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#1 RATED GHOST TOUR IN SAN ANTONIO

River City is not only home to the Alamo and Spurs, but also host to the most
frightful hauntings in Texas. Find out why everything in Texas isn’t simply
bigger, but also more haunted. River City Ghosts will take you into the haunted
abyss of San Antonio’s Old Town for a voyage through Alamo City’s tortured past.

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Join us nightly to unlock the hidden history and secrets behind the prevalent
hauntings experienced by visitors, locals, and guests on our ghost tours.

 * Ghost Tour Meeting Location: 126 W Commerce St. by the Blue Star Ice House at
   the entrance to the public restrooms off of the Main Plaza. At the
   intersection of Commerce St and Soledad.

 * Tour Duration: 1hr. across 1 mile

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 * Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!

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THE EXPERIENCES YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT


Ronnie a. Pacheco Its was very interesting tour.Thank you mankenzie for your
time..... read more
21 Oct 2023
By: Ronnie a. Pacheco
Xavier Guerra Nice tour with cool stories.... read more
13 Oct 2023
By: Xavier Guerra
GP Sammon We enjoyed our spooky tour. Lots of interesting history with San
Antonio. Halloween is the perfect... read more
08 Oct 2023
By: GP Sammon

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DEATH, TRAGEDY, AND THE GREAT TEXAN BEYOND

San Antonio is known for its diverse cultural scene, good food, and vibrant
nightlife. The famous Riverwalk wasn’t always the tourist attraction it is now
though, it too has a past. The history of this great city goes all the way back
to the 1836 Battle of the Alamo and the fight for Texas’ independence from
Mexico before it chose to join the United States. The bright future as a part of
the United States cleared a path to build the great city of San Antonio, the
majestic buildings of the historic downtown lining the ribbons of dark water
that run through this place. However, these same rivers once ran red with blood
and bloated corpses floated downstream.

As a hotbed of spooky activity, the city cannot be matched for its countless
stories of strange and spooky happenings. Here in River City, you will encounter
an eclectic mix of the historic and the modern, the old and the youthful, the
beautiful and the ugly.

Let us take you deep into the history of the Alamo they never taught you in
school. During this enlightening and shocking journey through the ghosts and
history of River City, you will come to understand the shocking truth about San
Antonio’s past and what lies beneath virtually every block of this stunning
city.


WHY IS SAN ANTONIO SO HAUNTED?

At the Battle of the Alamo, the Texas Defenders were a rag-tag group of outlaws,
rebels, and pioneers who had sought out the wild frontiers of Texas to make a
life for themselves. This led to a fierce spirit of self-determination and the
resolve to rebel against the re-annexation of Texas by the Mexican Army, led by
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

The Texas Defenders were spirited, even though they knew they were outnumbered.
They sent out the call for help, but few came to their aid. The result was one
of the bloodiest battles in Texas history and one of the key events in the
history of the nation. The initial rout was bloody and cruel, no prisoners were
taken, the messengers sent to rally support took stories of cruel deaths and
gore lining the dusty streets of the town. Some came to help, but not enough.
Soon all were dead inside the Alamo, and a great many more outside. Bodies were
burnt in great piles of burning flesh, men stacked like cordwood, aflame. And if
not engulfed in flame, then cast into the rivers to float away and poison the
only water for drinking for miles around.

To describe much of downtown San Antonio as a graveyard is not too far from the
truth.

The grizzly deaths of the brave soldiers of the Alamo eventually inspired people
from across the state to join the cause of Texian Liberty and ultimately led to
the defeat of President General Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San
Jacinto in 1836.

Add to this gruesome event the rough frontier town nature of the place and the
stories of human loss and suffering begin to mount, and the ghosts are sure to
follow.

From its time as a Spanish Mission town to the rapid growth of recent years, San
Antonio has retained its quirky frontier nature. As Frederick Law Olmsted, the
designer of Central Park described it on a tour of the south, “San Antonio
rivals only New Orleans in its odd and antiquated foreignness”. One foreign
thing is the refrains of Texas German you might still hear around the city, from
the heavy German migration around the start of the 20th Century.

The dead still rest underfoot in many areas of the city – pioneering men, women,
and children whose presence can still be felt, especially late at night when the
city is fast asleep.

San Antonio has another kind of nightlife, one that not everyone is brave enough
to investigate. Let us guide you on this moonlight tour, and reveal the haunted
past of San Antonio.


REASONS TO TAKE THE RIVER CITY GHOSTS TOUR

YOU NEED A CRASH COURSE IN THE HISTORY OF SAN ANTONIO

All the locations we visit, on the standard tour, and the extended tour, offer
an insight into the history and character of River City, from the earliest days
as a Spanish mission, through the upheaval of the Spanish Independence War, to
the Civil War and today’s modern growth every period has its ghosts and they are
a wonderful way to bring the past alive, and much more memorable than a bus tour
or a museum.

Let the fascinating local guides bring the personality of San Antonio to life
for you tonight.

YOU WANT AN ACTIVITY THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY

Ghost tours can be overwhelmingly scary. We try to balance the grim truth and
educational insight into how things were at various stages of San Antonio’s
Development. For example, the extended tour visits the charming and atmospheric
stop at La Villita, Spanish for Little Village, your ghost tour will pass by the
front yard where a Doctor boiled the heads of dead Comanche warriors, to study
their skulls, he claimed, but will you believe his reason after hearing the
whole story?

Even though the story is quite ghastly, we deliver tours that are for the whole
family, are completely accessible, the guides of River City Ghosts are all
consummate professionals who will entertain with true stories from the past.

YOU ARE A NON-BELIEVER, TESTING THE WATERS OF THE SUPERNATURAL

Some of the ghost stories require a big leap; others are just obviously true. We
never try and change your mind, but all the stories are well researched, and the
settings are straight out of the history books.

We rely on first-hand accounts that were plausible and don’t include the more
farfetched tales. If you are the suggestible kind, you might prefer to believe
that ghosts are a figment of the beholders’ imagination. And if you are at all
religious, then the concept of purgatory, resurrection, and visitation by
spirits is not a very big leap at all. Whatever your point of view, we offer a
lot more than the prospect of looking for a white apparition to present itself.
You’ll hear tales of human struggle, adversity, and misery, that at the worst,
will make you grateful for your lot.

Have you heard of the multiple suicides that have happened at the Tower Life
Building? Starting with one of the brothers who built the tower, after things
got really bad in the Depression of 1929, Jim Smith, the CEO of the very
successful company, could see no way out and dramatically flung himself from the
roof of the tower.

He seemed to have started something; there have been several confirmed attempts
since then, the most recent one in 2016. It’s for you to decide if it’s just a
copycat way to take your own life, or if the building is cursed and feeds on
negative thoughts. Join the tour to hear the full story, it has several more
facts that might provide overwhelming evidence of supernatural activity.

IN SAN ANTONIO AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

There is lots to do in San Antonio; you could walk around in the hot midday sun
or visit one of the many museums and deep dive into the Alamo’s fascinating
history. If you want to get a broad insight into the city, you could take a bus
tour and see everything from behind glass. They all have their advantages, but
only River City Ghosts gets you up close and personal to the sites, in the cool
evening light, and brings history to life with the memorable tales of real
people who lived and died in San Antonio.

River City Ghosts provider a different perspective on the vibrant and beautiful
city of San Antonio; we take you to the safe and tranquil setting of the River
Walk. Still, we tell you all about its less than respectable past. As late as
the 1950s, the San Antonio Old City River Walk was a seedy area with high crime
and a large homeless population. The scene of many murders, the River Walk, was
only recently cleaned up into today’s charming attraction.

YOU’RE ON A TIGHT SCHEDULE

Visiting San Antonio for just the weekend? Only one or two days to see
everything? Are your mornings and afternoons filled with other things? Then an
evening tour with River City Ghosts might be just the thing to help you cross
off a wide variety of downtown locations and get an entertaining tour of the
city. As well as the entertaining and downright spooky ghosts’ stories, we also
weave in a lot of local history and bring the dramatic story of San Antonio to
life with animated and knowledgeable local guides.

GET AN INSIDER LOOK AT THE SAN ANTONIO CULTURE

We’ve all heard of the Alamo; we were taught about the basic outline of events
at school. Taking the River City Ghost Tour will not only bring you to the
actual site of the battle, but we’ll tell you stories no school child has ever
heard.

For example, the Alamo today would not exist if it were not for the intervention
of people from beyond the grave. When the Mexican army surrendered to General
Sam Houston and his troops at the battle of San Jacinto, the word was quickly
sent to burn the Mexican occupied Alamo and retreat south. The soldiers at the
Alamo that received the order went back to burn the buildings but quickly
returned, with no smoke in the sky. They reported they had been stopped by six
spectral figures wielding swords of pure flame. Astonished, their commanding
officer also went to burn down the Alamo, but returned too, with a pale face and
a look of astonishment in his eyes. ‘El Diablo!” he concurred, and the army
retreated, leaving the Alamo intact.

BE A TOURIST IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD

Are you a resident of San Antonio? We would lay money that you have not heard
all the ghost stories we tell on the River City Ghosts tour of your fair city.
Maybe you heard only some of the stories or got a slightly different version.

Being a tourist in your own town is a great way to break out of the normal
routine of life, support some local businesses, and try something new. All tours
start and end at the corner of Crockett Street and North St Mary’s Street, we
will doubtlessly visit some locations you may have driven past, but do you know
their history? Are you familiar with the stories of the haunting of the Empire
theatre? Can you tell people why they might have their arm grabbed by a shabbily
dressed man asking for twenty-five cents?

Imagine the rich and spooky tales you will be able to relate to the next
out-of-town visitors you welcome to beautiful San Antonio if you have the
memorable and entertaining stories from River City Ghosts under your belt.


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