In Dosha Williams book Ghosts Along the Texas Coast. When this ghost story is finished, I am going to elaborate on The lives of the Karankawa Indians that lived around Rockport, Texas.
‘’Around 1883 a landowner in Estes Flats south Of Rockport TX, decided to build some boat storage barns.The ground had been leveled first before the actual building process could begin. One portion of the land formed a good sized hill. No one realized at the time that this had been an old Indian burial mound until the bulldozers came in and uncovered some skeletal remains and some artifacts. Archeologists were dispatched from a nearby university, and they determined that the mound probably represented the sacred burial grounds of a community of Karankawas. Nothing was actually removed from the mound, and the bones were resettled into their previous resting place as carefully as possible.’’
‘’ One night, soon after a woman was awakened very suddenly from a sound sleep. She distinctly saw the figure of an Indian man standing by the side of her bed. He was bare chested, and had long hair. He seemed to be bending toward her, intently studying her. She cried out, the figure disappeared immediately. The figure she saw was so real that she did not think it could possibly be a dream. The only other incident that was unusual that happened after the burial mound was disturbed was about five days later. This was when. In the house, all of the kitchen cupboards were standing wide open. Later that week she was telling a visitor to her house about what had happened, and the visitor said, I just can’t believe any of this. I don’t believe in ghosts when suddenly from off the shelf in the pantry, clearly visible to both of them, flew off the shelf and crossed the narrow hallway to the center of the kitchen floor. It had not fallen from the shelf, it flew from the shelf.’’
‘’Most of the skulls faced east-northeast. Dr. Richard Marcum, professor of history at Corpus Christi State University, said the Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that ranged the coastal area from about the 1200 to the mid-1800s, traditionally buried their dead facing the sunrise.’’
The archeological materials from the site consisted of perhaps hundreds of ancient Indian burials that had been placed in a clay dune, a topographic feature common on bays and lower portions of creeks on the coast south of Corpus Christi. There was little evidence of habitation, and the site was apparently devoted to mortuary use.
According to the Corpus Christy Caller
‘’Nueces County has the highest number of Native American human remains removed from cemeteries in any Texas county and kept by institutions across the country.
