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3 Things No One Tells You About the Texas Hill Country

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You’ve probably heard all of the great details about touristy things to do, all of the excellent food we have, great hospitality, and wonderful country atmosphere, but there are actually some skeletons in the closet for the Texas Hill Country that sometimes have a way of seeing the light of day. The following are similar such oddities which are often believed but are not fully proven. We’ll let you be the judge. Here are three things no one tells you about the Texas Hill Country.

1. A Belief Exists That John Wilkes Booth Was a Bandera Schoolteacher.

3 Things No One Tells You About the Texas Hill Country

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Reading like an old Hercule Poirot thriller, there are some in the Hill Country who credit John St. Helen for being both a Bandera school teacher and a Granbury saloon operator, and the very man who fatally wounded President Abraham Lincoln in the Ford Theater in 1865 in Washington. They believe he escaped to Texas to live his double life as a respected community member, as well as the operator of a private school in the Texas Hill Country and quit his path as John Wilkes Booth, the infamous presidential assassin.

2. The Haunting at San Antonio’s Menger Hotel

3 Things No One Tells You About the Texas Hill Country

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Known as the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio is a beautiful setting with a spirited past. And many say, those spirits still wander the hotel in the present. Long touted as one of the most haunted cities in the country, San Antonio’s Menger Hotel fits right in, with stories of a military specter thought to be that of Theodore Roosevelt! It’s a first class operating hotel, where even the spooks are also believed to be first class, among many others that have been rumored to roam the property.

3. Rumored 1973 Big Foot Sighting

3 Things No One Tells You About the Texas Hill Country
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