museum. A pair of men's shoes inexplicably moved from one room to another each night.
School Building
Some witnesses in the older part of the building have experienced some whispers. The newer part has had ghostly footsteps of two children, and an occasional electrical disruption. The building is being converted into a private home.
Sterling City (Sterling County)
Landmark Hotel
Years after her death, a ghostly telephone operator still calls the payphone in the cafe downstairs. Ghostly footsteps have been reported, and mysterious business records would turn up in odd places.
Mount Margaret
A stagecoach traveling through the area fell victim to Comanches. The lone survivor was a six-year-old girl named Margaret. The Comanches took her back to their village to join their tribe, but she refused all nourishment and soon died. They placed her body on a nearby mountain. The mountain took her name, and her ghostly sobs can still be heard as she searches for her murdered parents.
Perry House
An unidentified female apparition has been seen in the house of the former cinnabar mining magnate.
Oilfields
The unlikely ghost of a Russian Cossack haunts the oil fields around this small town. Nicholi was a count whose family had escaped from the Russian Revolution. He brought his family and his fortune to Texas to learn the oil business from the ground up. He started out as a roustabout laborer, then became a tool pusher. All the while, he kept his fortune in gold hidden away in an abandoned coyote den. Or so the rumors went, and they were enough for a band of roughnecks, who kidnapped the Cossack and his butler. Both died rather than divulge their secret. Before long, the ghost of Nicholi started to appear near the oil derricks, in the barren prairie outside of town, and even walking down Hendricks Boulevard. Dozens of townsfolk saw the ghost over the years. One of the better-known witnesses was rock and roll star Roy Orbison, who saw the ghost on a dirt road east of town in 1950. According to legend, the Cossack’s treasure is still buried in the prairie, three to five miles due east of Wink.
Site updated August 12, 2005