Stockyards Hotel Guide Thrives on Spooking Guests

One tour guide particularly enjoys this time of year, spooking guests at the Stockyards Hotel with tales of Bonnie and Clyde hauntings in Fort Worth, TX.

Terri Robinson, owner of Ghost Tours in the Fort Worth Stockyards, likes to replay mysterious sounds coming from the legendary hotel room of 305.

The tour starts at the historic lodge but Robinson told a reporter she tries not to sway visitors either way regarding local history stories.

However, she did hear reports of happenings in Room 218 of the hotel so she left a tape recorder playing in the room.

One of the restaurants I had the pleasure of eating at for the first time back in 1999 is also on the tour, The Cattlemen's Steak House, a favorite of tourists and residents alike. In the background of a painting hovers what is said to be a ghost.

The tour winds up with the Cantina Cadillac Nightclub and bar, the former Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast, and the Maverick General Store, all said to be haunted.

And at the Stock Exchange Building a legend of a little girl standing in the window is alive and well.

A former meatpacking plant, later made into a restaurant, is the last stop.

Tours are given Sundays through Thursdays 8 p.m. in the lobby of the Stockyards Hotel, 109 E. Exchange Avenue in Fort Worth.

Tours in Tarrant or Parker County of scenes of legendary accidents and graveyards which are said to be haunted are also available by appointment on Saturdays, some Sundays, and Mondays.

And at one haunted hotel some guests refuse to leave the Historic Hotel Adolphus.

Over at Barbers Bookstore on Eighth Avenue in Fort Worth you can hear pages turning and ghostly footsteps, according to some.

Castleberry High School in Fort Worth is said to have been built on an old Indian burial grounds and Del Frisco's Steakhouse, built in the 1800s, and is nicknamed "Hell's Half-Acre" because of its many saloons, "cathouses," and gambling halls.

Over at Lake Worth, which I recently had the pleasure of taking a walk near with my dog, witnesses say at night you can see a lady in a boat with a lantern looking for her lost children.

Even the Red Lobster on Hulen Street in Fort Worth has a legend of a ghost of a girl who likes to tease the cooks. At night employees have stated they have seen the girl walking the facility.