Historic haunted places in Huntsville, 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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Haunted place
1843 University Ave, Huntsville, TX 77340
Campus grounds open to the public; building access varies.
This 1851 campus building carries several ghost traditions recorded in student and local media. People tell of an elderly maid seen at one of the end windows and a woman in Victori…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
Martin Luther King Drive, Huntsville, TX 77340
Open to the public (city cemetery; free).
The cemetery's legend centers on a 1920s bronze of Christ marking the grave of Rawley Rather Powell. It has darkened with age and is known locally as 'Black Jesus'. Visitors claim …
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This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
1836 Sam Houston Ave, Huntsville, TX 77340
Open to the public (museum; small admission fee).
The best-known story here is a security guard's report of watching a chair move inside the locked Steamboat House, where Sam Houston died, during an after-hours round. Visitors and…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
1098 TX-75 N, Huntsville, TX 77320
Open to the public (museum; admission charged).
The museum doesn't promote itself as haunted, but visitors often say the room holding Old Sparky, the electric chair used in 361 executions, feels occupied. People mention cold spo…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
815 12th St, Huntsville, TX 77340
Active state prison; exterior viewing only.
Stories at Texas's oldest prison focus on the old death row corridor, used for executions from 1924 into the 1950s and now mostly empty. One widely repeated account says a supervis…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.