Case file · Haunting
Lemp Mansion, St. Louis
Brewer William Lemp Sr. shot himself in the family mansion in St. Louis in 1904; his son William Jr. and his son Charles later took their lives there too, and the house became one of Missouri's best-known haunted places.
1904 CE · 38.59, -90.22 · status: legend
The account
After the brewery closed in Prohibition the mansion became a boarding house and then a restaurant and inn, whose staff and guests tell ghost stories.
The sceptical view
The deaths are documented; the hauntings are later lore promoted by the restaurant and ghost tours.