THE GHOSTS OF THE ALAMO (PT 1) THE RISING STORM AMERICA 250
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Part One:
In 1836 Mexico had won its independence from Spain and was being ruled by a dictator named Santa Anna, who had a large army and used it mercilessly to hold on to his power. His biggest threat was an area we now call Texas, where both Americans and Mexican Tejanos who sought freedom were gathering and offering the promise of land to those who would fight to create a new republic called Texas. Men like Jim Bowie, William Travis, and Davey Crockett believed that the fight was worth their lives- and March of 1836 found them defending an old mission called The Alamo. This is their story and the story of the defenders, who came from all over the country- up until the day of the major attack.
In Part Two we cover the fall of the Alamo, the victory at San Jacinto, and the ghosts that still haunt the Alamo and the town of San Antonio,
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:01.0 | I'm Welcome back, everyone, the 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast. |
| 0:38.7 | This is your host, John Hagedorn. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, part one of the Ghosts of the Alamo, titled The Gathering Storm. |
| 0:48.6 | There's a legend in Old Texas that in the days and hours following the fall of the Alamo, |
| 0:53.2 | after Santa Ana set orders to destroy the old mission, that Colonel Sanchez, with orders from |
| 0:58.5 | General Juan Jose Andrade, with a company of Mexican soldiers, ran into a very strange |
| 1:03.6 | and unexpected situation. |
| 1:06.0 | It had been six weeks since the battle, and the Alamo's scars were still showing, fresh |
| 1:10.0 | and deep. |
| 1:11.3 | It was unholy quiet at the sight of the mission. |
| 1:14.7 | Gone with the sounds of the Mexican bugle playing Deguillo, |
| 1:17.6 | the song that meant there would be no quarter shown for any of the bloody defenders. |
| 1:21.6 | There were no sounds of cannon, or muskets being fired, |
| 1:24.6 | or battle commands being screamed as men on both sides fought for their lives. |
| 1:28.7 | Only piles of freshly dug mass graves, the dirt mixed with ashes and bones of the bodies of the |
| 1:34.1 | 189 Texians who had been bayoneted and piled outside the Alamo on three funeral pires |
| 1:39.9 | for burning. Santa Ana wanted this last symbol of Texans' resistance removed from the landscape, |
| 1:46.0 | showing absolute victory, no quarter, no peace. |
| 1:50.0 | A warning did these fool Texans anteanos who still rebelled against the central authority, |
| 1:55.0 | against him. |
| 1:56.3 | The orders were simple enough, Colonel Sanchez thought, as he and his contingent of soldiers |
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