Lemp Mansion
St. Louis, MO
All St. Louisans know about the Lemp Mansion. It is a point of pride that puts St. Louis on the map as one of the big haunted cities in America
The Lemp family is one of the more tragic stories of a large mercantile family torn down. The house was built in the early 1860s by John Adam Lemp, a German immigrant whose brewery made him one of the most successful businessmen of St. Louis.
The first of many deaths to come started in 1901, when Frederick Lemp, son of William and grandson of John Adam, died mysteriously. Three years later, William shot himself in the head in his bedroom, leaving William Junior to inherit the family brewery.
From then on the family business started to fail until Prohibition closed the brewery permanently. Distraught by this failure, William Jr's sister, Elsa, committed suicide. After selling the brewery for only $588,000 (the original value was around $7,000,000), William Jr shot himslef in the same room in which his father did 18 years earlier. In 1943, William the 3rd, William Jr's son, died of a heart attack. William Jr's brother, Charles, lived a reclusive life in the mansion until he decided to follow the family tradition and shot himself. His body was found by the last surviving brother, Edwin, who died of natural causes in 1970.
Paranormal happenings include doors opening, closing, locking, and unlocking by themselves, feelings of sadness, odors of decay, and apparitions of the deceased family members.
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