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A downtown Longview museum that runs its own haunted walking tours and hosts ticketed overnight ghost hunts, with on-site reports of poltergeist activity and a young girl seen on the second floor.
214 N Fredonia St, Longview, TX 75601
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
Walking tour $10/person; museum admission fees apply for regular hours; ghost hunt pricing varies
Access
Wheelchair OK
Downtown building; walking tour covers sidewalk route through downtown Longview
Equipment
Photos OK
Gregg County Regional History Repository · Proximity to 1894 Dalton Gang Bank Robbery Site · East Texas Oil Boom Documentation · Annual Dalton Days Reenactment
The Gregg County Historical Museum has served as the county's primary historical repository in downtown Longview for decades. Located at 214 N Fredonia Street, the museum occupies a multi-story downtown building and maintains collections documenting Gregg County's history through the oil boom era, early civic development, and the twentieth century.
The museum's immediate surroundings carry their own historical weight. The First National Bank robbery of May 23, 1894 — carried out by the gang led by Bill Dalton — took place within a block of the current museum. The robbery and the gunfight that followed left two men dead and several others wounded in what became Longview's most infamous single day of violence. The Gregg County Historical Museum runs an annual Dalton Days event commemorating the robbery, and the museum's haunted walking tour incorporates the downtown setting that still reflects, in part, the layout of that nineteenth-century block.
Beyond the Dalton connection, the museum building itself has generated a sustained paranormal reputation. Staff and investigators have reported activity across all three floors, including the documented door incident (a door opening and closing on film during an investigation), disembodied voices, and the apparition of a young girl consistently reported on the second floor. The museum has leaned into this reputation, partnering with the Everything Vaguely Paranormal group for overnight investigations and running an annual haunted walking tour of downtown Longview.
Sources
Paranormal investigations at the Gregg County Historical Museum have produced several documented anomalies. Investigators captured footage of a door opening and closing without human contact, a piece of potential evidence that the museum itself has highlighted in its communications about paranormal activity on the property. Disembodied voices and unexplained sounds have been reported across all three floors of the building.
The most persistent paranormal account at the museum involves the apparition of a young girl seen on the second floor. Multiple witnesses across independent investigations have described a child figure in the same general area of the building; the girl's identity and historical connection to the site have not been established from available records.
The museum's relationship with its paranormal reputation is unusually open for a local history institution. It actively programs ghost hunts and walking tours as part of its public offerings, partnering with the Everything Vaguely Paranormal investigation group for overnight events and producing an annual haunted walking tour of downtown Longview that draws from both the museum's history and the surrounding neighborhood's nineteenth-century past.
Notable Entities
A ticketed evening walking tour departing from the museum, covering supernatural legends of downtown Longview including stories from the local opera house and the young girl said to haunt the museum's second floor. Tours run at 6, 7, and 8 PM; tickets $10 per person. Offered seasonally in October — check gregghistorical.org for current schedule.
Ticketed overnight ghost hunts at the museum, hosted by the Everything Vaguely Paranormal group. Investigators have documented disembodied voices, a door opening and closing on film, and unexplained sounds across all three floors. Events are scheduled through the museum and third-party event platforms.
The Gregg County Historical Museum occupies a historic downtown Longview building and maintains collections covering the region's history from the East Texas oil boom through the present. The museum is steps from the site of the 1894 Dalton Gang bank robbery that killed multiple Longview citizens.
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