Haunted Bank
Old Town Spring, Texas©2006 by Fiona Broome and the Hollow Hill Staff
Old Town Spring--just north of Houston, Texas--is haunted.
Some claim that it's the most haunted town in Texas. I'm
not sure about that, but it's definitely an eerie place after dark.
There are several locations that fascinate me, but one of the best is the old bank building.
The bank is easy
to recognize; it's the brick building with bulletholes, in the middle of the 100 block of Midway. It's on the
same side of the street, and just a few doors down from, the haunted Wunsche Bros. Cafe and Saloon.
In the photo at the left, you can see one of the bullet holes in the bank's brick exterior. The Spring State
Bank--as it was called--was
the site of at least two robberies involving gunfire. One may have featured the famous team of
Bonnie & Clyde.
DO THE BANK'S GHOSTS LINGER?
In January 2006, the bank building was empty once again. Shops move in, and soon move out. Few people
will admit that the building's ghosts are a problem, but--with a violent history like this--it'd be odd
if there wasn't some haunted energy there.
We keep revisiting this building because there's something there, inside and outside the old bank.
Sure, there's residual energy. After two gunfights, that's normal for a town with the "wild west" history
of Old Town Spring.
But, my gut feeling is that there's at least one figure walking around inside that building, after dark.
GHOSTLY MIST - FIRST HAUNTED EVIDENCE
During a November 2005 ghost investigation, I captured a couple of odd photos at the bank. In the images
below, you can see a light or mist forming at the right side of the photo. I'd have dismissed the
picture at the right as a finger or insect in front of the lens, but the left photo makes it clear that this
was an anomaly that formed while I was taking the pictures.
These pictures were taken a few minutes apart. A bug wouldn't be hovering that long in one spot in front
of my lens... not without
me noticing it, anyway.
Those are intriguing photos... the kind of pictures that demand additional investigations. Sometimes, you can
find explanations for these kinds of images. In this case, we couldn't.
AN EVEN STRANGER PHOTO
On a return visit on January 6th, 2006, I captured an even stranger photo that I can't explain.
It
reminds me of our popular What IS this...? photo from
New Hampshire, but it also reminds me of the eerie, full figure outline in
my Man in Blue - Fort Worden, Seattle photo.
For the strangest photo from our January 6th ghost hunt in Old Town Spring, see
GHOSTS IN THE BANK - OLD TOWN SPRING
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