For the first ever post to The Haunt, I decided to not stray too far from home; the Driskill Hotel located in my hometown of Austin, Texas. Located in downtown Austin, it was completed in the late 1800's and is the oldest operating hotel in the city, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But with a building that old comes a rich history, and not all of it pleasant. As described in the national register file number 69000212, the file on the Driskill, "The capping elements at the top of each of the street facades are busts of limestone of Driskill and his two sons which were carved by an unknown Italian artisans." Our key figure, Colonel Driskill "is the capping element for the main portico on East 6th Street." It is Colonel Driskill himself that is responsible for the majority of the hauntings at the hotel.Colonel Driskill, whose full name is Jesse Lincoln Driskill, did not originally start off in the hotel industry. He moved from Tennessee to ...