![]() ![]() It gazes across the bar from just above the hearth and is said to eavesdrop on conversations. He Thinks It’s Funny.”Ī stone that’s part of the fireplace is shaped like the devil’s face. It’s Just Our Ghost Trying to Get Attention. ![]() There’s a sign on the tavern’s mantle that says, “Ghost Warning – If Doors and Windows Open And Close By Them Selfs, Just Ignore It. “I guess whoever is doing it just wants to watch TV or doesn’t like what we’re watching.” “The TVs in the tavern will turn off and on and switch channels on their own sometimes,” says Melaine Walker, 47, a bartender at Devil’s Backbone Tavern who began visiting the honky-tonk as a child with her father. It is also widely believed to be haunted. The old stone tavern is a classic, a 1930s honky-tonk with a jukebox where people share yarns over cigarettes and beers. These days locals gather at the Devil’s Backbone Tavern, on Ranch Road 32 near the little town of Fischer, to share the latest batch of puzzling occurrences. Local author Bert Wall, who sold Beatty the property next to Wall’s Chaparral Ranch in 1996, wrote eight books chronicling weird phenomena on the Backbone and was working on another before his death in 2010. There are plenty of ghost stories along the Backbone, a limestone ridge that runs from Wimberley to Blanco through the Texas Hill Country, so many stories that the area is a regular stop for paranormal aficionados. “That’s the only thing I think I can say, is, honestly, out of this world.”īeatty, 57, says the sound unnerved him at the time, but he’s learned to live with it. “The horses are a legend around here,” Beatty says. Rancher Charlie Beatty first heard the ghost horses gallop across the Devil’s Backbone as he stood outside one night. Rancher Charlie Beatty, 57, on right, shares yarns of ghost horses with friend Bill Spears, 72, at the Devil’s Backbone Tavern. ![]()
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