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Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country: America's Haunted Road Trip

Autor Michael J. Varhola
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2015
Settled by Spanish explorers more than three centuries ago, San Antonio has a rich haunted history. Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country by local author Michael Varhola covers 30 haunted locations in or around the cities of San Antonio and Austin and throughout the region known as Texas Hill Country. Each site combines history, haunted lore and phenomena, and practical visitation information. The book is organized into four geographical sections, "City of San Antonio," "Greater San Antonio," "Austin," and "Texas Hill Country." This hands-on guide also includes an introduction to the subject of ghosthunting in the Lone Star State and all the information readers need to visit the places described within it including descriptions of nearly 100 other haunted places.

Sites covered include bridges, churches, colleges and universities, cemeteries and graveyards, government buildings, historic sites, hotels, museums, parks, restaurants and bars, and much more. They include the Crockett Hotel, built on the spot where David Crockett and the final defenders of the Alamo are believed to have been slain; the Ghost Tracks, where spectral children are known to move people's stopped cars and the Devil's Backbone, the haunted highway that wends through the hills north of San Antonio.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781578605477
ISBN-10: 1578605474
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: B&W photos throughout, maps
Dimensiuni: 137 x 213 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Clerisy Press
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Cuprins

Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country

I) FOREWORD

II) INTRODUCTION
Places we include (bridges; churches, et al; colleges, universities, et al; cemeteries and graveyards; government buildings; historic sites; hotels; museum; neighborhoods/districts; parks; restaurants and bars; roads, railroads, et al; shopping areas, malls, et al; sports stadiums; theaters)
Places we don't include (elementary, middle, and high schools; assisted living facilities; private homes and residential apartment buildings; private property; prohibited areas [e.g., abandoned mental hospitals])

III) CITY OF SAN ANTONIO (14)

Alamodome (San Antonio):

Crocket Hotel (Downtown):

Emily Morgan Hotel (San Antonio):

Camberly Gunter Hotel (San Antonio):

Devil's Bridge (San Antonio):

Ghost Tracks (Espada Park):

Huebner-Onion House (San Antonio):

McNay Art Museum (San Antonio):

Menger Hotel (Downtown):

Saint Anthony Hotel (San Antonio):

San Antonio Mission (San Antonio):

San Fernando Cathedral (Downtown):

Spanish Governor’s Palace (San Antonio):

Victoria's Black Swan Inn (San Antonio):


IV) GREATER SAN ANTONIO (4)

Aumont Hotel (Seguin/Gaudalupe County):

Faust Hotel (New Braunfels/Comal County):

Gruene (Comal County):

Woman Hollering Creek (Schertz/Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe Counties):


V) AUSTIN (8)

Austin Pizza Garden (Austin):

Driskill Hotel:

Fado Irish Pub:

Garrison Park:

Governor's Mansion:

Moore's Crossing Bridge (Richard Moya Park):

State House (Austin):

Tavern Restaurant (Austin):

VI) TEXAS HILL COUNTRY (4)

Devil's Backbone (Comal County):

Fredericksburg/ Fort Martin Scott (Gillespie County):

Y.O. Ranch Hotel (Kerrville/Kerr County):

Lover's Leap (Junction/Kimble County):


VII) Visiting Haunted Places


VIII) Other Haunted Places (c. 100)

City of San Antonio (31) (Alamo Quarry Theaters, Alamo Street Theater, Brackenridge Villa Mansion, Brooks Air Force Base, Cadillac Bar, Chinese Graveyard, Christus Santa Rosa Hospital, Comanche Lookout Hill/Comanche Park, Crown Plaza St. Anthony, Donkey Lady Bridge, El Cameronsita Dance Hall, El Cameronsito/Player's Club, Empire Theater, Fort Sam Houston, Hemisfair Park, Hot Wells Motel, Institute of Texas Culture, North Star Mall, Old Stone Ridge Road, Our Lady of the Lake University, Plaza Marriot, River Center Mall, Riverwalk, San Antonio River Headwaters, Santikos Century Plaza 8 Theater, Stinson Field Cemetery, Terrell Castle Bed and Breakfast, Trinity University, Tower of the Americas, Tro Bridge, University of the Incarnate Word)

Greater San Antonio (Texas Lutheran University [Seguin/Guadalupe County], San Marcos River (Entity) [Luling/Guadalupe County], Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital [Luling/Guadalupe County])

Austin (19) (Bertram's Restaurant/Clay Pit, Buffalo Billiards, Carrington's Bluff, Congress Street Bridge, David Grimes Photography Studio, Eanes-Marshall Ranch, Governor's Inn, Hideout, Inn at Pearl Street, Jacob's Hill, Littlefield Building, Littlefield House, Mugshots, Neill-Cochran House, Old Stone Ridge Road, Omni Austin Hotel, Paramount Theatre, University of Texas Tower, Zachary-Scott Theatre)

Texas Hill Country (Schreiner University/Delaney Hall [Kerrville], Kerrville Courthouse [Kerrville])


IX) Further Reading


X) Acknowledgements

Notă biografică

Michael O. Varhola is a writer who has authored or co-authored 34 books and games-including Ghosthunting Maryland and Ghosthunting Virginia, the swords-and-sorcery novel Swords of Kos: Necropolis, and two fantasy writer's guides-and published more than 120 games and related publications. He is the founder of game company Skirmisher Publishing LLC, editor-in-chief of d-Infinity game magazine, and editor of the America's Haunted Road Trip series of travel guides. He has edited, published, or written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, is a combat veteran who served eight years in the U.S. Army, and lives in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, Texas. He also has an active online presence, notably through Facebook, Twitter, and a variety of blogs, forums, and sites.

Extras

Chapter III - City of San Antonio

San Fernando Cathedral (Downtown San Antonio)
"It would not be an over-exaggeration to say that San Fernando Cathedral has, literally, been the spiritual and geographical heart of San Antonio for nearly 300 years, and there is even an official seal set into the floor church affirming this. It is, in fact, the oldest active Roman Catholic cathedral in Texas, one of the oldest in all of North America, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of San Antonio and seat of its archbishop.

As one of the oldest extant buildings in the city and the site of what most people today would consider to be some very strange practices, it is perhaps not too surprising that San Fernando Cathedral would have a reputation for spiritual activity. Phenomena people claim to have witnessed at the site include spectral faces appearing on the walls and the apparition of a white horse galloping across the plaza in front of the church. Inside it definitely does, in any event, have a sacred and even otherworldly atmosphere."

Chapter IV - Greater San Antonio

Faust Hotel (New Braunfels)
"In the western literary and occult traditions the name 'Faust' has an ominous connotation, and many people assume that the historic hotel in New Braunfels bearing this moniker received it as a tribute to the paranormal activity associated with the site. It is, however, named for its founder, flesh-and-blood local businessman Walter Faust Sr., rather than a figure out of German legend.

Over the past few decades, the Faust Hotel has increasingly gained a widespread reputation for being haunted and has attracted the attention of various paranormal investigative groups. I have visited the hotel a number of times since 2009 and, among other things, have spent the night at it and conducted investigations on or around Halloween twice and appeared as a guest on the PSI-FI Radio show from it. It has, in fact, become one of my favorite sites in the Greater San Antonio area, not just for the strange things associated with it but also for its colorful history."

Chapter VI - Texas Hill Country

Devil’s Backbone (Blanco County, Comal County, Hays County)
"One of the first places I explored after moving to Texas Hill Country was the Devil's Backbone, a haunted highway that runs along a ridge line that used to serve as a cattle trail and now corresponds to Highway 32. Parts of this road seem mysterious and haunted under the best of conditions, and it is little wonder that it should have ghostly lore associated with it.

Lone hunters and hikers exploring the trails that wind along the slopes of the Devil's Backbone have reported seeing the apparitions of Indians following closely behind them. Some local residents also claim to have seen ghostly cattle ranchers driving their herds through the hills or the ghosts of Spanish monks. Yet others have told of spotting phantasmal troops of Confederate cavalrymen and hearing the sounds of pounding hooves outside their homes but afterward finding no evidence that any horses were actually present."