Fear Week: Texas Most Haunted- Hotel Galvez

In this chilling countdown to Halloween, Billy The Kidd, Candice Lopez, and Producer Pooh dive into the eerie legend of Hotel Galvez, ranked #3 on the list of Texas’ Most Haunted Places.
This episode unpacks the tragic tale of Audra, the love-lorn lady whose spirit is said to linger in Room 501—where heartbreak turned into haunting.
With over a century of history, Hotel Galvez has seen it all: hurricanes, high-stakes gambling, presidential visits, and military occupation. But it’s Audra’s story that grips listeners—a young bride-to-be who took her own life after mistakenly believing her fiancé had perished at sea, only for him to return alive, too late.
From ghostly chills and flickering lights to malfunctioning room keys and unexplained phenomena, the crew shares spine-tingling accounts from guests and staff who’ve encountered Audra’s restless spirit. One housekeeper even reported a mysterious light emanating from a vacant room, believed to be her presence. Notable Moment: “They say especially when it comes to anywhere that Audra is… she scrambles the keys and they don’t work. Isn’t that wild?”
Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, this episode will make you think twice before booking a stay at Texas’ most haunted hotel.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two point nine. Good morning, It's failing a kid. Candice
Lopez is here, producer who is here. We've been counting
down the most haunted places in Texas from number ten
to number one, which will be on Halloween, so number
three today, and this is all based on paranormal researchers
and whatnot in activity that they found at these locations,
and there's been some really good spots, a lot of
them here in our area. Number ten was Old Alton Bridge,

(00:21):
goat Man's Bridge in Denton. Number nine was six Flags
Over Texas. Number eight White Rock Lake. Number seven Baker
Hotel in Mineral Wells. Number six Texas State Capital, very haunted.
Number five was Flagpole Hill. Number four yesterday was Majestic Theater.
And I had so many dms about that. Somebody actually

(00:43):
hit me up and said they were at a concert
one time when the singer stopped and said, I'm sorry,
but I felt like somebody just touched me. What And
they looked around and they were like, that's weird. Is
this place haunted? And everybody in the crowd was like yes,
and they had no idea, but the singer stopped the
concert of the show and felt like somebody touched them

(01:05):
on their shoulder, So that's kind of freaky. Now. Number
three in the most haunted places in Texas is a
place that I've been to and I definitely think is haunted.
Hotel Galvez in Galveston. Yes, yes, there's so many stories

(01:26):
about this place and still to this day, they do
ghost tours and this time of the year it's packed
because of people just wanting to stay there and hopefully
running into a spirit, which is just wild to me
because I don't know who wants to purposely stay somewhere
to see a spirit. Not me. That's just not my style.
But you know what, if that's your thing, that's your thing.

(01:48):
But yeah, Hotel Galvez, I mean, with over a century
of history, you feel like there's got to be some
sort of haunted things that happen. There. Many ghosts. The
one though, that sticks out is the Love Lauren Lady.
They say the Love Lauren Lady, and her name is Audra.
She's the hotel's most infamous ghost. She was twenty five

(02:12):
years old and a bride to be in the mid
nineteen fifties, excited to get married. Now. Audre's husband was
a mariner who often sailed in and out of port
of Galveston, and he would work and he would leave
Audre there at the hotel, and she loved it. She
would stay there till he came back when he was
offshore or whatnot, and she would rent room five oh

(02:34):
one at Hotel Galvez. This is a crazy story. So
they came to her one night and they said this,
you know, this was during a really bad catastrophic storm.
Audre was informed that her fiance ship had capsized and
that he was no longer with us, that all hands
on board were lost, and she obviously freaked out. She

(02:57):
was inconsolable. She overcame, you know, with such emotion and
despair that she took her own life and that was that.
And then, if that's not tragic enough, the groom arrived
at the hotel. He did not pass away, So her

(03:22):
soon to be husband comes back to the hotel excited
to see his bride to be and his fiance and
be like, babe, I survived, and then he finds out
that she's no longer with us, which obviously he was devastated.
Now they say that Audra haunts the fifth floor. That's

(03:43):
her most popular place to be, although she does roam
the hotel in many other areas and whatnot. Some claim
to feel the sudden chill of her spirit, while others
hear the slamming of doors, television's turn on and off
with no X the nation. Lights flicker on this floor,
especially around room five oh one. A housekeeper once reported

(04:06):
a strange light that was emitted from a vacant room
once that they think is her. And this is another
crazy part, is I guess at the hotel the attendants
and the front desk have a hard time. You know,
I'm programming the keys. Oh a lot of time. They'll
program they electronic keys and they'll get up to the

(04:28):
room and they won't work. And they say, especially when
it comes to anywhere that Audra is that she scrambles
the keys or whatever and they and they don't work.
Which isn't that wild? That is wild? Long hotel is beautiful.
It is a beautiful hotel. There's been a lot of
history there, Like think about it. There's been a hurricane

(04:48):
there that you know, unfortunately, took the lives of a
lot of people on Galveston. That hotel was also at
one point, I mean, it was considered the Vegas of
the South oh, Frank Sinatra would go there. There, oh,
gambling there until the nineteen fifties, it was gambling, So
there was at one point, this is another crazy thing.

(05:10):
At one point, Hotel Galvez was the White House. It
was the temporary White House for FDR while they were
doing something to I don't know, the White House, Washington,
d C. He lived there and made that the command center,
no kidding. And then during World War Two it was
also like taken over by the military and the Coastguard
to serve as you know base. Yeah. So there's a

(05:35):
lot of history in that hotel and still if you
go there to this day, they say there are many
spirits that haunt that hotel, and if you look at it,
it looks haunted. When I was there, I never felt
anything or I didn't even know that it was haunted
until I saw a flyer for a ghost tour and
I was like, oh god. Yeah. The only reason I
stayed there is because I was going on a girls

(05:55):
trip to Miami and a hurricane hit Miami and we
were like, well, let's just go down as Alston. Let's
find like the best hotel with the swim up bar.
You know, those vibes but I don't remember anything. You
don't creepy happening. It's also probably because you were too drunk. Yes,
there you go,