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View Article - Red Bud Isle
Ghosts in a darkened forest

Red Bud Isle

The Colorado River runs through the heart of one of Texas’s most cherished cities. Austin has a reputation for its scenery, urban waters, and immersion in the arts, with the much-celebrated SXSW music and media festival that descends and consumes ...

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View Article - Dead Man’s Hole
Outlaw Dead Man's Hole Austin

Dead Man’s Hole

The backroads surrounding Austin, Texas, are like an intricate quilt. Each stretch of road is distinguished from the next by a unique piece of Texas history. Divided by the great mysteries of the vast Texas landscape, they often stitch together bru ...

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View Article - Austin’s Haunted Millett Opera House
Austin's Haunted Millett Opera House: Historic Theater

Austin’s Haunted Millett Opera House

Local legends drive many of the ghost stories across the United States. Some are verifiable, easily matched with a newspaper clipping detailing the tragic event that spawned the restless soul. Others rely on the curiosities of man to be seen or heard ...

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View Article - Austin City Hall
Austin City Hall: eerie whispers in sleek design

Austin City Hall

On any given day, dozens upon dozens of warm bodies move through the corridors of Austin City Hall. Driven by menial tasks and an eye for the future, these individuals symbolize the life that flows through the capital city. Where there is life, thoug ...

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View Article - Black Hope Cemetery
Black Hope Cemetery: eerie site with haunting legends

Black Hope Cemetery

A pool carelessly dug—a coffin, cautiously uncovered. The 1982 film Poltergeist brought this horrifying scenario to the public’s eye for the first time. The film plays off events from 1958 that occurred in a home in Long Island, NY. A man named J ...

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View Article - The Confederate Woman’s Home
Ghostly children running down a hallway

The Confederate Woman’s Home

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War left an imprint on cities and sprawling countryside all across the United States. Today, many of these locations still echo the sounds of war, the spirits of the fallen locked in an eternal struggle. Not every ghost o ...

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View Article - The Walter Tips House
Papers flying around in a haunted room

The Walter Tips House

Travel down Congress Avenue in Austin, and you’ll see a distinct fluctuation of architectural styles that serve as time markers for different generations. Among them sits 712 Congress Ave., a striking Victorian Italianate gothic edifice set across ...

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View Article - Bragg Road and the Saratoga Lights
Skinwalker Ranch: hotspot for bizarre sightings and mysterious phenomena

Bragg Road and the Saratoga Lights

Deep in the heart of Southeast Texas lies the Big Thicket, a dense swampy forest that hugs the border with Alabama. One of the only roads through the forest is Bragg Road, also known to the locals as Ghost Road. During the daytime, the road seems inn ...

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View Article - The White Sanitarium of Central Texas
A patient in an insane asylum

The White Sanitarium of Central Texas

Nothing says scary like an abandoned insane asylum. The White Sanitarium, known to locals as the Old Insane Asylum, sits just off California Street in Wichita Falls. The Sanitarium first opened in 1926 under the direction of Frank S. White. Frank was ...

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View Article - Jefferson: The Most Haunted Town in Texas
Statue of a soldier attacking

Jefferson: The Most Haunted Town in Texas

Jefferson is a small town in East Texas, not too far from the Louisiana border. This quaint little town was once a central trading hub between the South and the Midwest but has since faded into oblivion. Since then, Jefferson has become an eerie plac ...

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