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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.
Dallas, Texas · Historic house
Visit Arlington locates an unidentified woman’s ghost near the nursery of Millermore. The same account describes visitors encountering patches of cold and the impression that someone is watching them in the Civil War-era house.
Austin, Texas · Theater
The foundation recounts staff and cleaners encountering Priscilla on the third floor after members leave. In the opera house’s tradition she was an actress who fell from a catwalk shortly before her wedding; ghost tours retell her story on the front steps. Historic building survives as home of the Austin Club. Do not adopt a tour-site claim that the original building no longer stands.
Fort Worth, Texas · Hotel
Guests writing on Miss Molly’s own site describe footsteps and breathing in rooms, a blue light moving from a bedroom into the foyer, and a pale, smoke-like shape passing a seated guest. These are visitors’ accounts from the eight-room Stockyards hotel.
Austin, Texas · Other
Visit Austin tells of diners feeling a tap on the shoulder and bottles falling behind the bar. Local lore links the disturbances to people lost in early floods near Waller Creek.
Austin, Texas · Cemetery
Visit Austin records reports of luminous orbs and an unseen presence among the graves. Visitors describe feeling watched even when nobody else appears to be nearby.
Denton / Copper Canyon, Texas · Road or bridge
Denton County recounts the Goatman legend, in which glowing red eyes reveal a figure near the iron bridge. A familiar version identifies him as Oscar Washburn, a murdered goat farmer, but county researchers found no record confirming either that man or the alleged 1938 lynching.
San Antonio, Texas · Road or bridge
A San Antonio tale collected by USC’s folklore archive describes the Donkey Lady as a woman transformed by a terrible fire, her hands resembling hooves. She is said to terrorize travelers around the bridge over Elm Creek; other versions give her a different origin. No exact pin or claimed driving access provided. Verify legal trail access and closures; folklore does not authorize nighttime entry or road obstruction.
Houston, Texas · Hospital
The Buzz records residents describing screams and shadowy shapes in the former hospital, with local stories assigning them to soldiers, nurses and children. The building’s construction over an older burial ground is central to the legend.
El Paso, Texas · Theater
Haunted Places records a laughing child and the sound of a ball bouncing down the grand-lobby stairs. Other accounts describe an elderly smoker, a dark-clothed figure and a red-orange light moving through the mezzanine, with lights switching themselves on and off.
Goliad, Texas · Other
Haunted Rooms recounts crying babies, a choir and organ music heard in the chapel, along with bells sounding unexpectedly. Its stories include a woman in mourning lighting a candle and a woman in white searching the courtyard graves. The officers’ quarters have their own haunting tradition.
San Antonio, Texas · Road or bridge
The local legend says children killed in a school-bus collision push vehicles clear of the rails and leave small handprints behind. MySA notes that the supposed local crash was disproved and that 2018 work changed the slope behind the rolling-car effect. Active railway at Shane and Villamain Roads. Do not stop on tracks, perform the car ritual or enter railway property. Included as a folklore landmark, not an investigation destination.
San Antonio, Texas · Other
Ghost City Tours recounts shadowy, hooded figures seen beside the cathedral’s walls and doors. Some witnesses interpret them as monks who remain near the church, making the exterior part of San Antonio’s long-running ghost-tour tradition.
Dallas, Texas · Theater
Longtime hall member Jo Nicodemus told Lone Star Music that she heard children disturbing a board meeting from the former bowling alley. When she went to quiet them the room was empty and dark. She also described footsteps, voices and furniture moving in the closed upstairs hall.
San Antonio, Texas · Historic house
Ghost City Tours recounts a grey-clad woman looking from the windows and a dark-haired girl crying beside the courtyard well. Different versions explain the girl as a child who fell or a servant attacked during a robbery, leaving her identity unresolved in the folklore. Source includes disputed or romanticized historical claims. Narrative preserves the well stories as variants rather than verified deaths.
Fort Worth, Texas · Hotel
Visit Arlington recounts an elevator that travels without a passenger. One explanation in the hotel’s folklore is a young girl who steps out on the second floor, walks only three paces and vanishes.
Port Aransas, Texas · Hotel
Haunted Rooms America recounts guests seeing a woman at a bed’s foot and hearing voices in guest rooms. The breezeway has its own reported sounds of children running and laughing when none are present; restaurant staff describe footsteps and kitchen utensils clattering without an obvious cause.
Austin, Texas · Other
Visit Austin identifies former comptroller Robert Marshall Love among the Capitol’s reported apparitions. Another story concerns stubborn window handprints that return even after the glass is changed.
Dallas, Texas · Hotel
Visit Dallas recounts a jilted bride said to drift along the nineteenth floor in white, still looking for her groom. Guests also report unexplained music, as if an unseen pianist or band were playing after the party had ended.
San Antonio, Texas · Other
World History Encyclopedia summarizes nineteenth-century reports of unexplained footsteps, moans and whispers from the Alamo’s period of police use. Later ranger stories describe figures appearing and vanishing, unseen followers and cries in the night. A blond child is another apparition associated with the old gift-shop area.
Mineral Wells, Texas · Hotel
In Bob Hopkins’s Texas Escapes account, kitchen worker Amy Harris saw a little girl in an old-fashioned pink dress watching breakfast preparation before she vanished. Other employees reported the child crying in the basement, unexplained touches and a man in a long coat appearing in the kitchen. Historic retirement-home account retained as folklore. Current official site offers hotel suites and apartments; do not describe it as only an assisted-living facility.
Austin, Texas · Hotel
Visit Austin repeats the story that founder Jesse Driskill still watches Sixth and Brazos Streets from his hotel. Its account also places the ghost of former regular Lyndon B. Johnson in the Driskill Bar.
New Braunfels, Texas · Hotel
A hotel employee interviewed by the Express-News described Walter Faust’s supposed spirit as mischievous. One guest said keys and small belongings disappeared and reappeared in odd places; another heard late-night sounds like furniture moving outside the room.
Galveston, Texas · Theater
Atlas Obscura records cast and crew hearing footsteps and noticing unexplained moving shadows backstage during a 1990 production of The Phantom of the Opera.
Jefferson, Texas · Historic house
A woman in white follows a vanished doorway at this Jefferson tour home. In the garden, another figure seems forever in a hurry. The Grove welcomes visitors through reserved, owner-led tours—not unannounced calls.