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The Alamo
San Antonio, Texas
This very famous, historical
landmark
which remains a prideful part of Texas history, is said to be truly
haunted.
Not a suprise, due to what has conspiring here in 1836. The Alamo
was orginally a small chapel built by Franciscan monks here in
1718.
Later it was expanded as a mission and a fortress, used by Texas as a
stronghold
against the mexicans over land rights. In March, 1836, the
president
of Mexico General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana and 4000 troops laid siege
to the Alamo. The 11-day battle resulted in the deaths of most of
the 188 defenders of the Alamo. The Loses for the Mexicans were
over
1600. General Lopez de Santa Ana ordered the bodies of the slain
Texans dumped in a large grave and the Alamo torn to the ground.
But when the men started tearing down the walls, ghostly hands
protruded
to stop them and they fled in fear. The Alamo has not
forgoten
the cries of those that perished on that day. Today the Alamo
still
stands in the heart of San Antonio. Tourists staying in a nearby
hotel have reported seing grotesque apparitions coming from the wall of
the old Alamo. There are also other reports of a ghost on top of
the Alamo, walking back and forth trying to find an escape. Other
reports of screaming and yelling coming from the Alamo after hours are
also heard. I feel that most of the hauntings are actually
residual
hauntings, meaning that they are actually playbacks of past events
somehow
traped within time.
Eweissbard@theshadowlands.net
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