The San Juan Hotel haunted-house tradition

Record summary

Old San Juan’s forts, convents, residences, and narrow streets support numerous stories of apparitions, footsteps, cries, and soldiers or nuns seen after dark. Rather than a single incident, this is a cluster of site-specific traditions attached to a heavily documented colonial city. It offers comparison with other walled cities where military history, religious institutions, tourism, and acoustically complex architecture shape anomalous reports. Researchers should select a particular building or published account, because “Old San Juan ghosts” is too broad to function as one evidentiary case.