Restless
spirits of the Old West, cowboys, Native Americans,
cattle rustlers, pioneers and patriots --
these are just a few of the spirits that haunt
the dusty roads and old trails of Haunted
Texas.
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Ghostly
missions and frontier churches and the famous
Alamo are just a hint of what lies within
the borders of the Lone Star State.
The
Alamo, where Texas patriots valiantly defended
their independence and freedom until they
were overcome by the superior forces of Mexican
General Santa Ana, is today one of the most
visited locales in all of Texas. Numerous
reports of sightings of patriot defenders
and Mexican soldiers have surfaced over the
years, and more and more photos are being
submitted with anomalies that are hard to
be explained away as anything but evidence
that the Alamo is the Most Haunted Destination
in all of Texas.
According
to local legend the visitors' center at Monahan's
Sandhills State Park is built on the sight
of an eighteenth-century Comanche burial ground.
The haunted Visitor's Center has sent a chill
down the spine of many tourists and locals
alike. Visitor's Center Ghost Photos show
many spirits still lingering around the burial
grounds. Could this be the remnant souls of
long dead Native Americans, trapped between
the worlds?
Galveston,
on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, was founded
by the Louisiana Pirate Jean Lafitte, or so
the story goes. As one of the most distant
sites of his far-flung buccaneer territory,
Galveston is said to still be haunted by the
spirit of Lafitte and his pirate crews. Sightings
of a ghostly frigate, possibly Lafitte's famous
"Barataria Bay," are still reported
today, complete with the calls of the crew
as they hoist the ghostly sails. Others have
seen Lafitte himself, or so they say, walking
the streets of the oldest parts of Galveston,
and members of the ghostly pirate crew have
also been sighted, only to disappear as they
approach.
With fierce wind and torrential rains, hurricanes
have pounded the Texas coast for centuries.
With great loss of life and property, native
Texans have withstood the natural onslaughts
as best they can. But not without sacrifice.
It is said that sometimes the mournful cries
of those lost in the great hurricane floods
can still be heard on especially stormy nights,
from Corpus Christi to Galveston, the reports
continue to come in.
Ghosts of Civil War soldiers still reenact
the last battles of their lives in remote
places all across the Lone Star State. The
last casualty of the entire war was a Texan,
fighting as the patriots before him to keep
the Northern "invaders" from his
lands. Some say his ghost is not alone among
the graves and brush fields of the lonesome
Texas battlefields.
The
ghosts of great Cattlemen still ride the fences
and borders of the ranges they protected in
life. Pioneers on their way to better fortunes
in the gold rush cities of Arizona and California,
who sometimes never made it and were buried
in shallow graves beside the road, still haunt
the lonely overgrown paths of the Texas "outback."
One touching legend, of a six year old girl
who succumbed to scarlet fever on the wagon
train road and who was buried in a remote
location with a makeshift cross and crude
stones to cover her -- it is said that her
forlorn ghost still haunts the road in search
of the wagons now long gone that left her
behind.
Many
people still insist that riders of the Pony
Express still gallop wildly past them as they
camp in the deep Texas night. One lonely rancher
reports that a ghostly entity still repairs
the fences of his property that line the old
Pony Express road.
You
might just want to join in a sacred indian
Ghost Dance and see for yourself the spirits
manifesting in the Native American ritual,
just as they have for the Ancestors before.
Or
you might relax and watch that special Texas
sunset with a cold Lone Star beer in your
hand and ponder the ghosts that might be sitting
next to you.
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for Ghosts of the Lone Star State.
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