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Last updated: October 4, 2003

The La Carafe Haunted.

The First Jefferson Davis Hospital
It was built on top of 5,000+ graves. A girl named Amy went there to investigate, but found it so creepy that she refused to go near the place.
On September 14, someone taking pictures found that although they had bought new batteries for their digital camera on the way there, within seconds of taking shots their batteries drained. (Many people experience this problem, along with film going bad and bulbs dying. Someone brought along a video camera that no longer works since they took it to the hospital.) They thought that things felt particularly alive near the stairs at the front entrance. There are orbs in the picturess they took and what looks like two faces in two seperate windows.
They used to offer ghost tours until some strange happenings at the end of the tours.
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The Second Jefferson Davis Hospital
As they were demolishing the building several graves were found. The site is in very close proximity to the historical Allen Parkway Village, which was a huge housing project on top of hundreds of graves. The Allen Parkway Village site was the location of the third Houston city cemetery.
An orb was photographed zig-zagging across the field.

Fairbanks Cemetery
There is a tree where an apparition was captured on film. It was next to what seemed to be the oldest headstone in the cemetery. At the exact spot of where the apparition appeared, the ground is severely sunken in. It looks like there may have been a tree removed from that spot many years ago. There is an awful smell here.
On the western side of the cemetery there are strange feelings next to a child's grave.

Westheimer Terrace Apartments
A resident found an ID and some personal paperwork under the passenger's seat of her car. No one in her family knew who the person was, and no one knew how the information got there. Thinking that her three-year old son might have picked the stuff up and stashed it in the car, she decided to turn it in to the leasing office. The instant she brought the documents inside, weird things began happening. The first few nights, her husband was working late into the early morning, and she noticed a presence. A suffocating atmosphere hung in her bedroom. Her little boy was freaking out. But if her husband was home, everything was fine. A few days later, her husband had to leave and was going to be gone for a couple of weeks. The day he left, things got a little more active.
Her child kept saying that there was a 'bad man' in the closets. The child was so emphatic, that the resident got a neighbor to check out the whole apartment. Nothing was found, except for a bone-chilling cold air pocket in the closet. For two days, the resident battled the locks on the front door. The little boy was constantly complaining about the bad man and firetrucks and the man being burnt and other weird things. It was understood that the entity was in possession of a gun, as well. The resident's driver license came up missing, and it was found in a shopping cart in an alleyway between buildings near her car, when she distinctly remembered putting it on the kitchen counter. Her kids were getting so worked up that she decided to spend the night elsewhere. She packed the kids up, took them outside, and the young boy began screaming that the bad man was in the car, and refused to go near the thing. The carport light above the car had suddenly begun flickering. The resident called a friend, who came to spend the night, and they battled the front door locks once more. She begged the spirit to tell her what it wanted. She asked the spirit to let her help it, but it had to tell her what it wanted first. She got nothing.
The resident realized that all the weird happenings started right around the time she brought the ID and paperwork in the house, which she had forgotten to take to the leasing office. She found them again, shredded them and burned them. She put the ashes in the center of the afflicted bedroom and demanded that the spirit leave and never return. She left the room, closing the door behind her. A few hours later she returned to the bedroom, and her back door was not just unlocked, but wide open to the world. She thought that was the entity's sign of 'good-bye', but when she returned to the living room, she had to relock the front door again.
There were unusual EMF readings in the living room. A sensitive investigators, Julie, got a severe cold chill in the apartment and said she felt something.

Poppet's Way bodies were unearthed in the backyards of 803 and 807 Poppet's Way and 15803 Poppet's Court.

The Presidio There is so much you need to know about the before I just go off and try to explain what ghosts exist, because they're existance is directly related to the history of the building and land. I will tell you that the fort was built in 1721. It is the only fully restored presidio in the US. The resto began in the 1960's due to a diligent effort from Kathryn O'Connor. She was an extremely generous lady to have donated so much time and money to a cause such as this. The Presidio is integral in learning about Texas' history. So many men died here, 342 to be exact, and all in the name of freedom. The fort's land was occupied way before Spain's occupation of the New World. It was a perfect location, all up on a hill and overlooking lovely countryside. When the Spanish came in 1749, they found evidence of an Indian village there. As Spain settled permanently, the town of La Bahia grew up around the fort. This was the original town, which is now known as Goliad. This town became the second largest populated settlement in Spanish Texas. This fort was solely responsible for defending the Texas coastal area and eastern province. Soldiers from La Bahia assisted the Spanish army in the fight against the British during the American Revolution. This gives La Bahia the distinction of being one of the only communities west of the Mississippi River to be involved in the American Revolution. In October of 1835, Texas citizens led by Capt. Collingsworth entered Goliad and attacked the Mexican garrison. They were successful and took possession of the fort. This action was in direct response to the Gonzales incident one week earlier. After that, they captured a fort near the Nueces River and cut off the last remaining Mexican communication between Matamoros and San Antonio. The first Declaration of Independence of Texas was declared here at Presidio La Bahia in December of 1835, signed by 92 citizens. The Goliad Massacre, commonly referred to as the darkest day in Texas history, occurred here on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. Col. James Fannin and 341 men were executed a week after their capture at the Battle of Coleto, all ordered by General Santa Anna. Two times as many people died at this fort than at the Alamo. This event proved to the United States what Texas was up against when it came to gaining their freedom. There is a chapel that was built inside the fort for the use of the soldiers and Spanish settlers living in La Bahia. It was given the name "Our Lady of Loreto" and has been in continuous use since the 1700s. It is the oldest section of the fort. It is also one of the only buildings in America that still has its original vaulted ceiling. There's an amazing fresco painted on the back of the altar in 1946. Its title is "Michelangelo of South Texas." Above the entrance of the chapel is a niche that houses the statue of Our Lady of Loreto made by the Mount Rushmore guy. The Declaration of Independence of Texas was signed in this chapel.

The Spaghetti Warehouse
A psychic who took the haunted tour and claimed that there were children in the upstairs portion of the restaurant. She said that while some were playing pranks on the manager trying to keep a closet open, some were just standing around watching. There are obvious cold spots in certain sections of the upstairs floor.
When the tour guide first started working there she would hear her full name being called. Only close friends and her mother knew her full name.
A contractor was hired to do some remodeling in the upstairs portion. He used the bathroom upstairs there, and in the time it took him to pee, the entity present had taken all the chairs and pulled them away from the tables. There were better than 50 chairs. The contractor never heard any noise, and there was no way that his crew could have done that much work in the few seconds he was in the bathroom. The contractor went downstairs, instructed his employees to reload all the equipment, and they left the restaurant. He broke the contract and never returned.
The basement is where a high concentration of activity is. Several pictures have been taken with orbs in them.
One evening, a man was working late at the building, and while in the elevator, it fell all the way to the bottom, collapsed in on itself and killed him. The wife saw him come home and place his coat and hat on the hat rack, and didn't realize until much later that he had actually been killed. She was completely flabbergasted, because she had seen him come in. She is one of the spirits believed to be haunting the restaurant. The old elevator shaft has since been removed, but that's where the majority of the activitiy seems to be focused.
One antique cabinet is the source of the second haunting: the sound of children running upstairs when there is no one there. This old cabinet was in fact an urn hutch. In large families from long ago, they would keep their family's ashes all together in these hutches. This particular one was odd in that when it was purchased from an antique dealer, all the urns were in it. They all contained ashes of one woman's children. None of them ever lived to be over the age of 12. When the woman died, she asked that her ashes be placed in an urn on top of the cabinet, in a decorative wooden scroll-like thing. By the time it got to the Spaghetti Warehouse, someone had removed all the urns and replaced the mother's on top with a wooden replica. It's now being used to store restaurant stuff, and the theory is that the spirits of the children who used to have their ashes in this cabinet are unhappy about what the cabinet is being used for now, and that's why they run around upstairs and play practical jokes on employees.

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