Amarillo, Texas Ghost Tales While living on the corner of Palo Duro Drive and Bushland Ave.  we experienced many events.  Doors rattled, footsteps across the hard wood floors, dogs growled at walls, my fish tank would be messed with (food dumped in, rocks moved) and the smell of aftershave on Sunday evenings were the most common.  My neighbor told me of a man that had lived and died there, he was the person that bought the house in the 1950's from the original builders and owners. The house was built in 1920.  I later met the original owners granddaughter that described the grandfather as mean and distrustful.  He had put up walnut siding in the dining room, that the next owner had evidently removed and discarded.  I got the feeling that the first owner, who had died in the 70's, was arguing with the second owner, who died in 1998, over the things he had done to the house.  The doors that would slam shut were put in by the second owner.  The second owner loved to sit on the back porch and the doors would mysteriously lock while we were out there. The second owner was       very watchful and protective of us, especially my son who was two at the time. He would be seen sitting on my sons bed during storms or if my then boyfriend was in a bad mood.  He did not like my boyfriend, and would really slam the doors and make noise when he was here, trying to scare him.  When I was moving out, I thanked him for watching over us   and I swear he said he would miss us, in my ear. Submitted by anonymous       Categories: home, man From 2000-2001 we lived in a large older home on Crockett Street that we were renovating while living there. The house really consists of 2 separate buildings that were connected not too long ago. There is a large old greenhouse in the yard. I like to grow orchids, which is one of the reasons we bought this house, since it had the roomy greenhouse. I had a wireless alarm set up in the upstairs bedroom we were using to alert me of temperature drops in the greenhouse in winter, since the heater was fickle. One night in February 2001 the temperature alarm sounded around 2 am. I went to the greenhouse and found everything was working normally. When I walked back to the house I accidentally looked up to the upstairs window in the south building, which was still being renovated. I clearly saw the figure of a bearded man who appeared to be wearing overalls in the window looking at me, surrounded what only could be described as looking like a gray mist or aura. I initially thought it was an intruder and went on to search the building with a flashlight, a gun and my dog, but found nothing, and nothing seemed to have been disturbed. This incident greatly puzzled me at first. 2 weeks later my hair literally stood up after a conversation with my neighbor to the south side of the house. He stated casually ''your painter is keeping really odd hours, I always see him working up there (he pointed at the very same window) in the middle of the night''. The painter had not been inside the house for nearly 2 months, and no one, including me or my wife, had ever gone into the vacant building wing at night after the first incident! This was not the end of it. Sometime later, I think in April or May, I went out of town for a job interview. The police showed up at the house having been called by an elderly neighbor on the other side who reported a possible intruder in the very same wing of the house. No one was found, and all doors and windows were intact and locked. Needless to say, we were actually glad after having sold the house, even though it was an absolutely beautiful house and we lost most of the money we had invested in the renovation!. Submitted by Bernhard       Categories: home, man More Ghost Sightings From Amarillo On The Next Page >> Submit a ghost sighting for Amarillo, Texas: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:       Other haunted towns near Amarillo, Texas: Canyon, Texas, 10 miles away Bushland, Texas, 12 miles away Umbarger, Texas, 15 miles away Happy, Texas, 24 miles away Wildorado, Texas, 25 miles away Dawn, Texas, 26 miles away Claude, Texas, 34 miles away Fritch, Texas, 34 miles away Panhandle, Texas, 37 miles away Vega, Texas, 37 miles away        The latest ghost sightings from around the world All haunted towns and cities in Texas Lies about Amarillo