When you think of Dallas, you probably picture bright sun shining on tall buildings, women in designer clothes and men wearing business suits with cowboy hats. You may want to broaden your image of the town to include mysterious shadows and unexplained movements under the moonlight, because this Texas metropolis has several reputedly haunted sites. Experience some shivers in this town where temperatures not infrequently rise over 100 degrees by visiting its spookier places.
A very famous ghost may haunt this building, located near the site where President John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963. Seventeen years after the assassination, the Sixth Floor Museum opened in the building, chronicling both that event and the life of JFK. Over the years, there have been many reports of a man, glimpsed by night, wandering near the building with his head covered in blood.
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
411 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75202
214-747-6660
Near the city's Northwest Highway lies a narrow road U-shaped road. A few trees and houses are near this mysterious place where, from the 1970s onward, police have received reports of unexplainable damage to vehicles and rocks thrown from odd angle. Travel at your own risk if you visit this place and choose your time well--the reported occurrences always happen at night.
Flag Pole Hill
8100 Doran Circle
Dallas, TX 75238
Dallas' version of the haunted hitchhiker has a woman in a soaked gown asking passing cars for a ride. According to the tales, the woman always disappears without opening the car doors, leaving a wet puddle behind her. The ghost may also have some voyeuristic tendencies; some stories tell of her visiting couples who have parked in the area for amorous purposes.
White Rock Lake
8300 Garland Road
Dallas, TX 75218
If you want a more lingering experience of the paranormal, visit this haunted house on the outskirts of Dallas. You can take guided tours of the house, which has been the site of several horrific events over the course of the last 100 years. The history of the site includes the lightening-ignited fire which destroyed the original house and killed an entire family; rumors of insanity and the mysterious shooting of the man who built the current structure; and the murder-suicide of the builder's son and his wife.
Reindeer Manor
410 Houston School Rd
Red Oak, TX 75154
972-218-7287
reindeermanor.com
