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View Article - Shafter Lake: The Haunted Ghost Town in West Texas
Mysterious, spectral children wander in shadows

Shafter Lake: The Haunted Ghost Town in West Texas

Deep in the South Plains of Texas lies a tiny ghost town that sits on the banks of a saltwater lake. The town known as Shafter Lake has been abandoned for a little over 100 years, but the mystery of the town still pulls in curious visitors here and t ...

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View Article - The White Lady of Rio Frio
White Lady of Rio Frio in a river at night

The White Lady of Rio Frio

The Frio River Valley is known for its cool weather and natural beauty. It's also home to the ghost of Maria Jimenez, known to the locals as the White Lady of Rio Frio. In the early 1900s, Maria Jimenez lived with her sister and brother-in-law on the ...

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View Article - Chupacabra – The search for the goat sucker
San Antonio Chupacabra drawing

Chupacabra – The search for the goat sucker

I remember when I was a kid channel surfing, thinking of news in the same way a vampire thinks of holy water. CNN, Fox News, NBC News, a waste of space that robbed me of precious cartoon time. Then, one day, while damning the gods that the Simpsons w ...

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View Article - The Alamo
John Wayne on a horse

The Alamo

The Alamo is the big-ticket item. If you're a tourist and it's your first time in San Antonio, then visiting the Alamo is a must. Not doing so is akin to going to Paris and then forgetting to give the Eiffel tower a glance. Also, as a ghost enthusia ...

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View Article - Briscoe Western Art Museum
Haunting presence fills the shadowy basement

Briscoe Western Art Museum

There's always been a love-love relationship between museums and ghosts. Between those two entities, there really is no blood loss. Maybe it has to do with the fact that museums are nothing more than cabinets of curiosity. They are huge houses where ...

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View Article - Victoria’s Black Swan Inn
Ghost in a Town Square

Victoria’s Black Swan Inn

Where do I begin? The truth is that this place might as well be studied as a whole course in any would-be parapsychology class. The Victoria Black Swan Inn is steeped in tradition, lore, and romantic mythology. It is a treasure trove of tales and urb ...

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View Article - Freeman Coliseum
Mysterious spirits of rough riders haunt

Freeman Coliseum

On October 27, 1858, the human species evolved. In a wild tangent of Homo Sapien, a mutant gene attacked the genome of a gestating child and when that spawn sprung forth from his mother's womb the children of the atom made a triumphant entrance onto ...

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View Article - Ghost Tracks
Ethereal presence lingers on the roadside

Ghost Tracks

Rarely do you get from an anthropological point of view something like San Antonio's Ghost Tracks. It's a perfect example of an urban legend, but unlike others of its kind, you can actually trace its origin and pinpoint its progenitor.The Ghost ...

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View Article - Huebner-Onion Homestead
Ethereal beings drifting through shadowy spaces

Huebner-Onion Homestead

Not all ghost stories start off with a grizzly murder or some deranged bit of humanity showing off why it's such a cruel species... some ghosts stories are tossed onto the barbecue pit of history, to sizzle and cook, on the shish-kebab of stupidity. ...

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View Article - Our Lady Of The Lake
Ghostly nun menaces the misty lake

Our Lady Of The Lake

Fever minds spun fever dreams... and, when said, minds go off to college - the eager savage ape of experimentation riding their backs - prepare, for all hell will break loose. College as a whole is a pandemonium circus act, one of those duets wi ...

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