Round Rock, Texas

Two older women from Arizona joined my tour this summer and they were great guests. It was not their first visit which is always good to hear.

One of the ladies had a daughter who moved from Rochester, New York to Round Rock, Texas. They had bought a wooden trunk in Rochester and when they moved into a new limestone house in Round Rock they put the trunk in the kids' room and filled it with toys. But the daughter would hear thumping in the trunk and she thought a rat had gotten in the trunk during the move.

She was horrified and made her husband empty out the trunk to find this rat. He cleared the entire thing out and found nothing.

Then one night she saw a child walking up the stairs. She had children and thought one of them had gotten out of bed, but when she checked on them everyone was asleep. After thinking about it she realized none of them had a gown like that, it was long and white and looked very old fashioned.

The woman who shared the story said that of all her children this daughter was the least likely to believe in ghosts. Before, if someone had told her this story she would have told them they were nuts. But she's had a priest out there a few times to get things settled in the house. I don't know how successful it's been for her, you never know.