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The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories

Haunted Freddo ATX - Part II

The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories

Night Owl Paranormal Investigations

Spooky, True Crime, Spirit, Ghost Stories, Haunted, History, Paranormal, Paranormal Investigation, Hauntings, Scary, Ghost, Paranormal Activity, Society & Culture

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In tonight’s episode, the Night Owl team returns to Freddo ATX — a cozy café and bar tucked inside a stunning Victorian home at the corner of South Congress and Oltorf in Austin, Texas. In their previous visit, they gathered stories from the owners, staff, and a local ghost tour group that routinely stops at the property. The reports were unsettling: a heavy, foreboding presence on the first floor, strange thuds and disembodied voices, whispered names, phantom footsteps, and sightings of a wo...

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0:00.0

The Night Owl Podcast, Episode 60, Haunted Fredo ATX, part two.

0:08.9

Welcome to the Night Out podcast. I'm your host Stephen Ballou, and this is a place for all your

0:13.1

rest of spirits out there to tune in and hear true tales of the paranormal. I hunt these stories down,

0:18.6

capture them from the mouths of those who've experienced them,

0:22.8

and share them with you right here.

0:26.4

We're currently looking for more personal ghost stories or haunted locations,

0:30.1

so if you or someone you know has one, please submit it to us for consideration.

0:35.8

Go to the nightoutpodcast.com, click on the submit your story page, and let us hear your ghost story.

0:47.2

In tonight's episode, the night out team returns to Fredo ATX, a cozy cafe and bar tucked inside a stunning Victorian home at the corner of South Congress and Oldorf in Austin, Texas.

0:52.9

In our previous visit, we gathered stories from the owners, staff, and a local ghost tour group

0:57.7

that routinely stops at the property.

1:00.1

The reports were eerie, a heavy foreboding presence on the first floor, strange thuds and

1:04.8

disembodied voices, whispered names, phantom footsteps, and sightings of a woman, and even

1:10.7

children in the upstairs windows.

1:13.2

These sightings were so frequent, someone once threatened to call CPS.

1:16.8

Still, with Fredo only occupying this house since 2021, the staff aren't quite sure what or who

1:23.0

might be haunting this place. Some point, half jokingokingly to the home's most famous former resident,

1:29.4

Walter Tips, a ragster Rich's entrepreneur who rose to become one of Austin's most successful

1:34.5

merchants and eventually a Texas state senator. He lived and died in this home. But could he still

1:41.4

be here? And if so, could there be others trying to make themselves known?

1:46.0

Tonight, my team and I returned to Fredo,

1:49.0

joined by not one, not two, but three psychic mediums,

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