A San Antonio nightclub set the stage for a very bizarre encounter with the devil. Resources: https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/san-antonios-dancing-devil-of-el-camaroncito/Content?oid=2250845 https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/slideshow/San-Antonio-s-haunted-stories-and-urban-legends-211725.php https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article/Artists-give-the-devil-at-the-dance-a-11281709.php
Category: Podcast Episodes
The Huebner-Onion House
Is it ghosts or just time that haunts this former stage-coach inn along Bandera Road in the Leon Valley portion of greater San Antonio? Resources: https://www.lvhistoricalsociety.org/blank-c1t1y https://ghostcitytours.com/san-antonio/haunted-places/huebner-onion-homestead/ https://www.ksat.com/holidays/2016/10/10/does-the-ghost-of-joseph-huebner-haunt-the-huebner-onion-homestead/
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Body
The most infamous Presidential Assassins’ body didn’t exactly rest in peace… Resources: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/obituaries/article187524003.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#cite_note-275 The link below is the shooting of Oswald. It’s not pleasant. https://youtu.be/clif7ix7wgYhttps://youtu.be/r6PcVCqg3tg
The Case of the Missing Memoirist
Edna Gertrude Beasley wrote a memoir about her childhood in Abilene, Texas. The book was banned, but now the book is being reprinted and the mystery of her disappearance is worthy of a book all its own. Resources: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/a-silenced-voice-of-texas-literature-is-finally-heard-again/
The Lady of White Rock Lake
To some, she’s the Lady of the Lake. To others she’s a mysterious, albeit wet, woman in white. Regardless, she is a fascinating ghost story for those up near Dallas. Resources: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/diving-into-a-dallas-ghost-story-is-white-rock-lake-actually-haunted/287-556820302 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91701121/hallie-enid-gaston https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/diving-into-a-dallas-ghost-story-is-white-rock-lake-actually-haunted/287-556820302 gendisasters.com/texas/22101/dallas-tx-three-youths-drown-in-white-rock-lake-may-1929 https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/diving-into-a-dallas-ghost-story-is-white-rock-lake-actually-haunted/287-556820302 https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2017/10/17/flashback-girl-of-white-rock-lake-spooked-residents-in-1964/ https://www.dallasparks.org/235/White-Rock-Lake http://www.watermelon-kid.com/places/wrl/lore/ghost.htm
The San Antonio Four
During the late 1990’s four Latinx LGBT Women were accused of a horrific crime and sentenced to prison. The only problem? They didn’t do it and there was no evidence against them. Resources: https://www.texasobserver.org/mystery-san-antonio-four/ http://fourliveslost.com/ https://innocencetexas.org/the-problems https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/1396-satanic-child-abuse-texas-case https://www.bexar.org/1834/County-Court-13 https://www.thriveyouthcenter.org/ https://play.acast.com/s/redhanded/episode138-witch-hunt-thesanantoniosatanicpanic-acasted77185f
John Wesley Hardin- The Deadliest Texas Outlaw
John Wesley Hardin is part-folk hero, part-terrible human being, all deadliest Texas Outlaw. Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hardin https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hardin-john-wesley You can read his biography for free here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_John_Wesley_Hardin/jLM-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
Terri Lee Hoffman, Dallas Cult Leader
Terri Lee Hoffman hit the Dallas New Age stage hard, but with many deaths linked back to her and her group Consciousness Development of Body, Mind and Soul, there was much more to the story. Resources: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-curse-of-the-black-lords/ https://culteducation.com/group/1188-terri-hoffman/20405-the-curse-of-the-black-lords.html http://mfmlinks.blogspot.com/2017/12/101-live-at-majestic-theatre-in-dallas.html Cults Podcast
TX Slang for Crazy Scholarship for First Time YAMI/YMI Participant
Here at the Texas: Slang for Crazy Podcast, we believe that experiences can be what make all the difference in life. Sometimes, those experiences are held off by funds. I was named the 2021 Young Miss International Spokesmodel and I want to share the joy by paying a first time participant’s entry fee so they…
The Invention of “Maverick”
A Texas politician is likely the reason we refer to some people as mavericks. Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maverick https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/maverick-samuel-augustus https://www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/BexarCountyChiefJustice.html
