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Anecdotal reports in Texas

Texas keeps 26 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

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Also filed anecdotal:Arizona58 Hawaii55 Virginia34 Michigan31 Louisiana29 Pennsylvania24 Georgia24 California23

Other Texas shelves:documented legends58 local folklore38 media-reported hauntings11 investigation claims9

High confidence

The Driskill

Hotel in Austin; research record.

4 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Menger Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

Hotel in San Antonio; research record.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Jefferson Hotel

Jefferson, Texas

1851 hotel in Texas’s steamboat ghost-town capital.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Emily Morgan Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

1926 medical-arts building turned hotel with hospital-era ghosts.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Yorktown Memorial Hospital

Yorktown, Texas

Hospital in Yorktown; research record.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Baker Hotel

Mineral Wells, Texas

Fourteen-story mineral-spa hotel abandoned since 1972, reborn in lore.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Presidio La Bahía

The 1749 fort where the Goliad Massacre happened—Palm Sunday, 1836.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Moody Mansion

Galveston, Texas

The 1895 Richardsonian mansion—the Moody family’s Galveston seat.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Balinese Room site

Galveston, Texas

The illegal casino on the pier—the Maceos’ empire, drowned by Ike.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Caddo Lake

Uncertain, Texas

The bald-cypress bayou—the Spanish moss swamp on the border.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Texas State Capitol

The 1888 pink granite dome—where the legislators’ ghosts reportedly argue.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Texas Governor’s Mansion

The 1856 mansion where every governor has lived—and reportedly stayed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Treaty Oak

The 500-year-old oak that survived the 1989 poisoning.

2 claims · 1 legend→

French Legation

The 1841 embassy—the oldest frame building in Austin.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Moonlight towers

The 1894 light towers—the last of their kind in the world.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Enchanted Rock

Fredericksburg, Texas

The pink dome that sings—the Tonkawa sacred ground.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Jacob’s Well

Wimberley, Texas

The 30-foot artesian spring—where the cave has claimed divers.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Washington-on-the-Brazos

Washington, Texas

March 2, 1836—where Texas declared independence.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Gonzales

Gonzales, Texas

"Come and Take It"—where the Revolution began, October 2, 1835.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Paramount Theatre (Austin)

Austin’s 1915 vaudeville house—Sam the projectionist and the alley ghosts.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Dealey Plaza

November 22, 1963—the plaza where Kennedy was killed.

Mission San Juan

San Antonio, Texas

The 1731 mission on the river—the working church in the fields.

National Museum of the Pacific War

Fredericksburg, Texas

Nimitz’s hometown museum—the Pacific War’s memorial.

Bandera

The "Cowboy Capital of the World"—where the dude ranches still run.

Wonder World Cave

San Marcos, Texas

The 1903 cave park—Texas’s first commercial cave.

Aquarena Springs

San Marcos, Texas

The underwater theme park—where Ralph the Swimming Pig dove.

Full Texas record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive