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Since I didn't do anything of interest today, have the first of the two ghost tour posts complete with links and photos. Enjoy!
I was afraid my tour with Bad Wolf Tours would be rained out. When I was out at lunch the wind was ferocious. At four another hellacious thunderstorm moved in. thankfully it blew out quickly. Then out of 8 people I was the only one who showed up. Instead of giving me back my money and saying I’m sorry (and ouch to how much money he lost), he gave his first time (so he said) personal tour. He and I wandered to thirteen sites and on the way exchanged other true haunting stories. I think he was a bit intimidated and eager to see how he stacked up at the same time when I gave my history of ghost tours everywhere and being a ghost hunter for so many years. (This is a young business and he’s very personable. I’ll have to give him a good tripadvisor review.)
The tour started at the Alamo naturally. Hundreds of Texans and Hispanics died there. Native Americans too. Three of which are supposedly buried in the grassy patch in front of the site. The long barracks was once on the other side of the site (they seem to like to move things around down here). The barracks was once used as a prison and it was so active it was deemed cruel and unusual punishment and a new jail built (and a law put on the books prohibiting incarnation with ornery ghosts).
Alamo at night (the figures in left are real people, not spectors)
Long Barracks. There is an orb in this. I’m not a big orb person. I know a lot of people put some stock in them but mostly they’re dust, humidity, etc.
The Hotel Indigo was once the site of the Maverick’s house and later an early hospital that performed experimental surgery. There is a female ghost with no face and no feet. As the story goes the Native Americans had hostages as did the Caucasians. All the Native American hostages were killed except one little girl who had been tortured, her nose and feet burned with coals. Also seen there is a little girl in 1940s clothing in the 1909 bar looking over the bar ledge. It was once a soda fountain.
Hotel Indigo’s 1909 bar
The next building, the federal building and post office, didn’t stay with me at all other than the ghosts like to set off the metal detectors. I think they were various ghosts from the Alamo.
Federal building -
The Emily Morgan Hotel
had an interesting story. Emily West Morgan, a mulatto, the famous Yellow Rose of the Alamo, lived on this site and it was also a bit more progressive of a hospital with surgeries on the top floor and there were psych wards and a body chute from the 14th floor down to the basement morgue. The ladies room is haunted and the most common haunting is the sounds of gurneys being rolled around. The gurneys themselves were melted down for the pool liner of the hotel.
Emily Morgan bottom -
Emily Morgan top -
This beautiful building had medical symbols all over it from its hospital days including gargoyles depicting the two most common ailments.
Stomach issues -
And dental
Forgot the next one too (geez). One I didn’t get a picture of was a church with a graveyard where Green-eyed Joe a serial killer would lure in other homeless men and cut them up and then comes the Bonham Exchange, a gay club. There is the Bonham poltergeist and a lady in blue who used to appear to men back in the old days. She’s rather out of luck now.
Bonham Exchange The old house part of this (not really visible except from this side in this) had really cool star of David style embellishments on the windows.
The Crockett Hotel was once a lodge for the ODD Fellows lodge and chanting is heard in the hotel. It also has a much newer and tragic story of screams from an elevator shaft that is now sealed off. In the early 21st century a maid backed into the hotel elevator with her cart not realizing it was down for maintenance. She plunged to her death, found the next day when they heard her cell phone ringing. Two years later another maid did the same thing and the hotel sealed the old elevator off. The women screaming is still heard.
Next is the Menger Hotel & bar where you can still see Teddy Roosevelt’s bullet hole in the wall (though this whole bar was moved from the other side of the place. I’m right above it now but this is the ‘new’ part of the hotel. It used to be to the other side of the earliest hotel. In fact the bar was first. Menger was a brewer who then built the hotel. A custodian was cleaning the bar when he saw a soldier in old uniform style (Teddy had a habit of getting guys drunk and signing them to the army pissing off a lot of them). The soldier beckoned the guy over freaking him out. He tried to go through the doors which slammed shut and locked. He had to be rescued by security (there is supposedly tape of this).
The more infamous ghost is Sally White, a maid in the old part of the hotel (I need to go hunt her). She was murdered by her abusive husband and died in the hotel. She’s seen in her uniform bringing towels. She’s been known to unpack for people.
A little girl is also seen outside the Victorian portion of the Menger. She was playing in the road with her teddy bear back in the 1800s and was run over by a carriage and killed. She freaks people out because she looks right at the camera.
A couple orbs in this one. That branch obscuring the second floor windows, that’s hiding my room from view.
Menger at night
The Casino Club
sadly failed as a casino as gambling was outlawed soon after it was finished. It was used for soldiers to room in. It’s now an apartment and soldiers are seen in the mirrors there. The side window is a good place to catch the soldier in uniform.
The Young Tower was built as a masterpiece for two brothers. Unfortunately one brother was a spendthrift and his more responsible brother tried to stop him. He even installed gargoyles to help ward off that badness he thought was going to happen, namely the loss of all their money and the loss of their building. The brother did spend it all. They did lose the building and the responsible brother jumped from the tower. The gargoyles were used in Ghostbusters.
Young Tower
The Aztec Theatre has grand curtains that swing fully open and closed on their own ever since one of the actors there hung himself center stage. The Nix Emergency center was designed to look different from every angle. It used to have a psych ward and a surgery and is still a functioning hospital. At least two doctors and three nurses committed suicide here. One doctor went out the window. Another, after being in the psych ward, was released back to his office where he hung himself.
Aztec
The Gunter Hotel was the site of a grisly murder in 1965. A local binge drinker took up residence in room 636 with a blond with long hair and along dress. He checked out the next day. The maid went up to the room and he answered the door (having gone back up) and he was covered in blood. He told her to stay where she was and she obeyed while he went out the window and down the fire escape with a bindle filled with the cut up blonde. He had also ground parts of her up in a meat grinder and flushed her. He was found a day or so later just down the street in the St Anthony hotel in room 536. He had himself barricaded in and committed suicide when the cops came up. Both rooms are haunted with the nightstand in room 636 being pulled in front of the door and the bed in room 536. A weird side note is there was a serial killer transvestite who wore long blond wigs and dresses but smoked cigars. There was a cigar found in the hotel room and that killer wasn’t seen again. They think she (maybe he) was buried in wet cement in nearby construction.
A few orbs in this one too – Gunter hotel
The Majestic Theatre had a relatively recent haunting too. A couple were fighting in the two condos that were at the top of it (no longer rentable). She went out on the fire escape to scream at him at a safe distance, slipped and fell to her death on the marquee, severing her arm. Being Halloween the party goers thought it was a faked thing.
The two orbs here are about where the body and the severed arm landed so that’s interesting.
In either the indigo or Emily there was a little girl ghost who bounces on the bed in the 6th floor room where she fell to her death from the fire escape.
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0_mother_0. I was talking to the young architect wanna-be student bartender when a completely drunk Hispanic man runs in (I mention this because ethnicity plays a role) and wants to use the bathroom. He has to buy a beer. He looks at me and the student (also Hispanic) and laughs, ‘Oh, she’s a cougar.’ I’m like here we go but the kid looked offended and the guy apologized. He continued to interrupt our conversation about the bartenders hopes and dreams to mostly drunkenly encourage him because they had Aztec blood and there were no better builders and that the bartender got to go to high school was great because his high school was 8 years in prison.
I was afraid my tour with Bad Wolf Tours would be rained out. When I was out at lunch the wind was ferocious. At four another hellacious thunderstorm moved in. thankfully it blew out quickly. Then out of 8 people I was the only one who showed up. Instead of giving me back my money and saying I’m sorry (and ouch to how much money he lost), he gave his first time (so he said) personal tour. He and I wandered to thirteen sites and on the way exchanged other true haunting stories. I think he was a bit intimidated and eager to see how he stacked up at the same time when I gave my history of ghost tours everywhere and being a ghost hunter for so many years. (This is a young business and he’s very personable. I’ll have to give him a good tripadvisor review.)
The tour started at the Alamo naturally. Hundreds of Texans and Hispanics died there. Native Americans too. Three of which are supposedly buried in the grassy patch in front of the site. The long barracks was once on the other side of the site (they seem to like to move things around down here). The barracks was once used as a prison and it was so active it was deemed cruel and unusual punishment and a new jail built (and a law put on the books prohibiting incarnation with ornery ghosts).
Alamo at night (the figures in left are real people, not spectors)
Long Barracks. There is an orb in this. I’m not a big orb person. I know a lot of people put some stock in them but mostly they’re dust, humidity, etc.
The Hotel Indigo was once the site of the Maverick’s house and later an early hospital that performed experimental surgery. There is a female ghost with no face and no feet. As the story goes the Native Americans had hostages as did the Caucasians. All the Native American hostages were killed except one little girl who had been tortured, her nose and feet burned with coals. Also seen there is a little girl in 1940s clothing in the 1909 bar looking over the bar ledge. It was once a soda fountain.
Hotel Indigo’s 1909 bar
The next building, the federal building and post office, didn’t stay with me at all other than the ghosts like to set off the metal detectors. I think they were various ghosts from the Alamo.
Federal building -
The Emily Morgan Hotel
had an interesting story. Emily West Morgan, a mulatto, the famous Yellow Rose of the Alamo, lived on this site and it was also a bit more progressive of a hospital with surgeries on the top floor and there were psych wards and a body chute from the 14th floor down to the basement morgue. The ladies room is haunted and the most common haunting is the sounds of gurneys being rolled around. The gurneys themselves were melted down for the pool liner of the hotel.
Emily Morgan bottom -
Emily Morgan top -
This beautiful building had medical symbols all over it from its hospital days including gargoyles depicting the two most common ailments.
Stomach issues -
And dental
Forgot the next one too (geez). One I didn’t get a picture of was a church with a graveyard where Green-eyed Joe a serial killer would lure in other homeless men and cut them up and then comes the Bonham Exchange, a gay club. There is the Bonham poltergeist and a lady in blue who used to appear to men back in the old days. She’s rather out of luck now.
Bonham Exchange The old house part of this (not really visible except from this side in this) had really cool star of David style embellishments on the windows.
The Crockett Hotel was once a lodge for the ODD Fellows lodge and chanting is heard in the hotel. It also has a much newer and tragic story of screams from an elevator shaft that is now sealed off. In the early 21st century a maid backed into the hotel elevator with her cart not realizing it was down for maintenance. She plunged to her death, found the next day when they heard her cell phone ringing. Two years later another maid did the same thing and the hotel sealed the old elevator off. The women screaming is still heard.
Next is the Menger Hotel & bar where you can still see Teddy Roosevelt’s bullet hole in the wall (though this whole bar was moved from the other side of the place. I’m right above it now but this is the ‘new’ part of the hotel. It used to be to the other side of the earliest hotel. In fact the bar was first. Menger was a brewer who then built the hotel. A custodian was cleaning the bar when he saw a soldier in old uniform style (Teddy had a habit of getting guys drunk and signing them to the army pissing off a lot of them). The soldier beckoned the guy over freaking him out. He tried to go through the doors which slammed shut and locked. He had to be rescued by security (there is supposedly tape of this).
The more infamous ghost is Sally White, a maid in the old part of the hotel (I need to go hunt her). She was murdered by her abusive husband and died in the hotel. She’s seen in her uniform bringing towels. She’s been known to unpack for people.
A little girl is also seen outside the Victorian portion of the Menger. She was playing in the road with her teddy bear back in the 1800s and was run over by a carriage and killed. She freaks people out because she looks right at the camera.
A couple orbs in this one. That branch obscuring the second floor windows, that’s hiding my room from view.
Menger at night
The Casino Club
sadly failed as a casino as gambling was outlawed soon after it was finished. It was used for soldiers to room in. It’s now an apartment and soldiers are seen in the mirrors there. The side window is a good place to catch the soldier in uniform.
The Young Tower was built as a masterpiece for two brothers. Unfortunately one brother was a spendthrift and his more responsible brother tried to stop him. He even installed gargoyles to help ward off that badness he thought was going to happen, namely the loss of all their money and the loss of their building. The brother did spend it all. They did lose the building and the responsible brother jumped from the tower. The gargoyles were used in Ghostbusters.
Young Tower
The Aztec Theatre has grand curtains that swing fully open and closed on their own ever since one of the actors there hung himself center stage. The Nix Emergency center was designed to look different from every angle. It used to have a psych ward and a surgery and is still a functioning hospital. At least two doctors and three nurses committed suicide here. One doctor went out the window. Another, after being in the psych ward, was released back to his office where he hung himself.
Aztec
The Gunter Hotel was the site of a grisly murder in 1965. A local binge drinker took up residence in room 636 with a blond with long hair and along dress. He checked out the next day. The maid went up to the room and he answered the door (having gone back up) and he was covered in blood. He told her to stay where she was and she obeyed while he went out the window and down the fire escape with a bindle filled with the cut up blonde. He had also ground parts of her up in a meat grinder and flushed her. He was found a day or so later just down the street in the St Anthony hotel in room 536. He had himself barricaded in and committed suicide when the cops came up. Both rooms are haunted with the nightstand in room 636 being pulled in front of the door and the bed in room 536. A weird side note is there was a serial killer transvestite who wore long blond wigs and dresses but smoked cigars. There was a cigar found in the hotel room and that killer wasn’t seen again. They think she (maybe he) was buried in wet cement in nearby construction.
A few orbs in this one too – Gunter hotel
The Majestic Theatre had a relatively recent haunting too. A couple were fighting in the two condos that were at the top of it (no longer rentable). She went out on the fire escape to scream at him at a safe distance, slipped and fell to her death on the marquee, severing her arm. Being Halloween the party goers thought it was a faked thing.
The two orbs here are about where the body and the severed arm landed so that’s interesting.
In either the indigo or Emily there was a little girl ghost who bounces on the bed in the 6th floor room where she fell to her death from the fire escape.
I went to the 1909 bar and had a shiner bock for
0_mother_0. I was talking to the young architect wanna-be student bartender when a completely drunk Hispanic man runs in (I mention this because ethnicity plays a role) and wants to use the bathroom. He has to buy a beer. He looks at me and the student (also Hispanic) and laughs, ‘Oh, she’s a cougar.’ I’m like here we go but the kid looked offended and the guy apologized. He continued to interrupt our conversation about the bartenders hopes and dreams to mostly drunkenly encourage him because they had Aztec blood and there were no better builders and that the bartender got to go to high school was great because his high school was 8 years in prison.
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