Haunted Places in Dallas-Fort Worth: White Rock Lake, Goatman's Bridge and More
A drowned girl who hitches rides by the lake, a goat man on an 1884 iron bridge and a bordello hotel above a Stockyards cafe. Here is what is true about the ghosts of Dallas and Fort Worth, and where you can go.
The Metroplex is spread out, so we have grouped Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington and the towns around them in one guide. We checked every place on our older list against current sources: a few theaters and halls have changed hands or closed, the Scott Theatre is dark for repairs, and one Fort Worth mansion now belongs to a hospital. Below are the places you can still visit, see from the road or book a room in.
In Dallas, start with White Rock Lake after dark and the old hotels downtown. In Fort Worth, the Stockyards, Thistle Hill and the zoo are close together. Goatman’s Bridge is about 40 miles north, near Denton, and the Baker Hotel is an hour west in Mineral Wells.
Open to the publicGhost toursHaunted Rooms ghost hunts
Address Old Alton Bridge over Hickory Creek, between Denton and Copper Canyon, TX
Where to look The middle of the bridge and the trail approaches
Reported ghosts The Goatman, rocks thrown from the dark, strange lights
Visiting Pedestrian bridge on public trails
Tickets Free
Ghost hunting Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts here
The King Bridge Company of Cleveland built this 145-foot iron truss over Hickory Creek in 1884, at an old cattle ford near Alton, a short-lived town that was once the Denton County seat. It carried cars until 2001, when a new bridge opened beside it, and it now links the Elm Fork and Pilot Knoll trails. It was listed on the National Register in 1988.
Locals call it Goatman’s Bridge. The legend says Oscar Washburn, a Black goat farmer, was lynched here by Klansmen in 1938, and that anyone who crosses at night without headlights meets the Goatman. Denton author Shelly Tucker checked census records and found no Oscar Washburn living near the bridge and no record of a lynching, so it stays a legend. Visitors still report figures, lights, hoofbeats and rocks thrown from the dark. Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts here.
What investigators report
The best-known visitor ritual is knocking three times on the bridge’s iron trusses, said in local legend to summon the Goatman, though the stories are not based on historical fact.
Where to look The Cattlemen's Room, the Cowboy Room and the Madam's Room
Reported ghosts A cowboy, a madam, a working girl and a young child
Visiting A working hotel; the lobby and bar are open to the public
Ghost hunting Haunted Rooms runs overnight ghost hunts here
Up a narrow flight of stairs above the Star Cafe on Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards, Miss Molly’s opened in 1910 as the Palace Rooms. Over the years it was a boarding house, a hotel for cattlemen, a speakeasy during Prohibition, a bordello called the Gayette in the 1940s, and finally Fort Worth’s first bed and breakfast. It has only a handful of themed rooms, and its longtime manager Paula Gowins has told local TV that every one of them has a story.
The regulars are said to be a cowboy mediums call Jake, whom Gowins says she watched walk into a room that was empty when she opened the door; Miss Josie, a madam seen at the foot of beds; a working girl or two; and a little girl. The Cattlemen’s Room and the Cowboy Room get the most reports. It is one of the few haunted hotels where you can join an organized overnight ghost hunt.
What investigators report
Investigators report REM pod alerts in the Railroader Room and on the landing at the top of the stairs, and describe an EVP session in Miss Amelia’s Room where a voice reportedly confirmed the name Amelia.
Haunted Rooms tip: Haunted Rooms runs overnight ghost hunts at Miss Molly’s, so you can investigate the building with our team rather than just sleep in it.
Open to the publicGhost toursHaunted Rooms ghost hunts
Address White Rock Lake Park, East Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 75218
Where to look East Lawther Drive along the shore, and Flag Pole Hill
Reported ghosts The Lady of the Lake, a drowned young woman in a 1930s evening dress
Visiting City park, open to the public
Hours and season City park hours
Tickets Free
Ghost hunting Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts here
Dallas built White Rock Lake in 1910 and 1911 to end a water shortage, and today its 1,254 acres and 9.3-mile trail are one of the city’s favorite parks, drawing more than a million visitors a year. It also holds Dallas’s most famous ghost story, which first appeared in print in a 1943 Texas Folklore Society collection and was retold in a 1953 book about Neiman Marcus.
The Lady of the Lake is a young woman in a soaked evening dress who flags down drivers on East Lawther Drive at night and asks to be taken home to Gaston Avenue. Partway there she vanishes, leaving a wet seat. Dallas newspapers printed sightings in the 1960s and the story inspired the 1965 song ‘Bringing Mary Home’, but no record of the drowning has ever been found. Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts here.
Haunted Rooms tip: Drive or walk East Lawther Drive after dark with a friend, then read our full guide to the legend.
Where to look The 11th-floor Baker Suite, the seventh floor, the elevators
Reported ghosts The Baker of the Baker Suite, the lady of the seventh floor, a bellhop
Visiting Under restoration: view from the street; occasional special events only
Hours and season Reopening expected in 2028
Ghost hunting No. It is a construction site
T.B. Baker’s 14-story, 450-room spa hotel opened on November 9, 1929, to serve the crowds who came to Mineral Wells for its healing water, and it hosted Judy Garland, Clark Gable and Lyndon B. Johnson. It closed for good in 1972 and stood empty for nearly fifty years, which is when its legends grew.
People report cigar smoke in the 11th-floor Baker Suite, lavender perfume on the seventh floor where a manager’s mistress is said to have died, and a bellhop crushed by an elevator in 1948. The hotel is being restored as The Baker Hotel and Spa, with reopening expected no earlier than 2028.
Haunted Rooms tip: See the tower from downtown Mineral Wells; the site is private and unsafe, so watch for one-off events instead.
Visit on a tourOvernight investigationsHaunted Rooms ghost hunts
Address Gainesville, TX (exact address given to ticket holders)
Where to look The Fireplace Room, the Murder Room in the Dead Area, the Windows Room
Reported ghosts Bordello-era women, the angry Cowboy, a cat, children called Charlie and a girl
Visiting Private house, open only for booked investigations and ghost hunt events
Tours Booked overnight investigations and ghost hunt events
Ghost hunting Yes: the owner rents it to investigation teams, and Haunted Rooms runs ghost hunts here (8 PM to 2 AM)
Owner Linda Hill bought this rambling North Texas house in 2004 and named it Hill House Manor. She says tenants kept breaking their leases, the longest stay lasting six months, so she opened it to paranormal investigators instead. The house is said to have been a bordello and a speakeasy, though no records of either have been published.
Investigators report a cat heard in the upstairs Windows Room, an angry old man nicknamed the Cowboy in an upstairs kitchen, children’s voices, and the Fireplace Room, where recordings are famously X-rated. Its story has been on A&E’s My Ghost Story and in national news. Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts here.
What investigators report
One investigation team placed motion-sensing cat balls on the staircase and the upstairs kitchen table and reported them flashing with no one nearby. Team members also reported hearing a male voice in the upstairs back rooms, though their recorders captured no EVPs.
Where to look The 12th-floor Penthouse, the top floors, the elevator
Reported ghosts Margaret, the 1930s mistress; Colonel Harry Stewart
Visiting A working hotel; the lobby and bar are open to the public
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts; book a room and stay the night instead
The Stoneleigh opened on Maple Avenue in 1923 as a 12-story luxury apartment hotel and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1930s Colonel Harry Stewart bought it and built what is said to be Dallas’s first penthouse. Long known as Le Méridien Dallas, The Stoneleigh, it reopened in May 2026 as The Stoneleigh, Autograph Collection, after a full renovation.
The hotel’s ghost is Margaret, said to have been the mistress of Stewart or of an early manager, slipping to their meetings through hidden service passages. The story goes that in the late 1930s she fell, jumped or was pushed from the top floor. Staff report flickering lights, doors opening and shattering bar glasses, and one guest said a man in a black suit she later matched to Stewart’s photo stood in her room.
Haunted Rooms tip: The 12th-floor Penthouse Suite, Stewart’s old residence, can be booked. Come in storm season: staff say Margaret is busiest during thunderstorms.
Visiting a haunted place by day is one thing. Investigating one after dark is another. On a Haunted Rooms ghost hunt our team takes you through a historic building with professional ghost hunting equipment, runs EVP sessions and vigils, and gives you time to explore on your own. These are the nearest ones we run.
Where to look The 19th floor, once the ballroom, and its walled-off marble staircase
Reported ghosts A jilted bride in a 1930s wedding gown; phantom big band music
Visiting A working hotel; the lobby and bar are open to the public
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts; book a room and stay the night instead
Beer baron Adolphus Busch tore down Dallas’s old City Hall to build this Beaux Arts tower, which opened in October 1912 as the grandest hotel in the city and for a decade the tallest building in Texas. In the 1930s it hosted the big bands of the swing era, and some guests say the music never stopped: they hear faint band music and a phantom piano on floors where nothing is playing.
The best-known ghost is a bride who, according to the story, was left at the altar in the 1930s and took her life at the top of a marble staircase on the old 19th-floor ballroom level. The concierge told the Dallas Morning News that most of the stories center on the 19th floor, where a woman in white has been reported.
Address 1509 Pennsylvania Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104
Where to look The grand staircase landing and the third-floor ballroom
Reported ghosts A lady in white on the stairs, a man in 1940s clothes
Visiting Now used by Cook Children’s; see the exterior from the street and check before planning a visit
Ghost hunting Not open for ghost hunts
Cattle heiress Electra Waggoner and her husband Albert Buck Wharton built this Georgian Revival mansion in Fort Worth’s Quality Hill neighborhood in 1903 and 1904, to designs by Sanguinet and Staats. Cattle baron Winfield Scott bought it in 1910 and died before he could move in. It later housed girls for the Girls Service League, was saved in 1976, and in August 2022 Historic Fort Worth gave it to Cook Children’s for use as meeting space.
Its ghost stories began, the story goes, with restoration work in the 1970s and 1980s. A 1981 Fort Worth Star-Telegram story quoted workers who saw a man in a gray sweater and wing-tip shoes on the staircase, and people also describe a woman in a white lace gown on the landing and orchestra music from the empty third-floor ballroom. These are reported experiences rather than recorded history.
Haunted Rooms tip: See it from Pennsylvania Avenue; with the house now used by Cook Children’s, check before expecting tours.
Address Dallas Heritage Village, 1515 S Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75215
Where to look The upstairs sickroom and nursery
Reported ghosts A woman near the nursery
Visiting Living history museum open to visitors
Hours and season Check the museum’s website for current hours
Tickets Museum admission
Ghost hunting No public ghost hunts
Dallas Heritage Village, on the site of the city’s first park, gathers about two dozen 19th-century pioneer and Victorian buildings moved in from across North Texas. Its grandest house is Millermore, begun in 1855 by landowner and slaveholder William Brown Miller in what is now Oak Cliff and moved to the park in the 1960s, and it is the one with the ghost story.
Staff and visitors describe a woman in a long brown dress gliding up the stairs, standing in the front hall or looking out of the middle window by the nursery, and many guess she is Emma, Miller’s third wife. A longtime guide has told WFAA and CBS Texas she saw the figure herself, two volunteers said they were pushed apart while posing in a doorway, and the house featured on the TV show Ghost Hunters. Nobody knows who she is or why she stays.
What investigators report
On a paranormal tour of the village, the group reported a spirit box session in Millermore answering “here” and giving the name “Phillip” when asked if anyone was present. Investigators there also worked with EMF meters, REM pods and dowsing rods across the historic homes.
Where to look The stairs, the upstairs rooms and the dance floor
Reported ghosts A couple in Victorian dress, children running upstairs, a former caretaker
Visiting Open for dances, lessons and concerts
Tickets Event and lesson fees
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts
This wooden lodge hall in Deep Ellum was built in 1910 as the Dallas headquarters of the Sons of Hermann, a fraternal order founded to keep German customs alive and help immigrants settle in. Over the years it has been a dance hall, a bowling alley and a meeting hall, and more than a century on it still runs Tuesday two-step lessons, live country and roots music and social dances.
Regulars told NBC 5 in 2016 that they hear children running upstairs when no children are in the building, see chairs and tables moved after closing, and that six people once watched a couple in Victorian dress climb the stairs to a floor that turned out to be locked and empty. Others talk of a former caretaker and pictures knocked off the walls. It is local lore, but you can test it on a Tuesday dance night.
Haunted Rooms tip: Go for the Tuesday night two-step lessons and stay for the social dance.
Where to look The Bonnie & Clyde Room (Room 305), the elevator
Reported ghosts Unseen guests who run the taps and ride the elevator
Visiting Closed for renovation since April 6, 2026; expected to reopen in early 2027
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts
Cattleman and alderman T.M. Thannisch opened this three-story brick hotel at Main and Exchange in 1907, and for decades it filled with drovers, ranchers and rodeo riders. Its third-floor corner suite is named for Bonnie and Clyde, who are said to have stayed in 1933 and watched a bank across the street; no hotel record proves it. The hotel closed on April 6, 2026 for a renovation of more than $30 million and is due to reopen in early 2027.
Ghost tour writers tell of the bathroom tap in the Bonnie and Clyde suite turning on by itself, the elevator riding between floors with nobody in it, phantom calls to the front desk, and spurs jingling in the halls, linked to a 1938 shooting involving a rodeo cowboy. These are guest and tour stories, not documented hauntings.
Haunted Rooms tip: The hotel is closed for renovation until early 2027, so admire it from Exchange Avenue for now and book a Miss Molly’s ghost hunt on the same street.
Where to look Room 1009, the 10th floor and the second floor
Reported ghosts Jack 'Smiley' Jackson, a woman who fell from the 10th floor
Visiting A working hotel; book a room to see the 10th floor
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts; book a room and stay the night instead
Near Union Station, across from the Old Red Courthouse and Dealey Plaza, this 10-story brick hotel opened in 1925 as the Scott Hotel and has been the Bradford, the Lawrence, a La Quinta and, today, the Holiday Inn Express Dallas Downtown. Older guides still call it the Hotel Lawrence, and its ghost stories are some of the best known in Dallas.
Its star is Jack ‘Smiley’ Jackson, a gangster said to have been murdered in Room 1009 in the 1930s. Guests say the door sometimes will not open until they politely ask Smiley to move. Others tell of a woman who fell from a 10th-floor window, a congressman who died on the same floor, crying in the hallway and cold spots. We could not find any record of these deaths, so treat them as legend, and one past owner said a full gut renovation chased the spirits out. Our hotel guide has the details.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 1009 or any 10th-floor room; it is a standard room you can request when you book.
Where to look Near the elephant exhibit and in front of the zoo cafe
Reported ghosts Elephant keeper Michael Bell, a lady in white with a parasol
Visiting Open daily as a zoo; tickets required
Tickets Zoo admission
Ghost hunting No ghost hunts
The Fort Worth Zoo opened in 1909 in Forest Park with one lion, two bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock and a few rabbits, and it calls itself the oldest continuous zoo site in Texas. Today it houses more than 7,000 animals and draws around a million visitors a year.
Its saddest story is real: in 1987 chief elephant handler Michael Bell, 35, was killed while working with a bull elephant named Sam. Visitors and staff say a man is seen near the elephants after hours, and a woman in a white turn-of-the-century dress and parasol paces in front of the cafe. Ghost tour writers wonder if she is Alice Imhoff, wife of the park custodian, who cared for the first animals before vanishing from the record in 1913, but nobody knows.
Haunted Rooms tip: Go in the late afternoon and finish by the elephants; the zoo is a family day out, not a ghost hunt.
Reported ghosts A drowned bride in white, a young man in black
Visiting Private property, fenced and posted; see it from the public road only
Hours and season Not open to visitors
Ghost hunting Not allowed: private property
On the shore of Lake Worth stands a stone castle the Whiting family called Inverness and locals know as Whiting Castle. Its story, as local accounts tell it, runs from a farmhouse said to have been built about 1860 as a wedding gift, through the Whitings, who reportedly won it in a poker game in the 1920s and turned it into a castle, to a lakeside retreat for Vultee Aircraft guests in the 1940s. Fires followed, including one in the 1970s, and it has stood mostly empty for decades. Records for the early dates are thin and accounts conflict.
The best-known ghost is a woman in white who runs from the house toward the lake and vanishes, said to be a bride drowned on her wedding day; Lake Worth’s ‘runaway bride’ is the same figure. A young man, said to be the Whitings’ son, is seen in the windows. The castle is private, fenced with razor wire and posted no trespassing, so look from the public road and nowhere else.
Haunted Rooms tip: View it from Heron Drive in daylight. Do not stop on the road or step onto the property.
Address 701 NW Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington, TX 76006
Where to look The Screaming Bridge trail, Hell's Gate and the Trinity River banks
Reported ghosts Screaming girls, phantom headlights, a figure in uniform
Visiting Free public park
Hours and season Daily 5 AM to 10 PM; nature center Monday to Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM
Tickets Trails free; nature center exhibits charge admission
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts; the park closes at 10 PM
River Legacy is a 1,300-acre forest floodplain park along the Trinity River in north Arlington, with eight miles of paved trails, ten miles of mountain bike trails and a nature center. The land was donated from 1976 onward and the park opened in 1990. It is open daily from 5 AM to 10 PM, and entry to its trails is free.
It is also home to two of Arlington’s best-known legends. The Screaming Bridge story grew from a real 1961 crash in which a carload of teenage girls went off a burned-out bridge nearby, and visitors claim to hear screams and see phantom headlights. Deeper in the woods, two old posts called Hell’s Gate are said to mark a Civil War execution site.
Haunted Rooms tip: Walk the trails in the last hour of daylight and be out by the 10 PM closing time; the original bridge is gone, so the graffitied footbridge is the stand-in for the legend.
Where to look Backstage, the balcony and the old fifth-floor office
Reported ghosts Founder Karl Hoblitzelle, said to open locked doors
Visiting City-owned performing arts center; open for performances
Tickets Show tickets
Ghost hunting Not open for ghost hunts
The Majestic opened in April 1921 as the flagship of Karl Hoblitzelle’s Interstate theater chain, designed by John Eberson. Houdini, Mae West and Bob Hope played its stage, and Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington brought their big bands. It closed in 1973 after a last showing of ‘Live and Let Die’, the Hoblitzelle Foundation gave it to the city in 1976, and it reopened as a performing arts center in 1983.
Staff stories name Hoblitzelle himself, who died in 1967, as the resident ghost. A former Dallas Ballet worker wrote that the door to the theater kept standing open after she had locked it, and her boss would just say ‘Oh, that’s Karl.’ Others tell of backdrops rising and falling with nobody at the controls, a man in a balcony seat who vanishes when someone goes to check, and the smell of cooking from an empty kitchen. These are crew stories with no tragedy behind them.
Haunted Rooms tip: Catch a show and look up at the restored auditorium; it is the last of Dallas’s old Theater Row houses still standing.
Address 2201 Road to Six Flags St, Arlington, TX 76011
Where to look The yellow house near the Texas Giant, Runaway Mountain and the Texas section
Reported ghosts Annie, a young girl from the early 1900s
Visiting Ticketed theme park on a seasonal calendar
Tours Fright Fest Halloween event each fall
Hours and season Seasonal; check the park’s online calendar
Tickets Daily tickets and memberships online
Ghost hunting No; the ghost story is something to look for on a normal visit
Six Flags Over Texas opened on August 5, 1961, the first park in what became the Six Flags chain. Developer Angus Wynne Jr. built it after a visit to Disneyland, named it for the six nations that have governed Texas, and pioneered pay-one-price admission. It gave the world the first Arrow log flume in 1963 and the first Arrow mine train coaster in 1966.
Its ghost story is a gentle one. Employees and guests tell of Annie, a little girl said to have died near Johnson Creek in the early 1900s, who switches the lights on and off in a yellow house near the Texas Giant entrance and has been glimpsed inside the dark Runaway Mountain coaster. The park has also seen real tragedies, including a fatal fall from the Texas Giant in 2013.
Haunted Rooms tip: Visit during Fright Fest in the fall, then look for Annie’s yellow house near the Texas Giant entrance in the Texas section.
Address Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 3505 W Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Where to look The prop room, the stage and the area under it
Reported ghosts William Edrington Scott, a stagehand in a brown suit
Visiting Closed since December 2024 with the Fort Worth Community Arts Center; future undecided
Ghost hunting Not open for ghost hunts
The 468-seat Scott Theatre opened in 1966 as part of the Fort Worth Art Center, paid for by a trust of about $3 million left by William Edrington Scott, who died before it opened. It has been dark since December 2024, when the city closed the Fort Worth Community Arts Center around it, saying it could not be safely used without some $30 million of repairs. The council has backed a redevelopment, but no plan or date for the theater has been set.
Theater crews have long said Mr. Scott keeps an eye on the place and straightens crooked pictures in the lobby. The darker story, told by Fort Worth tour guides, is of a young stagehand named in their retellings as Kenneth Yandle, who took his own life in 1970 and is said to roam the basement in a brown suit, moving props and switching on tools. We found no record to confirm the 1970 death.
Haunted Rooms tip: The building is closed for repairs; enjoy the story and check for a reopening before you go.
Where to look The rooftop pool deck and the guest room hallways
Reported ghosts A man said to have fallen from the roof
Visiting A working hotel; the lobby and bar are open to the public
Ghost hunting No organized ghost hunts; book a room and stay the night instead
The Renaissance is the 30-story elliptical tower beside Stemmons Freeway in the Design District. It opened in 1983 as a Wyndham hotel, became a Stouffer hotel in 1987 and a Marriott Renaissance in 1997, has 514 rooms and once held what was billed as the second-largest free-standing chandelier in the world, replaced in 2011. Its open-air rooftop pool, tucked under the slanted glass roofline, is one of the highest in Dallas, and the hotel recently finished a full renovation of its lobby and public spaces.
That pool is where the hotel’s one ghost story begins. Local legend, repeated by Visit Dallas, says a man jumped or fell from the rooftop. Guests say they have seen his figure on the roof as if replaying his last moments, and others describe odd noises in the hallways. No news report of the death has surfaced, so this is a modern Dallas legend.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for a high floor facing west, then take a late swim at the rooftop pool before it closes at 10 p.m.
These places appear in older lists of haunted spots. We keep them here so you know the facts before you go, but you cannot (or should not) visit them.
The Lost Cemetery of Infants (Berachah Home cemetery), Arlington
Rev. J. T. Upchurch opened the Berachah Industrial Home in Arlington in 1903 for homeless, mostly pregnant young women, who kept their babies and learned a trade; it closed in 1935 and an orphanage ran on the grounds until 1942. Its small cemetery holds mothers who died in childbirth, stillborn babies and residents lost to a measles epidemic, and a Texas historical marker was dedicated there in 1981. The University of Texas at Arlington bought the land in 1963, and campus rumors speak of ghostly girls. Treat it as a grave site, not a ghost hunting spot.
Changed from our older guide: we added the haunted hotels of Dallas and Fort Worth, the Old Alton Bridge’s real history and the Castle of Heron Bay’s private status. We moved the Berachah cemetery to the off-limits list. We removed the Artisan Center Theatre in Hurst and the Arlington Music Hall because we could not confirm their current status or find a source for their ghost stories beyond older lists. The Scott Theatre has been closed for repairs since late 2024, and Thistle Hill now belongs to Cook Children’s.
About our Texas ghost hunts: Haunted Rooms has run ghost hunts at many of the places in this guide. See our Texas ghost hunts page for dates.
Visited one of these places? Tell us what happened
We collect first-hand accounts from visitors and add the best ones to our guides, with your first name and the date of your visit. We read every story before it’s published.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most haunted place in Dallas?
White Rock Lake, home of the Lady of the Lake, is the most famous. Dallas newspapers printed sightings of the young woman in a soaked evening dress in the 1960s, and the legend inspired the 1965 song ‘Bringing Mary Home’. For a haunted hotel, the Adolphus and the former Hotel Lawrence have the best-known stories.
Is Goatman's Bridge real?
The bridge is real: the Old Alton Bridge, an 1884 iron truss over Hickory Creek near Denton, now on a hiking trail. The Goatman is a legend. The story of a goat farmer lynched there in 1938 has no record behind it.
What is the most haunted place in Fort Worth?
Miss Molly’s Hotel in the Stockyards, a former bordello where every room is said to be active, and Thistle Hill, with its lady in white on the staircase.
Can you go inside the Baker Hotel?
The Baker in Mineral Wells has been closed for decades and under restoration. See our full guide for its current status before you go.
Can you visit the Castle of Heron Bay on Lake Worth?
Only from the public road. It is private, fenced and posted no trespassing.
Does Haunted Rooms run ghost hunts in Dallas-Fort Worth?
Yes. We have run hunts at White Rock Lake, Goatman’s Bridge, Miss Molly’s Hotel and Hill House Manor. See our Texas ghost hunts page for dates.
Sources and how we research
Every place in this guide is checked against its official website, historic register listings and news coverage, and we confirm whether it is open, closed, private or gone before we list it. Ghost stories are reported as staff, visitors and local historians tell them; we say so where records contradict a story. Each place shows how many independent sources we checked it against; our own Haunted Rooms pages are not counted.
New guides, haunted places to visit and ghost hunt dates near you. No spam, unsubscribe any time.
About the authors
The Haunted Rooms Team runs public ghost hunts and overnight investigations at historic venues across the United States. We research every place in our guides using official sites, historic registers, local archives and news coverage, and we report ghost stories as the stories they are. We review each guide regularly so you are not sent to a place that has closed, changed hands or banned visitors. Spotted something out of date? Let us know.
