What Everyone Should Know About Haunted Places in Austin, TX

"Live Music Capital" is Also Home to Many Haunted Sites

Going to Austin for Halloween?  This is your guide to almost 40 haunted places, just in Austin, TX.  So, if you feel like meeting some Southern spooks, sit back and enjoy. 

Austin Pizza Garden - located in a historic, 100-year old building at 6266 Hwy 290W in Oak Hill, there are stories of faces appearing and disappearing in the walls. 

Austin State School - this old place was built over a cemetary, which contains the bodies of the patients that expired in the early 1900's.  Several of the school's buildings have had sightings and sounds heard by staff members.  One time, a coffin popped out of the ground next to one of the condemned buildings. 

Bedichek School - Billy was playing the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.  He was on the new catwalk in the auditorium and the rope slipped.  He fell, hanging himself.  Billy's ghost is said to push students off the catwalk, and also to help them remember their lines.  

Buffalo Billiards - located at 201 East Pecan Street, it was rumored to be a brothel, as well as a boarding house in the 1860's.
A cleaning woman is said to have been tapped on her shoulder, but the place was closed.  She screamed and ran out of the building, never to return.  A night bartender noticed a gentleman in strange attire on the second floor.  When he asked the man if he could help him, the man turned and smiled and walked to where a door had once been before the building was remodeled, and vanished.

Carrington's Bluff - sister inn to the Governor's Inn, it is located at 1900 David Street.  This was part of the original homestead of the Republic of Texas.  There have been reports of a TV that turns off and on (it has no remote), and one gentleman claims to have had his hair shampooed by a ghost.