Haunted in San Antonio (Gatesville, Howe: store, bus, moving)

[chopper harlery]

has anyone ever heard of el chavo negro. not gonna go into detail yet
but if it rings a bell.

[moparrush]

Hi everyone and glad you found my post informative. Yes I wish I would have taken pics of the old Hot Wells, but that was back before the days of digital camera's and hualing around a 110 or a 35mm wasn't my thing back then. So all I'm left with are memories. Thanks for the pic gy2020 of the old pool. That is the first time I have ever seen a picture of it. Toooo Cool.
lwood64 I retired as an HT1 back in 06. I left in Feb 04 for basic in San Diego. So welcome home too and thanks for your guys service as well.
Anytime anyone wants to get together and map out some haunts I'm game. I just went around with my daughters this summer to a bunch of them, but didn't do much other than drive by's. There still a bit young and I didn't want to freak them out too much or God forbid put them in any kind of harms way. You can go looking for ghosts but I truly believe that you may just bring one home with you if your not careful, and not a nice spirit either.

[MockingbirdHill]

Originally Posted by gy2020

My friend Alice gave me the name. Turtle Creek Country Club! That's It!!

wasn't turtle creek country club built around the same time as colonies north... around '64?

[2cl2bme]

Originally Posted by ArizonaTexan

What an awesome short piece! Does anybody know exactly where that insane asylum is located at? I grew up and lived on the southside for 20+ years and never heard of it. That would be an awesome place to go with friends on Halloween night. Take some sleeping bags, cold beer and you have a very creepy evening. Spooky!

Would be fun, but it's on property next to a boys Juvenile Detention Center and watched. However, it hasn't kept people out. We took our kids out there yesterday because I'm working on research for a school paper and they were curious. They used earth moving equipment and covered the enterances with mounds of dirt (actually made it easier to climb over). The place is in more disrepair than in the earlier photos. My research has lead me down the path of not so spooky. It seems that this was not the "asylum" or Southwestern Asylum that people call it (that would be the now San Antonio State Hospital on Presa/Military). It was the Southton Home for the Aged and Tuberculor, it was also a Bexar County Boys Home. And what appears to have been a storage facility for the Fire Marshals office. There were many records as recent as the 1990's left behind after what looked like a fire. Papers are all burned and the builidng in that area is covered in soot. An odd place to store papers, but then the entire place still has much mystery to it.
I took about 150+ pictures. The Home for the Aged still has clear markings on some of the doors, showing the treatment room, nurses station, barber shop and room number plates above the doors.

[TexasCovertCarry]

Originally Posted by 2cl2bme

Would be fun, but it's on property next to a boys Juvenile Detention Center and watched. However, it hasn't kept people out. We took our kids out there yesterday because I'm working on research for a school paper and they were curious. They used earth moving equipment and covered the enterances with mounds of dirt (actually made it easier to climb over). The place is in more disrepair than in the earlier photos. My research has lead me down the path of not so spooky. It seems that this was not the "asylum" or Southwestern Asylum that people call it (that would be the now San Antonio State Hospital on Presa/Military). It was the Southton Home for the Aged and Tuberculor, it was also a Bexar County Boys Home. And what appears to have been a storage facility for the Fire Marshals office. There were many records as recent as the 1990's left behind after what looked like a fire. Papers are all burned and the builidng in that area is covered in soot. An odd place to store papers, but then the entire place still has much mystery to it.
I took about 150+ pictures. The Home for the Aged still has clear markings on some of the doors, showing the treatment room, nurses station, barber shop and room number plates above the doors.

Feel free to send me a private message if you wish. Ive done an extensive amount of research on the facility at Southton and its quite interesting. A word of caution though, if the Sheriff's Office finds you out there, you WILL be arrested for trespassing. In addition to this, the area is a high crime area and leaving your vehicle parked on Farm Rd. is a great way to get it broken into or stolen.

[Rinnie*PRGirl*]

Anyone doing anything interesting for Halloween?

[Taco-n-Beer]

Originally Posted by wCat

The's a local book called "Spirits of San Antonio" and some sequels by Docia Williams on haunted locations. She's not a fabulous writer, but she tells good "stories". Lot's of details left out that I wish I had time to follow up on.


Here are a few more locations that are famously haunted in SA:

Menger Hotel
Bexar County Courthouse
Gunter Hotel
The Milam Building
The Mansion on Grayson Street
St. Anthony Hotel
Milam Park
the basement at Santa Rosa Hospital downtown
Victoria's Black Swan Inn

all still standing and active!

feel free to add to the list!

ANOTHER GOOD BOOK IS

When Darkness Falls: Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Hauntings




I HAVE BOTH OF THESE BOOKS, GOOD BOOKS IF YOU LIKE LOCAL GHOST STORIES

[majormadmax]

Isn't that the Heubner-Onion House over on Bandera Road on the cover of that book?

Cheers! M2

[TXtrkgrl]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

Isn't that the Heubner-Onion House over on Bandera Road on the cover of that book?

Cheers! M2

It sure looks like it.

[Taco-n-Beer]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

I read where the Huebner-Onion House on Rt 16 is rumored to be haunted (it certainly looks it!). I know Judge John Onion died there while accidently drinking a bottle of Lamp Oil he mistook for wiskey. The property is now being restored by the Leon Valley Historical Society for a future museum; but has anyone been in the place before it was closed up for rennovation??

Cheers! M2

Originally Posted by majormadmax

Isn't that the Heubner-Onion House over on Bandera Road on the cover of that book?

Cheers! M2

YEP THAT'S IT

Originally Posted by TXtrkgrl

It sure looks like it.

ON BANDERA RD NEAR GRISSOM

IT USED TO BE A STAGECOACH STOP