The Haunted La Lomita Mission (Mission, TX)

I was a young boy in 1992 and my parents and I had just moved here. I went with my parents to the mission because back then it was open as a historical marker during the day. I remember it very clearly. It had a long hallway with doors on each side and high ceilings with wood floors. There were pictures in the walls and the doors were all open but the top floor and basement were closed off. In one room was a chapel and it had a scary feeling and I felt heavy in my stomach so I asked my dad if I could wait for them outside. While outside I see a girl about my age in a white dress and dark hair like wanting to play so I followed her to say hi, as I followed she kept making me signs like “come look” once I got to a big statue of the Virgin Mary she disappeared. It was like a concrete courtyard and the statue was there with flowers around her. I heard crying sounds and instantly felt so scarreeddddd I ran to my car and waited for my parents to tell them the story. As we drove off my mother said she heard crying from the basement and said she could feel tragic things happened there. Soon after they stopped opening it ot the public.

I worked at the residential hall back in 1986 or so. One day, a client and I went to make copies in the main La Lomita building where the administration worked during the day. This was in the evening about 7 pm, still light, and we had to unlock to get in. I had no idea, this place was haunted at that time and as we were making copies in a room, we heard footsteps clear and loud coming down the hallway. They sounded like Mens shoes against a wood floor. I asked my client to check to see who was coming and he peered into the hallway to see. He turns around really scared and tells me, Miss, there is no one in the hallway. I heard them again and went to check myself and saw no one. I immediately used the phone to call someone back at the residential in the back and they checked all the rooms with security system and there was no one. They also came and got us as we were huddled in the copy room and went thru the whole building and there was no one. The guy that checked kinda started laughing because he knew the place was haunted and had seen many things too. Also, on one of the rooms upstairs there was a Star formation in the tile on the floor. I asked about it and a Staff member just shrugged in a knowing way (Astronomy room maybe?) I never forgot about that incident and many years later a different job I was talking to a co worker about working there and she told me one of her relatives was working with a crew there doing some type of construction and says they unearthed satanic books and told the boss, but the Boss said to get rid of them and not say anything. I did hear from the Staff there about other incidents like a cross in the basement that they would put up and it would come down and a room that always showed in the security system that someone was there, but when checked, no one was there. Pretty creepy working there cuz I worked the night shift.

My brother had told me and my little brother a story where he went with his friends one night and they tried recording and their phones wouldnt work to record nor take pictures and that they saw shadows and heard a women shriek so they ran away and he was scared for a couple of days in shock. When he told us the story me and my brother where like naaa your lying! So hes like look lets go so we went waited outside the gates for a couple of minutes and nothing. We told my brother you see your a liar hes like lets wait longer, so we waited and i started seeing black shadows across the front lawn I was like am i imaginating or am i seeing right and we where all concentrating when we heard a girl shriek we drove off real quick in panick my little brother hid under the seat crying & i was crying of fear as well it was the scariest day of my life !!! It sucks that its no longer there .

A few of my friends and I drove there a couple years after 2007. I don’t remember what year exactly. I had not heard anything about the area or what it used to be. I didn’t know anything about it – but I did see a monk walk across the grass in front of the building. The are was lit up with bright lights and I do remember seeing a person – dressed in a brown garment walk across the lawn. It was dark – I don’t know where he went but I didn’t think it was a huge deal. Until now – WOW….

One night many years ago before it burned down. We took a drive out there just to check it out. At the time you could drive right up to it. We drove up to the front to read historical marker plack. Sitting in the truck my husband read the plack out loud. As he read we could hear whistling of a song,but as he continued to read we realize the whistling was coming from inside the truck. My niece was sitting in the backseat and asked if we were listening I turned around and said I thought you were whistling as we spoke about the whistling and it got louder. And my husband said I think someone’s in here with us. I softly said I’m sorry we have to go and you’re not allowed to go with us you have to stay here. The whistling stopped and we drove away. Needless to say it was a strange and interesting encounter at this place . We were sad to hear Let It Burn Down.