Historic haunted places in Waco, 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.
Private office building; exterior viewing and ghost-walk stop.
A well-liked 1980s security guard, distressed that age was slowing him down, took his life in the basement. His replacement found that when he came to the basement door with full h…
Open to the public (museum; 18+ paranormal tours offered).
The plant's chief mechanic, nicknamed Shorty, died when a building collapsed on him during the May 1953 tornado, and the truck in the courtyard is the center of activity tied to hi…
Open to the public (house museum tours; admission charged).
Night guards working at different times have each described a woman in period dress on the balcony after closing who disappears when they approach. A paranormal society that invest…
Lindsey Hollow Rd (Cameron Park, between Herring Ave and Baker Lane), Waco, TX 76707
Open to the public (city park road; free).
This Cameron Park ravine is tied to vigilante executions of horse thieves reported in a 1920 newspaper as an old local tradition. Visitors describe the jingle of spurs, screams wit…
Journalist William Cowper Brann, killed in 1898, lies under a monument with a bullet hole in his carved profile, and ghost-walk guides say his presence lingers by the oaks around i…
Much of the lore here traces to a 1928 fire and stampede. People report a touch on the shoulder in the seats, applause in an empty auditorium and a man dressed as a cowboy, and a g…