Some places around Austin that are reportedly haunted are landmarks, and some are not. But either way a lot of people claim they're hotspots for the paranormal.
The famed Driskill Hotel at Sixth and Brazos is said to house numerous ghosts.
"There are more ghosts at the Driskill than there are people who have actually died there. There is a ghost that is nothing but cigar smoke, there is a girl running bouncing a ball. She's only heard but never seen," Kevin Miller of Austin Ghost Tours said.
Legend has it that the little girl was the 4-year-old daughter of a U.S. Senator. She died at the Driskill after she slipped on the stairs while kicking a ball and fell to the marble floors.
Buffalo Billiards on Sixth Street reportedly has a ghost named Fred, and Emily is said haunt the Tavern on Lamar.
Closer to the University of Texas campus, the Neill-Cochran House was once said to be haunted by Civil War soldiers. Between 1865 and 1867 it was a hospital for Union soldiers.
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Haunted Austin
The Driskill Hotel, the Neill-Cochran House and Garrison Park are reportedly haunted.
 
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"When the federal army occupied the house between 1865 and 1867 it was used for surgery. Some of the soldiers that died where buried in this yard," Cecille Marcato said.
Most of those bones have since been moved to the Oakwood Cemetery in East Austin, but rumor has it that the ghost of Col. Neill can be seen riding his horse around the grounds even today.
Another so-called haunted place is Garrison Park in South Austin, the final resting place of M.S. Nolen and William Thomas Nolen. They were buried there before the city of Austin owned the land.
Some say ghostly figures can be seen placing flowers on their graves.
"Part of the way that we can convince people that, yes, these are actual stories that people have experienced is, whenever we can go back a hundred years and find out that person died in particular location and matching the description of what someone have seen. So our tours are very much history lessons," Miller said.
A bridge near the airport is also said to be home to a few ghosts. Originally it was part of the Congress Avenue bridge but it and everyone on it was wiped away during a flood in 1842.
Numerous people have reported seeing ghosts dressed in period clothes after nightfall.
Part of the bridge was saved and today stretches across Onion Creek. Many people claim to see ghosts walking back and forth.
