Haunted Places in Olmito, Texas



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    Colonial Hotel

    Brownsville, Texas

    8.6 miles from Olmito, 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

    8.8 miles from Olmito, 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

    20.3 miles from Olmito, 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

    20.4 miles from Olmito, 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

    20.4 miles from Olmito, 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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    Port Isabel Historical Museum

    Port Isabel, Texas

    20.6 miles from Olmito, 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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    Point Isabel Lighthouse

    Port Isabel, Texas

    20.6 miles from Olmito, 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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    Queen Isabel Inn

    Port Isabel, Texas

    20.8 miles from Olmito, 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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    San Juan Hotel

    San Juan, Texas

    40.3 miles from Olmito, 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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    Casa De Palmas Renaissance McAllen Hotel

    McAllen, Texas

    45.3 miles from Olmito, 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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    Shary Mansion

    Palmhurst, Texas

    49 miles from Olmito, 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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    La Lomita Chapel

    Mission, Texas

    50.3 miles from Olmito, 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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    Roma Historic Plaza

    Roma, Texas

    95.7 miles from Olmito, 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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