08/13/2026
There was a series of articles in the Stephenville Tribune in 1924 about the murder of a mother and her baby at McDow's Hole just after the Civil War, near Alexander. The story at the time was that Indians had killed them. Joe Fitzgerald, who owned a nearby nursery published a series of ghost stories about the murder to draw interest to the area. W.H. Fooshee, who came to the area in 1871 saw the articles and answered in another article that this was the first he had heard of the ghost. He noted that the water hole on Green Creek was a gathering place during Indian raids. In 1925 an article appeared signed "The Ghost" saying that the murders were not done by Indians as most people at the time believed, but by white men. He said that two of the men were still alive and one of them still lived in Erath County.
