Haunted Lemp Mansion

This week, we dive into one of America’s most genuinely tragic haunted locations — the Lemp Mansion in St. Louis — starting with a German immigrant named Adam Lemp who built a beer empire from a grocery store and a network of natural limestone caves, and tracing the family’s meteoric rise through his son William turning it into a national powerhouse with a 33-room Victorian showplace, an underground ballroom, a heated swimming pool, a bowling alley, and enough debauchery beneath the city streets to fill several true crime podcasts.

Then came the part that makes this story different from most haunted house episodes — four members of the same family, across four decades, died by suicide inside the same walls, including a man who shot his dog before turning the gun on himself and a daughter whose revolver ended up 10 feet across the room from her body with no explanation anyone could agree on.

We wrapped up with the ghost lore — the lavender perfume that drifts through empty rooms, the little boy in the attic window, and the woman in the Victorian dress sitting on the edge of a bathtub at 3 am.