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The Battleship Texas/San Jacinto Battleship TEXAS is the last surviving U.S. Navy battleship to serve in both World Wars and is the world's only remaining battleship patterned after HMS DREADNOUGHT. The most powerful weapon in the world when commissioned in 1914, TEXAS became the nation's first museum battleship when the Navy towed her to a permanent berth near Houston, Texas and transferred her to the state, in San Jacinto Day ceremonies on April 21, 1948. TEXAS has since earned designations as a National Historic Engineering Landmark (1975) and a National Historic Landmark (1977). ON NOVEMBER 14, 1998 we met for our first investigation. There was a light mist in the air as we headed up the gangplank. The battleship was reportedly haunted by the ghost of a red-haired sailor who has been seen numerous times on deck 2. The trophy room (also on deck 2) has been the site of a bizarre time/space slip in which a caretaker entered the room and found herself in a cemetery in France. Historical research on the battleship revealed that she saw a lot of fighting during the second World War. She took an active part in the invasions of Normandy (D-day) and Iwo Jima. She is the only surviving dreadnought to have participated in both World Wars. Our investigation did provide 1 EMF spike and one photograph. After concluding our investigation of the battleship we proceeded to the battlefield of San Jacinto. We had not heard any reports of hauntings on the battlefield, but considering the propensity of battlefields to harbor paranormal phenomena, we thought it a likely place.
The San Jacinto battlefield is where, on April 21, 1836, General Sam Houston and a relatively small band of Texas rebels defeated General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana's superior force. There are many legends related to this battle which I won't go into here, but the dead Mexicans were either buried in makeshift graves or left for carrion birds and scavengers. Our information indicated that most of the slaughter (and therefore, most of the bodies) was within the Mexican encampment so we concentrated our efforts there. We did not find any evidence of paranormal activity there and left when the park closed.
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