What Followed Them Down the Staircase | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Sarah never considered herself the kind of person who goes looking for ghosts. Visiting the Driskill Hotel in Austin was supposed to be more about history, sightseeing, and having fun with friends than chasing paranormal activity.
Honestly, the hotel’s ghost stories felt a little too polished to take seriously. Haunted room pamphlets. Famous legends. Tourists hoping to see something spooky.
But right before leaving the hotel, one final photo on the grand staircase forced her to reconsider everything.
What showed up in the pictures didn’t look like dust, camera glare, or a random lighting issue. And the stranger part? The same thing appeared twice… moving between shots.
Years later, she still isn’t sure whether they accidentally captured proof of something paranormal—or whether the Driskill simply has a way of making skeptics question themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Real Ghost Stories Online, did they get a picture of something paranormal at the Driscoll |
| 0:07.9 | Hotel? Or was there just something wrong with the camera? |
| 0:13.5 | This is Real Ghost Stories Online. |
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| 0:49.4 | I'm Carol Hughes and my sister Kathy Gordon today. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, hello. |
| 0:53.9 | Hey, I'm super excited about this creepy hotel thing. |
| 0:58.6 | I know. Have you ever heard of it because it's a hotel in Austin, Texas? |
| 1:10.4 | I have heard of it. And I actually, I believe, if I have this right, it's the one where you can go out and have a cocktail and sit on the balcony that overlooks, you know, the street that runs in front of the Capitol. |
| 1:14.2 | And I do believe I've had a cocktail there and we've been through it before. |
| 1:20.3 | I'm going to look it up real quick because Hotel in Austin, Texas, |
| 1:27.0 | because it almost seems like a place that, and I wouldn't have stayed there because our sister lives there. |
| 1:31.5 | But she's taken me there a couple times and she might have taken you. |
| 1:34.3 | This place looks haunted A.F. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, I think it is. |
| 1:39.1 | And this story goes back a few years ago. |
| 1:42.2 | So it's Sarah from Dallas, Texas. |
| 1:46.4 | And she says, I just wanted to say I love the show. |
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