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U.S.
Highway 281 |
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The
ghost of a lady in black haunts a section of this modern highway.
She
is Leonora Rodriquez, wife of Don Ramos, who lived in a hacienda
at
Falfurrias in the 1700's. At the time the area was a flat chaparral
cut
by a single dirt road. Leonora was hanged from a large oak along
that
road, by her husband's vaqueros. Don Paul had accused the woman
of
becoming pregant by another man. Now her spirit haunts the place
where
she died. The ghost is seen along the road wearing the same
black
dress she wore the night that she was murdered. Numerous
motorists
have pulled off the road to help the forlorn phantom, only
to
see her vanish.
LOCATION
Alice
is in Jim Wells County in the southern corner of Texas, 31 miles west of
Corpus
Christi on Highway 44. The Lady in Black is most often reported on
U.S.
Highway 281 at the Farm Road 141 underpass, south of Alice.
