The Driskill Hotel hauntings

The Driskill Hotel, built in 1886 in downtown Austin, has a long-standing reputation for reported unexplained occurrences. Guests and staff have reported hearing a child's laughter, seeing apparitions, and experiencing objects moved or unexplained sensations; these accounts appear in local histories and media. Stories commonly mention a gambler who allegedly died in the hotel and a young girl, though skeptics and historians dispute or attribute many accounts to folklore and memory.