Menger Hotel
Hotel in San Antonio, TexasWikipedia
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Search complete. 26 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Menger Hotel".
Oct 15, 2026
Jessica RigginaHOST
I, I don't think it really said why
Brett NelsonHOST
... she picked San Antonio, but she winds up at the Menger Hotel.
Jessica RigginaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jessica RigginaHOST
Yeah.
Brett NelsonHOST
Well, the Menger Hotel is an actual hotel-
Jessica RigginaHOST
Yep
Brett NelsonHOST
... you can stay at to these, these days.
Brett NelsonHOST
She was killed in the hotel, and she is presumed to, or rumored-
Scott CarsonHOST
And of course, San Antonio, you got the Alamo, the haunt- haunted Alamo.
Scott CarsonHOST
You've also got the, uh, haunted Menger Hotel, which has a bar that, uh, Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders used to go to.
Scott CarsonHOST
There's a spirit that likes to stay there on the second floor.
Scott CarsonHOST
Steph's experienced him there before.
Scott CarsonHOST
Um, you know, there's spirits that walk the hallways of the Menger Hotel, they say, as well.
Scott CarsonHOST
So Menger is really just right, not too far across the street from where the Alamo's located there for you.
Scott CarsonHOST
So definitely that many people killed, um, uh, is gonna leave some spirits in the, uh, as we say in San Antonio, City of the River, Walk of the Alamo.
Carol HughesHOST
Today on the Grave Talks, part two of Beyond the Alamo: The Ghosts of San Antonio, a conversation with Lauren Swartz.
Carol HughesHOST
The Menger Hotel, that was opened by, um, William Menger and his wife, and he ended up di- passing away, and they buried him in a cemetery nearby.
Lauren SwartzGUEST
Yes.
Carol HughesHOST
Any-
Tim DennisHOST
Y- you say f- forever and ever, but, but is it, is it really one of those things where it can really sustain itself, you know? I mean, is it, is it one of those things that, that continues to draw? Because you do have that, somewhere in there you have that legend of Teddy Roosevelt, and you do have the Rough Riders, and you do have, um-
Richard EstepGUEST
Oh, over at the Menger Hotel just across the way.
Tim DennisHOST
Yeah.
Tim DennisHOST
I mean, you, you, you've got ...
speaker_3NARRATOR
Lauren Swartz was born and raised in San Antonio, and her love of its history and the paranormal led her and her husband, James, to create Sisters Grim Ghost Tours, which combine documented history with ghostly experiences still being reported today.
speaker_3NARRATOR
There's the legendary Menger Hotel with stories of Sally White, Captain Richard King, and even Teddy Roosevelt, the spirits of the historic City Cemetery Number One, the old Bexar County Jail, where executions once took place inside the building, and the Emily Morgan Hotel, a former medical building with its own long list of unexplained encounters.
speaker_3NARRATOR
From famous figures to forgotten prisoners and the spirits that may still be checking in to their favorite hotel, San Antonio has plenty of ghost stories beyond the Alamo.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Today on The Grave Talks: Beyond the Alamo, The Ghosts of San Antonio, a conversation with Lauren Swartz of Sisters Grim Ghost Tours.
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Lauren SwartzGUEST
So we would pore over those, and I would go... 'Cause I remember, of course, like, you have the Alamo, the Menger.
Lauren SwartzGUEST
I knew those big spots were haunted.
Lauren SwartzGUEST
But I went into the Menger Hotel, and I told them, I was like, "Hey..." And I'm only 25 years old at the time, and I tell them, "Hey, I want to speak to somebody that can tell me...
Lauren SwartzGUEST
I wanna open up a ghost tour.