In Austin, Texas lies one of the oldest. Best known. Operating hotels in the whole state of Texas, The Driskill Hotel. A Romanesque style building remains one of the premiere hotels in Austin, featuring lavish bridal suites, two restaurants, and a grand ballroom. Constructed in 1886..the hotel is even listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Colonel Jesse Driskill, a successful cattle baron, moved to Texas from Missouri in 1849. Flushed with cash from his service to the Confederate Army, to who he supplied beef to all throughout the Civil War, decided to construct a the finest hotel south of St. Louis in Austin, Texas. But while this grand hotel might have elegant history, and many upscale renovations, bringing it into the third millennium, it has a dark past, rittled with death, and is considered one of the most haunted hotels in the United States, featuring a variety of alleged supernatural activity all throughout the building. Including the possible spirit of Colonel Driskell himself, as The hotel has become synonymous with hauntings, that it has even garnered its own Spotify playlist to the subject, and over the years, several resident ghosts have been spotted through out the hotel grand hallways and rooms, with many legends of the 130 year old hotel's macabre history.

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Researched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wikipedia "Driskill Hotel" Southern Living "Halloween Boo: Five Most Haunted Places in the South" Driskill Hotel "About Timeline" Austin OT "Driskill Haunted Hotel" KVUE "History & Hauntings of the Driskill Hotel" Austin Ghosts "10 the Haunted the Driskill Hotel" Texas Highways "The Haunted Driskill" Haunted Rooms "Haunted Places & Hotels the Driskill" Seed Property Group "Historic Austin: The Haunted Driskill Hotel"

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