Planning a Trip to New Orleans

I am going to New Orleans for work. We are planning on hitting up a few notoriously haunted spots. Anyone got any suggestions?

Big Thicket Trip

My friend C and I went on an adventure last weekend! We had a blast. First we stopped by an abandoned hospital in Liberty Texas - Mercy Hospital. I learned about the hospital from a forum posting (read it here).
We didn't go all through the hospital, but we explored the first two floors.

 I have posted pictures to my flickr page.

Then we went through Big Thicket Nature Preserve (why not we were already out there!) We were a bit disappointed that the pitcher plants were dead  - but then again we were looking for ghosts (hehe!)

We ended our trip on Bragg Road (AKA Ghost Road) in Saratoga Texas. We had heard about Ghost Road (also known as the Saratoga Lights) since we were kids, but this was our first time to take the trip to see them ourselves. (Background info on the Ghost Road can be found on TexasEscapes.com). The legend says that there are mysterious lights that fly around the road at night. We drove up and down Bragg Road in the daylight to get the lay of the land. As famous as this road is - we were amused to find that it is just a dirt road surrounded by swamps. At one point C and I both said it felt "heavy" and "oppressive". There was one place along the road where you could see the swamp through the trees where I had a feeling that something was moving, yet I couldn't see any movement. It is really hard to explain. I turned expecting to see something moving but everything was perfectly still. We came back after dark and stopped at that same patch of swamp and C took a picture. When we examined the picture later we saw some strange haze.

Other than those experiences the Ghost Lights did not come out and play.

 Many people have said that the lights are just swamp gas (I am absolutely tickled to find out that some call swamp gas corpse candles! Awesome!!!)

Has anyone ever been down Bragg Road? Did you see the lights?

Moving to College Station

My "unmarried partner" (as the U.S. Census Bureau so romantically put it) just got into Grad School at Texas A&M! I am really excited about moving to College Station - some of my reasons are purely selfish. I have been reading a lot about some interesting places to visit that are supposedly haunted in that part of Texas. I have been doing some research on the internet today and found some interesting places. Anybody want to weigh in on these places?


3602 Hawks St. - Bryan, Tx. This house seems to be haunted - or at least some people think it is. The debate is on. I found the information at the website for the local paper The Eagle here. I then checked out some other sites and there is quite a debate about this house. I found a website entitled Real Haunts and the house seems to have mixed reviews. You can read the responses here.


Texas A&M - College Station, Tx. There are many places on campus that people claim are haunted. The Corps Dining Hall, The Ag Building, The Old Animal Science Building, and the Lewis and Turner Dormitories. I am sure there are other stories! I can't wait to get out there and explore the campus. You can read about the A&M hauntings at Texas Ghost Hunters

Are there anymore mysterious occurrences I should check out in Bryan-College Station?