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Historic haunted places in Galveston, TX. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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This 1859 Italianate mansion is linked to Bettie Brown, the independent painter and traveller who died here in 1920. Staff and visitors say a souvenir box she bought abroad is foun…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Local tradition says Walter Gresham, who built this 1893 stone mansion, appears outside the house when a storm is coming in from the Gulf. Visitors report being pushed or scratched…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Hotel staff and tour guides tell of Audra, who waited in Room 501 for her sailor fiance and climbed to a turret each day to watch for his ship. Believing he had been lost at sea, s…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Survivors of the 1900 hurricane, the Moody family lived in this 1895 mansion for generations. Docents and visitors describe faint piano music from the empty third-floor ballroom, a…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Galveston's Romanesque Revival theater has outlasted several major hurricanes. In 1990 the cast and crew of Phantom of the Opera reported footsteps backstage and shadowy figures in…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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This 1879 Strand warehouse, now a hotel, sheltered survivors of the 1900 storm. Ghost tours name a Civil War soldier whose boots clatter across the lobby, a gambler called Lucky Ma…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.