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0Thompson Island Bridge
San Marcos, Texas
Thompson Island Bridge is said to be a favorite spot for the spirit of a Confederate soldier. His apparition, with his rifle, is said to appear more often before or during times of war. According to legend, the man lived in a nearby cabin and had made a promise with ...
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Adobe Verde
New Braunfels, Texas
13.8 miles from San Marcos, TX
Once a 1920s electric cotton gin and now a Tex-Mex restaurant, Adobe Verde is the home of Frank, a ghost who likes to play pranks. According to local legend, Frank was a groundskeeper and a victim of unrequited love--he hanged himself from the rafters, and his spirit never left the ...
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Devil's Backbone
Canyon Lake, Texas
14.2 miles from San Marcos, TX
This beautiful scenic spot in Texas hill country is said to be haunted by a Native American cattle herder named Drago, a fatally injured miner's widow, and the spirit of a wolf. Other spirits seen here include Confederate soldiers, Spanish monks, and an apparition that appears on the hoods of ...
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Buda Antique Mall
Buda, Texas
15 miles from San Marcos, TX
The antiques mall is rumoured to be haunted by four spirits, including a ghostly cat and a female presence that is attached to an armoire located at the rear of the store. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Faust Hotel
New Braunfels, Texas
16.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
There have been newspaper articles written about this hotel's ghost. It has been seen drifting in the hallways on an upper floor, floating through closed doors, and turning the water and electricity on an off, among other things.
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Stage Stop Ranch
Fischer, Texas
16.7 miles from San Marcos, TX
Guests and people driving by have reported seeing a shadowy figure hanging from a tree near the front of the ranch, as well as a wagon that drives past by itself late at night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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The San Marcos River Entity
Luling, Texas
17.2 miles from San Marcos, TX
An invisible presence haunts the banks of the San Marcos River. An ominous feeling and impressions in the grass mark the place where the invisible presence passes.
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Milam Street
Seguin, Texas
21.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
Milam Street is haunted, locals say, by a headless ghost. Although the ghost's identity is unknown, his pattern is unwavering: He walks from Riverside Cemetery due north. He's thought to be a Confederate soldier who lost his head to a cannonball.
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0Texas Lutheran University
Seguin, Texas
21.8 miles from San Marcos, TX
The Wupperman Theatre is said to house the ghost of a small girl wearing a blue dress, and she seems to want to play hide-and-seek. Lights flicker and the trap door opens by itself at times. In the Trinity Building dorm, lights can be seen to flicker on and off, ...
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0Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital
Luling, Texas
22.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
Mr. Davis himself is said to haunt this hospital. Staff have reported that doors open and close by themselves and medicine has been knocked to the ground before their eyes.
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Austin Pizza Garden
Austin, Texas
24.8 miles from San Marcos, TX
People have reported seeing floating heads watching them in the pizza parlour. Staff and diners alike have also reported seeing weird apparitions roaming the empty lot behind the building. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Home Depot
Austin, Texas
24.9 miles from San Marcos, TX
This Home Depot is rumored to be haunted by a ghost employees call Fred. Actually, according to a report, the ghost is a craftsman named Herbert who passed away at age 74 in his workshop. He was cremated, and his ashes were let go in the outdoor garden section of ...
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St. Edward's University
Austin, Texas
26.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
There are three popular spots with the haunts at St. Edward's University, according to student lore. One is Doyle Hall where a ghostly nun turns on the showers. Another is Mary Moody Northern Theatre, where the ghost of a young man who hanged himself using the sandbag ropes spooks witnesses. ...
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Walter Tips House
Austin, Texas
27 miles from San Marcos, TX
House has a dark energy around it at night. It seems out of place in new location. There's probably a good reason its used by a bank because humans sense its not habitable at night. If you are drawn to these kinds of places you will go into the property and ...
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0Driskill Hotel
Austin, Texas
29.1 miles from San Marcos, TX
At this historic hotel, there is a portrait of a little girl holding some flowers on the third floor that causes a bit of a buzz -- literally as well as figuratively. Folks say that when they look at it, they get a curious tingling sensation of their heels being ...
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0Omni Austin Hotel
Austin, Texas
29.2 miles from San Marcos, TX
Rumor has it that the ghost at this hotel is the spirit of a man, Jack, who committed suicide by jumping off the balcony. Since he was unable to pay his tab, his name still remains in the computer log. Night staff say they can hear Jack in his room ...
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Texas Governor's Mansion
Austin, Texas
29.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
The 1853 mansion that was home to several Texas governors is said to be haunted. According to reports, the north bedroom is haunted by former governor Pendleton Murrah's nineteen year old nephew. He shot himself when the girl he loved refused his offer of marriage. The ghost of Sam Houston ...
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Austin Tavern
Austin, Texas
29.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
Rumored to once have been a brothel, the tavern is believed to be haunted by a murdered prostitute named Emily. So the story goes, she and her daughter were killed by soldiers in the 1940s. Witnesses have been pinched, tapped, and watched by an unseen presence, and have heard the ...
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0Inn at Pearl Street
Austin, Texas
30 miles from San Marcos, TX
A ghost or two are said to haunt this inn, an 1896 building that was originally a private home for Judge Charles A. Wilcox and family. It had fallen into disrepair by the 1980s, and it was purchased and renovated as an inn in the 1990s. The apparition of a ...
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Inn at Pearl Street
Austin, Texas
30 miles from San Marcos, TX
A ghost or two are said to haunt this inn, an 1896 building that was originally a private home for Judge Charles A. Wilcox and family. It had fallen into disrepair by the 1980s, and it was purchased and renovated as an inn in the 1990s. The apparition of a ...
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0Littlefield House
Austin, Texas
30.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
Allegedly haunted by the original mistress of the house Alice Littlefield. She is variously reported to have been either insane or possibly agoraphobic, whatever the case, it appears that she rarely left the house in life and it is claimed that her ghost still haunts it to this day. ...
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0Woman Hollering Creek
Schertz, Texas
31.3 miles from San Marcos, TX
This creek was most probably named after the La Llorona myth. La Larona (the Weeping Woman) is the hispanic boogey-woman. She appears everywhere and the story is always the same: a woman drowns her child in a river/lake/ocean/pond/drainage ditch/bathtub and then spends all eternity wailing for her ...
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0Comanche Lookout Park
San Antonio, Texas
33 miles from San Marcos, TX
Built by a local man long ago who wanted his home to look like a castle, this property is now owned by the city of San Antonio. It is said that strange lights are often seen coming out of the tower.
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Spanish Main Apartments
San Antonio, Texas
39.2 miles from San Marcos, TX
Numerous sightings of a little boy in period clothing roaming the apartment complex. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Saint James Inn
Gonzales, Texas
39.2 miles from San Marcos, TX
The 1914 historic inn was built by a merchant seaman, and is allegedly haunted by the former owner, his daughter and three other separate entities. Guest reports range from being awoken by a ghostly man in a dinner suit to seeing a female spirit in old-fashioned clothing roaming the ...
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0Victoria's Black Swan Inn
San Antonio, Texas
39.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
A variety of ghostly activity has been claimed at this current wedding venue. Full-body apparitions, dolls moving location, eerie music, cold spots, doors opening and closing under their own volition and other haunted happenings.
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Colorado River Forest
Bastrop, Texas
40.1 miles from San Marcos, TX
This location has had numerous sightings of Slenderman. There is a large forest where you can find symbols marked on trees, as well as abandoned buildings. Many sigtings of UFOS's have been reported as well. This place is a hot spot for cryptid activity. (Submitted by Morgan)
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0Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio, Texas
40.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
The Officer's Quarters are said to be haunted. People claim that items move around on their own volition and people claim to see lights when there is no one there.
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0McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, Texas
41.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
The mistress of the home where the art museum is housed is said to haunt the west wing of the museum. Staff and visitors often claim to hear her humming and some claim to have seen her.
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0North Star Mall
San Antonio, Texas
41.7 miles from San Marcos, TX
Allegedly haunted by "shadows" that brush past you and whisper your name.
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0Alamo Quarry Theatre
San Antonio, Texas
42 miles from San Marcos, TX
Rumors abound that there was a body buried in the foundation of the theater. In addition, people claim there are cold spots and issues with the lights. Some people who claim to have worked there say they've seen the ghost of a child in the projection room.
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0Brackenridge Villa Mansion - Fernridge
Alamo Heights, Texas
42.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
If you go to other websites, you'll see this stunning piece of haunting "evidence": There is proof that this place has been lived on for 7.000 years! Wow. And what does that have to do with it being haunted? We aren't sure, but other sites claim to find that ...
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0University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas
42.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
In the main administration building, which was built in 1922, there is said to be a spirit of a little boy playing with a bouncng ball on the 3rd floor. The 4th floor was once used as a quarantine area for TB, and many spirits are said to linger from ...
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0Caribbean Apartments - Willow Run Apartments
San Antonio, Texas
42.9 miles from San Marcos, TX
Formerly a motel, these apartments have lingering spirits from their violent early days. Crying women, running children's footsteps, and loud thumps can be heard; lights and toilets will activate on their own; and children who reside here are said to occasionally see and play with children's spirits.
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0Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
43.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
At the Chapman Graduate Center, you may feel an intense desire to get out of the building. At the Holt Center, you may experience a similar feeling.
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Bullis House Inn Bed and Breakfast
San Antonio, Texas
43.7 miles from San Marcos, TX
The old inn was built in 1906 on the grounds of the site of an old prison, and inn staff and guests have seen the apparition of an American Indian chief roaming the second floor the inn. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Terrell Castle - Lambermont
San Antonio, Texas
43.9 miles from San Marcos, TX
Haunted by the former owner who committed suicide there. In addition there are apparently ghostly children who play on the stairs.
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0Emily Morgan Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
45.4 miles from San Marcos, TX
This website strives to be a cut above other haunted websites. If you go to practically any other "ghost site" that all seem to have the same stock entries on 'haunted hotspots' you will find an entry like this under the Emily Morgan Hotel: "Floor nine is a very ...
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0The Alamo
San Antonio, Texas
45.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
Nearly 2,000 people died at the Battle of the Alamo. So much death and bloodshed and so much resulting restless spirit activity have led some people to claim that the Alamo is one of the most haunted places in America. Claims of the Alamo being haunted began mere weeks after ...
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0Menger Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
45.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
This hotel is apparently haunted by dozens of ghosts, including (allegedly) Teddy Roosevelt. As one of the oldest hotels in Texas, it is only natural that many people would have stayed and some would have died within its walls, which might lead to the absolute plethora of ghosts.
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0St. Anthony Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
45.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
People have claimed to see strange moving shadows, full-body apparitions and other ghostly occurrences at the St. Anthony hotel. Supposedly the tenth floor has the most activity.
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0The Alamodome
San Antonio, Texas
45.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
Legend says that the ghoulish figure of a woman haunts the parking lot. In addition a worker who was killed during the construction of the Alamodome is also said to haunt the halls.
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0Crowne Plaza
San Antonio, Texas
45.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
The Crowne Plaza is allegedly haunted by ghostly footsteps, strange shadows and feelings of being watched or followed. Note: this hotel has been rebranded to "Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk."
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0Camberley Gunter Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
45.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
Although no body was ever found, a blood-soaked room indicated that something had gone seriously amiss at the Camberley Gunter Hotel. Legend has it that a woman was murdered there in the 1960's and an unsuspecting maid walked in on the murderer as he was escaping out the fire escape ...
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0Institute of Texas Cultures
San Antonio, Texas
45.8 miles from San Marcos, TX
You may experience the phantom smell of pipe smoke, and hear footsteps in the audiovisual room. There is an 1898 hearse that is said to open by itself, and books are sometimes rearranged in the library.
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0Marriott Plaza San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
45.9 miles from San Marcos, TX
Allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who lived on the property prior to it being a hotel.
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0Cadillac Bar
San Antonio, Texas
46 miles from San Marcos, TX
Haunted by the former owner and a former employee. The malevolent activity is (of course) attributed to the female employee while the former owner is apparently benign and just prone to appearing in the storage area.
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0Alamo Street Theater - San Antone Cafe
San Antonio, Texas
46.5 miles from San Marcos, TX
Allegedly haunted by a ghost in white that some believe is the spirit of a former actor named Margaret. As of 2013 the building is closed and listed for sale.
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0Christus Santa Rosa Hospital
San Antonio, Texas
46.6 miles from San Marcos, TX
Allegedly haunted by a headless nun.
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Quoffer's Pub
Elgin, Texas
46.9 miles from San Marcos, TX
The 1900's building that houses the bar used to be a funeral home and a mortuary. It is rumoured to be haunted by those who were kept there prior to their burial, and were unable to move on. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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