Ghost Tour?

Round Rock has Ghost Tours. Who knew? See www.RoundRockGhosts.com to sign up. All it mentions on the page is the Sam Bass story and the Texas Chainsaw connection.

The local newspaper, www.rrleader.com ran a Halloween story years ago about ghost stories in Round Rock. The article mentioned several buildings, one of which I was familiar with, but didn't give the backstory. They did mention the local La Llorona story. Along Brushy Creek, beneath the Georgetown street bridge, is supposed to walk the ghost of a woman whose children drowned in the creek, which must have been a lot bigger in legendary days of yore for that to be possible. She cries and calls for them. She also searches out living children to steal, as replacements for her own lost little ones. This is a typical legend, as popular in Mexican folklore as El Chupacabras, the unstoppable beast that tears up livestock. This Halloween, that area was fenced off, but, in years past, I have hung out down there at midnight on Halloween without so much as a glimmer of paranormal activity to be seen, heard or felt.

And, I'll tell you who haunts the old Round Rock Cemetery: the police, that's who! I used to go there on Halloween for a midnight rendezvous with atmosphere. Nobody paid any attention when I rode my bike, but, the first year I had a car, and drove in through the gates, the local police showed up within minutes. I think they were a bit surprised to find a woman of a certain age, in a Volvo, with a cup of 7-11 coffee and a bag of chips. The kept asking me why I went there at that hour (11:45 PM--I wanted to be well settled before midnight). To be honest, I had not known that the cemetery was considered a City Park, and hence closed after 10:00.

Someday, I'll have to test that by having a picnic in the daytime at the grave of Sam Bass!