Menger Hotel
Opened in 1859 beside the Alamo, the Menger is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi and one of the most documented haunted hotels in America, said to host dozens of spirits. Its best-known ghost is Sallie White, a chambermaid shot by her jealous common-law husband Harry Wheeler in March 1876; she died days later in the original part of the hotel, and guests still report a woman in a long skirt and white blouse tidying rooms and gliding the corridors, sometimes appearing at the foot of a bed before vanishing. Teddy Roosevelt recruited his Rough Riders at the Menger Bar during the Spanish-American War, and his apparition is said to still appear there. Captain Richard King, founder of the King Ranch, died in the hotel in 1885 and is reported among the resident spirits; guests can stay in the suite where he passed.
📍 204 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205, San Antonio, TX · Get directions