Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainA former Texarkana school building repurposed as a county health clinic where employees report sounds of children in the hallways and paranormal investigators captured an EVP voice
12th St & Spruce St, Texarkana, TX 75501
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Former Texarkana school building repurposed as county health facility · Employee paranormal reports linked to school-era history
The building at 12th and Spruce Streets in Texarkana served as a school before being converted for use as a county health clinic operated by Bowie County. The original school construction date has not been independently confirmed in available sources, but the structure's architectural character reflects early-to-mid twentieth century institutional school design typical of East Texas.
The building's paranormal reputation among Texarkana residents stems primarily from employee accounts. Workers in the facility describe hearing sounds of children playing and laughing in the hallways when no children are present — phenomena they connect to the building's history as a school. These reports have circulated among Texarkana's paranormal enthusiast community and have attracted informal investigations.
Paranormal investigators who conducted a session at the site reported capturing an EVP recording of a male voice saying 'Do not touch it again.' This recording has been cited in regional coverage of Texarkana's haunted locations.
Because the building is an active county government facility, public access to the interior is not available for ghost tourism, and the site is documented as a drive-by location in Texarkana paranormal circles.
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Employee accounts form the core of the Bowie County Health Clinic's paranormal reputation. Workers describe the recurring experience of hearing what sounds like children playing and laughing in the building's hallways — sounds they associate with the structure's former life as a school. These experiences have been reported consistently enough to establish the building among Texarkana's known haunted locations.
A paranormal investigation at the site produced an EVP recording that investigators transcribed as a male voice saying 'Do not touch it again.' The phrase has become the signature documented evidence associated with the building.
The former school-to-clinic conversion is a common setting for reported child-associated haunting phenomena in paranormal tradition — the theory being that residual energy from a building's past function can persist after the use changes. Whether that framework applies here remains outside the scope of available documentation.
The former schoolhouse at 12th and Spruce Streets is viewable from the public street. The building is an active county health facility; interior access is not available for tourism. Visitors interested in the site's history can view the exterior architecture, which retains features from its original use as a school.
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