Houston Heights

Houston, Texas, June 18th, 1953.

It's about 2:30 in the morning, and a young housewife named Hilda Walker and two neighbors, Howard Phillips and Judy Meyer, are sitting out on a porch in the Houston Heights.

Hilda notices a huge shadow moving across the lawn that bounces up into a pecan tree.

She looks at the tree and sees a figure about six and a half feet tall surrounded by a dim yellow glow, dressed in gray or black tight-fitting clothes.

713-440-8870 is the phone number to call.

We've got Bobber on the line from the Houston Heights area.

Bobber, welcome to Hello Houston.

Yeah, hi.

So I destroyed, I think I put like five cubic pounds, whatever that is, of Xenia in the drainage ditch.

So if you want that in the Heights in Houston, Texas, you can go.

It's probably fossilized by now.

But no, first off, don't put Xenia in your tank.

So I learned this last night on Allegedly with Allison Barber.

She has the whole story about H- ou- the Houston Heights murder.

Oh gosh.

And the guy's still in-

Sightings began back in the 1950s when a bat-like humanoid was seen all over the area by numerous witnesses.

The first official sighting happened in June 1953 when three neighbors at the Houston Heights apartment complex saw what they would describe as a very tall man or man-like figure standing about 6.5 feet tall with bat-like wings attached to his back.

Making it all even stranger was that the entity seemed to be surrounded by an ethereal glow Ever since then, the Batman of Houston has been seen across the city, often causing witnesses to freeze for no discernible reason and has never entirely been explained.

What lies out there in the badlands of the state of Texas? What strange creatures and entities call this place home? We're not likely to find any concrete answers anytime soon, but such accounts serve to get the imagination going.

But spend a few minutes here and the pairing starts to make perfect sense.

Located in the historic Houston Heights neighborhood at the MKT development on North Shepherd, it's a Portuguese Indian canteen, a labor of love created by husband and wife chefs Shiva Patel and Rick DiVirgilio.

This is Maiden House Houston.

My name is Megha McSwain.