Host to ghosts: Texas capital home to LBJ, others

Associated Press ^ | October 26, 2008 | April Castro

[CurlyBill]

Host to ghosts: Texas capital home to LBJ, others

By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer – Sun Oct 26,
10:33 am ET

AUSTIN – Politics can be plenty spooky, especially this time of year. But in Texas, some politicians have a way of sticking around way past Election Day.

Some say Sam Houston, the Texas hero who famously gave up his job as governor rather than join the Confederacy, still roams his old home, pacing nervously. Others have seen the ghost of Lyndon Johnson watching election night returns in the mezzanine of the storied Driskill Hotel, or Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson, an Alamo survivor, standing near a posh new hotel on Fourth Street.

[mnehring]

Ghost of LBJ, are we talking about Obama?

[CurlyBill]

Ghost Ping!! Thanks to LucyT for FReepmailing me this!

[CurlyBill]

Ghost Ping!! Thanks to LucyT for FReepmailing me this story!

[beckysueb]

Ghost of LBJ? Now thats spooky.

[mrs. a]

LBJ’s ghost?

Remind me not to walk my beagle around there...

[trumandogz]

I saw the ghost of LBJ voting in South Austin this afternoon. Others said they saw LBJ voting yesterday.

[xJones]

Austin's that only place that alleged ghosts in Texas.

Oh yeah, Dallas has the Lady of White Rock Lake legend which was created by nearby SMU students in the 1920s. And then there is the goat man that used to run around Lake Ft.Worth, Texas.

It's great for the tourism 'bidness' but in ain't true

[dragnet2]

LBJ and Bush? Very spooky.

[xJones]

I saw the ghost of LBJ voting in South Austin this afternoon. Others said they saw LBJ voting yesterday.

Well, as a dead Democrat what else do you expect him to do?

[Ditter]

Keep Austin Weird, that what their t-shirts say.

[stainlessbanner]

Fast Freddy’s pool hall (FW) is supposed to be haunted. I heard the owner interviewed and he shrugged it off, but said it was good for bidness!

[itsthejourney]

I’m all for a good ghost story but I’ve lived here all my life and never heard of such hogwash. Just the typical AP Liberal Austin journalist sippin’ too much tea and keepin’ Austin weird (in not a good way). Besides, if anywhere, LBJ would be at his ranch having a bbq. I’ve told ya’ll this before (in another life here) but my claim to fame is once seeing his belly button, lol.