This New Texas Museum Is Full of Monsters

Enter if you dare! A new type of museum just opened in San Antonio, Texas and it's giving us some serious chills! If you thought San Antonio was only home to friendly ghosts at the Alamo, think again. South Texas just got a whole lot scarier, thanks to horror makeup master Sergio Guerra.

The San Antonio native, who’s been crafting monsters for years, has opened the Texas Horror Museum inside Wonderland of the Americas mall, and it’s crawling with creatures you’ve probably never heard of! From bloodthirsty legends of South America to our own bone-chilling borderland boogeymen, Guerra’s bringing nightmares to life!

The Texas Horror Museum

The museum’s first big fright fest is called Leyendas, an immersive, multimedia deep dive into South American folklore that many of us grew up hearing. Step inside and you’ll meet monsters pulled straight from the nightmares of Latin America, like Pishtaco, a myth from Peru and Bolivia who butchers victims and sells their flesh as chicharrones, or Colocolo, a creepy, rat-like thing from Chile that feeds on the saliva of sleeping people. There’s even El Sombrerón, a pint-sized boogeyman from Guatemala who charms young women with guitar music before spiriting them away.

Guerra has staged the whole thing like a theater show, so you’re not just looking at these creatures- you’re walking right into their stories.

And this is just the beginning. Guerra’s already dreaming up future exhibits that hit closer to home: South Texas legends like El Chupacabra, La Lechuza, and El Cucuy. Forget Dracula and Frankenstein; you can see those anywhere. He wants to showcase the creepy folklore that’s part of our own backyard, the kind of stories that make out-of-towners say, “The Donkey Lady? What the hell is that?”

For Guerra, it’s all about giving visitors a taste of the monsters that come from our cultura- creatures that deserve their moment in the moonlight.

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Alongside the museum, Guerra’s effects studio, The Darkness FX, is also open for business- so you might catch him crafting the next nightmare while you browse. He’s even planning hands-on classes where aspiring makeup artists can learn everything from latex and silicone work to full prosthetics. Whether you’re aiming to pull off a killer Halloween look or break into horror films, you’ll get the skills here.

The Texas Horror Museum is open now at Wonderland of the Americas.If you’re ready to meet some monsters you’ve never heard of- and maybe pick up a few tricks to create your own- you can find more info here.