Lena, from Lubbock, sent us this. Thanks, Lena, we love it!!!
Lubbock Area Haunts and Urban Legends
- Just outside of Southland on Hwy 84 there
is a small patch of road where an accident happened just a few years
ago. At that time, my kids and I lived in a mobile home just beside it.
A young family stopped on the side of the road to sleep. There were the
parents and a small infant. While they were parked, a big rig coming
down the highway hit them. From the published reports, the driver
apparently looked down quickly to light a cigarette and swerved just
enough to hit their car. My youngest son heard the impact and looked
out his window to see the car fly thru the air and land in the center
median. All 3 were apparently killed immediately on impact. We've seen
them exploring the ground there. Sometimes we saw the mom, sometimes
the dad, sometimes they had the baby, and occasionally we saw all 3
together. I tried contacting them many times, and I got the impression
they were looking for something that was lost. I believe it to be the
mom's wedding ring. My son and I borrowed a metal detector and tried
looking for it, but never found it.
- In the Garza County Museum(Post, TX), there
is a very unfriendly spirit on the second floor. He/she follows you
while you're up there and you hear something like a low voice grumbling
and complaining. When you go back to the stairs to leave, if you aren't
very careful, he/she pushes you HARD.
- The Garza Theatre(Post, TX) has
several spirits, most notably the former director, Will McCrary. He was
a very animated person and his spirit is very active. You can see, hear
and feel him in nearly every corner. The presence is strongest in the
back where the dressing rooms are. I've seen him looking down on the
stage from the old projector window too.
- The local Garza Cemetary(Post, TX) has
several spirits that are very active as well. And the road beside it
has at least 2 that I've seen. It has long been a popular place for
local teens to race because it has an almost perfectly straight quarter
mile stretch. The 2 spirits that I've seen appear to be from accidents
that have happened there. I could never locate any documentation of
them. The first is an over turned car with a young man who will try to
wave down cars. I've seen him multiple times on June 27th. I'm guessing
its the anniversary of the accident. The other is an old car - its dark
blue but I don't know the model. It will race past you on the road
honking in victory and then vanish.
- The Pioneer Hotel (downtown
- now being renovated) used to be a retirement home. My
great-grandfather stayed there briefly and talked of a woman who would
knock on his door and when he answered it would walk down the hallway
without saying anything. He was very annoyed. When he complained about
it, the woman he described was identified by name as someone who was
deceased. The next time it happened, he opened the door and called her
by the deceased womans name. He said she walked down the hallway again.
After that time, she never returned. Spooky story to tell the
grandkids? He sure didn't tell it like it was just a story.
- The Lubbock Airport -
I've heard a number of stories from there, and when I worked for the
parking control out there, I personally came across 2 active spirits.
One is a lady in the main toll booth who apparently was killed there
(she likes to move stuff around) and the other is a male spirit in the
parking garage. That one is NOT particularly friendly.
- Texas Tech - There
are alot of ghosts at Tech. The Chemistry building has several. The
professors and most staff have seen them but don't want to talk about
them because they don't want people in there looking for ghosts. The
most common ones are the old man in the basement that used to work in
the old mechanist shop in the 1960's (this is now an instrument room)
and the graduate student that commited suicide in 1983. He is still
trying to finish his research. [his name is Brian.]
- Tunnels under Tech - There
is supposed to be a young man who used to sneak into the girls dorms
from the tunnels. The house mother found out and asked the custodians
to weld a gate so he couldn't get in. On his fateful last trip, he
found the gate and tried to retrace his steps, but became lost in the
maze of tunnels for several days and eventually died. I went down there
with a friend who was at that time employed by the Tech police force,
we heard someone calling out asking for help, and felt someone brush
past us. It was pretty freaky.
- Texas Tech - There
is also a Biology Graduate student that attends the Carol of Lights. He
threw himself off of the roof of the Biology just before the end of the
semester when he got a "good bye letter" from his girlfriend. So if you
go and see a tall black man that is standing beside you one minute and
not the next you know who it is.
- Texas Tech - Freda
McVay, a retired Tech journalism instructor, was working for the
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal when a cleaning woman was murdered on Dec. 4,
1967, in what was then the Biology building.McVay said a graduate
student at the time nearly decapitated the cleaning woman in a
third-floor laboratory while attempting to steal the answers to a final
exam. He was caught months later while using the woman's stolen set of
master keys to enter biology professor Kent Rylander's office in
another attempt to steal an exam. Published reports at the time confirm
McVay's version of the story.She now shows up during finals. Supposedly
there is a big bloodstain on the floor where she was killed.
- Horn/Knapp Hall - There
is a storage room that many people do not know about on the third
floor. A little boy died up there and you can now hear him throwing a
ball down the stairs. Sometimes he will knock on the door if you knock
first.
- Ranching Heritage Center - The
two story house at the Southwest end of the complex has been reported
to have a white female in one of the upper windows. The police have
responded to the reports of the female and have checked the building
only to find it empty. The female is believed to be the wife of the
rancher that built the house.
- Water Tower - On
the coldest night of the year you can often see what looks like 5 or 6
young men on the top catwalk which goes around the water tank. They
appear up there all night as if they are spending the night. It is
always the coldest night that year, so you can't predict in advance
when that may be. The first reported sighting was about 1949 or 1950
and seen almost every year since when observed. There is no knowledge
as to who they are.
- Holden Hall - Ghostly chemistry prof continues to tutor students having problems with chemistry.
- O.L. Slaton - Every
now and then you will see lights go on and off and hear strange noises.
Also, in the theater, a ghost has also been known to make the stage
lights shake violently from time to time. Supposedly, it has tried to
push people down the stairs a few times. As for the identity of the
ghost, it was supposedly a teacher who died near the theatre when it
was being built.
- Lubbock High - I
don't know the whole story, but there is supposed to be a spirit in the
tower, and something about the elevator. I wish I knew more. My
boyfriend went to school there but he was never interested in the
stories so he only knew the basics.
- Broadway Ave - There is a sort of strip shopping center that has a couple of bars and a few stores. The building was a
hotel at the turn of the century, and there are several restless spirits. - culled from Shadowlands haunted places list
- St. Mary Cemetery (about
10-20 miles south of Amarillo) has a funeral sculpture of Jesus on the
Cross with the Virgin Mary and Saint John beside him. It is a
magnificant sculpture for a grave in such a small rural cemetery, very
out of place. Nonetheless, when we were there documenting the cemetery,
I went to photograph the sculpture. However, once started to get close
to it this straight line wind started to push me back and the others as
well. I finally got up to the sculpture and was aiming to take my
frames, but I had to have one of the persons I was with hold me to keep
me from blowing over. Once I finished we went to the car and the wind
stopped and everything was calm. We thought it was odd, so I went back
up to take a full shot of the sculpture and the wind started right back
up and just as strong. When I got back in the car, the wind stopped.
Now I don't know if it was coincidence or what, but maybe something to
check out. I rarely get an odd feeling from cemeteries since I am so
used to them for my project, but this one definitely stuck with me.
