These are true ghost stories told by people from Houston, Texas and Vicinity. These ghost stories have been featured in our first 23 books and include: - ''I have heard a man say ''hello'' to me when I was in my bedroom by myself during the day. It scared me, and I left the room as soon as possible. I have felt a threatening presence in my room...'' - ''my husband and I have been startled by the sound of someone running down the stairs suddenly. This was so real that I grabbed my phone and ran for the back door until I realized no one was following...'' - ''my son opened the bedroom door to tell us goodnight, and I saw a three-foot shadow person walk in front of him and disappear in front of the TV...'' - ''my husband walked into the kitchen and thought his mom was standing at the sink. He asked her to move over, so he could get something. Then this person looked at him, smiled, and disappeared right in front of him...'' - ''As I stared at his headstone, I felt sad to see a young man die so soon. Then I felt a hand on my right shoulder. I thought it was my nephew, but he was across from me...'' The stories in this book is a small selection of all the stories on our site ghostsofameica.com.

Visitors to Market Square Park can pause on their stroll through the downtown centerpiece for a palpable experience of its past. Houston's first four city halls laid their foundations here, and relics of the square's heritage remain embedded in the sidewalks of the park. Chalk up a chance sneeze on Milam Street to the final ghostly gasp of dust from Robert Boyce's sawpits. Step from Congress Street into La Carafe, Houston's oldest commercial building, for the kind of atmosphere that even deceased bartenders are reluctant to leave. From the phantom tailors above Treebeard's to the forgotten mysteries of the town's founding, Sandra Lord and Debe Branning resurrect the history humming through the four blocks surrounding Market Square Park.

"Ghost sightings from Texas."--Front cover.

These are true ghost stories told by people from Dallas, Texas and Vicinity. These ghost stories have been featured in our first 20 books and include: - ''It was a terrifying feeling. I continued to ignore the feeling in the pit of my stomach. I said nothing to my children. This went on for a couple of weeks....'' - ''Everyone in the house felt, saw something, or even heard voices. My son stayed in the attached apartment and would hear people talking and would see a man next to him...'' - ''They asked me if I had rented a haunted house to them! I did truthfully tell them that I experienced the same thing except I had no children, but I told I felt whatever was there was not a negative malicious presence...'' - ''I took my son to school that morning, and instead of going straight to work I stopped back by home and told whatever was in my house that it was not welcome and needed to leave. I guess that it worked because...''The stories in this book is a small selection of all the stories on our site ghostsofameica.com

Take a chilling journey to South Texas, from The Woodlands to Galveston, where the long departed are waiting to tell you their stories. The spirit of Jean Lafitte may urge you to join him on his ghost ship. Meet Captain Mott's spirit that haunted the Witwer family from an attic for years--until he finally solved his "problem." Read about dead folks who wander Old City Cemetery in Columbus. Spend a frightening vacation moving from one haunted place to the next, taking in haunted hotels, mansions, and depots--a phantasmagoria of phantoms you won't want to miss. Legends of haunted graveyards, phantom dogs, and other eerie phenomena will intrigue you. Pleasant dreams. . .

Discover the haunting history of this town on the Texas coast—includes photos. One of the oldest cities in Texas, Galveston has witnessed more than its share of tragedies. Devastating hurricanes, yellow fever epidemics, fires, a major Civil War battle, and more cast a dark shroud on the city’s legacy. Ghostly tales creep throughout the history of famous tourist attractions and historical homes. The altruistic spirit of a schoolteacher who heroically pulled victims from the floodwaters during the great hurricane of 1900 roams the Strand. The ghosts of Civil War soldiers march up and down the stairs at night and pace in front of the antebellum Rogers Building. The spirit of an unlucky man decapitated by an oncoming train haunts the railroad museum, moving objects and crying in the night. In this fascinating book, Kathleen Shanahan Maca explores these and other haunted tales from the Oleander City.

Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder ... let your imagination run wild as you read about Texas's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of Crazy Man's Tower or San Antonio's haunted railroad crossing, but perhaps you haven't heard about: the White Sanitarium, an abandoned mental institution in Wichita Falls plagued by ghostly forms and spectral noises; the Lady in Green of the McGloin house, who floats persistently over the lake, spurned from unrequited love; and Lake Worth's monster, a mysterious creature inhabiting the area that looks half-human but acts like a feral animal.