He leaned over to look, but he could not see much because he was sitting on a platform. As he sat up there waiting, he started to hear footsteps walking around the base of the tree. Once he got up and situated himself, he made himself very quiet and still, so that he could watch for the deer. On that day, Miers went to a tree stand near the ranch. But hunting in the Devil’s Backbone is not like anywhere else in the world. Another was witnessed by John Miers, who had come there to hunt deer. The monk is but one of many spirits that prowl the ranch. When Bert went outside to get a closer look, there was no one there.
Then, the monk disappeared into the mist. The monk appeared to be from the 1700s he was dressed in a habit from that time period and had a cross hanging around his neck.īert watched the monk for about fifteen seconds. He does not believe the monk was a living person. When he looked through the living room window, he saw a Spanish monk standing outside, illuminated in light. One cold night, at around midnight, he was finishing typing up a story on his typewriter when he heard his dogs barking and the wind blowing. But one of his strangest experiences took place at his ranch house. I was hunting the Devil, and he is still out there."īert says that on multiple occasions, he has seen mysterious lights while out working cattle. When Bert asked him what the creature was, he said, "The Devil.
Fortunately, he was able to escape without injury. In the cave were several rattlesnakes that came after him. When he cornered it in a cave, he shot it in the head, but his bullets did not seem to affect the creature. It followed the hunter as he went through the land. It had huge red eyes and appeared to exhale fire from its nostrils. He first heard about them when he was a child and has been interested in them ever since.īert heard one story from a hunter who was stalked by a goat-type creature in The Devil’s Backbone. He has been researching and documenting the area’s ghost stories for years. Or so says longtime resident and historical writer Bert Wall. More than a century later, renegade Confederate soldiers on a doomed quest for gold breathed their last in the area. Among them was a Franciscan monk named Espinoza, infamous for his ruthless ambition. In the 1700s, Spaniards pushed through on the road to conquest. Its gnarled canyons were once home to Comanche and Apache tribes. History: When it comes to ghosts per square mile, few places short of purgatory can match the 4,700 acres in central Texas known as "The Devil’s Backbone." It is located northeast of San Antonio and about fifty miles south of Austin. Its name comes from the term "Diablo Espinoza" or "Spiny Devil." The area contains 4,700 acres of undeveloped property filled with mountains, ravines, woodlands, ranches, and hunting cabins. The ridge offers an "unparalleled" view of miles of rolling ranchland. It is located along Ranch Roads 12 and 32 between Wimberley and Blanco, Texas. It includes a narrow limestone ridge about twenty miles long, with an elevation of 1,225 feet. Description: The Devil's Backbone is an area located in Texas Hill Country in northwestern Comal County, about fifty miles south of Austin, Texas.
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