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Laredo, TX
Texas · Webb County · Laredo Metro
Laredo is a large city in Texas with a population of 255,949. Residents earn $63,264 per year, which is 16% below the national average.
3.0
/5.0
B
Good
255,949
Population
2,346/sq mi density
$63,264
Median Income
$24,584 per capita
$182,400
Home Value
$217,648 Zillow
$1,001
Median Rent
31.3% income on rent
76°F
Avg Temperature
312 sunny days/yr
316
Violent Crime/100K
1,771 property/100K
B
Overall
3.0 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B
Economy
3.4 / 5.0
$63,264 median income, 3.4% unemployment
A+
Affordability
5.0 / 5.0
$182,400 home value, $1,001/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
316 violent crimes/100K (17% below avg)
C+
Education
2.7 / 5.0
21.5% bachelor's degree or higher
Explore Near Laredo
Haunted Places
18
Locations with documented reports of paranormal activity and sightings
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Historic Markers
6
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
6
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Haunted Places Near Laredo, TX
18 reported haunted locations found near Laredo, TX.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Alma pierce elementary | There's a rest room that has been closed for years already and the say its haunted because it was in Halloween that there was a Jamaica and the was 3 girls Ashley, Maria, and tiffany. They locked Maria in the restroom. They had forgot about her until Maria's mom called 2 the two girls house asking if they had seen her. They told Maria's mom that they were joking around and locked her in the restroom. They told Maria's mom they had forgot about her. They send the police to the school it was ab... |
| Circle K McPherson rd. | an apparition of a little girl wearing a sundress walking thought the isles carrying a carton of milk in her left hand and a package of nutter butter in her right hand. |
| Civic Center | A man had an accident where the dressing rooms are. The weights that make the curtains move, fell down on his head killing him. It is now said by the janitors that you can hear him walking at night and that he even pinches you! If you go up the second floor were the dressing rooms are, stage left, you can still see the cracks on the wall and floor left by the weights! |
| Clark Middle School | In the 7th grade hall,room 28, janitors have reported hearing voices at night. There has also been reports of hearing children laughing and playing in the room. In some cases the computers have turned on and off and lights have flickerd. |
| Health Department | There are apparitions of people, figures more than actually people, who walk around once the offices close. Lights flicker on and off, and the janitors often walk into cold spots, left with eerie feelings and find that their cleaning supplies move without anyone being around. |
| Lake Casa Blanca Ballroom | one night after a dance at the Casa Blanca ballroom a guy named Mario gave a young woman wearing a necklace a ride to her house. When she got off she left her necklace in the car. Mario looked around and she had disappeared. He got of the car and rang the doorbell at her house. He told the man whom answered the door about the lady he gave a ride to and how she left her necklace. The man explained it was his daughter's necklace, but that she had been dead for over 5 years because she had drown... |
| Laredo | Zapata highway - In the early nineteen ninety's a family was driving towards Rio Bravo, Texas and 5 miles before getting there, they had an accident and they all died. The area is marked by three crosses. Apparitions of the family have been reported. |
| Laredo Childrens' Museum | The childernes musem first floor used to be a morgue before a newer building was buit and the old one with was torn down. Sometimes you can see shadows and there have been reports of voices and cold spots. |
| Laredo national bank | The laredo national bank is haunted because three years ago there was a robbery and the 51 year old manager got shot know it is said that you could hear his foot steps roaming around. in one case an officer claimed he heard footsteps and cashiers opening by themselves. to this day it is said to be haunted. |
| Mercy Regional Diagnostic Center | This used to be an old apartment building just south of St. Agustin High School in the old heights area. Reports of a demonic looking figure that has glaring eyes and a wide grin from ear to ear with a reptilian like tongue hanging down to his chest. |
| Nixon High School | During the 1970's, a girl on the school dance team was killed by her jealous boyfriend. She was supposedly decapitated. Witnesses have claimed to see her spirit roaming about the school with no head. It is said that if you are by the school gym at night, you can hear the spurs on her boots chiming in the dark. |
| Old Zapata Middle School | Zapata Central - At the Old Zapata Middle School gym (which is now Zapata Central), there is a ghostly resident of a small boy that died there. Footsteps heard in the bleachers when no one is up and walking. |
| Rio Grand river | the river is hunted by a women name Maria who pushed her 3 children off a cliff and later took her own life the same way the next day. But she hunts the river till this day every night you could here crying and calling out her children name along the river they say if u see her she will come after thinking that you are one of her children |
| the Old Police Station | Every time you go there you hear footsteps and you can feel whispers behind your back and some spots in there you feel a freeze and some times would appear a cat without the head people said that they used to do witchcraft there after they closed the police station. |
| United High School | United High School has been haunted for years. Some say they would see a dirty little girl under the portables playing or looking for some thing in the dirt. Others say it is haunted by an Indian. Janitors have experienced this haunting at night. One night a janitor was cleaning one of the portables, picked up the trash, put it in a bag and fixed the desks, turned off the lights and locked the door. As he was walking away he looked back and saw that the lights were on. He opened the door and ... |
| United Middle School | There is a section that is closed off because it is said that a girl was killed after a basketball game when the ball went rolling down the stairs. It is said that you can see her shadow and hear her. |
| V.M.T. Magnet School | Reports of footsteps on the second floor even though no one is there, there is a foul odor that travels around the room and a cold spot. |
| Zacate creek | A lady covered in mud wearing a white dress is said to be seen walking through Zacate creek in La Azteca area. There is usually a foul odor in this area, people say it is the sewage that smells, but others say it's the smell of a ghost which is most likely to be that lady. |