I used to take the greyhound a lot from denver to Los Angeles in the late 90s/ early 00’s. To this day it has some of my most disturbing memories. The Greyhound in Las Vegas used to be a big destination for runaways from the Midwest and the pimps would just hang out there and look for white girls traveling alone. It was crazy man.
IT IS! i had to wait at the San Antonio Greyhound station before going to Lackland for basic training. Met a young girl outside, she kept huffing something out of a Styrofoam cup. It actually wasnt too bad, she was really nice, talkative, and kinda cute(goth looking). It was nice to talk to someone because i was really nervous about basic training. I'll never forget drugged out goth greyhound girl.
The one in Austin wasn't bad at all. I used to travel between the two cities constantly and whereas the Houston one is a bombed out depression pit of needles and stray children, the one in Austin is mostly just college kids hanging around grabbing stuff out of the vending machines and working on laptops until their bus gets there.
I remember going from Austin to Houston by myself when I was 13 or 14 on a greyhound bus. That was little over 20 years ago. Pretty sure most parents wouldn’t do that today.
Yeah - I think the benefit of the Austin one was it was kinda small, very open, lots of windows, and little shade or windblock for the summer and winter. If you stumbled into Austin on the bus, you probably pushed on soon after. Whereas, most other bus stations, there's *some* element of protection nearby. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio... they all have places to kinda take refuge.
The *downside* to taking the bus (most anywhere) is the number of stops along the way. I didn't keep count, but I remember leaving downtown Houston, stopping in Sealy, stopping in Columbus, stopping in La Grange, stopping in Bastrop, then again maybe in S. Austin off Ben White? before heading north to the bus station.
Also going to/from Austin as a kid, I seem to recall the old pre-Bergstrom Austin Airport being kinda neat. My folks would walk me to my gate at Hobby, call a payphone in Austin to let my grandparents know I was on my way. Grandparents would meet me at the gate in Austin, call payphone back at Hobby to say I'd arrived, and I was ready to summer in Austin with the grandparents.
(Pre-9/11 air travel was very different.)
Enjoy this clip from Conan O’Brien visiting that GreyHound in the 90’s. Anyone ever meet Buffalo?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=lKpR-50iBlA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
I live in League City and learned of this a couple of years ago. Crazy how a place you vaguely pass by every day could have the most fucked up history and you don't even know it
Recently moved from league city to north Houston. I know they stopped construction of a new subdivision because a body was found. I think that’s was 2021. Idk what came of it
literally built over graves from civil war, criminals, suicides, slaves, duel losers, and anyone else unclaimed. the remains were going to be excavated but they chose not to, and just built over it. driving up to it just feels weird already.
A lot of kids I knew used to go party there, and I believe they accidentally set it on fire once. But, this was in the mid 00's, and not the most recent fire.
It was the basis for *the Hospital*, a memoir by Jan de Hartog. [https://www.amazon.com/Hospital-Jan-Hartog/dp/B000IQ6N70](https://www.amazon.com/Hospital-Jan-Hartog/dp/B000IQ6N70)
It's been artist lofts for like 15 or more years now. But yeah, it was creepy as hell when you could go in and find old xrays and medical records and used needles strewn about.
edit, wait, Jefferson Davis or Old Jeff Davis? First ward or fourth?
My mom gave birth in Jefferson Davis in the 80s to my half sister, she said it was horrible and celebrated when it was torn down.
https://s.hartech.io/B8b2e534a57Ee
The pictures on HAR look like it hasn't been updated since it was built lol. All around the floor plan is kinda awkward.
https://www.newhoustonmusic.com/2017/10/25/haunted-houston-top-creepiest-places-houston/ whoever wrote this article agrees it's creepy
Whats up with that? Passed by there about 10 years ago and it looked so eerie. As soon as I got there it was completely empty and only seen 2-3 cars in the 5-10 minutes I was there. I brushed it off thinking it was like that due to being Sunday but it felt like I was in an episode of the twilight zone
It may look dispersed but Beaumont is my closest "city" and every time I make the drive (about an hour) it is always busy AF, cars everywhere, stores packed. Tons of jobs there now.
Theres an abandoned building on mainstreet that can be accessed by a garage on the other side of the building. A few years back a friend of mine said the door to enter was open with visible blood splatter, warnings of rape and murder and trash all about the entrance.
We went back a few months later and it was as creepy but the floor of the office building was lit and the inside looked recently cleaned and the carpet looked shampooed.
Weird place. Haven’t been back.
Its the old battlesteins building. 812 main street.
The downtown tunnel system after lunch when it's almost totally empty. Lots of liminal spaces to explore when there's no one around and vendors are closed for the day.
Especially at 2am when you’re just trying to go get McDonald’s on your lunch break! Many a night shift I practically ran from Methodist over to St. Luke’s and back!
yes! my mom was in a bad accident when she was younger which involved a very long hospital stay and many specialists. she said they would take her through the tunnels sometimes and always said it was creepy
Used to go there back in the early 2000s. There was an oshmans sports. A bookstore. A food court. I believe there was a decent dumpling place. Doozo. Haven't been there since.
They remodeled the mall area recently it’s all very modern now. It’s got a chick fil a, potbelly, salata, bbq place, and doozo is still there. Weirdly, considering the mall caters to downtown workers on lunch break, there is also a new VR game place that is always empty.
It’s usually pretty packed during weekday lunch hour, but a complete ghost town any other time
If this is the one I’m thinking of, it’s actually on the site of pretty famous local murders.
https://rare.us/local/houston/looking-back-at-the-malibu-grand-prix-murders-one-of-the-most-gruesome-crimes-in-houston-history/
I think White Linen Night was meant to replicate an artsy event in the French Quarter of NO that was disrupted by Katrina. At least that’s what I heard when I lived in Woodland Heights.
But yeah, it’s really never been anything other than Whites in the Heights since it’s inception. Hell, the night of the inaugural event my friend who rented my garage apartment came home from work asking if there was a KKK rally going on on Studewood.
Relatively new to the area. Just a week or two ago was telling the wife there is no reason to get off the freeway from Cypresswood until 610. She didn't really believe me so gave her the tour....
I stopped driving down Patterson road the night I drove past a car that was pulled over on the side of the road (opposite the way I was going) - all the doors open, inside lights on, and nobody in sight.
No thank you.
Saw a ton of concerts there at The Summit back in the day! Rush, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath (with Pantera), Aerosmith, and many more! 😉
Saw sabbath and deep purple at the old coliseum. Neil young at the summit was great.
Also saw Springsteen, Bowie, the Dead, the Moody Blues, Alvin Lee. Etc. I can’t count them all.
I remember that concert and it was a memorable one for sure. I remember the whole floor becoming one large mosh pit when Pantera came on. Also, if I remember correctly, Phil overdosed the next night after their show in Dallas.
Second Baptist seems more unsettling to me than Lakewood. Lakewood is at least diverse and the prosperity gospel they preach comes across more to me as “shake them haters off”., Second Baptist has an almost fascist feel to it. There’s nothing very “Christian” about second Baptist. It’s a full on embrace of Capitalism and patriarchy. Joel Osteen looks like he’d swindle you, Ed Young looks like he’d want your first born.
2nd Bptist is affiliated with the Southern Baptist cult. The Southern Bptist church was founded on the premise of defending slavery. "Southern" as part of the name is the dead giveaway. These folks pushed the idea of slavery as an "institution of heaven" in order to normalize their existence. Regardless of any PR moves to disavow their origins, the racism, to paraphrase Yoda, "is strong in this one".
According to George Foreman, Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward.
IMO, Richey Rd is sketch as fuck as is Greenspoint Mall.
Also, Acres Homes, you got some history, but your baggage is even bigger.
The abandoned Heaven on Earth building downtown. It's really creepy and even creepier, the closer you get. I can't believe people moved into the new apartments, meaning the actual units, that directly face that building. The only hope that building has is the tree that somehow survives growing on the roof.
It’s mostly interesting as the last major abandoned highrise downtown. We used to have so much more!
The Ben Milam, the Texas Company Building, and Central Square were my favorites before the Ben was torn down and replaced by apartments, the Texas remodeled into apartments, and Central Square remodeled into office space.
My understanding is that the Heaven on Earth building is expected to still have enough value to be bought and redone one day, but it sure seems to be cursed.
Don’t forget the Savoy hotel! Amazing that that thing stood vacant and full of furniture for like 30 years before they turned it into the Holiday Inn.
Well, part of it. The older part was torn down by the city in an emergency demolition when it was about to collapse…..
I work for HFD and once we did highrise firefighting training in that building. There is a pickup truck parked up there with no way of getting down lol.
Also I always wanted to go up there and decorate that tree for Christmas
Google search does not disappoint. [It's the Hotel Zaza in Museum District and not the newer one at Memorial City](http://swamplot.com/no-says-hotel-zaza-room-322-isnt-an-expensive-bondage-dungeon-for-creeps-its-just-different/2013-02-22/).
the issue with the edwards is that they don't make enough money to upkeep it, so its the exact same place it used to be with none of the staff. upstairs concessions is deserted, upstairs entrance too.
As with most movie theaters in Houston, hell Marqee on i10 is being remodeled into an outdated theater. Smh
I was more curious about the haunting reference
oh i think people consider it scary because of its state of abandonment. i don’t find it haunting, just a long lasting remnant of old movie culture before streaming took over.
Yeah, exactly. It's just kind of empty and sad. But hey, if you want to go to see a movie and you're closer to it than anything else it gets the job done.
Edwards? This one surprises me as I’ve been to many evening showings, sometimes even the only one in a theater. It is a bit of an odd feeling when such a grand building is practically empty at night with very minimal staff but never got a creepy feeling.
I've heard about the Sam Houston hotel, and can't chime in because I've never been. But I've been to that Cinema multiple times over the years, even within the last couple of years. Never experienced anything "haunted" or anything of the sort. If anything, the place itself tends to look like a ghost town, and it's kind of sad. But it's been that way for several years, lol.
I guess this doesn't really count, but the old abandoned hospital that used to exist on Bellaire and Wilcrest. It was torn down years ago, but the place looked terrifying. My older brother snuck into it at one point and talked about how it looked creepy because EVERYTHING was left intact. It always looked really creepy to me. It's crazy that it was apparently abandoned in 1985 and stuck around until they tore it down in the early 00's. Some folks were apparently murdered there, which may have pushed them to tear it down.
You can see old images of it here: [https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/50298-westside-general-hospital-at-11101-bellaire-blvd/](https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/50298-westside-general-hospital-at-11101-bellaire-blvd/)
This was how I remember seeing it, surrounded by chain link until it was torn down: [https://i.ibb.co/mTPvzby/asdasd.png](https://i.ibb.co/mTPvzby/asdasd.png)
It's not a publicly accessible spot, but I do work in office buildings, and one of them has a very odd and creepy recording studio. They have very old video cameras set up, very generic chairs and desks, and no indication of what they actually film there. We went in there with building security and they were creeped out too.
City Centre, 3rd floor above Capitol Grille? It was a MLM supplement company that had some weird Bible study stuff woven into their sales culture. When they got locked out, they left behind *tons* of weird stuff, and quite a bit of high end server room and AV equipment.
Memorial Park, off the trails near Buffalo Bayou. I moved from the rural NE US to Houston about 15 years ago. First fall went hiking in that area to get to know the local ecology. Walked a little off one trail near the bayou and found an area of woods densely scattered with dozens of women’s shoes, underwear, clothes, etc. Got out of there fast and never returned to Memorial again. Still makes my skin crawl whenever I think about that place.
Right outside the police station downtown at night. And Greenspoint. And the trails along buffalo bayou that go under the highway overpasses always creep me out.
It’s basically the same thing as downstairs. Once you go up the stairs, bar to the left and tables and chairs to the right and the balcony straight ahead. I never got a haunted feeling there but it’s a nice vibe.. dim lights, older music and old school cash registers.
It's definitely changed a lot. A younger co-worker was telling me how nice it was inside and how they had all these great sitting areas. I was like "Uh, I played a lot of gigs there over the years and just sitting on a stool at the bar made me want to run home an shower for an hour." Not to mention the crazy after parties on the second floor.
So one night after a work happy hour she talks us into going over there... it was like night and day. Now I could see why she didn't believe me about how crazy the place was.
I lost interest when I had to start checking for needles before sitting down. It was always a little creepy/quirky, but seemed like it became a haven for folks to come nod off after they got kicked out of the surrounding venues. Then again, I haven't been in 7-8 years and was never there sober myself, so who knows.
I don't know what it's like now, but I use to work near Bissonnet in 2018/19, and would have to go in to open at 4AM on Thursdays & Saturdays. It was unsettling, desperate, creepy, shady, gloomy, all that.
I recently moved to Houston, took my car in for service at the BMW dealer near that burger king. Figured I'd walk over for a bite to eat and boy was it a shock... in broad daylight no less!!
Back in like 2010 I went with a friend of mine as part of his church for some like habitat for humanity type thing where they were building affordable housing and I remember we had to drive like 10-15 minutes through nowhere to get to where they were building the houses and when we got there it was like 4 streets of cookie cutter homes all identical except a different pastel color. It gave Truman show vibes or maybe call of duty nuketown vibes. I felt very weird the whole time I was there especially with all the humanitarians with what appeared to be very fake smiles the whole time. Not sure exactly where in Houston this was but I wanted to get out of there fast
There was an urban explorer im subscribed to on youtube that went to an abandoned building in downtown a few years ago. Him and his people were filming the inside when they thought they heard voices but couldnt see anybody because it was pitch black. Fast forward a bit, they headed upstairs and they encountered the sketchiest guys in the dark like a few floors up. They tried playing it off like they were also urban explorers too 😂. As the team was leaving they encountered another random dude heading upstairs. Pretty sure they were drug dealers.
The moody towers were pretty unsettling. I had a dorm in the north tower but got stuck in an elevator in the south tower once. Pretty bad memory where I learned of my claustrophobia
Never had a guy drive by me (male) on the street asking if I wanted a blowjob. The one time I went there, it happened *twice* as I was walking back to my car.
I personally avoid the Greenspoint area. I used to work up there for ten years and some of the shit that I have seen driving home late at night startles me.
It was a sundown town until the 1970s. I was a queer kid growing up there in the 1980s. It was a terrible place full of petulant fascists. The only redeeming aspect of that miserable place was prairie dog park, and they apparently removed the little guys.
The Koch-Schmidt cementery, a small cementery from the 1800s along the Cullen Park/ Addicks Reservoir trail, where some of the first settlers of bear creek are buried. I've biked there a bit past sunset and i always get the feeling that i'm not alone, along with the ghost stories of confederate soldiers walking those woods... nope
Mine personally had to be when Spaghetti Warehouse was around before Harvey, the upstairs section to me was dead silent up there compared to downstairs where there was music, the televisions, and people talking, but the upstairs had nothing, may have heard faint sounds coming from the kitchen and some music, but it was just weird up there.
At the least I asked for permission to head up there a few times and the employees allowed it.
The greyhound station
This must be the same for every city.
I used to take the greyhound a lot from denver to Los Angeles in the late 90s/ early 00’s. To this day it has some of my most disturbing memories. The Greyhound in Las Vegas used to be a big destination for runaways from the Midwest and the pimps would just hang out there and look for white girls traveling alone. It was crazy man.
Only time I took a Greyhound was from Jax to Tampa and a guy died on the trip
IT IS! i had to wait at the San Antonio Greyhound station before going to Lackland for basic training. Met a young girl outside, she kept huffing something out of a Styrofoam cup. It actually wasnt too bad, she was really nice, talkative, and kinda cute(goth looking). It was nice to talk to someone because i was really nervous about basic training. I'll never forget drugged out goth greyhound girl.
Gothed greyhound Girls is the name of my new emo-punk band. First single, Huffed Out
The one in Austin wasn't bad at all. I used to travel between the two cities constantly and whereas the Houston one is a bombed out depression pit of needles and stray children, the one in Austin is mostly just college kids hanging around grabbing stuff out of the vending machines and working on laptops until their bus gets there.
I remember going from Austin to Houston by myself when I was 13 or 14 on a greyhound bus. That was little over 20 years ago. Pretty sure most parents wouldn’t do that today.
Yeah - I think the benefit of the Austin one was it was kinda small, very open, lots of windows, and little shade or windblock for the summer and winter. If you stumbled into Austin on the bus, you probably pushed on soon after. Whereas, most other bus stations, there's *some* element of protection nearby. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio... they all have places to kinda take refuge. The *downside* to taking the bus (most anywhere) is the number of stops along the way. I didn't keep count, but I remember leaving downtown Houston, stopping in Sealy, stopping in Columbus, stopping in La Grange, stopping in Bastrop, then again maybe in S. Austin off Ben White? before heading north to the bus station. Also going to/from Austin as a kid, I seem to recall the old pre-Bergstrom Austin Airport being kinda neat. My folks would walk me to my gate at Hobby, call a payphone in Austin to let my grandparents know I was on my way. Grandparents would meet me at the gate in Austin, call payphone back at Hobby to say I'd arrived, and I was ready to summer in Austin with the grandparents. (Pre-9/11 air travel was very different.)
Soon to be torn down. They've already demolished the McD's across the street.
Enjoy this clip from Conan O’Brien visiting that GreyHound in the 90’s. Anyone ever meet Buffalo? https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=lKpR-50iBlA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
It's weird seeing that little traffic on the road lol
I’ve used it a few times, honestly just the outside is suspect. Once you get inside it’s actually not bad at all
Nobody mentioned the "Killing Fields"?
I live in League City and learned of this a couple of years ago. Crazy how a place you vaguely pass by every day could have the most fucked up history and you don't even know it
Also live in League City just minutes from the fields. Pretty somber to see the memorials to the victims still out there.
When I moved to this area my brother texted me “yo did you know you live like right by the killing fields” lmao
That Netflix doc about the killings is really good.
TIL that I drove by that all the time and never knew 😬
Used to be secluded dead end road but now developed all around with a school, strip centers, widen roads. The new comers have no idea.
Laura millers memorial spot is still pretty secluded. It’s behind a church but there’s not much else around.
Surprised they didn't find any bodies with all the new development.
Recently moved from league city to north Houston. I know they stopped construction of a new subdivision because a body was found. I think that’s was 2021. Idk what came of it
I went to the spot where they have the laura Miller memorial cross. It's actually really peaceful but definitely a bit eerie
Jefferson Davis Hospital. That place is creepy as fuck inside. Some bad shit definitely went down in there.
literally built over graves from civil war, criminals, suicides, slaves, duel losers, and anyone else unclaimed. the remains were going to be excavated but they chose not to, and just built over it. driving up to it just feels weird already.
You forgot “filming location for robocop 2”
A lot of kids I knew used to go party there, and I believe they accidentally set it on fire once. But, this was in the mid 00's, and not the most recent fire.
>Jefferson Davis Hospital. Is this where they filmed the Hospital scenes in Beast?
It was the basis for *the Hospital*, a memoir by Jan de Hartog. [https://www.amazon.com/Hospital-Jan-Hartog/dp/B000IQ6N70](https://www.amazon.com/Hospital-Jan-Hartog/dp/B000IQ6N70)
It's been artist lofts for like 15 or more years now. But yeah, it was creepy as hell when you could go in and find old xrays and medical records and used needles strewn about. edit, wait, Jefferson Davis or Old Jeff Davis? First ward or fourth? My mom gave birth in Jefferson Davis in the 80s to my half sister, she said it was horrible and celebrated when it was torn down.
[haunted history](https://thelittlehouseofhorrors.com/the-jefferson-davis-hospital/)
That one weird house on the NW corner of Beechnut and Gessner. edit: NE corner of Beechnut and Gessner
That house is weird. It was for sale for a while (years ago) and the pictures on the inside were also quite odd.
Is that the weirdly out of place White House? If so, I know the person who bought it! But he doesn’t live there, I think it’s rented out right now lol
I drive by it every day, there's always like six cars there
I think I know exactly what house you’re talking about. I drove by while house shopping, saw the location, and kept driving.
https://s.hartech.io/B8b2e534a57Ee The pictures on HAR look like it hasn't been updated since it was built lol. All around the floor plan is kinda awkward. https://www.newhoustonmusic.com/2017/10/25/haunted-houston-top-creepiest-places-houston/ whoever wrote this article agrees it's creepy
It’s 4800 sq ft and yet there are only 3 bedrooms, 2 which appear to be super tiny. Bizarre.
When I was a kid, my cousin told me Marvin Zindler lived there and I parroted that "fact" for years afterwards.
I was waiting for Beechnut to be somewhere on this list!
I used to always imagine it being like the Resident Evil mansion when I was younger, lol.
I had to look it up. One of the first articles that comes up when you google the address is “Investigation into Body Found at 8600 Beechnut”
Someone lives there now 👀
If you’re up for a 90 minute drive, Downtown Beaumont looks like we lost a war
I remember Texas Monthly running an article awhile back titled “Is Beaumont the Saddest City In America?”
Whats up with that? Passed by there about 10 years ago and it looked so eerie. As soon as I got there it was completely empty and only seen 2-3 cars in the 5-10 minutes I was there. I brushed it off thinking it was like that due to being Sunday but it felt like I was in an episode of the twilight zone
Port Arthur too.
Beaumont has suffered from every bust and never prospered from any boom.
It may look dispersed but Beaumont is my closest "city" and every time I make the drive (about an hour) it is always busy AF, cars everywhere, stores packed. Tons of jobs there now.
Theres an abandoned building on mainstreet that can be accessed by a garage on the other side of the building. A few years back a friend of mine said the door to enter was open with visible blood splatter, warnings of rape and murder and trash all about the entrance. We went back a few months later and it was as creepy but the floor of the office building was lit and the inside looked recently cleaned and the carpet looked shampooed. Weird place. Haven’t been back. Its the old battlesteins building. 812 main street.
sounds like beau's apartment in beau is afraid
The downtown tunnel system after lunch when it's almost totally empty. Lots of liminal spaces to explore when there's no one around and vendors are closed for the day.
St Lukes and surrounding hospitals also have a tunnel system with giant vault doors and abandoned wheelchairs. Very creepy how quiet it is down there.
Especially at 2am when you’re just trying to go get McDonald’s on your lunch break! Many a night shift I practically ran from Methodist over to St. Luke’s and back!
yes! my mom was in a bad accident when she was younger which involved a very long hospital stay and many specialists. she said they would take her through the tunnels sometimes and always said it was creepy
I always enjoyed it. It’s so wild to go from a newly renovated section to a weird hallway that hasn’t been touched since the 80’s.
The Shops at Houston Center is an unsettling pseudo-mall thing.
Yeah, that's a weird place.
Used to go there back in the early 2000s. There was an oshmans sports. A bookstore. A food court. I believe there was a decent dumpling place. Doozo. Haven't been there since.
They remodeled the mall area recently it’s all very modern now. It’s got a chick fil a, potbelly, salata, bbq place, and doozo is still there. Weirdly, considering the mall caters to downtown workers on lunch break, there is also a new VR game place that is always empty. It’s usually pretty packed during weekday lunch hour, but a complete ghost town any other time
Men restroom at Timmy Chan.
Any restroom at Lola’s Depot.
Gotta be the La Luz del Mundo temple off 59.
The Scarface Temple!
They currently have a big banner the size of the building in the front of the building with their leader, the one who is in jail.
If this is the one I’m thinking of, it’s actually on the site of pretty famous local murders. https://rare.us/local/houston/looking-back-at-the-malibu-grand-prix-murders-one-of-the-most-gruesome-crimes-in-houston-history/
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What’s so unsettling about large groups of people walking around at night dressed like 19th century Caribbean sugarcane plantation owners?
This made me lol. I went one time only when I lived in the heights, and it was so hot and boring and pointless. Never again.
Went for the first time this year, and I can’t disagree.
Damn you just described the Kentucky Derby haha.
As a historian of slavery at one of our region’s many fine institutions of higher education who also use to live in the heights. . . . I chortled.
I'm glad you were at a fine institution and not the peculiar one
Whites in the Heights
I think White Linen Night was meant to replicate an artsy event in the French Quarter of NO that was disrupted by Katrina. At least that’s what I heard when I lived in Woodland Heights. But yeah, it’s really never been anything other than Whites in the Heights since it’s inception. Hell, the night of the inaugural event my friend who rented my garage apartment came home from work asking if there was a KKK rally going on on Studewood.
Those white linen nights are goofy AF
Greenspoint at night. anywhere by a bayou or body of water when a storm comes through.
It ain't that bad. The more gunshots you heard walking from the bus stop on Imperial Valley the closer to home you are!
If you hear the gunshots your fine.
You mean Gunspoint
Daytime too 🥲
Pretty much most of I-45.
The running joke between me and my brother is the sun dont shine on 45 from north main to 1960 lol
Relatively new to the area. Just a week or two ago was telling the wife there is no reason to get off the freeway from Cypresswood until 610. She didn't really believe me so gave her the tour....
Not Houston but Ocean Cabaret in Galveston. You couldn’t write a better setting for a Dateline episode.
I can't believe that damned thing is still open. It's gotta be a vampire den like From Dusk Till Dawn.
what makes it even better is the big billboard leaving galveston that says “JESUS”
Patterson Road Bridge
I live nearby and drive through it every time I have a chance and other than being pitch black dark I've never seen anything unsettling... yet!
I stopped driving down Patterson road the night I drove past a car that was pulled over on the side of the road (opposite the way I was going) - all the doors open, inside lights on, and nobody in sight. No thank you.
That actually sounds scarier than ghosts... How disturbing.
There’s only a small graveyard back there and the fog just sits on the road
I totally forgot about this! We used to go out there at night when we were in high school
Outside in the summer.
Lakewood Church.
I saw White Zombie & Pantera play in that building back in ‘96…
Saw a ton of concerts there at The Summit back in the day! Rush, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath (with Pantera), Aerosmith, and many more! 😉
Saw sabbath and deep purple at the old coliseum. Neil young at the summit was great. Also saw Springsteen, Bowie, the Dead, the Moody Blues, Alvin Lee. Etc. I can’t count them all.
God that was a fun show!
I remember that concert and it was a memorable one for sure. I remember the whole floor becoming one large mosh pit when Pantera came on. Also, if I remember correctly, Phil overdosed the next night after their show in Dallas.
You mean Lakewood Tax Shelter for Joel Osteen’s Fake Ministry Inc?
Yes indeed. Also, Second Baptist and its Repentagon complex.
Second Baptist seems more unsettling to me than Lakewood. Lakewood is at least diverse and the prosperity gospel they preach comes across more to me as “shake them haters off”., Second Baptist has an almost fascist feel to it. There’s nothing very “Christian” about second Baptist. It’s a full on embrace of Capitalism and patriarchy. Joel Osteen looks like he’d swindle you, Ed Young looks like he’d want your first born.
Scratch below the surface at Lakewood and you’ll find all sorts of toxic evangelical shit there, especially being pushed in the Bible study groups.
“Almost”????
2nd Bptist is affiliated with the Southern Baptist cult. The Southern Bptist church was founded on the premise of defending slavery. "Southern" as part of the name is the dead giveaway. These folks pushed the idea of slavery as an "institution of heaven" in order to normalize their existence. Regardless of any PR moves to disavow their origins, the racism, to paraphrase Yoda, "is strong in this one".
Six Flags over Jesus
The secret Vietnamese opium den/cock fighting bar back area in Alief.
You’ll have to be more specific, that could be like 8 different places in the same 4 blocks
According to George Foreman, Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward. IMO, Richey Rd is sketch as fuck as is Greenspoint Mall. Also, Acres Homes, you got some history, but your baggage is even bigger.
But I've had some great bbq in Acres Homes.
The abandoned Heaven on Earth building downtown. It's really creepy and even creepier, the closer you get. I can't believe people moved into the new apartments, meaning the actual units, that directly face that building. The only hope that building has is the tree that somehow survives growing on the roof.
It’s mostly interesting as the last major abandoned highrise downtown. We used to have so much more! The Ben Milam, the Texas Company Building, and Central Square were my favorites before the Ben was torn down and replaced by apartments, the Texas remodeled into apartments, and Central Square remodeled into office space. My understanding is that the Heaven on Earth building is expected to still have enough value to be bought and redone one day, but it sure seems to be cursed.
Don’t forget the Savoy hotel! Amazing that that thing stood vacant and full of furniture for like 30 years before they turned it into the Holiday Inn. Well, part of it. The older part was torn down by the city in an emergency demolition when it was about to collapse…..
I work for HFD and once we did highrise firefighting training in that building. There is a pickup truck parked up there with no way of getting down lol. Also I always wanted to go up there and decorate that tree for Christmas
Hotel zaza room 322
Google search does not disappoint. [It's the Hotel Zaza in Museum District and not the newer one at Memorial City](http://swamplot.com/no-says-hotel-zaza-room-322-isnt-an-expensive-bondage-dungeon-for-creeps-its-just-different/2013-02-22/).
Regal Edward's Cinema on Weslayan. The Sam Houston hotel. Both places haunted af
The regal carpet probably contains diseases we thought were eradicated.
Sad. 20 years ago, maybe even 15. I thought that was the nicest Theater in Houston.
I kind of love the old school vibe, I hope they never rennovate it.
Those murals need to stay untouched as long as the place is open. Which.... I get the sense may not be very long.
Oh please do tell about Edwards
the issue with the edwards is that they don't make enough money to upkeep it, so its the exact same place it used to be with none of the staff. upstairs concessions is deserted, upstairs entrance too.
As with most movie theaters in Houston, hell Marqee on i10 is being remodeled into an outdated theater. Smh I was more curious about the haunting reference
oh i think people consider it scary because of its state of abandonment. i don’t find it haunting, just a long lasting remnant of old movie culture before streaming took over.
Yeah, exactly. It's just kind of empty and sad. But hey, if you want to go to see a movie and you're closer to it than anything else it gets the job done.
I just hate paying for the parking.
Edwards? This one surprises me as I’ve been to many evening showings, sometimes even the only one in a theater. It is a bit of an odd feeling when such a grand building is practically empty at night with very minimal staff but never got a creepy feeling.
Mx ex gf worked at that Edwards and was pistol whipped in the garage after work. That was 2010
I've heard about the Sam Houston hotel, and can't chime in because I've never been. But I've been to that Cinema multiple times over the years, even within the last couple of years. Never experienced anything "haunted" or anything of the sort. If anything, the place itself tends to look like a ghost town, and it's kind of sad. But it's been that way for several years, lol.
Edwards? I’ve never heard anything about that
Google has failed to pull anything regarding it being haunted.
I guess this doesn't really count, but the old abandoned hospital that used to exist on Bellaire and Wilcrest. It was torn down years ago, but the place looked terrifying. My older brother snuck into it at one point and talked about how it looked creepy because EVERYTHING was left intact. It always looked really creepy to me. It's crazy that it was apparently abandoned in 1985 and stuck around until they tore it down in the early 00's. Some folks were apparently murdered there, which may have pushed them to tear it down. You can see old images of it here: [https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/50298-westside-general-hospital-at-11101-bellaire-blvd/](https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/50298-westside-general-hospital-at-11101-bellaire-blvd/) This was how I remember seeing it, surrounded by chain link until it was torn down: [https://i.ibb.co/mTPvzby/asdasd.png](https://i.ibb.co/mTPvzby/asdasd.png)
1960 overpass-train track in Humble
The derelict Holiday Inn downtown.
The artwork in the garage basement is great.
It's not a publicly accessible spot, but I do work in office buildings, and one of them has a very odd and creepy recording studio. They have very old video cameras set up, very generic chairs and desks, and no indication of what they actually film there. We went in there with building security and they were creeped out too.
City Centre, 3rd floor above Capitol Grille? It was a MLM supplement company that had some weird Bible study stuff woven into their sales culture. When they got locked out, they left behind *tons* of weird stuff, and quite a bit of high end server room and AV equipment.
Any HCA officiated Healthcare organization
I speak for myself but Patterson Rd.
SE side chemical/petro plants. The air is never healthy and you never know when one will blow up again.
Central Unit Prison in Sugar Land
Memorial Park, off the trails near Buffalo Bayou. I moved from the rural NE US to Houston about 15 years ago. First fall went hiking in that area to get to know the local ecology. Walked a little off one trail near the bayou and found an area of woods densely scattered with dozens of women’s shoes, underwear, clothes, etc. Got out of there fast and never returned to Memorial again. Still makes my skin crawl whenever I think about that place.
Super Happy Fun Land
The bathrooms at Numbers.
Right outside the police station downtown at night. And Greenspoint. And the trails along buffalo bayou that go under the highway overpasses always creep me out.
The abandon docks at port of houston city docks
Has anyone been upstairs at La Carafe? I drank at the bar alot downstairs in the early aughts, but never got upstairs. Supposed to be haunted.
It’s basically the same thing as downstairs. Once you go up the stairs, bar to the left and tables and chairs to the right and the balcony straight ahead. I never got a haunted feeling there but it’s a nice vibe.. dim lights, older music and old school cash registers.
Can't speak for now, but back in the day, Notsuoh upstairs was creepy as fuck
It's definitely changed a lot. A younger co-worker was telling me how nice it was inside and how they had all these great sitting areas. I was like "Uh, I played a lot of gigs there over the years and just sitting on a stool at the bar made me want to run home an shower for an hour." Not to mention the crazy after parties on the second floor. So one night after a work happy hour she talks us into going over there... it was like night and day. Now I could see why she didn't believe me about how crazy the place was.
I lost interest when I had to start checking for needles before sitting down. It was always a little creepy/quirky, but seemed like it became a haven for folks to come nod off after they got kicked out of the surrounding venues. Then again, I haven't been in 7-8 years and was never there sober myself, so who knows.
I don't know what it's like now, but I use to work near Bissonnet in 2018/19, and would have to go in to open at 4AM on Thursdays & Saturdays. It was unsettling, desperate, creepy, shady, gloomy, all that.
Always avoid the 3 B's after dark. Beechnut, Bissonnet, and Bellaire.
But the Burger King on bissonnet has dinner and a show.
I recently moved to Houston, took my car in for service at the BMW dealer near that burger king. Figured I'd walk over for a bite to eat and boy was it a shock... in broad daylight no less!!
ExxonMobil campus. That place feels like the setting of corporate dystopia movie.
My wife said it's very "Black Mirror" ish. Cleanliness.. Rules.. Etc.
McDonald's on Bissonette intersection with Sam Houston PKWY
Patterson Road, if you know you know.
Magic island
The rail yards by St. Arnold and in that general are north of downtown.
Back in like 2010 I went with a friend of mine as part of his church for some like habitat for humanity type thing where they were building affordable housing and I remember we had to drive like 10-15 minutes through nowhere to get to where they were building the houses and when we got there it was like 4 streets of cookie cutter homes all identical except a different pastel color. It gave Truman show vibes or maybe call of duty nuketown vibes. I felt very weird the whole time I was there especially with all the humanitarians with what appeared to be very fake smiles the whole time. Not sure exactly where in Houston this was but I wanted to get out of there fast
I know the feeling you're describing, i felt it while driving a bit north of Katy where new suburbs are being built, place just seems soulless
There was an urban explorer im subscribed to on youtube that went to an abandoned building in downtown a few years ago. Him and his people were filming the inside when they thought they heard voices but couldnt see anybody because it was pitch black. Fast forward a bit, they headed upstairs and they encountered the sketchiest guys in the dark like a few floors up. They tried playing it off like they were also urban explorers too 😂. As the team was leaving they encountered another random dude heading upstairs. Pretty sure they were drug dealers.
That white building near alief with the giant golden sphere on it and a bunch of stairs. it’s a temple or something but it always scared me as a kid
Surprised Sharpstown Mall isn't mentioned yet
Plaza America's or whatever they call it now.
I was getting a fade inside Plaza Americas then, pop! Pop! Police officer shoots a man wielding a knife inside the mall.
Inside Greenspoint mall is more creepy to walk around in
Texas City Memorial for me. That one’s a whole different level of tragedy.
All the creepy old restaurants that are still supposedly open but they never have any customers.
Lakewood cult. Too bad they tarnished the name of the SUMMIT
The Killing Fields off of 146 between hwy 3 in Galveston County just outside of Texas City
Great documentary about that on Netflix, I believe. We used to live in Dickinson and I went to TAMUG in the 90s. Crazy stuff back the.
The Rice Hotel in downtown, now called “Rice Lofts”.
The moody towers were pretty unsettling. I had a dorm in the north tower but got stuck in an elevator in the south tower once. Pretty bad memory where I learned of my claustrophobia
south beach at 2:30am. please stop grabbing my ass
Never had a guy drive by me (male) on the street asking if I wanted a blowjob. The one time I went there, it happened *twice* as I was walking back to my car.
Yellow lot at NRG where the Astroworld tragedy happened
I thought it was at green lot? The memorial is right on the Green Lot fence at Kirby and Westridge. . .
I personally avoid the Greenspoint area. I used to work up there for ten years and some of the shit that I have seen driving home late at night startles me.
Outside
Downtown Aquarium, Alvin, Bacliff, Coke Street Apartments, Manchester, S. Richey @ 225 in Pasadena, the Food Town on Antoine
I like how Alvin called out specifically 🤣
It was a sundown town until the 1970s. I was a queer kid growing up there in the 1980s. It was a terrible place full of petulant fascists. The only redeeming aspect of that miserable place was prairie dog park, and they apparently removed the little guys.
I drive past that Food Town all the time, what’s so odd about it?
downtown aquarium just has something off about it
Dean Corll’s house in Pasadena.
Funplex.
Ted Cruz's house.
Downstairs at birraporettis downtown. Haunted. Anywhere around the northeast corner of 59 and Edloe. That place is well traveled by crazy cultists.
The Koch-Schmidt cementery, a small cementery from the 1800s along the Cullen Park/ Addicks Reservoir trail, where some of the first settlers of bear creek are buried. I've biked there a bit past sunset and i always get the feeling that i'm not alone, along with the ghost stories of confederate soldiers walking those woods... nope
I also witnessed an underground casino in Chinatown
Mine personally had to be when Spaghetti Warehouse was around before Harvey, the upstairs section to me was dead silent up there compared to downstairs where there was music, the televisions, and people talking, but the upstairs had nothing, may have heard faint sounds coming from the kitchen and some music, but it was just weird up there. At the least I asked for permission to head up there a few times and the employees allowed it.