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Lemp mansion - Neala Schwartzberg
It's after 11 PM and I'm sitting in bed in the Lavender Suite at the Lemp Mansion B& B. It's reported to be a truly haunted house and I'm feeling appropriately terrified. For three days I'm investigating, exploring, and experiencing the spooky doings and haunted places in St. Louis, Missouri and Alton, Illinois. But this place is by far the spookiest.
Lemp Mansion, a B& B in St. Louis is known for its supernatural shenanigans.
The Lemp family made their money in beer, working their way from small grocers to brew pub, to beer baron. Wealth did not, however, make for happiness. Early deaths and suicides littered the family history. But it was William Lemp Jr (known as Billy in some circles) who was, by most accounts, just plain mean. He had a taste for fooling around, divorced his wife Lillian with a nasty battle of charges, and was said to have locked his son born with Downs Syndrome in the attic. He finally killed himself in 1922.
On my trip to experience spooktacular places, I stayed in the Lavender Suite, named after Lillian and her taste for all things lavender.
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I will confess that the bedroom wasn't too bad but the bathroom creeped me out - partially because it cried out for a good cleaning and some repair work. But, it's the only bathroom I've ever encountered which seemed to generate its own stiff cold breeze with no windows open and no fan. None.
The next morning over breakfast we all discussed their evening experiences. "Did you hear all that noise last night?" asked one member of the family who stayed across the hall. "Around midnight there was lots of walking back and forth and what sounded like silverware being rattled. "Not from me," I replied. Nor did I hear any noises. But then, it would have had to get pretty loud to be heard over the traffic sounds from the freeway which ran under my window.
Later, discussing it with someone more knowledgeable about the ghostly doings I learned two fairly horrifying pieces of information. First is that one of the spirits who haunt the mansion is known to have a predilection for moving silverware. And the second, that the spirit of Billy Lemp shares with his corporeal version an interest in watching women in the bathroom, including the one associated with my bedroom.
Lovely. Sigh.
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