Haunted Texas and Beyond

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Austin Ghost Tours conducted a series of virtual ghost tours.  One of the virtual tours recorded was a question-and-answer session on the hauntings at the famous Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas with none other than Monica Ballard.  There are so many ghost stories about the Driskill Hotel that Monica wrote THE book on them!  Join us as she de-bunks popular urban legends, myths, and outr...

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, Austin Ghost Tours conducted a series of virtual ghost tours.  One of the virtual tours recorded was of the historic and very haunted Bremond Block in Austin, Texas by Monica Ballard and hosted by Alexandra White.  Enjoy the colorful history and mystery of these beautiful houses and the people that called them home.  Make sure you check out the YouTube video of the virtua...

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Austin Ghost Tours conducted a series of virtual ghost tours.  For this tour, our very own Monica Ballard shares some of the most astonishing EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) and photographic evidence she has captured in her nearly 20 years as a paranormal investigator, researcher, and tour guide.  Make sure you catch one of her in person tours this 2023 Halloween season by heading over to Aus...

HTAB host and creator Jeanine Plumer sits down with a lady who had a devastating illness.  You will hear what led up to the diagnosis and what happened when she was walking the thin line between this world and the other world. 

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Earlier in 2023, HTAB host and creator Jeanine Plumer received a call from a University of Texas film student wanting to interview Jeanine as part of a short documentary on the history and hauntings of Metz Elementary School.  Gaining access to the abandoned school, Jeanine, the film crew, and Austin Ghost Tours paranormal investigator, researcher, and tour guide Monica Ballard began a paranormal investigation throughout the empty ...

From 2010-2011, HTAB host and creator Jeanine Plumer, along with Chris Blankenship with ProductionFor and Matthew Wallen of Matthew Wallen Films, created this episode for the public television series Haunted Texas, that originally aired as part of The Save Texas History Program for KLRU-PBS Austin.  The three-part series was so well received it aired nationally on PBS.  This is Episode 3 of the Haunted Texas TV series entitled Goli...

In 2011, HTAB host and creator Jeanine Plumer, along with Chris Blankenship with ProductionFor and Matthew Wallen of Matthew Wallen Films, created this episode for the public television series Haunted Texas, that originally aired as part of The Save Texas History Program for KLRU-PBS Austin. The three-part series was so well received it aired nationally on PBS.  This is Episode 2 of the Haunted Texas TV series entitled Castell, a G...

In 2010, HTAB host and creator Jeanine Plumer, along with Rebel Rebel Production Company, created this TV show for public television that aired as part of The Save Texas History Program originally for KLRU-PBS Austin.  The TV series was so well received, it aired nationally on PBS.  This is Episode 1 of the Haunted Texas TV series entitled Peyton Colony, a freedman’s colony in Blanco, Texas whose previous residents still linger wel...

Just before Halloween 2020, your host of Haunted Texas and Beyond Podcast Jeanine Plumer did a prerecorded interview with The Billy the Kidd Show on 106.1 KissFM in Dallas and 96.7 KissFM in Austin.  Check it out! 

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Your favorite ghostly podcast is back with all new stories and even more un-explainable events!  We begin Season 2 with a two-part true story of the human psyche - how one man battling mental illness, murdered his family in cold blood.  Meet Austin, Texas’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

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Part 2 of The Burt Murders true story concludes with the fate of a mentally ill man who murdered his family in cold blood.   Catch part 1 here - https://hauntedtexasandbeyond.buzzsprout.com/953905/12229478-the-burt-murders-part-1.

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HTAB host Jeanine Plumer and Austin Ghost Tours tour guide and investigator Monica Ballard uncover the details of the murder of Austin musician Blaze Foley.  While investigating Blaze's murder at the house he was fatally shot, the other side had things to say and ways of interfering with the audio recording!  Listen carefully for all the ways they communicated in part 1 of this amazing story.   Stay tuned for part 2 coming soo...

Austin Ghost Tours was invited out to Pioneer Farms to conduct paranormal investigation tours throughout the month of October 2019. Since then, we have captured a ton of stories and evidence while conducting these investigations.  Here is part one of the ghostly evidence captured.  Special thanks to Pioneer Farms for having us out and allowing us to conduct these investigations! If you would like to participate in a PF paranormal i...

On this episode of Haunted Texas and Beyond, our host Jeanine Plumer has a virtual chat with archaeologist and local tour guide Dr. Roberto Musio about one of the most visited archaeological sites in the world: Pompeii, Italy.  In the midst of the conversation, the other side showed up for comment.  Let's see if you can hear the EVP in the conversation!

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As Covid-19 continues to take its toll on human life and the world economy, our host Jeanine Plumer noticed that there were so many tour guides around the world whose livelihoods were placed on hold.  Deciding she needed to do something, Jeanine reached out to local tour guides and invited them to tell their favorite stories to audiences on Austin Ghost Tours virtual tour platform.  One of the places she reached out to was Dublin, ...

Since the stay at home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic have taken place, Austin Ghost Tours decided to start doing virtual tours.  The first tour was led by long time AGT tour guide John Maverick. In the midst of his tour, a thunderstorm emerged.  Let's just say that some of the spirits he was talking about starting coming to life!  The other side really took a liking to a story John loves to tell about the Museum of the W...

In 2019, Jeanine decided to write a ghost tour outside of downtown Austin, focusing on her own neighborhood in southwest Austin.  In the midst of her research, she discovered that in 1922, twin tornadoes devastated downtown Austin and surrounding neighborhoods.  As the tornadoes moved to rural farmland in southwest Austin, one rural residence took a direct hit.  Six of the twelve casualties from those deadly tornadoes originated fr...

This is the fourth and final episode for the Military Ghosts series brought to you by Haunted Texas and Beyond podcast.  As Jeanine was researching for this podcast, she learned of the original American sniper, Carlos Hathcock.  As she was watching a full interview with Carlos Hathcock on YouTube, a thunderstorm rolled in.  Given what happened the last time a thunderstorm rolled in and we were talking about other strange events and...