Historic haunted places in Brownsville, 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 and grounds open; interior access limited (active courthouse).
In 2004, more than 700 graves of the forgotten Campo Santo Viejo cemetery turned up under the courthouse parking area. Security guards and janitors have since tied unexplained foot…
Exterior viewable from the street; interior on Brownsville Historical Association tours.
Room 101 is the focus here: guests describe being touched by invisible hands and seeing a small child or baby that seems to float. Local oral tradition says several people died in …
1 West University Boulevard, Brownsville, TX 78520
Open to the public (university campus; free outdoor areas).
Ghost-story collections from South Texas say that late at night the grounds of the old Mexican-American War post echo with what sounds like distant cannon fire and shouting. Figure…
Open in daylight (free); ticketed October ghost walk.
This historic cemetery holds victims of epidemics, soldiers and men killed in the gunfights of early Brownsville. Visitors describe figures appearing around dusk in the oldest sect…