Historic haunted places in Austin, TX. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Exterior viewable; interior open only for university events.
UT students have long reported piano music drifting from upstairs late at night when the house is empty, attributed to Alice Littlefield, a dedicated pianist. A woman in period dre…
Open to the public (museum admission; ghost-story program).
This 1856 house served as a Federal hospital during the Civil War, and ghost tours link reported presences to that period. Visitors describe a sense of presence near the surviving …
Austin's oldest city cemetery is a ghost-tour fixture, with visitors reporting cold spots, orbs in photos, recorded voices and a feeling of being watched in the older sections. Tou…
The best-known ghost is 'Emily,' a woman in a white 19th-century dress who glides across the mezzanine and vanishes at the south wall. Tour accounts call her the wife of a soldier …
Comptroller Robert Marshall Love was shot at his desk here in 1903. For decades visitors have described a man in period clothes and a top hat walking the halls who disappears when …
Staff arriving early have smelled cigar smoke in the lobby and bar, credited to founder Colonel Jesse Driskill, and guests describe a gentleman in 19th-century clothing. Tour lore …