SAN ANTONIO LEGENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please tell me about them?

Question

i heard that there are so many legends and hauntings about that place and i would love to read any of the legends like for example...la llorona...the hunted railroad tracks with the kids getting hit by train...o yea and some of that abandoned asylum thing i heard it was haunted and others say its not haunted....but anyways i would love to read more legends becasue im so interested...thanx a lot! =]

Answer 1

Hi here is a link for the Ghost tracks

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/handprint.asp

it is a really long story but basically the kids were on the bus, the bus stalled on the tracks, they got out to push but the train hit them and killed them all. It is a very scary experience when you go there at night and put your car in neutral by the sign (about 30-50 feet from the tracks). I don't think trains run there anymore...at least they never did when I went to the tracks all through high school. The story has been discredited but so many locals go there...it is just a cool place to SAY you have been to. I did do the baby powder trick but that really does just show the finger prints that you left when you touched your vehicle. Point is...some believe, some don't...but it's good to go check it out. Stay away at Halloween...they usually have a cop out patrolling because the people that live near the tracks get really annoyed with the traffic.

Here is a link for haunted places in SA:
http://www.realhaunts.com/haunted-houses/united-states/texas/san-antonio/

...gives you a background about a few places.

As far as La Llorona, this is my favorite website that talks about the legend:
http://talesandlegends.net/Llorona.html

I actually met people who swore they have heard her before...lol. Hey, you never know!


Okay and the asylum...that is new to me but I found this for you:
Two brothers, Dr. George H. Moody and Dr. T. Lawson Moody, established Moody's Sanitarium, a seventy-five-bed general psychiatric hospital in San Antonio in 1903. There was also the William L. Barker's Sanitarium, Lakeside Sanitarium, and the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, opened in San Antonio in 1892 (source below). I'm honestly not too sure which one is included in the legend...I'm going to keep looking for now.

Answer 2

You don't have to stay away at Halloween anymore from the legendary railroad tracks. They have a Halloween carnival with a hayride over the tracks and they stop and let the "dead kids" push you. It's a story, that's all. I had students research it when I taught Journalism years ago. There were no busses even running there at the time they claim it happened. There have been a lot of dead bodies found in that area. It was a favorite area prior to the 60's for dumping gang related mafia style kilings. There is also a mission nearby that has a lot of haunted history. But the railroad tracks are a money making adventure now during Halloween. The neighbors love it for that reason!!! They will make up all kinds of things like the one of the neighborhoods have children's names as all the street names, well, that's not true, the subdivision was built by a architect by the name of McCreless and those are his grandchildren's names. So much for that legend. You do hear kids voices nearby, there is a juvenile justice center really close, and they are very militant, but do have games they play cause they are kids between about 14-20. I do suggest you go during Halloween. It is alot of fun.

You might want to do a tour with Docia Schultz Williams also. She's the Mistress of San Anonito Hauntings. Check out her book, "When Darkness Falls: Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Hauntings." She has a tour in Sept. She's a wonderful older lady who really knows San Antonio and Texas. I met her at a book signing once and spent a good 20 minutes speaking to her along with my son. She is really wonderful and very knowledgeable.

Spirits of San Antonio!

Monday, September 10
6 p.m.–10 p.m.
$69 per person

For the courageous and adventuresome guests this tour is a must! If you don’t start out believing in ghosts, this tour may make a believer out of you!

Ms. Docia Schultz Williams, better known as the “ghost lady,” who is a renowned ghost expert, will be your Professional Tour Guide for this adventure. Check this out on this website, it's about halfway down the page.

http://www.apwa.net/Meetings/Congress/2007/attendee_sightseeing.asp

Answer 3

Across the street from the Alamo is the US Post Office and Courthouse. The Long Barracks used to be able to go out to where the back steps of the Courthouse now stand but had to be cut to make room for Houston Street and the building back in the 1930's. Inside the Post Office is a metal detector and when someone passes thru it ,it clicks with a green light flashing. BUT,if someone goes thru with a metallic object,like a weapon for instance,the light turns red and a loud buzzer goes off.
The guards and postal employees say that Colonel Travis and his men are always welcome in the building but they MUST leave their weapons outside.

Answer 4

There is a DVD available made by the History Channel about the hauntings in San Antonio. It is available from Amazon.

Answer 5

To be elementary with you it would not sound like a nazi farm in any respect yet in all threat a Buddhist temple. there's a Buddhist Temple someplace on the outer portion of south San Antonio & this would have been what he observed in spite of the very shown fact that that's annoying to understand considering he's uncertain the place he replaced into. whilst i replaced into stationed in Korea i could no longer ignore approximately what i presumed to be a nazi swastika sticking up right here & there in a pink neon sign right here & painted sign there. luckily I made pals with a interior reach Korean guy & he defined to me that it replaced into no longer a nazi sign in any respect yet a demonstration to point a Budhist temple. you will see it under on the internet internet site. as quickly as you recognize that it is not a frightening nazi sign a sigh of alleviation comes! besides to this, i exploit to stay 2 miles from Braunig lake & have by no capacity heard of a nazi farm! The practice tracks, sure! The rundown remains of a in all threat insane enterprise, sure! All of that are approximately 4 miles from Braunig lake interior the Southton rd section.

Answer 6

Rumor has it if you are standing late into the evening near the Alamo and are listening very hard you can still hear James Bowie discussing the presumed battle that they were going to face with Bill Travis and Davie Crockett