He's thought to be a Confederate soldier who lost his head to a cannonball. Pay a visit here and you may encounter a ghost with a limp, who may have been a former cemetery caretaker. Folks say the small iron bridge here is haunted as well. Local legend has it that if you stop on the bridge, turn off your headlights, count to 10, The Wupperman Theatre is said to house the ghost of a small girl wearing a blue dress, and she seems to want to play hide-and-seek.
Lights flicker and the trap door opens by itself at times. In the Trinity Building dorm, lights can be seen to flicker on and off, The historic inn was built by a merchant seaman, and is allegedly haunted by the former owner, his daughter and three other separate entities. Guest reports range from being awoken by a ghostly man in a dinner suit to seeing a female spirit in old-fashioned clothing roaming the Employees here have felt a ghostly presence who has been known to knock merchandise off racks or set up pyramids of canned food in the aisles during the night.
Dating back to the 's, the old county jail is now a private residence. Reports say a glaring man, possibly a former prisoner, was seen staring down into the street when the place was for sale for a period of time. Upon investigation, the building was empty. Submitted by Callum Formerly a boy's school during the 's, this historic building may soon become a bed and breakfast inn. The place is haunted by a number of spirits, including former students and the apparition of a former owner.
Footsteps have been heard on the stairs, and a strange voice has This creek was most probably named after the La Llorona myth. La Larona the Weeping Woman is the hispanic boogey-woman. Built by a local man long ago who wanted his home to look like a castle, this property is now owned by the city of San Antonio. It is said that strange lights are often seen coming out of the tower. Built in , the Von Minden Hotel is rumored to be haunted by at least two ghosts, perhaps stemming from two known deaths here.
Long ago in Room 23, a railroad worker died of an illness in his sleep, and in Room 37 a WWII veteran jumped after finding that The hotel dates back to , and was situated near the railroad to draw in weary travellers. Apparently, some were so tired that they never left, according to the current owners. During the renovations, a lot of ghostly activity was reported, although it settled down after their completion.
Numerous sightings of a little boy in period clothing roaming the apartment complex. Dating back to , the historic house is now a restaurant and saloon.
The place is haunted by a female apparition in period clothing, perhaps the wife of the original builder. A variety of ghostly activity has been claimed at this current wedding venue. Full-body apparitions, dolls moving location, eerie music, cold spots, doors opening and closing under their own volition and other haunted happenings. Housed in the Stehling Building, the building housed a clothing store and a boarding house when it first opened to the immigrant community.
Although reports of hauntings here are largely unsubstantiated, a guest staying at the inn reported sighting a grey shade in their room, while another heard The antique store is haunted by a young boy in old-fashioned clothing. Running footsteps and ghostly laughter have also been reported here. It was originally a dry-goods grocery store with the family living quarters upstairs. When the city purchased the building in , ghost stories began to be told. Locals saw lights going on and off in At Ye Kendall Inn, according to local lore, reside the spirits of Erastus and Sarah Reed, who bought the land on which the inn stands in The Old Reed House, as it was called back then, was a stagecoach stop.
Reports say the spots most often visited by the David is the spirit of a teen who, according to local lore, drowned in the upstairs bathroom's claw-foot tub and he still haunts that room. The Officer's Quarters are said to be haunted. People claim that items move around on their own volition and people claim to see lights when there is no one there. Driskill Hotel Austin, Texas 0. Read more ». Omni Austin Hotel Austin, Texas 0.
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Droughts and plagues, shoot-outs in the streets, cow poachers taking livestock and lives, Texas Rangers pushing Comanche warriors westward in ever more violent skirmishes, slave revolts, raided Land Offices and finally the onset of the Civil War. It is a place of burning passions and one whose very soul has a few inflamed spirits haunting its bullet-riddled body.
This hotel is without a doubt one of the most famous and ghastly spots in Austin. The Driskill Hotel has garnered quite a reputation as one of the most haunted places in the whole of the Lone Star State.
The presence of spirits is so prevalent that the staff even have handouts for guests, their very own game of Pokemon…. From spirits in the elevator shaft to fashion-savvy poltergeists — musician Annie Lennox reportedly had undead help in choosing an outfit to perform in when she stayed in the hotel. The hotel has it all. A fixture on Sixth Street since , the now funky bar was once a rather famous boarding house; which back in those Wild West days was street code for a brothel.
The place was a battleground for hot tempers, fevered passions, and angry confrontations. It was, to sum it up rather quickly, the outlaw dive bar all other dive bars strived to be.
It was sketchy, it was boisterous, it was one bad hand of blackjack away from devolving into the O. That rattlesnake mean reputation and gun oil slick pedigree have earned the place its cabinet of curiosity. A stock room filled with booze, buffalo wings, urban legends, and haunts. The current everyday minutia of running a bar mixed in with the hijinks of pesky ghosts ; pool cues moving about, glasses that were cleared appearing back on the tables, chairs being turned over, the jukebox blurring out Johnny Cash at odd hours, doors slamming on their own and a dozen other supernatural occurrences.
One of the most famous spirits that seem to be a fixture in the place is Sam Houston, the President and governor of Texas when the State was an independent pseudo-nation. Another throwback from those days, when the Union was still being cobbled together, is the ghost of a year-old serviceman who shot himself after being rejected by the nice of then-Governor Pendelton Murrah.
A lady in red who waltzes across secret stairwells waiting for her lover and tempting hot-blooded males. Orbs and will-o-the-wisps circling the dome at the stroke of midnight. The murdered revenant of Robert Marshall Law appearing by his old desk, half his cranium shot off. Growls and scrapes scaring the living daylights out of the night staff as they pass lock rooms. The Texas State Capital is a treasure trove of the weird , the bizarre and the insane.
The Cemetery has clawed its way into the annals of history not because of its distinctive and noteworthy residents, but that fact that these inhabitants refuse to stay put… as in six feet under and not partying around the cemetery grounds like its Spring Break for the undead. The gates of the cemetery are locked at night right around dusk and only truly valiant trespassers decide to take an illegal stroll down this Walking Dead byway.
South Austin university is supposedly riddled with spooks, specters, spirits, and supernatural beings. A smorgasbord of the eerie that makes the students of the University feel as if they made a mistake and accidentally enrolled in Hogwarts.
The frequency with which the students come into contact with the ethereal and unknown is simply ridiculous. Apparitions haunt the hallways like its a gridlocked highway between the land of the living and the dead; shoulder to shoulder with coeds and frat students. Wraiths like the student who fell to his death out a window in the Maloney Room. Specters like the hanged drama student in the Mary Moody Northern Theater.
Built by Judge Charles A. Wilcox in , the grand mansion slowly devolved from a stately family home into a co-op housing development for slackers, drug dealers and the dregs of society. The late s saw a shift in the economy and gentrification hit the mansion like a sledgehammer.
The building was bought, renovated and converted into a world-class boutique Inn with modern fixings.
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