san antonio ghost tour
that's what i did tonight. was fun. i enjoy walking around downtown, but this was cool. heard some CREEPY stories, got a new app. still not sure about the app, if it works for real or if it's just a gimmick programmed to spit out words and show radar hits randomly. but i do know that quite a few of the words i picked up with it tonight were relevant. and there was a long window of time(bout 20 minutes) where nothing came through.
anyways, went to the gunter hotel. it has one HELL of a story attached to it. and a room so fucking haunted that no one has ever been able to make it through an entire night in it. one NASTY murder took place in it. which is still an open case because they never found the body. just a maid who walked in on a man covered head to toe in blood. the room drenched in blood with pieces of human flesh here and there. and then the guy went to another hotel, tried to book the same room number, had to settle for the room under it. went in and shot himself in the head. a few days prior he'd tried to buy an industrial strength meat grinder.
hit the alamo, which is said to have the ghost of one of the fighter's son.
the nix building, whose owner and designer one day took the elevator to the top floor and jumped. said to haunt the fourth floor, which was his office and the whole floor was his. it's a medical building now.
the crocket hotel, which is just outside the alamo. top and bottom floors are supposed to be haunted. and there's a spot outside that is haunted by a spanish soldier. it was their rendezvous point for their assault on the alamo, guess one guy it still holding post.
the menger hotel, which is supposed to be the most haunted building in san antonio. been recognized on several tv shows. there was a story that some really important(texan) dude had stayed there and died in one of the rooms there and then they kept his body lying in state for a long time. he has been photographed standing on the balcony of that room. but the story i liked was about sally white. back in the...long ass time ago(when $32 was a heaping sum of money), she was a maid at the hotel. she left work one day and in the middle of the street her husband came up and shot her cuz he thought she was having an affair. she died in the road. the hotel staff loved her so much that they paid for her funeral(the $32), and even have the receipt for that bill hanging in the lobby of the hotel. people still see her in the halls, and if approached or asked if she needs help she'll tell people to leave her alone. she's not very nice to the patrons.
and the express news building(which is the paper here), most haunted office building in san antonio. haunted by shadows of children. their shadows can be seen running down the halls, climbing on the walls...and the ceilings. the guide said one night the group saw a shadow climb out of one window and go up the side of the building two floors and back into the window. the building is built on what used to be a schoolyard.
and the parking lot we were standing in had once been a cemetery. the city moved 3000 bodies to use the land. when they started to build the building on the other side, they found 16 bodies that the city had forgotten to take. and that building, as well as the emily morgan hotel that is across the street from it and it itself looks out over the alamo, you can hear the battle of the alamo. full on battle, yelling, gunfire, the whole nine. and they're renovating the building now, and the workers there constantly feel like there is something else with them; constantly looking over their shoulders. standing in that parking lot is the one place of the entire tour that i felt a little creeped. had the goosebumps and just kinda creepy feeling of something not being right. i'm a little sensitive to things like that, so i really wish i'd been able to pull it out and see if anything came up.
so...some of the words that came up on the app(ghost radar classic). volume when some big trucks were driving by and the guide had to stop talking cuz it was too loud. back when he was saying the dude at the gunter went down the fire escape on the other side of the building. pattern when he was showing us a picture and telling us to look at the outfit of the image in the pic(which was a civil war outfit, which is what is seen at that building). temperature when we were bitching about the heat before we headed out. sadly, i couldn't use it for the last building, where we standing on the old cemetery grounds cuz my battery was on its last legs.
there were other buildings on the tour, but that's what i specifically remember. it was fun and well worth the $15 i paid for it. if you're ever in san antonio, i'd recommend taking it. they pass out tools; non-contact thermometers(the kinds where you shoot a laser at something), emf detectors, and i think they were k2 devices, but i don't remember exactly. whether you believe in ghosts or not, it's a nice walk through downtown and a cool bit of history is learned. http://satxghosttour.com/ is the address for the group.
anyways, went to the gunter hotel. it has one HELL of a story attached to it. and a room so fucking haunted that no one has ever been able to make it through an entire night in it. one NASTY murder took place in it. which is still an open case because they never found the body. just a maid who walked in on a man covered head to toe in blood. the room drenched in blood with pieces of human flesh here and there. and then the guy went to another hotel, tried to book the same room number, had to settle for the room under it. went in and shot himself in the head. a few days prior he'd tried to buy an industrial strength meat grinder.
hit the alamo, which is said to have the ghost of one of the fighter's son.
the nix building, whose owner and designer one day took the elevator to the top floor and jumped. said to haunt the fourth floor, which was his office and the whole floor was his. it's a medical building now.
the crocket hotel, which is just outside the alamo. top and bottom floors are supposed to be haunted. and there's a spot outside that is haunted by a spanish soldier. it was their rendezvous point for their assault on the alamo, guess one guy it still holding post.
the menger hotel, which is supposed to be the most haunted building in san antonio. been recognized on several tv shows. there was a story that some really important(texan) dude had stayed there and died in one of the rooms there and then they kept his body lying in state for a long time. he has been photographed standing on the balcony of that room. but the story i liked was about sally white. back in the...long ass time ago(when $32 was a heaping sum of money), she was a maid at the hotel. she left work one day and in the middle of the street her husband came up and shot her cuz he thought she was having an affair. she died in the road. the hotel staff loved her so much that they paid for her funeral(the $32), and even have the receipt for that bill hanging in the lobby of the hotel. people still see her in the halls, and if approached or asked if she needs help she'll tell people to leave her alone. she's not very nice to the patrons.
and the express news building(which is the paper here), most haunted office building in san antonio. haunted by shadows of children. their shadows can be seen running down the halls, climbing on the walls...and the ceilings. the guide said one night the group saw a shadow climb out of one window and go up the side of the building two floors and back into the window. the building is built on what used to be a schoolyard.
and the parking lot we were standing in had once been a cemetery. the city moved 3000 bodies to use the land. when they started to build the building on the other side, they found 16 bodies that the city had forgotten to take. and that building, as well as the emily morgan hotel that is across the street from it and it itself looks out over the alamo, you can hear the battle of the alamo. full on battle, yelling, gunfire, the whole nine. and they're renovating the building now, and the workers there constantly feel like there is something else with them; constantly looking over their shoulders. standing in that parking lot is the one place of the entire tour that i felt a little creeped. had the goosebumps and just kinda creepy feeling of something not being right. i'm a little sensitive to things like that, so i really wish i'd been able to pull it out and see if anything came up.
so...some of the words that came up on the app(ghost radar classic). volume when some big trucks were driving by and the guide had to stop talking cuz it was too loud. back when he was saying the dude at the gunter went down the fire escape on the other side of the building. pattern when he was showing us a picture and telling us to look at the outfit of the image in the pic(which was a civil war outfit, which is what is seen at that building). temperature when we were bitching about the heat before we headed out. sadly, i couldn't use it for the last building, where we standing on the old cemetery grounds cuz my battery was on its last legs.
there were other buildings on the tour, but that's what i specifically remember. it was fun and well worth the $15 i paid for it. if you're ever in san antonio, i'd recommend taking it. they pass out tools; non-contact thermometers(the kinds where you shoot a laser at something), emf detectors, and i think they were k2 devices, but i don't remember exactly. whether you believe in ghosts or not, it's a nice walk through downtown and a cool bit of history is learned. http://satxghosttour.com/ is the address for the group.