When the Ghost Screams(52)

The Crockett Hotel, on the street behind the Menger, is not immune to paranormal activity. I spoke with an employee there who told me of a family that had made a special point to return for a second visit.



View from the second floor of the Menger’s Rotunda Room. A ghost shared a shocking secret with a guest about the third-floor balcony. (Leslie Rule)



The Menger Hotel may be one of the world’s most haunted hotels. (Leslie Rule)



The Alamo’s tragic history populated the entire area with ghosts. (Leslie Rule)



Perhaps some ghosts don’t want to “remember the Alamo” and choose instead to reside at the elegant Menger next door. (Leslie Rule)



How many of the ghosts seen at the Menger Hotel were killed at the nearby Alamo? (Leslie Rule)

“Our daughter wanted to play with her friend again,” the guests had informed the employee. The little girl was about five years old and had had such a great time with her friend that she had talked about her nonstop and begged her parents to take her back to the Crockett Hotel.

The parents had never seen their daughter’s friend. But they saw their child’s eyes light up as she giggled in delight at the antics of an unseen presence.

The friend was a ghost.

The spirit of the little girl was a forever five-year-old and must have been tickled to have a playmate who could see her. Her identity remains an enigma, though I suspect that she was one of the children slain in their beds during the Alamo attack.

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