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0La Lomita Chapel
Mission, Texas
11.2 miles from La Joya, TX
The historic La Lomita Chapel is said to be haunted by the apparition of a nun who appears suspended in the air in a prayer posture. The apparition has been spotted in broad daylight.
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Shary Mansion
Palmhurst, Texas
12.7 miles from La Joya, TX
The ghost of former owner Mr Shary has been seen walking across the road from the cemetery he was buried in back to his house. People have also seen the apparition sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Casa De Palmas Renaissance McAllen Hotel
McAllen, Texas
15.6 miles from La Joya, TX
The 1918 Renaissance Casa De Palmas Hotel said to be haunted by the ghost of an elderly lady who appears in the basement. Another female apparition, or perhaps two, have been seen wearing black veils. Police officers were once called to check on a strange woman walking around on one ...
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San Juan Hotel
San Juan, Texas
20.5 miles from La Joya, TX
No longer in business, this hotel is said to be the site where a prostitute was once murdered. Folks say you can hear ghostly screaming and crying for help coming from the building, and her apparition can be seen calling and waving from a second-story window at night.
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Roma Historic Plaza
Roma, Texas
35 miles from La Joya, TX
The Roma Historic District in Roma, Texas preserves an intact example of a border town in the lower Rio Grande valley. The town was an important port and transshipment point on the Rio Grande from 1829 to the 1880s. The apparition of a beautiful girl in a flowing white dress ...
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Colonial Hotel
Brownsville, Texas
65.5 miles from La Joya, TX
According to the Texas Hauntings Society, this hotel has several reports of unexplained activity - particularly in room 101, where unseen hands were felt grabbing at guests underneath the sheets, and a creepy apparition of an infant was seen and heard.
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The University of Texas at Brownsville
Brownsville, Texas
65.9 miles from La Joya, TX
It is said that this campus sees a lot of ghostly activity. Ghosts of Cavalrymen and Victorian woman have been spotted, library books have flown off shelves, and jukeboxes play by themselves. The reason for the hauntings is that the art center was once a jail, and the library was ...
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Yacht Club Hotel
Port Isabel, Texas
79.5 miles from La Joya, TX
The historic Yacht Club Hotel, formerly named the Shary Yacht Club and the Port Isabel Yacht Club Hotel, is rumored to be haunted by friends of Olga Mae Keyhorn, daughter of iron mogul Theodore Keyhorn II. Olga's friends Telly and Mary were on a yacht in the 1920s when it ...
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Southwind Inn
Port Isabel, Texas
79.6 miles from La Joya, TX
Visitors--and staff members, too--have reported seeing apparitions at the Southwind Inn. According to reports, there are ghost children and a Victorian-era lady on the inn's the third floor.
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Port Isabel Cemetery
Port Isabel, Texas
79.6 miles from La Joya, TX
Port Isabel Cemetery began with workers on El Fronton de Santa Isabel Ranch since the 1840s, although the oldest gravestones that still stand are from the 1880s. It became a Catholic cemetery (French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate) in 1849, but folks of all faiths are buried here. The apparition ...
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Point Isabel Lighthouse
Port Isabel, Texas
79.9 miles from La Joya, TX
The Point (Port) Isabel Lighthouse, built in 1852, was used temporarily by Civil War soldiers from both sides as a look-out post. Its light was extinguished in 1905 and the land was purchased by a private owner and was eventually preserved as a historic site. Now, a ghostly Lighthouse Angel ...
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Port Isabel Historical Museum
Port Isabel, Texas
79.9 miles from La Joya, TX
Port Isabel Historical Museum inside the Champion Building was constructed in 1899 as a dry goods store and a private home. It houses Mexican artifacts from the U.S.-Mexican War and sports a well-known fish mural painted a local fisherman in 1906. The museum is thought to be haunted by a ...
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Queen Isabel Inn
Port Isabel, Texas
80 miles from La Joya, TX
The 1906 Queen Isabel Inn, originally called the Point Isabel Tarpon & Fishing Club, was visited by President-Elect Warren G. Harding in November 1920. Despite some remodeling from hurricane damage in 1933 and 1967, the inn remains the area's oldest business and hotel. Witnesses say disembodied footsteps are sometimes heard ...
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Texas A and M - Turner-Bishop Hall
Kingsville, Texas
95.5 miles from La Joya, TX
Each hall has its own ghost. At Bishop Hall, a ghostly girl is said to play with students' hair, unlock doors, drag furniture in empty rooms, andn run the showers. At Turner Hall in the second-floor restroom, a black shadow is said to pass quickly from the last toilet to ...
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Texas A and M - Lewis Hall
Kingsville, Texas
95.6 miles from La Joya, TX
The hall is said to be haunted by a female student who committed suicide here. Witnesses have seen her apparition, felt cold spots, and described an uneasy feeling of being watched.
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0Texas A and M - College Hall Bell Tower
Kingsville, Texas
95.7 miles from La Joya, TX
The bell tower is said to be haunted by a man who hung himself here. At midnight, his shadow is said to appear on all four corners of the bell.
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Texas A and M - Edward N. Jones Auditorium
Kingsville, Texas
95.8 miles from La Joya, TX
The 1942 auditorium is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died when he fell out of the rafters during construction. He is said to turn the lights on and off, lock the doors, and knock the costumes off the racks.
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0La Posada Hotel
Laredo, Texas
107.2 miles from La Joya, TX
Formerly a convent, this hotel is now known for its strange spirits, including some nuns' apparitions. Rumor has it that a spook here will assume the form of living employees to trick people, except that it cannot speak. Witnesses also have reported cold spots and the sound of someone calling ...
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0Rio Grande Plaza Hotel
Laredo, Texas
107.5 miles from La Joya, TX
Superstition plays a role in this hotel's haunting, some say. The largest building in Laredo, it's also the only one to have a 13th floor. Other buildings have renumbered their floors to avoid having a 13th, for superstitious reasons. Folks say the haunt in this hotel is a former worker ...
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0The Hamilton Hotel
Laredo, Texas
107.6 miles from La Joya, TX
The 1900 building boasts an additional 9 floors that were added in 1923. It is said to be the tallest in Laredo. Folks have reported the ghostly sounds of children running and playing in the building.
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Deutz Mansion
Laredo, Texas
107.9 miles from La Joya, TX
The house was built in 1890 by Max Deutz of German decent, he was son of Joseph Deutz, founder of the Laredo National Bank and of Deutz Bro. Hardware Store. In 1931 Mrs. Mosella Mann, mother of ambassador Thomas C. Mann (Mann Rd. named after him.) died burned to death ...
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