Last year, while wondering the streets of Edinburgh sometime around midnight, I decided to take a “ghost tour”.  Many tours are offered so late at night in that Scottish city, adding to the lure and the lore, for what is better in the middle of the night than a really great ghost story?  I joined a group that was headed up by a fine Scottish gentleman, but his accent was just out of my understanding, and lo and behold I ended up on a “torture” tour.  I met that night though, another American.  While we listened to the stories of the various sites, we formed a bond…a need for a ghost story bond.  And when we found that we were actually from the same city in the US, we planned a trip for the coming year, to tour the US and find the sites of the best ghost stories.

Last month we found ourselves plotting out our plans in one of the best San Antonio hotels.  There are many ghost stories to be investigating in the US, and as it turns out, San Antonio has quite a few.  We had discovered online the existence of the Donkey Lady of San Antonio.  She is said to inhabit the south side of the city, around one of the bridges at the junction of Applewhite Road, and Jett Road.  Some stories depict her as a ghost, while others claim that she is of this world, half woman and half donkey.  For the young lovers of the city, she is known to have wreaked havoc by jumping on their cars while they were “parked” too long.

The origins of the Donkey lady are just a varied as the stories about her, and while Chris and I were curious as we “parked”, we were a bit nervous as well.  We had heard that she “honks” the donkey bray, and the best way to catch a glimpse of her, was to honk your horn.  So we pulled over, cut the engine and started honking.  We saw a few shadows in the trees, and laughed nervously as we wondered if she would appear.  We did not see her that night, but next year, we plan to go back once again.  So funny to find someone so close to home, in such a faraway place.  Next year it will be a ghost tour honeymoon, a very cool ending to a story that is still happening.

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