Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

Texas has dozens of ghost towns where buildings still stand, even though the people have been gone for generations. You can still find old schools, stores, rail depots, and homes that show how these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main house at The Villa de la Mina, a ghost town in Terlingua, which is near Big Bend in West Texas. (Courtesy of The Villa de ...

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Modern-day ghost towns are popping up around Texas — communities that still exist, but have lost most of their population and are on the path toward vanishing if they lose any more. It’s the result of ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten ...

VAN HORN, Texas — The far West Texas ghost town of Lobo is up for sale. A group of friends from Germany currently own the town that is between Van Horn and Valentine. In the 1980s, the aquifer was ...

A new study is pointing a spooky, bony finger to Texas as one of the spookiest states in the country. Being the season of ghouls, witches and skeletons, the team at Hard Rock Bet, an online sportsbook ...

If you've ever taken a drive down Interstate 35, you may have noticed the sensation of the hair on the back of your neck standing on end as you get closer to San Antonio. That eerie feeling is one ...

Texas is famous for leading the nation in cattle, cotton and oil, but the Lone Star State can claim another distinction more appropriate for Halloween this week: Texas not only hosts more bat species ...