Spooky things

[IllyriaWorshipper]

I can't watch movies about aliens, I can't even watch E.T. without getting a bit scared. I saw Signs and I had nightmares, I couldn't sleep for a week but I remeber having this weird dream about funny teddy bear aliens that came out of my closet. They were trying to take me and my family away. I threw a teddy at them and they died but they just wouldn't go away.

The night my auntie died my brother started pointing down the hallway and started saying he could see her. The cat was acting weird, it was smooching up against something but there was nothing there, it did it in the middle of the floor. My neighbor said she felt someone put there hand on her shoulder but when she turned around there was nothing, my mum also got the feeling someone was watching her.

[Charisma69]

This is not a spooky thing that has actually happened to me, but it is a spooky place near where I live.

I always here about this place on the news around Halloween. They turned this place into a bed and breakfast in St. Louis so if anyone ever visits St. Louis MO - and has the balls to stay here - well here's an article about the place:

Haunted Houses in St. Louis Missouri
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The Lemp Mansion

Are there really haunted houses in St. Louis, Missouri, or anywhere for that matter? St. Louis has been called the premier city for haunted houses every fall for many years. There are haunted houses and haunted attractions set up in just about every area of Metropolitan St. Louis. People flock to these attractions every fall just to see which attraction can do the best job of scaring the daylights out of them. Those visiting the Lemp Mansion might just get more than they bargained for.

The Lemp Mansion is rated among the top haunted houses in the country and has been featured in numerous articles and television shows dealing with the supernatural. The Lemp family operated the Lemp Brewery which covered ten city blocks and was the largest brewery in St. Louis until Prohibition. The demise of the Lemp Brewery is still one of St. Louis' greatest mysteries. The first major fissure in the Lemp dynasty occurred when Frederick Lemp, William's favorite son and the heir apparent to the brewery presidency, died under mysterious circumstances in 1901. Three years later, William shot himself in the head in a bedroom of the Lemp Mansion. The Lemp family saga is rich in the drama inherent in haunted houses including four suicides.

There have been dozens of reports of people having unusual experiences in the mansion. A painter hired to restore the ceilings was alone in the house when he experienced the uncomfortable feeling of being watched. When he heard his name called, he quickly ran out of the mansion not even cleaning his brushes. One morning a waitress arrived before anyone else and saw a man sitting at one of her tables. When she approached him, he vanished into thin air!

So what better location for a Haunted History Tour than the Lemp Mansion? Today the Lemp Mansion serves as a restaurant, bed and breakfast and a dinner theater. Can you imagine spending the night in a real haunted house? The Lemp Haunted History Tour is held every Monday evening. You will journey through a historical mansion while every minute waiting and expecting to have the #&#@ scared out of you. I don't think you'll be disappointed!

The Lemp Mansion also has several other hauntings which you can visit if you have the nerve. You can visit the Asylum where some of the most deranged members of St Louis' elite were housed, the morgue, or The Hill House in Imperial, MO. Whatever you do, don't go alone!

I've always wanted to stay there, but I have never gotten around to it.

If you're interested, here's another article you can read about the place. It goes into more detail about the history of the family: www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-LempMansion.html

[Charisma69]

Most of you have heard of the book and the movie, The Exorcism.

Did you know that it was based on a true story that took place in St. Louis in 1949?

I always wondered about the details of the true story and I ran across this link today when I was researching stuff about The Lemp Mansion:www.prairieghosts.com/exorcist.html

It's a pretty interesting read.

So, does anyone else have stories about real hauntings in your city?

[IllyriaWorshipper]

Melbourne has a few haunted houses, but they are more in the country than the city. I will look em up after. I love this kind of stuff, its amusing.

[TheMasterGeek]

Charisma69 said:

Most of you have heard of the book and the movie, The Exorcism.

Did you know that it was based on a true story that took place in St. Louis in 1949?

I always wondered about the details of the true story and I ran across this link today when I was researching stuff about The Lemp Mansion:www.prairieghosts.com/exorcist.html

It's a pretty interesting read.

So, does anyone else have stories about real hauntings in your city?

From what my mother told me that "The Exorcist" was based on a story about a girl from Washington, DC, specifically the Georgetown area of DC.

[Charisma69]

No, the real kid was a boy. They changed it to a girl in the book.

The boy was originally from Maryland (if I remember correctly), but his Mom had family in St. Louis. The actual Exorcism was performed in St. Louis.

It's fascinating stuff really.

In other news, apparently the stuff about the house in Amityville - which is supposed to be based on a true story - was a hoax.

[IllyriaWorshipper]

Is that the one where the woman is raped by ghosts or something.

[Charisma69]

No, the Amityville house was supposedly possessed.

The house was rumored to cause a man to murder his entire family.

Then the people who moved in after that supposedly saw lots of horrible things in the house - which drove them to leave.

Turns out it was all made up. The guy did murder his family - but it was the son not the father.

The people who bought the house after that just wanted to get out of their mortgage.

If you want to read more about the hoax, here's a link: www.prairieghosts.com/amityville.html

[IllyriaWorshipper]

I heard of one about a woman who was violently raped by ghosts or something. They made it into a movie and they say thats basied on a true story. I haven't seen the movie but I have heard about it from my mum.

[Charisma69]

That plot sounds vaguely familiar. I'm not sure what the movie is though.

I've seen far too many scary movies to remember all of them. ;D

[IllyriaWorshipper]

I have seen lots of scary movies, I used to get scared of watching Freddie Krugar when I was little, my mum made up a thing that if I wasn't good, Pin Head would come and take me away so I tried to be as good as possible then when I got older and didn't believe it anymore.

[tjaman]

I liked "The Shining," myself. Very creepy.

Spookiest thing ever happened to me? I spent five years in college, graduated with honors, and have turned in award-winning work every place I've worked and I'm still in NORTH DAKOTA!!!

It could happen to you!

[Disgruntled Gremlin]

They said the *Mothman Prophecies* was based on a true story. Hint: Moth. Man. Say it slowly, now. When it comes to horror movies, it's good to put extra emphasis on the last two sylables.

[Charisma69]

You don't have any really scary stories to tell?

I could tell a few spooky stories - but I should be doing my homework right now so I probably should hope right on top of that.

Talk about scary. ;D

[IllyriaWorshipper]

I've heard of that one, whats it about.