San Antonio paranormal investigators Curious Twins Tours & Events are fighting to save a crumbling hospital 80 miles southeast of the city that they recently acquired to host ghost tours and other events.
The Curious Twins, whose real names are Fred and Stephen Garza-Guzman, bought the former Yorktown Memorial Hospital on July 9 from junk artist and former attorney Phillip Ross, who was featured in a March cover story by the Current. Less than a month after the purchase closed, the City of Yorktown informed the pair that the building is unsafe for occupancy.
“On Friday, August 22, 2025, the City of Yorktown posted an unexpected public notice stating that Yorktown Memorial Hospital is officially closed,” the duo posted on Instagram on Friday. “As the new owners, this decision came without warning, due process, or any prior code violations, making our business inaccessible to the public.”
For now, Curious Twins has cancelled all ghost tours and events at the property while the owners fight to reopen it.
The site has been a decades-long destination for those with a penchant for the paranormal. Some even consider the abandoned general hospital, built in 1951, the “most haunted building in Texas” due to the large number of souls who departed this mortal plane while within its walls — reportedly around 2,000.
“Our goal has always been to preserve, protect [and] respectfully share this powerful story,” the Curious Twins said in their Instagram post. “We fear the city’s actions could unintentionally erase this irreplaceable piece of Yorktown’s heritage.”
In an interview with TV station KENS 5, the Garza-Guzmans said they don’t want to operate the abandoned hospital as a business but rather a private institution for the paranormal.
Nonetheless, the Yorktown Memorial Hospital website encourages visitors to book ghost tours, paranormal investigations and other events for a fee. The Curious Twins have also discussed the possibility of opening a gift shop at the structure.
Yorktown City Council met Monday evening to discuss the decision to shut down the spooky destination.
At the council meeting Ross, who still holds the lien on the hospital, called the city’s actions unlawful, KENS 5 reports.
“There are administrative procedures that have to be in place in order to deny a private property owner the full enjoyment of their property rights and their rights to due process,” Ross, who’s seasoned at battling city hall over his own property rights, told the Yorktown council.
The Curious Twins rallied their following ahead of Monday’s meeting, enlisting the ghost-hunting community to call Yorktown’s elected officials and urge them to keep the venue open. On their Instagram account, the pair said they arranged a meeting with the city’s leadership in the next few days to discuss the future of the haunted hotspot.
“Your phone calls, messages and emails were noticed, and we are planning a meeting with Yorktown city leadership in the coming week,” the pair wrote in a caption for an online photo showing them in front of the Dewitt County Annex Building.
“Stay tuned as we work to keep Yorktown Memorial Hospital open and take steps toward Texas State historic designation,” the Curious Twins added.
At their upcoming meeting with city leadership, the brothers plan to argue that Yorktown Hospital is the main reason many come to the small town, which has a population of less than 1,800.
“Our next step is to help the City Council understand the loss behind what’s going on — our perspective, and the economic impact that closing down the only real attraction Yorktown has could cost the city,” one of the brothers told KENS 5.
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This article appears in Aug 21 – Sep 2, 2025.
