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The True Horror Story of San Antonio’s Gunter Hotel

The historic Gunter Hotel as it looks today

In a city founded over 300 years ago, you are bound to find a few ghost stories and San Antonio more than its fair share. Writer/photographer Jack Dennis at Examiner.com recently detailed one particularly grisly tale of murder that has led to numerous spooky incidents over [Read it all...]

Going Down to San Antonio's Ghost TracksGoing Down to San Antonio’s Ghost Tracks

One of San Antonio’s persistent legends is that of the Ghost Tracks. The story goes that many years ago a busload of school children stalled out on a lonely stretch of railroad tracks. Naturally, a train came along and cut the bus in two, killing the driver and the children in front immediately. The children [Read it all...]

Scaring the Dickens out of them

Here’s something for the writers among us. Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in nearby Lockhart, Texas, is holding a Dickens-themed ghost story contest.

Contest entries must include a character from one of Charles Dickens’ works, be set in December around any of the December holidays and be under 4,000 words in length. The contest benefits Texas’ oldest continually-in-use library.

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