Public buildings and historic landmarks: "Strange things at night" Remember the Alamo / The voice in the elevator shaft / The ghost of San Pedro Playhouse / Flushing water and boiling wax / An "Extra" at the Express News / The professor who never left / Jose Navarro's haunted homestead / The gallery ghost of La Villita / Was the ghost's kitchen invaded? / Another ghost in La Villita / The eerie railroad crossing / A voice cries from the well / The Old "Spanish Tower" / A museum that has both history and mystery! / He can't leave the Dienger Building / Mysterious hotels, inns, and restaurants: "Haunted hallways" Glories and ghosts at the Gunter / The Menger hotel ... hauntingly intriguing / Shadows at El Tropicana / The country spirit named David / Ye Kendall Inn / The lady in the choir loft / Spirits come back to the Settlement Inn / Haunted houses: "Haunted Houses" / A note about haunted houses / The house on Holbrook Road / The Wolfson Manor / Miss Ernestine's adobe dwelling / A warm and welcoming presence / A sickeningly sweet smell / The Gothic window / The tidy ghost / Ramon Ramos has a ghostly housemate / The cold parlor / Was it premonition? / The ghost who liked lavender / The ghost that observed Halloween / The haunted sea captain's house / The house of hope / Leon Valley's storied stagecoach stop / The house that Sam built / There was something about that house / The midget mansion / The house that was once a funeral parlor / The Old Mission Ranch house / When Peggy met the priest / The house in Monte Vista / Grandpa was there / Owls that screeched and floors that creaked / Spirits on the South Side / The whistling ghost of Luckenbach / Castroville's strange spirits / Seguin's spirits at Sebastopol / An awareness of things / Ghost reveals adoption / Spirituality rules / Military posts have military ghosts: "Ghostly pranks from among the ranks" / "Harvey" ... the Harlequin ghost / Are you there, General Pershing? / The ghost of quarters number one / Pedro struts again / The cook and the cat / "And so in closing."