This Walmart In Texas Is Considered The Most Haunted in America

One of Texas' top tourist destinations is also home to one of the most haunted locations not only in Texas, but in the United States. And the reason has to do with the history of Galveston.

And there is one spot in Galveston that has become a tourist destination that may surprise you. It's the Galveston Seawall Walmart. And people are flocking to the Walmart not to just see what is in stock, but because of the haunted history of the location.

Galveston, Texas Is Home to the Most Haunted Walmart in Texas

According to the Houston Chronicle, the Walmart in Galveston is known as the Most Haunted Walmart in America. And since its opening in 1994, people have flocked to the location to see for themselves just how haunted the grounds are.

Many of the haunted encounters seem to take place in the toy area of the building. Which is pretty terrifying information alone. You can actually watch some videos on YouTube where people have filmed toys going off for no reason. Some visitors have even heard the voices of children when they didn't see any. The Houston Chronicle also once reported on a story about FEMA workers hearing the voices of children. In 2016, a book about the haunted sites of Galveston, included a section on the FEMA workers at Walmart according to the report.

Another widespread story concerns the time Walmart allowed FEMA workers inside the heavily damaged store to fetch supplies after Hurricane Ike in 2008. “When they entered, they heard children laughing and coughing,” said Maca, who devoted a chapter of her 2016 book “Ghosts of Galveston” to the haunted Walmart.

“They thought that some children had snuck into the building, so they did a full search,” she added, “and even though they didn't find any children, they found children's footsteps in the muck on the floor even though there was no other entrance at the time.”

Other haunting stories about the Walmart in Galveston include reports of balls being knocked out of cages, with no one around. Employees who heard toy balls being played with but saw nothing. And reports of people hearing the voice of a female child crying out for her mother.

Why Is This Walmart In Texas Haunted?

Just over a 124 years ago on September 8, 1900 a deadly and devastating Hurricane hit Galveston. The St. Mary's Orphanage sat close to where the current Walmart is now located. During the Hurricane, 10 nuns and up to 90 children were killed. During the storm the nuns had used a rope to tie the children and the nuns together. The Chronicle reports that just three boys survived.

So the next time you are in Galveston, check out this haunted site.