Stuff They Don't Want You To Know CLASSIC: Haunted Houses: What's Going on at the Emily Morgan Hotel?
Nov 3, 2026
Across from the Alamo stands a Gothic hotel built on a former medical facility, complete with morgues, a crematorium, gargoyles, and decades of eerie reports. Explore shadowy figures, phantom nurses, mysteriously running jacuzzis, haunted elevators, blue bathtubs, and the science that might explain it all. Is it paranormal activity or a perfect storm of old plumbing, expectation, and spooky history?
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The Hotel’s History Is Stranger Than Its Ghost Stories
- The Emily Morgan began as San Antonio’s Medical Arts Building, a neo-Gothic complex built between 1924 and 1926.
- Its name honors Emily D. West, whose unverified legend says she distracted Santa Anna before the Battle of San Jacinto.
A Hospital With A Crematorium Became A Hotel
- The building contained a morgue, psychiatric wing, medical-waste facilities, and a crematorium before becoming offices and then a hotel.
- Extensive remodeling in the 1970s removed much of the original interior but left a disturbing historical foundation.
The Basement Held A Mass Grave Of Ashes
- Renovators reportedly discovered ashes from cremated people stored in the basement, with no surviving relatives identified to receive them.
- Owners ultimately spread the remains through the basement, creating what the hosts describe as an accidental mass grave.