Jackson Square Apartments

My grandparents lived on 1602 s Jackson. My sister and I lived with my grandmother and mom. In 2015/16 my sister and I were hanging out on the porch on a nice summer night. We were bored and was singing counting stars by one republic. I was looking at the building as it was getting dark I seen a mist like figure fall from the top floor and disappear before hitting the ground. I swore I heard her scream to I asked my sister if she saw it she said yea. Shortly after that we looked up on the 2nd floor and we seen a man on his mid 30s staring at us. I thought it was a homeless person trying to spook us. But his eyes were deep and a cut slide across his throat. My sister and I turned pale got up ran inside, told our mother she went investigating. She looked up the history and found out that the apartment had a dark past.

October 2025

I lived in my apartment on the first floor, across from Louise & Fred. They were lovely people and helped everyone. They were disciplined, but, kind. The place was run over by roaches, but, they extermined in every unit faithfully every week or month - I forget which. I only remember the awful smell of the insecticide. The building was used to house new immigrants who were brought to the US through Catholic Charity Services. My watch was stolen by someone when I was visiting my neighbor next door. Also, someone twice tried breaking into my apartment while I was home, with company, no less, after Fred, who was elderly, replaced my window a/c unit. I guess some saw him replace it and figured that they could easily remove it, because it was light enough for an elderly man to install. I was always left with a sense of being watched after that and I left shortly thereafter and never went back. Glad I did.

October 2023

Tommy and Johnnie were amazing people. And Louise and Fred... lovely!

But it was haunted. Lots of terrible experiences.

The basement was the most active of all places. But I think it was because they stored old abandoned items there. And possibly things from those who were murdered.

Things would move around on their own. And while I joke it was because of all the roaches, it was really because of spirits.

Devil worshippers loved to hold their gatherings there.

We had a "friend" who had returned after the barracks bombing in Lebannon, He had horrible phantom pains from his missing legs. And he managed to throw himself off the top floor, hitting the stairs and breaking his neck. We lived in the apartment on the ground floor next to the stairs and found him. It was horrible.

My oldest was born while we lived there. And she has memories of things that I know she was never told about.

March 2022

The owners, Johnnie & Tommy Ford, were amazing folks.

The population in the apartment building skewed heavily European immigrant. Particularly Polish.

And while the place was dingy and dark, there were
few times when I got an unexplained chill, but I’m still standing.

Amarillo has a dark history with hauntings and violence. The two definitely
go hand in hand.

December 2017