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Historic haunted places in El Paso, 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.
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Visitors report children laughing and playing around 2 a.m. in the section where epidemic victims were buried. After crews trimmed trees there, people said they heard children cryi…
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El Paso's oldest operating hotel, where John Dillinger reportedly stayed in 1934, has been investigated by a local paranormal group since 2017. Investigators describe a former long…
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Local legend describes a 'woman in white,' a bride who leapt from an upper floor after her fiance left with her bridesmaid. She is most often reported on the 10th floor, where the …
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Staff name 'Uncle Charlie' Richardson, Joseph Magoffin's cousin and close friend, who is said to have died in a rocking chair on the property around 1911. The chair is reported to …
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The 'Smoking Man' is a tuxedoed figure in 1930s clothes announced by the smell of cigarette smoke. Accounts say he appears on the upper balcony, says 'We all have our time to die,'…
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El Paso's haunted ground is the ground of a border city — a West Texas crossing where, in the words of the US Ghost Adventures tour that walks it nightly, cowboys, lawmen, revolutionaries, entrepreneurs, performers, and travelers all left their mark. Its oldest haunted place is not a house at all. It is the cemetery where the frontier city buried all of them.
Concordia Cemetery, at 3700 East Yandell Drive, began as ranch land. Its own history, published by the Concordia Heritage Association, records that the area was known as Concordia in the 1840s and was the home of Chihuahua trader Hugh Stephenson and his wife Juana; in 1856 Juana (Ascarate) Stephenson was buried in what is now part of the cemetery — Wikipedia's documented account adds that Hugh Stephenson bought the ranch in 1852 and that Juana, killed in 1856, was the first person buried there. The graveyard came into widespread use in the 1880s, when El Pasoans drove three miles out to Concordia to bury their dead, and by 1890 its sections had been designated Catholic, Masonic, Jewish, Black, Chinese, Military, Jesuit, city, and county. Wikipedia notes that Concordia's Chinese section is the only Chinese cemetery in Texas, a legacy of the Chinese railroad workers who came to build the railroads. More than 60,000 people are buried there today, and the cemetery is a Texas State Historical Site.
The most famous grave is a gunfighter's. John Wesley Hardin — who, as Texas Highways documents, had served a 17-year prison sentence for murder before moving to El Paso in 1895 to start fresh as a lawyer — was shot dead by Constable John Selman at the Acme Saloon on August 19, 1895, and buried at Concordia. In one of El Paso's neater historical circles, Selman the lawman is buried at Concordia too; the cemetery's own residents list names them side by side among its gunfighters, Buffalo Soldiers, Texas Rangers, Civil War veterans, Mormon pioneers, and civic leaders.
Downtown's second anchor is a theatre. The Plaza Theatre, Wikipedia records, opened on September 12, 1930, in the Spanish Colonial Revival style — a palace of the border city's boom years, and today one of the landmarks every El Paso ghost tour stops for.
This section is folklore — reported by the cemetery's tour guides, investigators, and tour operators, and never asserted as fact here.
Concordia's best-known reported spirit is Florida Wolfe, known as "Lady Flo." Texas Highways reports that ghost hunters and visitors have described apparitions of cowboy figures and of an African American woman believed to be Florida Wolfe — a socialite and rancher who died in 1913 — as well as the cemetery gates opening and closing on their own, in the account of Henry Flores of the Paso Del Norte Paranormal Society, which leads the cemetery's ghost tours. Wikipedia's Concordia article likewise records, attributed to local paranormal investigators, that the cemetery's children's section — where small graves are marked with iron cribs — is said to be one of its more haunted areas. These are the guides' and investigators' reports, told here as they tell them.
Downtown, the folklore belongs to the tour operators. US Ghost Adventures' El Paso page describes the DeSoto Hotel as a longtime source of unsettling stories, with reports ranging from a cheerful child seeking companionship to an ominous presence that has drawn investigators — the operator's claims, with no independent documentation in our material, and labelled as such here. The same operator tells of a mysterious figure linked to the Plaza Theatre's past, with unusual sounds and shifting lights reported around it.
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Concordia is El Paso's Boot Hill, and the cemetery embraces the name: its own site calls it "Historic Concordia Cemetery: El Paso's Boot Hill" and invites visitors to "come visit Concordia residents such as gunfighter John Wesley Hardin, Buffalo Soldiers, Texas Rangers, Civil War Veterans, early Mormon pioneers, Florida (Lady Flo) Wolf, Lawman John Selman, and numerous other civic leaders, pioneers, and war veterans." It was also, its history notes, formerly the first burial site of Mexican Revolution president Victoriano Huerta.
The documented frame is unusually complete. A ranch burial ground from 1856, a city burial ground from the 1880s, and by 1890 a patchwork of sections — Catholic, Masonic, Jewish, Black, Chinese, Military, Jesuit, city, and county — that maps El Paso's whole frontier population. Over 60,000 burials later, the nonprofit Concordia Heritage Association maintains the grounds, runs grave research for families looking for lost relatives, and keeps a calendar of events that, per Texas travel sources, includes ghost tours, history walks, and an annual Día de los Muertos celebration.
The haunting claims attached to Concordia are attributed, here as everywhere in our material: Lady Flo reported near her grave, cowboy figures reported among the stones, and the children's section described by local paranormal investigators as especially active. None is asserted as fact. What is fact is the visiting frame: the cemetery is at 3700 East Yandell Drive, open every day of the year — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from October through March, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. from April through September, in its own published hours. Its ghost tours are run after dark by the Paso Del Norte Paranormal Society, the subject of the next story.
*Website: https://concordiacemetery.org*