Haunted Places in Andrews County, Texas -
http://theshadowlands.net/places/texas.htm
Andrews - Andrews Middle School - they say that when you go
to the school when its dark you can park your car in an angle
with your headlights on in front of the school and you can see
a shadow that spells out " Thirteen " because the legend
goes that a young boy use to always tag drawings and that he died
on his birthday the 13th and that was the same day he died.
Andrews - Shafter Lake - Just north of Andrews, Texas, west
of Highway 385, is the original location of the county seat of
Andrews County, Shafter. It was named after a Confederate general
of the same last name. The town was almost completely wiped out
by a smallpox epidemic around the turn of the last century, possibly
sometime before 1910. Up until about ten years ago, the cemetery
where the victims were buried was located on the near edge of
the small lake (which comes and goes as it pleases), but the bodies
were moved and reentered elsewhere. Legend was that a "lady
in white" haunted the graveyard, possibly the reason for
its removal. Sometime during the fall of the year, you may also
see a troop of Confederate soldiers and their horses galloping
across the lake, usually during a full moon. Most think it is
General Shafter and his men, who did patrol that area before it
was settled, trying to escape Comanche Indians pursing them..
By the way, the lake wasn't (and isn't) always there. It just
appeared sometime in the forties, according to my mother, who
lived in the area from 1948 on. The water is very salty, not
good for anything, and there is no explanation for its being there
at all.