Halloween

Get All the Scary Details About Texas’ Haunted History on These Ghost Tours

October 5, 2023 | By Amanda Ogle

As we creep into spooky season, and haunted houses and general scary-ment are in full swing, it’s time for us to reflect on all the real hauntings that have happened across our vast state.

The Lone Star Gourd Festival Shows the Versatility of the Fruit

September 29, 2022 | By Sallie Lewis

For thousands of years, civilizations across the globe have used gourds in their daily lives. The plant is not only a popular food source, but throughout human history its versatile shell has been transformed into a multitude of goods, including musical instruments, containers, and drinking vessels.

Halloween Makes Social Media Stars of Blue Heron Farm’s Goats

October 22, 2021 | By Hannah Smothers

Lisa Seger knows a thing or two about Halloween costumes, especially for goats.
Since 2012, the co-owner of Blue Heron Farm, a 10-acre goat dairy farm just outside of Houston, has been dressing up its herd of Nubian goats in various costumes, all in the name of Halloween spirit and for the farm’s social media accounts.

An Austin Walking Tour Sheds Light on America’s First Serial Killer

October 16, 2020 | By Laurel Miller

Miles is a former high school history teacher and the owner of Walking Tours of Austin, which specializes in local history. Miles launched his Murder Walk in April 2019, using his considerable storytelling abilities to relay the gruesome story of America’s first serial killer. Known in the press as the “Midnight Assassin” or “Servant Girl Annihilator” (the latter a nickname coined by the author O. Henry, who lived in Austin at the time), the killer took the lives of four Black servant women, one of the servant’s daughters, a Black man, and two white socialites, using axes and knives to hack and stab his victims before lobotomizing most of them with a steel rod.

5 of the Most Haunted Locations in Texas

September 30, 2019 | By MM Pack, Asher Elbein, E. Dan Klepper

For every person now alive, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, there stand 30 ghosts, “for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.” So it stands to reason that wandering spirits abound in a vast state like Texas. From the barren deserts of the west to the thick woodlands of the east, specters have been reported to haunt defunct hospitals, active schools, lonely highways, and thriving hotels.

Any Day Above Ground Is a Good One at the Quirky National Museum of Funeral History

September 20, 2018 | By

For the past eight years, the treasury of exhibits about the cultural practices and traditions surrounding death has hosted a haunted maze during the month of October. The president and curator of the museum, Genevieve Keeney, says it takes great pains to make sure the event is a good time for all ages.

Boo at the Zoos: Where to Celebrate Halloween in Texas

October 10, 2017 | By

The season of jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treating, and other fall frolics has returned. Texas offers a trove of terror, but there’s plenty of family-friendly fun at zoos across the state to celebrate the season. 

Haunted Hot Spots

September 20, 2017 | By

In our October 2017 issue, we shed some light on Jefferson and Granbury’s haunted history.

Autumn at the Arboretum

September 26, 2016 | By

There’s nothing quite like the sight of pumpkins to signal the arrival of fall. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden welcomes this most lovely of Texas seasons with Autumn at the Arboretum (Sep.

Smile for fall frolics

September 16, 2016 | By Helen Anders

Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls of all ages! The season of jack-o-lanterns, field mazes, spooky houses, trick-or-treating, and other fall frolics has returned.

Hauntings and History

September 16, 2016 | By Anthony Head

“Are you ready for the ghosts? I am.” With that, co-owner Erin Wallace Ghedi pushes apart a set of sliding wooden doors and leads us into the Smoking Room, where she begins telling the story of the Magnolia Hotel.

Hunting for Haunted Galveston

September 10, 2013 | By Melissa Gaskill

The woman behind the registration desk at the Hotel Galvez glanced at the number as she handed me my keycard.

Ghosts of Galveston

October 4, 2010 | By Dan Oko

In the 19th Century, tragedies washed over Galveston as regularly as the tides: deadly fires, yellow-fever epidemics, and hurricanes.

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