The elevator at the Adolphus Hotel has long defied logic and gravity. Guests report it halting on the 19th floor, despite the hotel only having 18. Some say a jilted bride who died there still rides the lift, waiting for a wedding that never happened.

In the woods near White Rock Lake, locals tell of the Lady of the Lake, a ghostly woman in a soaked evening gown who flags down drivers only to vanish from the passenger seat moments later. Some say she drowned there decades ago, others say she never existed at all, except in headlights.

The Texas Theatre, where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, carries more than just political ghosts. Staff closing up late at night have found antique dolls, once props, moved to entirely different rooms, their faces turned toward the exits.

North of the city, the Screaming Bridge of Las Colinas draws daredevils and amateur ghost hunters alike. After a fatal car crash claimed several teens decades ago, the bridge was closed, but those who visit say they hear screams and tires screeching in the dead quiet.

Along the murky edge of the Trinity River, bodies have appeared for decades, many with no clear cause of death. Locals whisper that something predatory lives in the water, not quite human and not quite gone, feeding on secrets tossed into the current.