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River City Ghosts: A Haunted Walk Through the Alamo, La Villita, and San Antonio's Riverwalk Past
126 W Commerce St (Blue Star Ice House entrance, Main Plaza), San Antonio, TX 78205
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages for the San Antonio Apparitions Ghost Tour; 21+ for the pub crawl
Cost
$
Pricing is not published as static text on the operator's page (loads dynamically in the booking widget); consistent with US Ghost Adventures' standard city pricing, typically in the $25-$35 per-person range. Confirm current pricing at usghostadventures.com/san-antonio-ghost-tour/.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of downtown San Antonio near the Alamo, La Villita, and the Riverwalk.
Equipment
Photos OK
The Alamo (1718 mission, 1836 battle site) · San Fernando Cathedral (established 1731) · La Villita Historic District · Emily Morgan Hotel (former Medical Arts Building)
US Ghost Adventures operates its San Antonio program under the on-page brand 'River City Ghosts' / 'San Antonio Ghosts,' running the San Antonio Apparitions Ghost Tour nightly through the city's historic downtown near the Alamo and the Riverwalk. The tour is independently listed and reviewed on TripAdvisor ('River City Ghosts By US Ghost Adventures') and Viator, corroborating that the program actually operates. The company separately runs a 21-and-up pub crawl, San Antonio's Spirits and Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl, through the historic district's bars.
The route covers the Alamo, constructed in 1718 as a Roman Catholic mission and the site of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo; the Emily Morgan Hotel, originally built as San Antonio's first Medical Arts Building; La Villita, an early Native American and settler-era neighborhood; the Cadillac Bar & Restaurant (Stumberg's General Store building); the Alamo Street Restaurant and Theater, a former Alamo Methodist Church; and San Fernando Cathedral, one of the oldest cathedral sanctuaries in the United States.
Sources
The operator frames the Alamo as one of the most haunted sites in the country, describing reported apparitions of defenders, Mexican soldiers, and monks since the 1800s, and recounts the Emily Morgan Hotel's past as a Medical Arts Building where patients reportedly still wander the halls. At La Villita, the operator recounts reports of disembodied voices and moving objects, and at the Cadillac Bar & Restaurant, sightings of a man with a white handlebar mustache and a former resident named Beatrice. The Alamo Street Restaurant and Theater is described as having earned an 'Officially Haunted' designation from the South Texas Ghost Hunters Alliance, and San Fernando Cathedral is presented as one of Texas's most haunted sites tied to burials beneath its sanctuary.
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.
Notable Entities
US Ghost Adventures' main downtown San Antonio walking tour, branded 'River City Ghosts,' covering the Alamo, the Emily Morgan Hotel, La Villita, the Cadillac Bar & Restaurant, San Fernando Cathedral, and the Alamo Street Theater. Runs nightly, year-round. Also listed on TripAdvisor and Viator as 'River City Ghosts San Antonio Apparitions.'
A roughly 2-hour, 21-and-up haunted pub crawl through San Antonio's historic district, pairing ghost stories with stops at local bars.
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Central stop on the San Antonio Apparitions Ghost Tour.
Featured stop, described by the operator as a former Medical Arts Building.
Stop on the route; operator recounts reports of disembodied voices and moving objects.
Stop on the route; operator describes it as sitting on a burial ground.
Stop on the route, described by the operator as the former Alamo Methodist Church.
Stop on the route; operator recounts burials beneath the sanctuary railing.
Featured in the operator's haunted-locations preview for San Antonio.
Operator's route stop; described as the former home of businessman John McMullen. No corpus match found.
Operator's route stop, a 31-story gothic office tower. No corpus match found.
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