Texas Hill Country's Camp Mystic was a refuge until the floods came – one made of water, the other made of lies. Grieving parents face social media rumors, Internet hoaxes and political attacks.

At least 19 of the cabins at Camp Mystic were located in designated flood zones, including some in an area deemed “extremely hazardous” by the county.

Camp Mystic’s emergency evacuation policies and practices need to be examined, according to Tillotson. Advertisement “The youngest girls were placed [in cabins] closest to the river,” he said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, according to an analysis by NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and data scientists.

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.

Camp Mystic following flood damage in Hunt, Texas on July 7, 2025. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty. In 1987, flooding hit the Pot O' Gold Christian Camp in Comfort, Texas, killing 10 teenagers ...

Camp Mystic, which largely sits in a flood-prone area, lost 27 campers and counselors in the disaster. No cabin suffered more than Bubble Inn. Most of its 15 campers and counselors were killed.

It was 1932, just six years after Camp Mystic opened, when an early July rain began falling on the Texas Hill Country around the Guadalupe River. At first, it was a “lovely, gentle rain,” one ...