"One
of the oldest hospitality establishments in San Antonio, the historic Crockett
Hotel is also one of the most haunted and has a wealth of ghostly lore and
paranormal phenomena associated with it. When one considers where it is
located, of course, this is not overly surprising. The Crocket Hotel is right
across the street from the Alamo, is located on the grounds of the battle that
centered on it, and can often be spotted in photos of the famous mission or
news stories about it. It is, in fact, believed to be built on the very spot
where David Crockett and the last of the Alamo defenders were killed, on what
had been the southeast palisade of the fortified mission. Crockett was one of
at least 189 Texian revolutionaries who were ultimately overrun and killed by
some 1,800 Mexican troops under the command of General Antonio López de Santa
Anna at the end of a 13-day battle that ended on March 6, 1836." That is opening paragraph to my chapter on the historic and haunted Crockett Hotel for Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country! Legends and more recent tragic events combine to make this an exceptionally interesting site and one anyone interested in the Alamo in particular will not want to miss (and the photo below shows the proximity of the hotel to the walls of the mission compound).
