Ft. Worth, TX is Haunted

• Eyesore

• Private Residence

• Mexican Restaurant

• Church

• Wedding Venue

• Murder Scene

First, you need to know that T. Cullen Davis was a very wealthy man with terrible architectural taste and some say a nasty temper. In 1972 he spent over 6 million dollars on the monstrosity that featured five bedrooms and eleven bathrooms. There was also a pool and numerous tunnels that ran through the property.

He and his wife Priscilla along with her daughters from another relationship were a happy family until it exploded. There were rumors of affairs on his part and pills on her part. "When Cullen and Priscilla got together, it was really like the perfect storm -- it was great until it wasn't. And when it went bad, it went really bad," said attorney Christy Jack. So after six years of marriage, they separated and filed for divorce

While the divorce was bitter and contentious the judge ordered Cullen to pay Priscella $23,000 a month in support and banned him from the mansion due to the fits of rage he was apt to exhibit both at home and in the courtroom.

He helped design Stonegate Manion. He paid for every gaudy knickknack and painting. He was red-faced and furious as he left the courtroom and painting. He wasn’t about to let it go without a fight. In fact, Priscilla said, “I found myself thinking that Cullen would either kill us all or kill himself.” Prophetic.

Her new boyfriend Stan Farr was a 6-foot-ten-inch former TCU basketball player that was already planning their future together. Cullen was dating a Priscilla lookalike named Karen Masters making sure to take her to all the events he and Priscilla once attended.

On the evening of August 2, 1976, Priscilla and Farr went to dinner. Her older daughter Dee was out at a friend’s house, but Andrea elected to stay home alone. She was twelve years old and felt confident in the elaborate security system Cullen had installed years earlier. It wasn’t her first time to stay home by herself, but it would be her last.

According to Priscilla’s testimony, she and Stan returned to the house about 12:30 a.m., and she noticed the security locks were off. Stan went up the back stairs to the bedroom while Priscilla went to the kitchen, where she noticed that the door leading to the basement was open and saw bloody prints on the wall. She screamed for Stan just before Cullen appeared, dressed all in black, wearing a woman’s black wig, and holding his hands together with a dark plastic bag wrapped around them. “I mean, I don’t think he was drunk,” says Priscilla. “He just came out and said ‘Hi.’ He was so cold, so calm. Then he shot me.” The bullet entered between her breasts, and she screamed.

Stan, Priscilla says, had come down the stairs, and he and Cullen now struggled on either side of the door leading up to the bedroom. Cullen fired through the door, and Stan cried out. Farr opened the door and tried to grab his assailant. Davis pulled away and fired again. Stan fell to the floor near Priscilla, and Davis pumped two more shots into his body. “I watched his eyes,” says Priscilla. “I watched him die.”

What she didn’t know was that Andrea was already dead. Her body was in the basement. She had been shot in the heart. The prosecution described it as an execution.

Of course, Cullen was found not guilty. He was a rich white oilman and this is Texas. Was there ever any doubt?

Now, you need to know all that to understand the spirits that haunt this place. Though the property has changed hands and uses numerous times, there have always been reports of odd happenings.

In the late 90s, the property became the Stonegate Mansion Restaurant. Workers there would argue over who had to close at night because of the occasional muzzle flash in the dark. There was no sound accompanying it, but you could smell the gunsmoke.

In the mid-oughts, Stonegate became a wedding venue. That’s right, you too could have married in a location home to an unsolved double homicide and an attempted murder. Employees reported the same muzzle flashes as well distant screams that when investigated wold reveal they were alone.

Now you might be curious and want to investigate 4100 Stonegate Blvd, but it’s gone now. A developer bought it in 2021 and had it read to make way for luxury townhomes. How much do you want to bet that at least one of those new houses is already haunted?