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State: Texas
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Galveston, TX
Architect Nicholas Clayton designed the mansion for the Gresham family; completed in 1892, it later became the residence of a Catholic bishop and survived the 1900 storm.
Legend
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Emily Morgan Hotel occupies San Antonio’s former Medical Arts Building, a thirteen-story Gothic Revival landmark beside the Alamo. Designed by Ralph Cameron in the 1920s, the tower housed medical offices and treatment facilities before becoming an office building and, in 1984, a hotel. Its medical imagery and reported guest experiences now support a carefully marketed haunted reputation.
Reported
Historic place
Galveston, TX
The Hotel Galvez opened in 1911 as Galveston rebuilt its tourist economy after the 1900 storm and major protective engineering projects.
Legend
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Menger Hotel opened beside the Alamo in San Antonio in 1859. William and Mary Menger developed the hotel after their brewery and boardinghouse created demand for better lodging. More than 160 years of guests, expansions, political meetings, military recruiting, and hotel folklore have made it one of Texas’s best-known historic hotels.
Reported
Historic place
Galveston, TX
The 1895 mansion survived the 1900 hurricane and became home to the prominent Moody family, whose businesses and philanthropy shaped modern Galveston.
Legend
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Spanish Governor’s Palace preserves an eighteenth-century presidial residence and later restoration in downtown San Antonio.
Legend
Historic place
San Antonio, TX
The Alamo began as Mission San Antonio de Valero and became internationally known for the 1836 battle, preservation campaigns, and contested public memory.
Legend
Historic place
Galveston, TX
Built in 1894 and opened in 1895, the opera house survived the 1900 storm, underwent repeated restoration, and continues as a performing arts venue.
Legend
Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Galveston, TX
Galveston developed as a Gulf port shaped by Indigenous history, immigration, slavery and emancipation, commerce, public health, hurricanes, engineering, and tourism.
No paranormal claim
Haunted town
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio is a living South Central Texas community whose documented history and preservation landscape explain why ghost traditions developed around selected streets, buildings, and burial grounds.
No paranormal claim