THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Port Isabel Cemetery is associated with reports of ghostly apparitions and unexplained lights among its historic graves. Visitors have described mysterious voices, shadow figures, and eerie encounters after dark. Local legends have made the cemetery one of the area's haunted locations.
Port Isabel Cemetery began with workers on El Fronton de Santa Isabel Ranch since the 1840s, although the oldest gravestones that still stand are from the 1880s. It became a Catholic cemetery (French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate) in 1849, but folks of all faiths are buried here. The apparition of a little boy is said to wander throughout the cemetery.