The complex is well over 100 years old and fully rich with gothic gates, archways, buildings and more. The minute you arrive at the Lemp Brewery, you literally feel the history. They acclaim this haunt to be the only REAL haunted house in America. Louis, Missouri has opened a haunted house. We recently took a tour of Lemp Brewery where Halloween Productions Inc. The Lemp Brewery Dynasty is one of the greatest ghost stories in documented history of the paranormal, but the real and truly scary place in this story is the Brewery itself and the caves underneath. Today, it’s a horrific haunting experience like no other. The Lemps would also use these caves of stone arches and gothic walls to walk to work each day. Years ago, this natural cave system provided the perfect temperature for aging beer. The Lemp Mansion and Brewery were connected by a series of underground tunnels and caverns, called The Caves of St. It’s believed Edwin lived as long as he did ONLY because he sold the mansion and left the evil behind.Īlthough the Lemp Mansion gets most of the press, many suspect it was the cursed business that drove several of the Lemp Family to suicide or other ill fate. Then in 1970, the final death of Edwin Lemp at age 90 ended the family line. Knowing several other Lemp suicides remained suspect, Charles left a note with only the words, “In case I am found dead, blame it on no one but me.” Following his brother’s death, Edwin Lemp sold the mansion and it became used as a boarding home. In 1949, Charles Lemp committed suicide in his mansion bedroom after shooting his dog in the basement. William’s un-named, illegitimate child died inside the mansion somewhere around mid to late 1940’s. Then in 1943, William Lemp III died of heart failure at the age of 42. ended his own life inside the mansion office with a shot to his heart. In 1922 after selling off the Lemp Brewery complex at auction, William Lemp Jr. The police weren’t involved until at least 2 hours after her death. The Lemps called their doctor, an attorney and the coroner without ever notifying the police. In 1920 just days after her marriage and with her husband in the next room, Elsa Lemp supposedly took her own life with a gunshot to the chest, but left behind no suicide note. By that time, the family had already endured one heart failure death (Frederick Lemp at the mysterious age of 28) and one suicide (William Lemp Sr).įrom 1919-1949, five more deaths/suicides occurred. Louis, dominating the beer trade until prohibition closed the plant in 1919. ![]() By 1870, Lemp Brewery was the largest brewing company in St. Would that make a building haunted? The Lemp family truly qualifies as one of America's most haunting ghost stories, with much scrutiny on the seemingly possessed Lemp Mansion.īuilt in the 1860’s, The Lemp Mansion was home to the Lemp family and located next to their family business, The Lemp Brewery. ![]() How about FIVE deaths in one mansion with nearly all supposedly being by their own hand. What determines whether a building is haunted? When a person dies in a house, does that automatically make the place haunted? Is it a murder, a suicide, or an unexplained death that makes a building haunted?. Do spirits actually communicate from the beyond? Can a spirit actually move items? How much do you believe? ![]() Each year, more and more shows tell the tale of ghost hunters and their eerie excursions to chase down the paranormal. These days we have over 800 televised channels with shows for every flavor, but oddly enough some of the hottest aired shows are those about ghost hunting.
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