Concordia Cemetery

Over 60,000 people are buried here since the first burial in 1856, including Old West gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. Ghost Adventures investigated the site, exploring ties to satanic worship and serial killer Richard Ramirez.

Concordia Cemetery spreads across 52 acres of El Paso's northeast, earning its reputation as "El Paso's Boot Hill" for the outlaws, gunfighters, and desperados who were buried there with their boots still on. Since the first burial in 1856--Juana Stephenson, who died from an infection after being gored by a deer on her own ranch--over 60,000 souls have been interred within these grounds, creating a city of the dead that pulses with ghostly activity.

The cemetery's most notorious resident is John Wesley Hardin, the quintessential Texas outlaw who killed his first man at fifteen. After 24 years in prison, Hardin attempted to practice law in El Paso but was shot in the back of the head at the Acme Saloon in 1895. His spirit roams the cemetery grounds alongside other gunslingers like "Shotgun" John Collins and the murderer L. Bass, their violent deaths perhaps trapping them between worlds.

The Lady in White, known as Lady Flo, drifts through the headstones in her spectral gown, one of the most frequently reported ghosts. Buffalo Soldiers who fought and died in the Indian Wars gallop through on phantom horses, their hoofbeats audible to visitors walking the grounds at dusk. The children's section generates particularly heartbreaking activity--the sounds of giggling and play echo among the tiny graves, and women who have had cesarean sections report strange tingling sensations in their scars when passing the infant section.

A mysterious area known as "The Vortex" exerts strange forces on visitors and equipment alike. During the 1980s, serial killer Richard Ramirez--the Night Stalker--would break into the cemetery to conduct seances among the graves. Today, Concordia hosts ghost tours, Dia de Los Muertos celebrations, and meetings of the John Wesley Hardin Secret Society, embracing its supernatural reputation.