Dallas Ghost Tour: Haunted Downtown Walk & True Crime Stories

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What’s the experience like?

I didn’t think I’d get goosebumps just from standing outside a hotel, but there we were in front of the old La Quinta Inn & Suites—our guide called it the Lawrence Hotel, which somehow made it sound even more haunted. He started telling us about murders and a Congressman’s suicide right there in those walls. The air felt heavy, like you could almost hear something whispering if you listened hard enough (maybe that was just my imagination). Someone in our group asked if the staff ever see anything weird—our guide just grinned and said, “You wouldn’t believe half of it.”

We wandered through downtown Dallas as the sky got darker, stopping at places I’d walked past before without really noticing. At Dealey Plaza, people still leave flowers for JFK—there’s this odd silence there at night, broken only by cars rumbling past. The Sixth Floor Museum looked different after hearing about all the deaths and executions that happened long before 1963. Our guide had this way of making history feel close, not like textbook stuff but stories that actually happened to people who lived here.

There was one spot where you could hear giggling from inside a locked building (or so they say—I didn’t catch it myself, but someone swore they did). It was weirdly comforting to think maybe not every ghost in Dallas is out for revenge. I kept trying to picture what these streets must’ve looked like decades ago—dustier maybe, or quieter? Anyway, by the end I felt like I’d seen a side of Dallas most people miss. Still not sure if I believe in ghosts, but I’ll admit: walking back to my car alone felt different than usual.