All of your stories are very interesting, HOWEVER, if you really expect for someone to get into your stories, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make sure that people can understand them!! I have never been so irked trying to read a story, yet people can’t spell words right, grammar ALL jacked up. I’d really hate to be actually LISTENING to one of your stories and you talk like you right. Some ought to be ashamed.

….that would be write!!

I WORK IN THIS HOTEL AS A BELLMAN. I HAVE WORKED THERE FOR 2 YRS AND I WORK NIGHTS. I HAVENT SEEN ANYTHING AT ALL EVEN WHEN I WORK LATE INTO THE NIGHT. BUT I DO FEEL WEIRD WHEN I WALK INTO THE KING RANCH SUITE TO DELIVER LUGGAGE. IN ANY OF THE OLD SUITES. THERE IS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED THERE AT THE HOTEL AND NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN SEEN.

i think this**** is scarey man i need to go and check it out!!!!

My sister and I stayed at the Menger one night about a year ago. We hoped against hope to see or hear or feel something but….nothing. Not a thing. Sorry.

My husband and I were visiting San Antonio for the weekend when we decided to venture into the Menger Hotel. Knowing that it is supposedly haunted and being the big sceptics we are, we weren’t expecting to find much. The place is beautiful, but unfortunately we did not see any ghosts. HOWEVER! I did have a really eerie feeling wash over me when I was in the restroom in the lobby. I felt as though someone else was in the room with me. It sounded as though someone had opened and shut the door. Thinking it was my husband playing a joke on me, I ran right out ready to bust him. But when I ran out he was standing calmly reading something more than 100 feet away. To this day he swears up and down that he didn’t try to scare me, and I believe him! I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such a creepy feeling in my life until that day. We go down to San Antonio a lot, but I’m not so sure we’ll be staying there anytime in the near future!

I’ve also been to the menger hotel one time but not to stay there and sleep but just to check up and visit one of my aunts who was staying there and lived in a different state. Well while my mom was at the front desk to check up where my aunt was stayin’, I was just looking around when I saw a man and woman dressed in early 1900’s clothing. They were just starin’ at me like if I had lobsters crawlin’ out of my ears or somethin’. I smiled at them since I didn’t know what to do, but they just glared at me and dissapeared. That was all I experienced there since my mom changed her mind about visiting my aunt for some reason. Maybe she saw something paranormal too and got scared, I don’t know. Hey this reminds me, I guess I must’ve seen the exact same people you saw, Jesse.

I THINK GHOST ARE REAL AND THAT EVERY PLACE YOU GO HAS A PAST AND SOMEONE HAD TO DIE THERE IF NOT MAYBE THEY LIVED THERE SO MOST PLACES YOU GO TO ARE HAUNTED

So this is the part where I should be jumping off the computer and hiding under my bed, but I simply love these ghost stories, I don’t mind a spook everynow and then. Well here’s a story for your website, hope you enjoy. I’m only 24 years old and ever since I was a child I saw many ghosts, male, female, young, and old. When I was about 20 years old, my friends and I were starving and stopped to get a bite to eat at the Fuddruckers down, now I had been to a Fuddruckers before but not that one which really had me curious as if there was any ghostly activity going on. As soon as I walked in the door, I got this feeling as If all eyes were on me, seeing that there were only 4 people in the restraunt, not including the people working, it seemed as If it were hundreds. As I sat down I had the urgency to use the restroom not knowing that it was downstairs kind of gave me the creeps. I was in the restroom and closed the door, when I heard footsteps walk in, flush the toilet, and washed their hands, but yet I was looking under the entire time and nobody except me, or so I thought, so I raced out the bathroom to see who it was, and as soon as I walked out the door. I felt ice cold hands touch my neck, I don’t scare easily but lets just say I slept with the light on for the next couple of nights.

The Gunter hotel has my vote for the most haunted hotel in San Antonio, Texas. It was a favorite hang out for ranchers, many of whom had taken cattle up the Chisolm Train in their younger days.
My grandmother used to take me there for lunch when I was a little girl. I met some of these people and didn’t realize how famous they were until I was majoring in history in college.
It has been a long time but any time I went to the Gunter as an adult I felt people like Mr. Goodnight were still in the lobby occuping the big comfortable chairs and watching people come and go.

BIG DEAL, some of us don’t have good spelling skills like others.Who’s worried about grammar?????? I’m not..WE’RE ONLY HUMAN..Carry on with your stories……

the lady actually died of a heart attack whle she was having sex. the maid saw that the wife was dead and the girls husband killed the maid becausee he though that she would tell the police. and mr roselvelt was a humorous ghost with tales of past adventures and beers of many lands. i would advise ne1 from ages 3-12 and 70+ to go here for frighningly good time! =)=D

Has anyone checked out that Reader’s Digest article about the Menger? The reporter saw a ghost maid in the downstairs bathroom, and experienced some other odd, inexplicable occurrences which I cannot recall, but the article is thorough, and basically confirms everything!

Ok I heard alot about this place in San Antonio, seen it a couple of times and noticed it looked interesting It is one of the oldest hotels in the downtown area I heard and would like to know more about it

I used to work at the menger and had a few experiences of my own. I truely loved working at a place so rich in history and mystery.First of all the ghost stories are true. Mr. Malacara tells you about all the different ghosts during training. I was excited to hear about so many different ghosts and was in hopes that I would have an encounter with at least one of them. Of course I had to have my encounter with the one that I did not want to have anything to do with, Mr. King of the Kingville ranches. It is said that he was not a very nice person when he was alive so it made me think he wouldn’t be a very nice ghost either. However my encounter with him was somewhat playful, even though it scared the **** out of me at the time. I had to go check on the suites as we had VIP’s coming in the next day and we were still uncertain as to which suite to put them in. I made my rounds without running into any of the other ghosts even though I was in the older section of the hotel very late at night. The King suite was last on my stop and I opened the door and turned on the light…being so late I let the door close behind me, normally we leave them open if we are inside a room. I was half way across the sitting room of the suite when the lights turned off. So i ran out of the room freaked out. I stood on the outside of the door and calmed myself down. I opened the door again and had to switch on the light switch AGAIN.. So whatever was happening to me the bulb in the lamp wasnt just bad like I had first thought. I got to the same spot in the sitting room again and the lights went out again. I ran back out. As scared as I was though I wanted to check out the rest of the room, but being as I was scared I decided to call down to Luis the resturants manager. He came up (reluctantly) and we entered the room again… I again had to flip the light switch to turn the lights back on. this time Mr King’s ghost let us get all the way into the bedroom till he turned the lights off again I dont know why I brought Luis with me he was out of the room faster than I was. I decided I had had enough and that it was possible that Mr. King did not want those people staying there and that is exactly what I told my mamger. They sent engineering up to the room the next day anyway and there wasnt anything going on with the electricity. So that is my experience with Mr. King its not so scarey now that I look back on it but it sure was that night. lol

well there is a spirit not mentioned which i have seen a few times. Mr. king owner of king ranch passed away in this hotel. his suite i believe is still there, have not been back in awhile. after he died and the place was renevated or whatever, the door to his room had been slightly relocated. people have seen him come from across the hall and walk through the wall where the door to his room had used to be. i have witnessed this twice. the second time he starred right at my friend an i.

you should look into the king suite story. king owner of king ranch passed away here and his ghost has been seen by many including myself.

You should look into the King Suite story. King, owner of King Ranch passed way here. His ghost has been said to be seen walking through the wall by many including myself. Reason he is seen walking through the wall is because when the place was renovated or what ever his door to his room had been slighly moved to the side.

I am in San Antonio about 5 times a year to visit family and every year I make sure to pass by The Menger Hotel. I have stayed there once in the older part of the hotel. Once I went and actually sat down in the older part around 3AM and waited to see something … but I didn’t Maybe someday I will.

You all have wonderful stories, and i do believe The Menger Hotel is “really” haunted. Let me explain. I am from the King Ranch, which was founded by Richard King in 1853. Richard King stayed at that hotel the last days of his life. He died in the hotel April 14th, 1885. He was buried in San Antonio until his men could move him back to Kingsville TX, were he lived. It is known that he haunts the room they named after him…”The King Suite”. Well, i wanted to know if the stories of my grandfather’s were true. I am kin to many Cowboys who actually worked for Mr. King. So I made reservations to stay in “the King Suite” for 3 days and 2 nights. I was meeting up with some buddies I have who live in San Anton. We had a roping event, so I had to get to bed early. While I was heading to my room, I saw him…Richard King. I completely froze, my heart started pounding, I felt a heat wave going through my body. Then, as if some relief and peace overwhelmed me, I smiled. And he smiled back. He walked through the wall on the right side of where the actual door is. My pappy told me before they remodeled the hotel, the original door was to the right of where the door is now. Mr. King goes through the wall where the door used to be. I then opened my door, and saw nothing. Later that night after a bath, I felt as if someone was in the room with me. So I started talking out loud, I started talking to Mr. King. But no reply. I finally introduced myself. I said my full name and where i come from and why i was there. I got a reply. He said “hello Vanessa, I know your last name and i respect it. You come from some good, hard working blood”. I herd him say those words plain as day. There was no wierd noises or no scary screams, just a voice. A voice that was so clear is was piercing. This is no joke. I am very proud to tell this story. I left it like that. I smiled a big smile and fell right to sleep. I stayed another night there. But i didn’t see or hear from Mr. King that last night. I didn’t mind, I was talked to and addressed my “The Richard King”. I loved it and will go back again soon. It was an honor.