Haunted Austin (San Antonio, Round Rock, Pflugerville: crime, law, activity)

[tallen1]

Since I am new to Austin I have been searching around for places with reported paranormal activity. I have been a ghost hunter for 2 years and would love to check out things in the area, and will possibly be going on the city ghost tour soon. Does anyone have any ideas or know about anything I can check into?
I have done a lot of searching and found a few places already.

[readymade]

Please let us know of your findings! I'm interested in that stuff too. Thanks!

[tallen1]

Originally Posted by readymade

Please let us know of your findings! I'm interested in that stuff too. Thanks!

I will make sure to let you know We are so booked right now, but searching for more in a new town is pretty exciting.

[TexasHorseLady]

There's a couple of meetup groups that do exactly what you're talking about. I'm sure they'd have lots of leads for you.

[readymade]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

There's a couple of meetup groups that do exactly what you're talking about. I'm sure they'd have lots of leads for you.

I get nervous with groups like that. What if I showed up and there's a bunch of overly-serious people dressed up in formal-wear, capes, and sporting fangs!

[b. frank]

I went on a ghost tour here.
If you Google "Austin Ghost Tour" or something like that, you'll find a good website.
There are several tours offered - I took the Capital area tour.
The ghost stories are less than spectacular - and I had read most of them on my own already (The Driskill, for instance, has some very "famous" ghosts).
The best part is taking a walking tour of the city at night - I saw lots of great architecture around the Capital area that I probably never would have paid attention to (a lot of old mansions that are now law offices and such).

My tour was run by an actress dressed in Elizabethan garb - and nobody was at all serious. It may have been a better experience if there were some intense ghost-hunter types on the tour with us. Or vampires.

[McDavis]

There's some interesting lore that a rash of grisly servant girl murders in downtown Austin during the late 1880's was actually the early work of Jack the Ripper before he crossed the pond. I believe some of the Austin ghost tours center around these murders...

Unsolved Austin serial killer, the Servant Girl Annihilator -- Crime Library - The Crime library

[carrisimo]

I don't know if there's any history to it, but I was working at an old cotton gin up in Pflugerville, and there was definitely something with the basement. I do some amateur work with a friend, and neither of us felt comfortable to go down there, even in the day time. It's next to the First United Methodist Church [http://www.pflame.org/] (broken link) in downtown Pflugerville off Pecan Street/1825. The church actually owns the property, but they seem nice about letting people peek around.

Good luck, and if you happen to go out there, let me know, I'd love to hear about it!

[love roses]

Round Rock has a ghost tour as well. I love that stuff, ghost stories and lore Even Hutto has a ghost story/haunted location. San Antonio is loaded with haunted locations, even around the Alamo. Round Rock has a website.

[mandib]

fun! this would be awesome to do in the fall. Thanks for the post/idea!