My Girl Scout Troop had stayed a night at the USS Lexington a couple years ago. Once the ship started to close the night we were staying I had a creepy feeling for the rest of the time we were there. The only time it was uncomfortable though was while we were sleeping.

While our Tour person was giving us a night tour/ ghost stories walk. The creepiest room for me was the sick bay. It could have been the fact that there had been a high school group there at the time and they were being crazy, but that area gave me the chills.

One of the experiences i’ve had was while we were sleeping in our bunks I kept feeling something around my feet like someone tugging on my blankets. In the morning my friends said I kept screaming for something to get off me and go away.

I’m not sure if it’s really connected but be were told there was a boy that would run up and down the rows of bunks in our room. I dont think they ever mentioned anything about it pulling sheets.. or even interacting with people.. but our our made me just feel uncomfortable while we were there. It could have also been a bad dream, but the tugging felt real to me.

Over all I loved it there and I’d like to go back and stay the night again. I’m very interested in the paranormal and I can’t wait to see the Ghost Hunter’s episode of the USS Lexington.

My husband, daughter and I are going to Corpus next month (then off to Sea World…yeah!!!) Anyway, my husband and I went to Corpus a while back before our daughter was born and I was bored out of my mind on the Lexington. My husband had a ball though. A few weeks ago I told him that Tori (our daughter) and I would stay on the beach if he wanted to go check out the Lexington again. That is until I saw that TAPS went there! I had NO idea it was haunted…so now I’m totally GUNG HO to go to the Lexington! Can’t wait! I’ll let you guys know we see/feel anything! Wish me luck! :O

Ghost Hunters investigated this place and found some pretty wierd stuff. If you want to know what else they investigated or what they found, go to Scifi.com and clck on ghost hunters.

I spent two nights on the USS Lexington with my grade this past year and we had to do a scavenger hunt throughout this 5 levels that have historical stuff about the ship on them. the whole time i was there i would get chills and feel the presence of something and get really creeped out. i didnt see a ghost. but i do believe there is ghost on it.

I went on that ship when I was five with my grandfather. That ship is haunted. I remember clutching on to him and saying “Pa, can we go back outside? Its creepy in here!” I remember seeing the grates we walked on all over the ship, and I remember the red lights all over the place. I remember my grandfather being 5 feet in front of me and feeling a hand on my shoulder as we passed the engine room. When we went by the Captain’s Quarters, something scratched my neck, and my mother got really worried when we came out. My grandfather swore that nothing had touched me. And according to my grandfather, the Petty Officer I described never exsisted. He even called in a favor to have the name looked up I saw on the uniform. No luck. I remember it like the dinner I just ate, so I know I wasn’t dreaming.

When I was in 5th grade I was in Foster carein Corpus Christi and there was a sort of Christmas party for the foster care kids. We had a tour of the ship and in the sick bay I swear I saw a pale blue shimmer (a light perhaps?) laying on a bed in there, it turned to look in my direction. I clung to my foster mum for the duration of the tour and my time on the ship for the Christmas thing.

I also had the oddest sensation of being wacthed while touring the engine room and around the barber shop. Maybe one day I will go back again.

I’ve been there when they were doing the boyscout tour, they had some of the boyscouts sit on these round things and the floor below there was someone who would turn them slightly to make the boys think a “ghost” moved the chair. I didn’t experience anything weird. I’m more interested in the Old court house.

Hello whoever is reading this comment. I’m gonna tell everyone that I just took a tour of the Lady Lex and of course was spooky because of the age of the ship and also how many deaths took place too. I felt most connected with the captains chair, where they operate the ship… just felt weird, but other than that I didnt feel or see a thing, doesnt mean its not haunted, I just have to go back and investigate more, maybe later at night. What a place to be though!! It was great! I’m going back soon.

I live here in Corpus Christi and i must say that the Lexington is CREEPY!!!Back in Elementary they took us on a field trip to the lexington and back then i was like great another boring field trip!!But to my surprise it wasnt it was kinda scary actually.In one part of the ship they do put up an act and make things move but thats just part of the tour because i remember them making noises and making chains move to scare us but when we went on the rest of the tour walking around the ship was the strangest,creepiest feeling i have ever experienced!!you can seriously feel someone just watching you and no there was no one behind me i was the last in line.Its hard to explain the feeling you get on the lexington you just have to go out there for yourself!!Hopefully i can stay the night one night to see the actual ghost that walks the ship!!

My ex husband was stationed on the Lex in the early 80’s. He was on the “graveyard” shift in the observation area and the stool next to him started to spin as if someone was sitting on it. He hightailed it out of the room and didn’t go back for the rest of his shift.

I was stationed on the Lex for 4 yrs., early 80’s. I never saw anything strange or heard anything strange. I was ships’ Master-at-arms, and worked 12 hour shifts, 1800-0600, and have been everywhere on her, at all times of the day. Some places do feel kinda wierd, or give off “bad vibes”, I guess, but that’s normal in/on a place so old with lots of history.
I also saw that episode of TAPS when they went to the Lex, and ya know what? I can’t find anything about some female dying on her or about a plane crashing into the island except back during WWII. Now that’s wierd! But I loved the time I spent on her, and plan on visiting her as a museum. She may be haunted, people have died on her, but I never sensed anything and normally I’m pretty good at picking up phsyic energy.
Just remember,your mind can and will play tricks on you! Especially after hearing ghost stories!
Happy Halloween!

Well i live in corpus christi i am now in the 10th grade, but when i was in the about 5 grade i remember we went on a school trip to the uss lexington.
we got split up into groups and we where with an adult of course. there are places where it says for you not to go on the ship.Well me and my friend
were very curious so we went beyond the dont enter sign. Well we didnt go far till we turned around.
but we heard chains rattiling?? and than a door slammed shut? well. like a girl said earlier yea they do this to freak us out.. but it was in a closed area so why would they do that in a closed area??
when i watched the show tapps they didnt convince me that it was haunted. and i researched the lady being killed on there and nothing popped up about this lady??
am i convinced about this uss lexington being haunted no. i was a little girl than and i dont know what i thought than.. i’m interested in the comments ya’ll posted and i enjoyed reading them..

Ive been there so many times & i havent seen s***.
I wish i could really see something so i can
s*** myself.Ive heard the scariest noies there
you would believe me.It left me s***less.

Ok peeps this is important to those who believe there are extremely active areas of the ship and if your doing a ghost hunt at night then this is a place you really wanna do. We did a three day stay over with an explorer group we had to watch a bunch of boyscouts we however had a free tour of the place from end to end topto bottoms every nook and cranny just incase we had wayward children meandering aroudn when they should have been sleeping. on our tours we foudn that the lady’s head was active with lights of and on , being brushed against cold drafts from no where and stall doors opening at random with no one present, in the engine room we had disembodied voices and also cold drafts shadow figures and loud banging, in the captains quarters you can hear the soft mumbling of a spirit and see shadows moving to and fro in the room on the steerign room you know where you look out on the ship you can feel somethign walk past you hurriedly and hear footsteps, on the deck of the ship you can hear voices and a giant ghost light at night, in the anchor room you can see shadows moving hear bangin and mumbling down several of the corridors you can see shadows hurring back and forth when no one is around in the gally you can hear pots and pan sclanking and shuffleing when no oen is there. this shipis a must on any investigators list!!

it is haunted in the engine room. when i was in 5th grade my class took a trip their and i swear i saw a man walking around the engine room, it was weird.

Has anyone been able to find anything on the woman who was killed on the Lexy?? They talked about her on Ghost Hunters, and even showed a picture of her, but can’t find any info on her at all! My brother says I am crazy, and am beginning to wonder why this is being hushed up! The Lexy site says no women served on her until the 1980’s!

I spent the weekend there once when I was younger as with a group of other kids my age. Didn’t see or hear anything, but before we went to bed we listened to ghost stories in the engine room, a lot of which really gave me the creeps and made it hard to sleep. It has a different sort of atmosphere at night. I wouldn’t mind going back a second time.

My son and I spent the night on the Lexington this past weekend with his Boy Scout group. The guy who worked on the ship told us ghost stories about the Lexington. I thought they were fake and I thought he was just trying to scare the boys. He told us about four different stories and he did mention a story about a crew member and the sick bay.

There were about 20 women in the group and we slept in seperate quarters from the boys and men. When it was time for lights out we all of course went to sleep. well one lady was speaking in her sleep, she kept saying that we were all being “watched and monitored”. Another lady had told this lady that we weren’t. The other lady didn’t respond so that’s why we all figured she was sleep talking. The next morning that was all she talked about and she was very convinced that we were all being watched.

I don’t beleive in ghosts or hauntings but it is interesting. I have been to the lexington and never knew this about the ship.

During my spring break me and my friend went to Corpus with my suite mate, and she said she would take us to the Lexington. We went, and we were walking around the engine room area, past this grate that was covered over the wall where the elevator shaft used to be down to the torpedo room or something like that. But anyway my friend leaned in by the grate and whistled two notes, the first one low and the second one higher, and right when she did that a gust of warm wind came up out of the shaft and we heard two whistled notes from down at the bottom, the first one high and the second one low. It wasn’t an echo because it was the opposite of what my friend whistled. When she did it again, the same thing happened, but then a group of people came around the area (we could hear them through the pipes) and the whistling stopped. We never heard it again, we even went back the next day, but nothing happened.

Oh and I also forgot, we walked by this photo of this man (I think it was around the berthing area) named Joseph Cox Wassum, and my friend Rachel would get extremely upset every time we passed the photo, and she would feel sick to her stomach several seconds after leaving the room. We walked by it several times and the same thing happened every time. She said she felt overwhelming sadness every time she saw his photo.