[hispanarepublicana]

I've seen the Cadillacs buried tail-up, and I've been in the creepy Oakwood Cemetery. I've also heard WEIRD stories about a park with monkey cages outside of Athens, Texas (birthplace of the hamburger). My grandpa used to tell creepy stories of ghosts he saw around the San Antonio area (of course, they might have been tequila-inspired).

[sneakers]

ghost ping!

[WillamShakespeare]

You want to hear a real weird ghost story, about 15 years ago I use to rent a basement apt in a house that was right next to a graveyard, and before I rented it, my landlord (the guy who owned the house) told me on several occasions he had some creepy stuff happen to him that he couldn`t explain, ghost stuff etc etc and me being the fool just brushed him off...yeah yeah yeah.. Until a few months later, one night I was watching TV by myself.

As I swear to this day, I was not drunk, I was not on drugs, I was wide awake and I was definately by myself with my back to the wall and I`ll swear on my mother while I was watching TV I felt a hand cover my face...Not the whole hand, but the finger tips, all five of them. No I am not kidding, someones hand that I could not see touched my face for about a second, and as soon as I felt it on my face I immediately knew what it was and practically jumped through the ceiling screaming and ran the hell outside. Needless to say I didn`t stay there long.

[japaneseghost]

weird East Texas PING

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

AS a teenager I went to Sour Lake (Don't drink the water) to try to see the ghost light. Never saw it.

[Jorge]

Back when I was 17, a freind and I ate table-spoonfuls of chocolate mescaline with orange sunshine acid, and sat on a couch and concentrated on seeing "God the White light" ...( we thought we were really spiritual back then)

Anyway, I had this experience of rising through darkness, and speeding upward through space toward this light. It was a brilliant white light that got brighter and brighter as I approached it.
And then all of a sudden I physically felt hands on me, stopping me, and pushing me back down...and the next thing I knew I was sitting back on the couch.

I told my friend about it and he said the same thing happened to him.

We both did it a few times and were convinced that it was real beings, like Angels that pushed us back into this world, and we decided not to try it anymore.

[Cvengr]

I still remember those weird ghost stories of cemetaries full of voters who brought LBJ his victories.

[VRWCer]

bookmarking for later! Thanks for the Halloween-y post!

[dandelion]

My father was OLD East Texas - from the 1920's, back near the Big Thicket. He told me that he himself had heard "the Voice in the Swamp" - the unknown voice that would call the name of travelers while they walked alone in the Thicket. He heard it call his name when he roamed the bottoms of the Naches river as a boy, a ghostly sweet voice, but he never answered back. He told me that no one should ever answer the voice back; if one did, one would be led astray and into the Thicket forever...

The big trees hide many secrets.

[TASMANIANRED]

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[lsee]

In elementary school in Kingsville, Texas, some friends and I went into a classroom during recess and had a seance. Typical kids' stuff...held hands...sat in a circle...asked the spirits to give us a sign. This classroom had a sink and we were startled out of our wits when the water came on spontaneously and just as abruptly turned itself off. Now, who knows...since the room spent a lot of time empty, perhaps this was a common occurrence nobody had witnessed before, a way of relieving pipe pressure or something, but WE BELIEVED...and it frightened us so much that most of us quit dabbling after that.

[Xenophon450]

I remember about 3 years ago, that whole summer I thought I was going crazy. All my grandparents died within 2 months of each other. Around that time I would hear strange noises in the middle of night, my dad told me if I was downstairs the other night because he heard a woman screaming at around 2 AM and I was pretty young (15). Well around July I was still sleeping with my door open to the hallway and had no lock on my door. Around 1 AM I got up got some mountain dew and went back to bed, however, around 30 minutes later I heard some commotion in the kitchen. I shook it off as my dad or brother. I heard the steps coming down the hall and I can tell how my dad walks due to certain creaks in the floor because of his weight and his step pattern. It did not sound too much like him but my brother was home. I had my face the the wall so I had Nada visibility. It wasn't until the steps shuffled into my room that I started to sweat allot...I mean i was drenched...and it seemed like FOREVER...sounded like heavy breathing standing over my bed I just pretended to sleep, I felt like whatever it was, was watching me. I thought some one broke in personally because I was a bit paranoid about that back then. about 15 minutes later I'd say, the steps shuffled off into the living room and I waited another couple minutes to get up my courage, then I grabbed a machete and ran into the living room screaming. Nothing was touched or disturbed, i checked the locks and all was sound...my dad woke up and was mad as hell I woke him up and my brother was sound asleep, mom wasn't home at the time. Needless to say even I thought I was crazy...

[COEXERJ145]

The Cadillacs are just plain strange.

While I haven't experienced any of the things other people have mentioned, I've seen the Marfa lights at least 1/2 a dozen times. Just weird lights off in the distance that appear and disappear.

On the Texas A&M campus we're supposed to have several haunted buildings, most notably the Animal Industries building. Decades ago it was were all the meat on campus was processed. One night a man working alone in the basement sliced open his leg and bleed to death before being able to get out of the building and find help. Many people swear they've seen his ghost in the basement and in front of the freight elevator which he where he died. I had a class in there in 1999 and never saw anything unusual.

[indcons]

Hi, hispanarepublicana. Interesting thread......

[after dark]

I bought a copy of 'Weird Texas'. It's a great book.

I was a little disappointed they left out the mysterious, ancient, underground wall which surrounds Rockwall ,Texas.

[Army Air Corps]

HR, there is a three volume set of Texas ghost stories that cover three geographical regions of the state.

When I return home from my office, I'll post the bibliographic info here for you and everyone else.

[Army Air Corps]

"My grandpa used to tell creepy stories of ghosts he saw around the San Antonio area (of course, they might have been tequila-inspired)."


There are many, many ghosts in and around SA. I may have a tle or two... ;-)

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Late to the thread but here's my contribution...

Several years ago my mother woke up in the middle of the night and saw a bright light at the bedroom door. The light stayed for a few seconds and then faded away. She woke my dad up but he told her to go back to sleep. The next morning he went to check on my grandmother (his mom) who lived next door. She had passed away during the night.

[okie01]

I've seen the Cadillacs buried tail-up, and I've been in the creepy Oakwood Cemetery

Just south of Saint Jo, up in Montague County, there is another example of automotive art in a field. Somebody has painted eight VW bugs orange, with black spots, and placed them in a field...as if they were ladybug decoys.

[TADSLOS]

The Devil's Backbone near Wimberly is reportedly one of the most haunted areas in Texas.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My father was murdered in Houston in 1992. His mother, who was near 90 and had dementia, was in a nursing home in Brookshire and had no clue what day it was nor who anyone but my dad was. Dad visited at least twice a week. We instructed the staff not to tell her as she would not remember the next day in any case. Two days after he died she went the the nurses station near midnight and said " what's going on here? My son just came to see me and said he was OK but wouldn't be able to visit anymore, and I want to know what is happening?"