It is rumored that ghosts have been sighted walking around the courthouse grounds at night. These ghosts are said to have been the hanging victims of the death sentences carried out in the 1800s.
Luc Simone Aury was the bastard son of a pirate named Luis Aury. He was a renowned scoundrel and wanted for many crimes such as murder, rape, and robbery to name a few. Upon his capture, Aury was sentenced to hang in the gallows behind the jail. As word spread, a huge crowd gathered to […]
The only woman legally hanged in Texas was Josefa Chipita Rodriguez. She lived in a shack on the Aransas River where she cooked for weary travelers and let them sleep on cots on her porch. When a traveler named John Savage fell victim to an axe murder, Chipita was the prime suspect. $600 in gold […]
