O. Henry House ghost stories

The O. Henry Museum, the former home of short-story writer William S. Porter, is frequently mentioned in local accounts of alleged hauntings and unexplained occurrences by staff and visitors. The house is included on some Austin ghost-walking tours and in local guides that recount stories of apparitions and strange noises linked to the writer’s life and death. These reports appear in published local histories and tour materials but remain anecdotal and disputed. The museum operates as a historic site and literary museum documenting O. Henry’s life.