Downtown El Paso Historic District · San Jacinto Plaza · El Paso's Wild West / border-town era
US Ghost Adventures, a multi-city ghost-tour chain, operates its El Paso program under the Wraiths of the West Texas Wind: El Paso Ghost Tour name, with local marketing referring to the city's ghost lore as 'El Paso Ghosts' and El Paso itself as 'Sun City.' The tour meets nightly at 8pm at San Jacinto Plaza, 114 W Mills Ave, and covers about a mile of downtown El Paso on foot over roughly an hour.
The route's narration centers on El Paso's frontier-era reputation as a lawless border town — nicknamed the 'Six Shooter Capital' — and touches on Civil War-era Confederate ties before covering three headline stops: the former Desoto Hotel site (destroyed by fire), the 1930-built Plaza Theatre, and the 1883-built Wigwam Saloon, now a museum. The tour is a standardized US Ghost Adventures product; the company runs the same nightly-walking-tour format in dozens of other US cities.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/el-paso-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/el-paso-l100023/el-paso-sun-city-ghost-walking-tour-t432430/
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According to US Ghost Adventures' own tour material, the Desoto Hotel site is described as home to a spirit blamed for the blaze that eventually destroyed the historic hotel, alongside the reported presence of a young girl seeking a playmate and a more ominous entity said to linger in the basement. The Plaza Theatre stop centers on a man in a tuxedo whose fatal 'performance' is said to loop for those who catch a glimpse, alongside flickering lights and disembodied voices in the balconies. At the Wigwam Saloon, a former 1880s saloon and brothel now operating as a museum, the operator describes mischievous spirits pulling hair and knocking items from patrons' hands amid the building's collection of antique dolls and artifacts.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
