hauntings

Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Don’t Ask About the Ghosts at Jefferson’s Excelsior House Hotel
Excelsior House is the oldest hotel in East Texas according to the National Register of Historic Places. Since it opened in the 1850s, it has welcomed some of history’s biggest names through its doors: Ulysses S. Grant, Oscar Wilde, Rutherford B. Hayes and Lady Bird Johnson. They all checked in. But does every guest who visits ultimately check out?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Is the Jefferson Hotel Really Haunted?
Before I even visited Jefferson, I heard strange reports about what some call the most haunted town in Texas. Many of the ghost stories I heard, however, originate at one of the town’s oldest structures, the Jefferson Hotel.