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Before Texans called it Bigfoot, it was known as Old Mossyback, the Hairy Man, and the Wild Man of the Big Thicket. Follow the footprints, eerie recordings, and eyewitness reports hidden in the East Texas woods—and decide whether they reveal an undiscovered creature or a Texas-sized legend.

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Step inside some of Texas’s creepiest museums and collections to meet Emma, Little Ricky, a pair of inseparable Raggedy dolls, and other toys surrounded by ghostly legends. From Laredo to San Antonio, Old Town Spring, and Yorktown Memorial Hospital, discover the strange stories behind these supposedly haunted dolls—and decide whether the real mystery is the dolls or the stories we tell about them.

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A wedding dress blamed for generations of heartbreak. A horned lizard said to have survived thirty-one years sealed inside a courthouse cornerstone. And a shrunken head stolen from a Texas museum—only to reappear seven weeks later in a plastic bag beside a road.

In this Halloween episode of Texas History for Kids, I'll visit three of the strangest objects preserved in Texas museums.

Sources Used

Stockyards Museum Official Website
https://www.stockyardsmuseum.org/

Fort Worth Star Telegram Stockyards Museum and Bad Luck Wedding Dress
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article289744454.html

The Texas Bucket List Stockyards Museum and Dress Exhibit Story
https://thetexasbucketlist.com/2017/09/the-texas-bucket-list-stockyards-museum-in-fort-worth/

Frieze The Bad Luck Wedding Dress and the History of Cursed Clothing
https://www.frieze.com/article/peter-stricklands-demon-dress

Texas State Historical Association Eastland County
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/eastland-county

City of Eastland History
https://www.eastlandtexas.gov/history

Texas Historical Commission Eastland County Courthouse
https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5507016983

Frontier Times September 1936 The Jibaro Head Hunters of Ecuador
https://www.frontiertimesmagazine.com/ecomm/product/vol-13-no-12-september-1936

Bandera County Chamber of Commerce Bandera History
https://www.banderachamber.com/history

Texas Historical Commission Texas Hill Country Trail Region
https://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/publications/hillcountry.pdf

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