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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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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 bruis ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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