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Legends of Texas, Legends of Lovers and Mexican Treasure

From the time I was young I can remember growing up hearing about certain legends and stories from people who lived in Texas in the past. These fasinating gems of information sparked imagination in my mind. They were adventure stories, sad stories, and happy stories all together. These people told stories of survival about the early settlers, Indian raids and brutality, buried treasure, and of course stories of people and the places they came from. What interests me is not the common stories but the stories you often don't hear to often. Legends and myths that have been buried by time and forgotten by those long gone. Having lived in Texas all my life I have come to appreciate this places past and its optimistic looking future. History is and can be boring here in Texas. We all know the stories of our ancestors coming over from Europe, eeking out a hard dirt scratch living to create a new life in this world. Battling against the elements, each other, and nature. The focus is on names, places, historical markers, historic battles, and old leaning houses as dead as the dry ground they stand on. What is not told is the legends, the stuff that is not read in history books. About why two Indian lovers would jump off a cliff in an effort to be together for eternity? What the Indians really did at Enchanted Rock? Where buried treasure is buried in South Texas? Pirate treasure on the coast of Texas? How the missionaries really ministered to the Indians? Ghosts? All the good stuff you never got in school.

Interestingly enough last year I met a woman who wrote books about scary stuff and legends in states up east. She told the stories of the haunted places and so on. It got me interested in those stories down here as she said there wasn't many books out about the subjects. So I went about trying to research some of the legends and luckily enough found some!

So in an effort to have some fun on here and to document a few good legends and stories you probably haven't heard. I wanted to explore some of the old stories from a few sources. Let you stew in their unique mysticism and give your imagination a good ole jumpstart.