Ghosts in San Antonio Texas

On October 2009 my girl friend and I decided to go to the Alamo Ghost tour downtown. If your ever downtown check it out sometime. But this is not really what this story is about. We invited a few friends of ours to go on the tour with us if they would like to. One of our friends was a little hesitant to go with us but we assured her that the tour was an outdoor tour and no cemetery visits would be present during the tour.

We decided to car pool and when we got to the parking lot downtown our hesitant friend told us why she was afraid to go with us. She began telling us a story of her cousin who with friends decided to go to the train tracks and test all the urban legends. Now normally when you to the tracks you don't take your child along but she did. Now if your thinking about doing this I want to let you know its illegal to park your car on the tracks to discourage anyone from trying this.

So the story goes like this: On October of 2007 her cousin was invited to go with a few friends to test the train tracks. Now it wasn't on Halloween night since almost everyone would try to test the tracks.

They drove a gas station to place powder on the back of the car. And if you know the ghost story you know that people do this to see evidence of the children's hand prints when the car is pushed over the tracks. They then head to the train tracks and there is literally no light where the tracks are. They put the car over the tracks on neutral when they hear children's giggling as the car is pushed off the tracks.

What was unusually about the story is when this was happening the cousin's child kept pointing towards the end of the car and saying ouchy. Keep in mind the child had no clue of the urban legend of the stalled school bus that was hit by a train.She would turn and look at the end of the car from then window and pointed as though there were someone behind pushing the car.

After the whole ordeal they drive off to a gas station where light was apparent, they then pull into the gas station to see if there were any fingerprints. On the back of the car there was a roll of hand prints in uniform order. When the cousin got off with her child, her child looked back and waved to the top of the car and said bye to whatever was on top of the car. It seems as though the child saw something that was not there. Could it have been a ghost child who followed them? We don't know but this is one of many stores of the Ghost Children at the Train Tracks in San Antonio.

Mission San Jose and other Missions around San Antonio were established around 1718 according to national parks and services. These missions purpose was to christianize the local native people. Now these small and large missions serve as place of catholic worship.

As far as San Antonio Urban Legends:

I have heard stories from friends that a black dog and a headless priest roam the courtyard at night at Mission San Jose. I personally have been there at night but never seen a black dog. Maybe next time.

Similar sightings of a large black dog has been seen as well in the other neighboring missions. Some say its a native american spirit that still lurks the Mission grounds.

If your ever in San Antonio there is a trail that will take you to all the missions on the south side of San Antonio Texas besides the Alamo.

Mission San Jose is an active church so its worth taking a look at if your ever in the San Antonio Texas area.

http://www.sanjosemissionchurch.org/