Terrell, Texas is Haunted

What do you do when your husband is a drunk and your only child is killed in a farming accident on his watch? Poison him, obviously.

In 1895 in Terrell, Texas that’s exactly what happened. Clara Crane blamed her husband for her 5-year-old daughter’s death. She could not live with the grief and anger and so she killed her husband by poisoning the caramels she made for him. She was caught, but instead of jail, she was sent to the North Texas Lunatic Asylum.

This could be enough to trigger haunting stories of the farm and the surrounding area. But that’s not the case. Neither Marcella, the daughter, nor Leonard, the husband were ever seen once they’d passed. This is just the beginning of The Candy Lady.

Due to overcrowding, Clara was released from the hospital in 1899. That same year the sheriff who arrested her was found dead in a ditch by the side of the road. Forks had been stabbed into his eyes and his pockets filled with candy. By 1903 children began disappearing.

Neighbors of the Crane farm would find candy wrappers on their children’s window sills. People refused to let their children play near the Crane land. When Clara came into town for supplies, mothers would put themselves between her and their child.

When a farmer overstepped his property line and began tilling the Crane fields, he found a pile of children’s teeth and later their bones.

However, they never found Clara Crane. They say if you’re near the old property beware of a dark-haired woman offering sweets from her pocket. To accept one is to be lost forever.