Did workers really see a ghost inside an abandoned underwater Texas traffic tunnel?

AUSTIN, Texas — The Washburn Tunnel, which runs under the Houston Ship Channel and connects the cities of Galena Park with Pasadena, is the last remaining traffic tunnel in the entire state of Texas.

Not far from there, though, is where a similar tunnel under the ship channel that connected Baytown and LaPorte once sat.

The tunnel that connected Baytown and LaPorte is now gone, and the story of its demolition may involve a ghost.

Now, most of us would probably avoid a creepy forest, or a haunted house around Halloween time, but for some, an abandoned traffic tunnel buried nearly 100 feet below the water level under a busy ship channel seems spookier.

In 1998, the tunnel was permanently closed and was to be removed for waterway expansion. And so it came to pass that when construction cr