About this tour
San Antonio is routinely ranked one of America's most-haunted cities, and nowhere concentrates the reputation like Alamo Plaza. Within a five-minute walk stand the mission-turned-battle-site itself, its 1936 memorial, a Gothic Revival tower built as a 1920s hospital, and a Victorian-era hotel where Theodore Roosevelt recruited the Rough Riders over drinks. This short evening loop tells the real, documented history of each stop first, and then — clearly labeled as local legend, never as fact — the ghost stories that have grown up around them for a century or more. Come for the history; stay for the goosebumps.