San Antonio has numerous attractions such as the Buckhorn Museum, Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, Fiesta Texas and Sea World. The city also has a reputation for other- worldly attractions as well. The Alamo is stunning and somber by day; haunted by night. The Menger Hotel has a long and interesting history; ghosts are encountered there on an almost routine basis.
On your next vacation to San Antonio, include one of the top three ghost tours as part of your agenda. Take pictures of faces and things no one can explain.
Tours take visitors through graveyards with haunted reputations, the Menger Hotel and its many ghostly visitors and other areas. Most of the tours take place at night, when spiritual activity seems to be the most active.
It does need to be stated that the Daughters of the Alamo, the governing board for the Alamo, will not allow ghost tours or visitors inside at night. Although a hotbed of ghostly activity, the site is still a consecrated church and a national and state landmark.
The Alamo Ghost Hunt
The tour does not list a home address. Reservations can be made by calling (210) 336-7831 or emailing a reservation request to [email protected].
The tour begins outside Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, located at 307 Alamo Plaza in San Antonio.
Every tour member is given ghost-hunting equipment to use. Camcorders or other electronic recording devices are prohibited. Cameras that take still pictures are allowed.
They have a bus tour and a walking tour; each has different prices and times. Visit their website for more information.
Sisters Grimm Ghost Tours of San Antonio
Meeting in front of the Alamo on Alamo Plaza in San Antonio at 8:15pm, the Nightly Candelight Ghost Tour takes visitors to 13 different haunted places. Tour guides are dressed in period costumes and carry lanterns. They are experts at storytelling and San Antonio’s ghostly history.
The Candelight Dinner and Ghost Tour is held in one of America’s most haunted hotels; The Menger Hotel. Dinner is served at 7:00pm while the history of the Menger is given. See if you can spot the ghost of the late President Roosevelt as he sits at the bar trying to recruit Roughriders.
The tour then visits other sites in San Antonio.
Reservations are required and can be made by emailing [email protected] or calling (210) 638-1338. Their home office address is not given on the website. All visitors meet at the Alamo or at the Menger Hotel.
Best San Antonio Ghost Tours
Martin Leal has created a tour that is advertised as a ghost hunt. Their tour begins at 8:15pm at the Cenotaph, the large “L-shaped” monument in front of the Alamo. The tour guide will be wearing a blue backpack with the inscription “Alamo City Paranormal.”
Reservations are required and can be made by calling (210) 345-6640. After the tour guide gives an introduction, you will then pay for your tour.
This is the only ghost tour organized by a professional ghost hunter who has worked with T.A.P.S, and has been a consultant for the History and Discovery channels.
Ghost hunting equipment such as EMF detectors, temperature guns and a thermal camera are used during the tour.
You are encouraged to bring a camera or video camera if you have one to record your tour and possibly capture the paranormal on film.
Few cities have had television shows such as T.A.P.S. and others targeting the paranormal like San Antonio. Our ghosts do not seem to be interested in harming anyone; rather they seem to go about their “business,” leaving the living to their concerns.
See the Alamo by day and the rest of San Antonio by night. Who knows? You may just catch a Defender of the Alamo, a past president or other presence on film.
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