Ghosts, Haunted Places Part of 'Weird Texas'

WOAI ^ | 10/28/05

[Army Air Corps]

try www.lonestarspirits.org

[ArmyTeach]

White seagull. Don't knock it. Sea lore has it that sailors who die at sea go to Davy Jones locker. From there, they are occasionally allowed out, in the form of a seagull, to check things out. The color of the seagull reflects the sailor's character, and only the very best of character can return as pure white seagulls. Do you know anyone with a naval background who died at sea? You might have a protecting spirit. ;-)

[zdnkyldy]

Thanks for the post. I work in the McCulloch County Courthouse. The Courthouse is reported to have the spirit of General McCulloch and his paramour. I had worked there about a year when I mentioned that I was always smelling cigars even tho the courthouse is a non-smoking building. The smoke didn't offend me because my daddy was a cigar smoker and the smell was rather peaceful. The judge told me about the spirit and his affinity for cigars. He asked if I ever smelled gardenias...I hadn't but the Generals's parmour is supposed to smell of gardenias. As one who did not believe in spirits...I now question???

[Rockpile]

Big Spring? I've heard about when the professional girls were in town that the EL was turned off on the big neon sign on the roof of the Hotel Settles, thus announcing to everyone "in the know" that, ummm, entertainment was available.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, these neighbours had lived in Big Spring for a few years before moving to the neighbourhood where I met them.

Once house that they had was a few miles outside of Big Spring. They had had odd things happen when they were there (like a screen door unlatch itself and open and close wildly).

One night, they had a guest visitng the house (a friend of one of their sons). This guy was downstairs in the living room on the night of his visit and everyone else was asleep. This guy was watching some TV before he planned to go to sleep. Well, he heard footfalls upstair and thought that one of my neighbours or their kids were stirring upstais and thought nothing of it.

Then he heard slow footfalls on the stairs. The chair in whiach he was sitting was close to the stairs. Out of the cornr of his eye he saw a pair of feet that were glowing green. No legs or body - just feet and they walked down the satirs and began to move toward this kid. At that point, he bolted out of the chair and ran screeming from the house. My neighbours said that the kid refused to ever vist the house at night after that.

[hispanarepublicana]

Wasn't Quanah Parker born near Big Spring?

[Army Air Corps]

beats me.

[after dark]

In the 1850's, farmers digging a well discovered eight feet down a strange wall . The farmers excavated a hundred feet of the wall. The town of Rockwall, Texas is named after the strange wall which encompasses it. At various points around Rockwall the wall pokes out of the ground. The strange wall looks like masonry. The geologists called out in the 1850's ,dismissed the wall as naturally occurring. More research should be done. Folklore has it that the wall belonged to an ancient civilization.

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks! It was been a looooong time since I last visited Rockwall. Now, I have to make plans for a visit.

[hispanarepublicana]

More research hasn't been done on this? Is Rockwall near Waco? (we're 24 secs away from beating the Bears)!

[Army Air Corps]

What is the score?

[hispanarepublicana]

We just won; 28-0.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

...and he helped students with first and second semester chemistry,

Oh, I thought taking Chemistry was the scary part of the story.......... ;^)

As an aside - was that a weird football game or what? So close for so much of the game then we blew it out at the end....... Baylor played well, good for them!

[Army Air Corps]

"Oh, I thought taking Chemistry was the scary part of the story.......... ;^)"


LOL!

[hispanarepublicana]

Yeah...I went from pins & needles to FReeping the entire last quarter.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I wish I had a ghost in Holden Hall helping me with History........ you see, there were a couple of football players in my History class and I, uh, couldn't see around them, yeah that's why I couldn't concentrate - because they took up too much room.......... ;^)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I was flipping between the Nebraska/ou game and our game........ Nebraska almost came back and beat ou.........

[Army Air Corps]

Well, I have heard some folks feeling "uneasy" in parts of Holden Hall. I have been there alone at night a few times and have heard some odd noises that are not the usual plumbing and AC noises.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It wasn't me, I swear.........

[Army Air Corps]

HR, A year or so ago, an old friend of mine investigated a house which is reportedly haunted. Here is the tale of his investigation.