Colin Browen is a ghost hunter. Like many others in this niche field, he started because of his own personal experience with unexplainable phenomena. Growing up in South Dakota, his family home was a “full blown haunting situation,” he says — things flying off the walls, disembodied voices, footsteps, the home’s alarm going off at all hours. Word got around about the house, and Browen became known as “the ghost guy” at school. He was invited to do an investigation of the school itself after hours, filmed it, threw it on YouTube, and thus was born his channel, The Paranormal Files.
Years later, Browen moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas and has remained in Texas since, investigating this state’s most haunted places.
Many of us have heard of the USS Lexington in Corpus, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio and the Driskill in Austin, but according to Browen, these famous haunts are definitely not the most “active.” In fact, the most haunted places in Texas, you’ve probably never heard of at all.
Miss Molly’s in Fort Worth
Over its many years, Miss Molly’s has been a speakeasy, a boarding house and a brothel. Today, Miss Molly’s is an historic Old West-themed hotel in Fort Worth’s Stockyards. Hilariously, mixed into the reviews on the hotel’s own website, among things like “this hotel is great,” and “a nice romantic getaway,” are others like “this place is haunted,” “heard loud banging” and “saw a floating blue light.”…