Who haunts the Omni La Mansion del Rio
Reported as stories, with where each one comes from. Most reported: Little Jimmy.
Little Jimmy
The hotel's area managing director told KSAT that staff blame Little Jimmy for haunting the old gym, now an event space, and repeatedly cracking its last window on the left.
Schoolboy figures
Travel writers report guests describing cold spots and figures looming over them at night, and staff hearing footsteps in the old tiled courtyard.
"Little Jimmy is said to haunt what used to be the school gymnasium, which is now used as an event space at the hotel."KSAT 12, 2024
The building
Before you book
| Room to request | No room number on record. We only print numbers a source ties to a ghost story. |
|---|---|
| Does the hotel tell the stories? | ✓ Yes Hotel's area managing director told the Little Jimmy story on camera to KSAT; the hotel's own website does not mention ghosts in pages fetched. |
| Built | 1852, as St. Mary's Institute, a Catholic boys' school (later St. Mary's College and law school) |
| Historic listing | Within a National Register historic district (per HistoricInns; district not named in fetched sources) |
| Historic Hotels of America | ✓ Member |
| Google rating | 4.4 from 3,884 reviews |
| Address | 112 College St, San Antonio, TX 78205 |
| The Alamo | 0.3 mi (0.4 km), 7 min walk |
Sources
5 independent sources, quotes checked
- KSAT 12, 2024TV
- Haunted RoomsBlog
- Paige Minds the GapBlog
- Monkeys and MountainsBlog
- HistoricInnsHistory
Photo: The Alamo at night, A. Michael Uhlmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. This is the area, not the hotel.
Around the Omni La Mansion del Rio
Straight-line distances from the front door; walking times allow for streets. Places from OpenStreetMap.
Eat and drink
- Ostra1 min walk
- Bubba Gump Shrimp Co1 min walk
- The County Line2 min walk
- Barriba Cantina2 min walk
- Joe's Crab Shack2 min walk
- Domingo2 min walk
See nearby
- Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks4 min walk
- Tower Life Building5 min walk
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium5 min walk
- Briscoe Western Art Museum5 min walk
- Exchange Building5 min walk
- La Antorcha de la Amistad6 min walk
Other haunted hotels
- Gunter Hotel2 min walk
- St. Anthony Hotel4 min walk
- Emily Morgan Hotel7 min walk
- Menger Hotel7 min walk
Cemeteries
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery1.3 mi (2.1 km)
- Alamo Masonic Lodge Cemetery1.3 mi (2.1 km)
- Dignowity Cemetery1.4 mi (2.2 km)
- Old German Lutheran Cemetery1.4 mi (2.3 km)
Questions
Is Omni La Mansion del Rio haunted?
Hotel management told KSAT in 2024 that staff blame a schoolboy ghost called Little Jimmy for a gym window that keeps cracking. Haunted Rooms notes there is no record of a student death behind the story.
Who is Little Jimmy?
According to the hotel's area managing director, a precocious young Catholic student from the building's school years. No surname or historical record has been found.