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Explore 55 haunted places in Texas. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Galveston, Texas · Historic house
Texas Highways documents the tradition of Bettie Brown appearing at the staircase landing. Guides also tell of her souvenir box locking and unlocking despite a missing key, and a bedcover becoming creased after it has been straightened. The historical foundation does not endorse the haunting as fact.
Houston, Texas · Theater
Harris County Public Library recounts a belief that longtime managing director Iris Siff remains at the theatre after her 1982 murder. The associated reports concern equipment misbehaving and people sensing someone following them.
Mineral Wells, Texas · Hotel
Baker Hotel lore includes a service worker seen near a basement elevator and the scent of lavender in the upper rooms. HauntBound records those traditions from the hotel’s long vacancy. They persist alongside its much-retold female apparition stories.
Mineola, Texas · Hotel
Texas Haunted Houses describes Elizabeth, a woman in a long dress carrying a parasol, seen on the staircase. A young girl is said to peer through glass doors toward the restaurant, while a male gambling figure wanders upstairs. His identity changes between versions of the story.
Galveston, Texas · Historic house
In Callum Swift’s contribution to Haunted Places, former owner Walter Gresham appears agitated on the porch during severe weather, pacing as though still protecting the house. This is a community-submitted account, not a verified event.
Near Saratoga, Texas · Road or bridge
The Handbook of Texas records recurring lights along the former rail corridor. Witnesses disagree about their color and behavior, while folklore connects the light with lingering railroad or wartime spirits. The entry also records ordinary proposed explanations, including reflected vehicle lights and gases.
Austin, Texas · Other
The PBS series Strange Town describes staff hearing mysterious voices and seeing shadows inside the Bertram Building. Workers’ stories identify the presences as a child and a woman sharing the space with the Indian restaurant.
El Paso, Texas · Cemetery
Ghosts915 recounts children’s laughter and horses’ hoofbeats from the cemetery at night. Its guides associate sightings with Lady Flo, described as a woman in white, and the outlaw John Wesley Hardin. These stories form the basis of authorized fundraising ghost tours.
El Paso, Texas · Hotel
Before the fire, De Soto Hotel stories placed apparitions of military veterans and a female presence in its basement. US Ghost Adventures preserves these accounts as part of the former hotel’s reputation. The haunting narrative concerns the historic building, not a currently operating hotel. Gutted by February 4, 2022 fire. Final demolition/reconstruction status was not conclusively established; no interior access assumed. Avoid source’s stigmatizing claims about former tenants.
San Antonio, Texas · Hotel
The hotel collects accounts of a woman in white, shadows in the corridors and hospital-cart sounds outside guest rooms. Staff also report closing doors, displaced pillows and an antiseptic smell on the fourteenth floor. The hotel itself notes that ordinary explanations may account for these experiences.
Jefferson, Texas · Hotel
A Houstonia writer heard a local guide’s tale of Steven Spielberg’s suitcase being thrown from a rocking chair, followed by a boy in old-fashioned clothing offering breakfast. During the writer’s own stay, creaking from the nearby chair added to the unease. The Spielberg encounter is tour lore.
San Angelo, Texas · Other
At Fort Concho, a library door once seemed to answer a greeting. A museum librarian’s account brings an intimate haunting to the limestone buildings of this former military post.
Galveston, Texas · Hotel
The island tourism office tells of a bride who believed her fiancé had been lost at sea and died before his return. Her apparition is associated with room 501 and the west turret, and the hotel incorporates the legend into its ghost tours.
San Antonio, Texas · Hotel
The hotel’s former official blog associates its sixth-floor haunting with the notorious room 636 case. In the comments, a visitor describes feeling a presence on that floor, while the hotel mentions female apparitions and a little boy in its wider ghost tradition. The historical blog contains a room-number inconsistency in its replies. Do not claim all details of the alleged killing are verified. Current official gallery promotes operating hotel amenities and rooms.
Seguin, Texas · Hotel
At Seguin’s historic Magnolia Hotel, proprietors tell of a brokenhearted Sarah, a former Texas Ranger and other reputed spirits in the restored and unrestored rooms.
Jefferson, Texas · Hotel
Ghost Texas recounts children running and laughing, cigar odors, knocks and doors moving without a visible cause. Guests associate some activity with former proprietor Mrs. Schluter; rooms 19 through 25 are particularly prominent in the accounts, including faucets opening and touches in the night.
Jefferson, Texas · Hotel
The Kahn’s official site describes whispers without a visible speaker, unexplained touches and ceiling fans starting or stopping by themselves. Its folklore links those experiences to the building’s earlier life as a saloon and the violent stories attached to that period.
Liberty, Texas · Hotel
The hotel’s folklore includes Anna and Joshua, a couple said to have died during a confrontation over an affair. Texas Haunted Houses also records sightings of a red-haired woman, a woman in a nightgown, a man in blue and another wearing a dark hat.
Dallas, Texas · Hotel
Visit Dallas places a ghost called Jack “Smiley” Jackson in room 1009. Guests supposedly find the room’s door blocked until they politely ask him to move. Current IHG page identifies the hotel at 302 South Houston Street as Holiday Inn Express Dallas Downtown. Scott and La Quinta are historical names; do not display La Quinta as the current operator.
Houston, Texas · Other
Local tradition pairs former caretaker Jacob Cramer with his dog Petey. According to Harris County Public Library, nighttime listeners describe violin music from Cramer’s favored upper-floor practice area and the click of the dog’s claws following him. Public library access only during authorized hours; folklore about nighttime sounds is not permission to remain after closing.
Houston, Texas · Other
Harris County Public Library retells a patron’s sighting of a woman repeatedly descending the stairs, surveying the crowd and vanishing. The owner also recounted a customer feeling a tap in an otherwise empty restroom.
Austin, Texas · Historic house
In the tale retold by Visit Austin, Alice Littlefield appears at the upstairs windows of her former home. The accompanying story that her husband confined her is disputed by family members.
Near Marfa, Texas · Natural landmark
East of Marfa, small lights seem to dance across the desert horizon. The designated viewing area offers a public place to watch the country’s best-known Texas ghost-light tradition without venturing onto surrounding land.
San Antonio, Texas · Hotel
KSAT recounts sightings of Sallie White on the third floor, still associated with the hotel where she worked as a maid. A visitor also shared a photograph of a dark figure behind a child and wondered whether it was Sallie.