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22 Feb 2014

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How Many Ghosts Dwell in St. Louis's Infamous Lemp Mansion?

 
Once the home of a famous beer baron and his family, St. Louis, Missouri landmark Lemp Mansion is now a favorite destination for ghost hunters, and for good reason: in 1980, Life magazine named the house one of the “Ten Most Haunted Places in America.”
 
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Photo: Matt Hucke
 
The house was built in 1868 and bought in 1876 by William Lemp Sr., who had taken over the family's brewing business after his father's death in 1862. It was later expanded to the luxurious estate seen today. The building also contains many secret passageways, some of which linked the house (which also served as Lemp's business office) with the nearby brewery.
 
When William Lemp Sr.'s son Frederick died of a heart attack at age 28, the family's legacy of misfortune began. Further tragedies took their toll on William Sr., who took his own life in 1904, just three years after his son's death. More tragedies followed, including the death of William's mother from cancer and the apparent suicide of Elsa Lemp Wright in 1920 under mysterious circumstances. The arrival of Prohibition led to the brewery's closing, after which William Jr. also committed suicide. The tragedy didn't stop there: William's son Charles, an eccentric recluse given to extreme depression, shot himself in 1949... and left cryptic instructions that his body be buried in a secret location. To this day, no one knows why.
 
It's no surprise that a home with such a grim legacy would become the focal point for alleged supernatural activity, and it wasn't long before the mansion developed a reputation for being not just haunted, but extremely haunted. It was turned into a boarding house, but business was disrupted by tenants' complaints of strange nocturnal noises. It was bought in 1975 and converted into a restaurant and inn, which is still in business today... but even during the renovation, strange phenomena plagued the workers, scaring some of them away for good.
 
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Photo: Carin Les/Angels & Ghosts
 
Yes, you can still reserve your very own room here, but bear in mind that strange happenings are still being reported by the staff, including objects flying across rooms, unexplained sounds and ghostly apparitions – including, some say, the spectral figure of William Jr.'s estranged wife, known as the “Lavender Lady” (not to be confused with the character in Phantasm), believed by some to be depicted in the photographs above and below.
 
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