The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories

by Brown, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780811708593
• ISBN10: 0811708594
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . Spirits of the Alamo The Black Hope Horror Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel The legend of El Muerto Woman Hollering Creek Stampede Mesa

Author Biography

Alan Brown lives in Meridian, Mississippi, and is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Austin
Metz Elementary School	p. 3
Mount Bonnell	p. 4
The Eanes-Marshall Ranch	p. 5
Buffalo Billiards	p. 7
The Inn at Pearl Street	p. 8
The Driskill Hotel	p. 9
The Omni Austin Hotel	p. 13
The Texas Governor's Mansion	p. 14
The Paramount Theatre	p. 15
The Austin Pizza Garden	p. 17
The Clay Pit	p. 19
The Tavern	p. 20
The Speakeasy	p. 21
The Dream of Josiah Wilbarger	p. 22
The Confederate Woman's Home	p. 25
Moore's Crossing Bridge	p. 26
The Neill-Cochran House	p. 27
Shoal Creek	p. 28
The O. Henry House	p. 30
The Moonlight Restaurant	p. 31
The Susanna Dickinson House	p. 32
The UT Tower	p. 34
Central Texas
Jake's Bridge	p. 39
The Hairy Man	p. 40
St. Olaf's Kirke and Cemetery	p. 41
The Orviss Family Vault	p. 43
The Falls Hotel	p. 44
Dead Man's Hole	p. 45
The Texas Grill	p. 47
Faust Hotel	p. 48
Enchanted Rock	p. 50
Dallas
Millermore Mansion	p. 55
The Sons of Hermann Hall	p. 56
The Majestic Theatre	p. 58
The Adolphus Hotel	p. 58
The DeGolyer Estate	p. 60
Snuffer's Restaurant	p. 61
The Lizard Lounge	p. 62
The Lady of White Rock Lake	p. 63
The Hotel Lawrence	p. 65
The Stoneleigh Hotel	p. 67
Fort Worth
The White Elephant Saloon	p. 71
Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast	p. 73
The Texas White House	p. 78
Thistle Hill	p. 81
The Stockyards Hotel	p. 82
The W.E. Scott Theatre	p. 84
The Jett Building	p. 86
The Mitchell-Schoonover House	p. 88
Log Cabin Village	p. 89
The Downtown Grocery Market & Deli and Back Door Bookstore	p. 93
Peter Bros. Hats	p. 94
The Swift and Company Building	p. 96
Texas Wesleyan University	p. 97
Fort Worth Zoon	p. 98
The Castle at Heron Bay	p. 98
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House	p. 100
Galveston and Houston
Bolivar Point Lighthouse	p. 103
Ashton Villa	p. 104
Hotel Galvez	p. 106
The Samuel Many Williams House	p. 108
The Tremont House	p. 109
The Galveston Railroad Museum	p. 111
The Ghost of Jean Lafitte	p. 112
Luigi's Italian Restaurant	p. 114
The Mediterranean Chef Restaurant	p. 115
The Thomas Jefferson League Building	p. 116
The University of Texas Medical Branch	p. 117
Captain Mott's House	p. 118
The Spaghetti Warehouse	p. 119
Julia Ideson Building	p. 122
The Post Rice Lofts	p. 123
North Texas
The Hotel Turkey	p. 127
Stampede Mesa	p. 128
The Screaming Bridge	p. 130
River Legacy Park	p. 132
Bruce Hall	p. 133
Northeast Texas
The Grove	p. 137
The Excelsior House Hotel	p. 139
The Jefferson Hotel	p. 141
1895 Tarlton House	p. 143
The Barker Hotel	p. 144
The Catfish Plantation	p. 146
The Rogers Hotel	p. 148
Demons Road	p. 150
Andrews-Taylor House	p. 151
Stephen F. Austin State University	p. 152
The Ghost of Chief Popher	p. 153
The Beckham Hotel	p. 155
Granbury Opera House	p. 156
McDow Hole	p. 158
The Wright Place	p. 161
The Crying White Lady of Marshall	p. 162
San Antonio
Spanish Governor's Palace	p. 167
The Sheraton Gunter Hotel	p. 168
Villamain Railroad Tracks	p. 170
The Emily Morgan Hotel	p. 171
San Fernando Cathedral	p. 173
Victoria's Black Swan Inn	p. 175
The Menger Hotel	p. 176
The Alamo	p. 178
Woman Hollering Creek	p. 186
The Old Bexar County Jail	p. 188
The Crockett Hotel	p. 189
The St. Anthony Hotel	p. 190
South Texas
The Lady in Black	p. 195
La Posada Hotel	p. 197
Espantosa Lake	p. 198
Von Minden Hotel	p. 201
The Lechuza	p. 203
El Muerto	p. 205
Fort Clark	p. 207
The Black Hope Horror	p. 209
Presidio La Bahia	p. 211
Southeast Texas
Weinert House Bed and Breakfast	p. 217
Prince Solms Inn	p. 218
La Lomita Chapel	p. 220
Bailey's Light	p. 221
Bragg Road Ghost Lights	p. 222
San Bernard River's Music Bend	p. 223
Liendo Plantation	p. 225
The Headless Soldier of Sabine Pass	p. 227
The Ghosts of Old Waverly	p. 228
The Old Fayette County Jail	p. 230
USS Lexington	p. 231
The Headless Ghost of Milan Street	p. 234
West Texas
Buie Park	p. 237
Fort Brown	p. 238
Plaza Theatre	p. 241
Loretto Academy	p. 242
Concordia Cemetery	p. 244
Camino Real Hotel	p. 244
The Spirits of Thunder Road	p. 246
Fort Phantom Hill	p. 247
The Lady of Lake Fort Phantom Hill	p. 249
Marfa Lights	p. 251
The Gage Hotel	p. 252
Fort Leaton	p. 254
Upstairs at the Mansion	p. 256
The Anson Light	p. 258
Fort Concho	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 263
About the Author	p. 278
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