From the Weeping Woman to the spirits of the Ghost Tracks, San Antonio is riddled with urban legends of the undead.
Marisol Ramirez in a scene from"The Curse of La Llorona." The legend of La Llorona, the weeping woman, has been around for several centuries.What could be scarier than rounding up all the ghosts and urban legends of San Antonio? How about narrowing down those cucuys to a Top 10 list? Forget about upsetting the dead; ranking our fair city's spirits is the kind of ghost hunt guaranteed to spook the living.
As the story goes, Isidro’s family did not approve of his romance with the Asian woman, so the couple met in secret at the family’s cemetery. While racing to their secret rendezvous, Isidro and his horse were struck by lightning. Isidro’s intended killed herself at his plot to join him in death and has haunted the grounds ever since.
Alleged evidence of such souls includes cold spots, flickering lights, and the apparitions of a frowning man outside a second-story window and a beautiful woman in an upstairs bedroom. The Menger Hotel is said to be haunted by at least three notable ghosts, which include former president Teddy Roosevelt, murdered chambermaid Sallie White and King Ranch founder Richard King.6. Sallie White, Teddy Roosevelt and Capt. Richard King at the Menger Hotel
As for Teddy Roosevelt, his spirt is said to haunt the Menger bar where he rustled up his famous Rough Riders in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt died at his home in Cove Neck, N.Y., in 1919.
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