San Antonio

Last Updated: September 17, 2003

King William's district, The Oge House a bed and breakfast that is reportedly haunted.

South of San Antonio, in an unremarkable neighborhood not far from the San Juan Mission is an intersection of roadway and railroad track that has become somewhat famous in the catalog of American ghost lore. The intersection was the site of a tragic accident in which several school-aged children were killed and their ghosts linger at the spot. Any car stopped near the railroad tracks will be pushed by unseen hands across the tracks to safety. The spirits of the children push cars across the tracks to prevent a tragedy and fate like their own. Even though it appears that the road is on an upward grade, the cars roll seemingly of their own accord and against gravity - up and over the tracks.
If a light powder - like talcum or baby powder - is sprinkled over the car's trunk and rear bumper, tiny fingerprints and handprints will appear - the prints of the ghost children pushing the car. Many who have tried it swear they saw the evidence of small children's handprints in the powder.
One person who tested the legend with favorable results was Brenda Pacheco, the fan club president of Wayanay Inka, a musical group from Peru. "I put my car in neutral, took my foot off the pedals and the car moved!" she writes at mysa.com. "It moved quickly toward the tracks, up over the bump and down the other side, well out of harm's way!" Pacheco also succeeded with the powder test, having dusted the back of her black station wagon with talcum. "I was so excited, I got out to check the back of my car and there were the tiny handprints! They were plain and clear, and tiny! The prints were so perfect, you could see the lines of the palms, and the swirls of the fingerprints!" She repeated the expirement and said that the car went, "Up and over the hill again. I got out, and there were several little handprints, not only on the back of the car, but down the sides toward the back doors. And there was one big handprint on the side."
According to The Haunted "Ghost Tracks" of San Antonio at Abstract Dreamteching, a local television station hired a surveyor to determine whether or not there was an upward grade on the road running toward the tracks. They claimed the results showed that, despite an illusionary appearance of a level, or even slightly inclined road, the street surface was actually at a 2 degree declination as it approached the railroad track crossing.
The author at Abstract Dreamteching, using an audio cassette recorder in the course of his investigation, recorded an unexplained heartbeat. He also had "a genuinely frightening psychic/spiritual experience" of an undisclosed nature. The author also reported that during a few of his experiments at the intersection, his car unexplainably slowed down and stopped squarely on the tracks.
At least one other person, a native San Antonian, had car trouble on the tracks. "We did start out about 30 yards from the tracks," she told mysa.com. "But as we got closer my husband would press on the brakes. When he let go the car would go faster. He did it again and again and the car went until the last time. He stopped on the tracks and the car did not go. To top that, the car did not start either. We stayed there for about 5 or 10 minutes and decided to push it under the Loop 410 overpass. We were there all day until someone came to help us tow the car home."
Brenda Pacheco said, "The four of us heard children's voices... loud and clear, like children playing on a school ground. We listened in amazement, then it stopped abruptly!" Pacheco claims another bizarre event occurred when her sister tried the experiment. Because she had a white car, they did not spread powder on it. "When her car was pushed over, we were shocked! No handprints, but there were little blood droplets all over her trunk! They continued down the sides and there were blood droplets on the inside of the car where her daughter had the window down on the back door," says Janis Raley, writing at mysa.com. Several photographs she took at the tracks with a digital camera contained anomalous elements.
The daughter of Andy and Debi Chesney said, "We started getting the fairly common phenomena called orbs or spheres. Although no one can really explain what this is, we have gotten the same thing repeatedly at burial sites and other areas of high energy. After a half hour of shooting, we starting getting vapor or mists, those unshaped forms more associated with the popular Hollywood, conception of ghosts. The energy seemed to be most noticeable directly behind one of the X-shaped railroad crossing signs, on the north side. For a short time the orbs seemed to be hanging back in the heavy brush behind the sign. After a few minutes of constant camera flashes, they moved toward the center of the tracks. As the energy forms moved, we tried to follow, focusing our attention on the cars and trucks as they crossed over the tracks. Some slowly, some quickly. We ended up with photographs of the orbs behind and in the back of a pick-up as it rolled over the tracks."
Her mother said, "My daughter and some friends went to San Antonio, Texas this last weekend and went to the railroad tracks where they say that a busload of children were killed a long time ago. They took several pictures. They emailed them to me after they got home to show me, and a ghost appeared in one. They had no idea that it was in the picture until the next day when I printed out the picture and showed them. It appears to be a little girl carrying a teddy bear."

The Alamo
Over at the gate at the left side of the Alamo a woman dressed in yellow was seen sitting on the bench just inside the gate. She is very beautiful. The guards say that she has been seen before.

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