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The Dresden Files in Texas
« on: November 03, 2010, 03:17:41 AM »
So far just myself and one other person on here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Are we it?

And aside any suggestions for places in Texas that have  old legends spooky tales about them?
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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 04:58:31 AM »
Galveston is FULL of ghost legends.

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 07:28:17 PM »
San Antonio here :)

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 02:07:46 AM »
Google is your friend. I did some digging and found roughly 15 or so ghost-stories etc in Austin alone and many more across the State.
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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2010, 03:02:16 AM »
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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 11:27:22 AM »
try things like Dallas Urban Legends, Dallas hauntings, Dallas superstitions, etc.

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 05:24:37 PM »
I'm here too, our schedules just aren't compatible, unfortunately.

Regardless, when I was working on the city for my game, I found a lot of different stories and tales.  Bonnie and Clyde are from one of the burb-lets of DFW, there's an entire ghost town around that used to be an artist's commune, there are the tales around White Rock Lake and a lady that drowned there...

There is a LOT of occult-history here in the DFW area.  There are several books that I found in the library and Google worked quite well for me.  I didn't want to get too involved in just ghost stories, though...  I did have fun with the Stockyards in Fort Worth, though.  Blood has been spilling on that ground for a long, long time...   ;D

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2010, 02:06:09 PM »
Incompatible schedules does not mean we can't be email buddies!
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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2010, 05:31:19 AM »
My gaming group in Austin played a one-shot of DFRPG last week!

And being from Lake Jackson, TX, I will recommend the excellent book Ghosts Along the Brazos by Catherine Munson Foster and Ruth Munson, a collection of ghost stories from the Brazos River region of southeast Texas.  It was locally quite famous in my youth.

Oh, actually, when Googling for a link to provide, I found this great list of books containing Texan ghost tales and legends....

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2010, 12:47:45 AM »
I second Galveston. Not only does it have some rich mythology, but it's close enough to Houston for some big city interaction.

If you want some great ideas for material for Galveston, read Sean Stewart's Galveston.

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Re: The Dresden Files in Texas
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2010, 02:48:29 AM »
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