Anson, TX is Haunted

Anson is a town of about 2,800 residents and part of the Abilene metropolitan area. Gregorio Cortez of His Pistol in His Hand fame is buried there too, but that’s not really part of this story.

This is a place where three colleges (ACU, Hardin-Simmons, and Abilene Christian) converge and so the number of people who have seen these lights may or may not have a 0 sum of liquor in them at any given time.

This is the way it was told to me:

On a deserted country road, just down from an old cemetery drive to the crossroads, turn your car around, kill the engine, and flash your lights three times. If you’re lucky a white light no bigger than a tiny dot would appear on the hori­zon. Seeming miles away at first, it would grow to the size of a basketball as it came closer and drifted from left to right, then disappear before returning.

As the story goes apparently a long time ago a young boy begged his mother to go camping by him­self. She eventually agreed, but gave him a lantern. She instructed him that if he needed help, all he had to do was flash the lantern three times and she would come. But the boy never returned from that night and no body was ever found. When his long-grieving mother passed away she was buried in the cemetery So she rises from the dead with a lantern each time she sees the headlights.

So if you’re going to go check it out for yourself, wait until after midnight. And don’t be afraid if you see a bunch of college kids hanging out at the crossroads. They call it “beer-drinking corner” and they’re just as curious as you.

But don’t get out the car. You’re not her missing son and she has no interest in you at all, that is unless you get too close. Grieving mothers are known to lash out and I’d hate for the last thing you ever see to be the Anson Lights.