The Haunted Menger Hotel In San Antonio, Texas

     While in San Antonio, you know to visit the Alamo, but you may not all know, to visit the Menger Hotel.  I had my first glimpse at this haunted beauty this year, guided by an old friend of mine.  Less than two dozen steps from the Alamo and planted right on top of the bloody battlefield, this hotel is loaded with legend and lore. The truth is in fact, stranger than fiction.  The hotel is now 151 years old, and was built about 23 years after the battle, many of the items in the oldest part of the hotel include hand made grandfather clocks also 151 years old, 17th century paintings, and of coarse pictures of the presidential guests from Teddy to Clinton. 

   In the original bar, Teddy Roosevelt recruited some of his Rough-riders and there is a table in one of the hallways that they were sitting at during that meeting.

   The King Ranch Suite is the legendary haunted room where Richard King died in his bed, and guests still stay the night there. You can see him walk through the wall, where a door way used to be or sit on top of the bed your about to sleep on....

  If you listen to the videos one story is of a black housekeeper who was common-law married to a large white man and he murdered her in a jealous rage,  no one was there to claim her body, she died slowly, from a stomach shot, he fled, and the hotel she worked for, paid for her funeral, so she returns there to this day, even though the murder was not in the hotel itself.

   While I was there just to tour it, because it was a little too expensive for us that weekend, we talked to a British couple that traveled all the way from the UK and chose the Menger, and they were very satisfied with it. The only strange experiences I had, being it was so early in the evening, were just odd energy, thick dense spots, that you usually only get in a haunted place, or touching an old object from an antique store, you know that fuzzy dizzy feeling, sensitives are drawn too. Also a strange woman who was old and in a wheel chair I think, stopped my friend to tell him how beautiful  I was. It was very strange the way she complemented me, or maybe I am not used to compliments, but I just wondered what prompted her to do that and who she was.

   If you are going to San Antonio you should try to stay at the Menger. Being right there at the Alamo, and the River walk its pure vacation, its a very romantic vacation and everything along the River walk is all you need to enjoy the visit.   Across from the Alamo are the Ripley's museums and haunted ride. Good margarita's, bars for young or family, and a very relaxed environment. After living in Houston, I must say the traffic and crowds are not as hectic at all.