You people are talking about what we used to call ” Igor’s ” I am 41 yrs old and as a teenager we used to go up there all the time. I never heard any story about killing of a family. the story then was about the hanging in the tower. Anyway one night our drunken selfs jumped the fence and went up for a closer view. We we greeted by the caretaker of the property at the time. He came out of the door on the side of the house(not the front door) As we were talking to him others in our group snuck inside. So he told us to go get them. we all thought cool. Didn’t see anything haunted but the house is creepy. There was only electricity on the first floor. There was a stagecoach in the hallway for the main entrance. A huge wine cellar in the basement , an area we all got goosebumps being in. Upstairs we went up in the tower. No holes in the ceiling like the story I had heard. But there are beams in that area of the ceiling. There were stairs leading up to that area. At the top was a trapdoor thing leading you on to the top of the tower. You can see the railings for this area from the outside of the tower. It was the most amazing view I have ever seen of KC. I must apologize for my inexcuseable behavior that night but it was an experience I’ll never forget. I also heard stories about the Lab around the corner from Igor’s. Our tale was that there were 10 foot cows there. And the gravel drive to the left of the lab led to devil worshipers in the woods there.

John, we are the same age and yes the house is creepy. Every year my older Sister and her best friend drove by there at Halloween when I was younger. Did you see the Gargoles on the front poach??? The caretaker to my understanding has passed on and a Family member now has the house. The Lab around the courner is also true. My other sister and I was talking about it the other night, both places. The Cows and Chickens were huge, there was a huge fence that they could not get out of and a large blue light posted on the buildings all around. We still to this day have no clue what the lights were. The gravel drive have no clue, I hated that Lab, it scared me, heck I was around 5 or so.

I am happy that someone finally cleared up all the rumors of this house. Good job, Charolette. I had heard several rumors of “The Castle” when I was a kid growing up in Kansas City. Again, thank you!

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I love ghost stories and a haunting the T.v. show and I sooooo wanna be a ghost hunter when I grow up…..Does any paranormal investigators take a 13 year old as a ghost hunter?

a few years ago a friends of our famliy lived there doing renovations tring to fix up the place after it had been bought. I went over there often nothing weird ever happened while i was there. I grew up only a couple of miles away and i always heard she hung herself in the tower and that she sits in a rocking chair in the tower and waits for the husband.there is no place for a rocking chair. Our friend said nothing ever happened to him the 8 months he lived there but they did find a garage at the back of the property it was underground and all they found was a couple of old cars

i’m the one who had the experienced meeting the guy who killed his wife and daughter.i’m a medium….he’s so disturbed soul…regret for the things he had done.

I lived around the corner from here. It is beautiful and creepy. Last time I was there they were doing renovations. The fence was to keep out the gobs of kids coming to snoop.

I went to an estate sale at this house when I was six years old in the eighties. I can only remember a few things about what the inside looked like. I remember they had a few rooms roped off that I wanted to go in. My grandmother kept a close eye on me and would not allow it. It was very unsafe inside. They wouldn’t let us go up to the roof. I remember there were stains on the walls in one room. It was very dirty and old. I had a really bad feeling while we were upstairs and wanted to leave. I visited again when I was twenty and it looked nothing like what I remembered, it was so much smaller! My grandmother who has lived off of Vista in KCK since the 1950’s would tell me stories about how a baby had drowned in the fountain in the front yard. She also said that a man had killed himself in the house. That was the extent of the stories she told. I think it would be awesome if the owner would allow one of these paranormal experts to do a show on it so people could see what its like.

check out the link for the REAL story of the home… the owner lives in NY & hopes 2 restore the home, although he’s owned it for years, since the 80s, & hasnt done much of anything with it…

http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/ks/sauers_castle.cfm

there’s the link

In regards to the Sauer Residence, this has long been a source of interest from my family. My grandfather grew up across the street from it (in the 1930s) and it was already thought to be haunted at that time. The only person who did haunt it was the care-taker who was fed up with nosy kids like my grandpa who would creep around on the property.
this link gives pretty cut-and-dry information as to the history of the house, as for the father killing the whole family, I believe that this is a rumor.
http://www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/argentine/187.htm

I can share my own experiences with the paranormal on this property however. When I was about 8-9 years old, my father took us up there to check out the property. I was too afraid to set a foot on the property, so the adults walked around it to check it out. This was in the middle of the afternoon. I looked up to the watchtower where it appeared some white curtains were hung. I watched as one of the curtains was drawn open, stayed open for a moment, then closed again. I then took off around the property to find my parents. This could be explained as many things, the house was uninhabited at the time (but this doesn’t mean there wasn’t someone in there…legally or otherwise). I’m very sensitive to ghostly phenomenon, and I definitely felt a presence there, I will say that much. Later, when I was in high school a friend of mine and I ventured over to the house for a school photography assignment to photograph architecture. We walked around to the back of the property where a wooden shack that is built on to the main house. It seems to be a sort of kitchen maybe. Not sure. Anyway, the door was open (someone else had probably gone looking around and kicked it in). We went inside. On the counter-tops were some board games laid out and some cups of soda, it looked like it had been left abruptly. We went into the main part of the house and took photos of a claw-foot bath-tub and the main living room. There were long stairs leading to the upper floors and a large hallway with an ornate wooden banister leading down to the basement. It was a really stuffy, muggy day but a constant cold breeze was running through that hallway. It was close to May and it felt about 20 degrees inside. We went to the stairs leading up and saw this black shadow figure standing in the stairs and felt like we should leave then. It was very strange and oddly, we just calmly left the house. We just knew we should, but didn’t get afraid until later on. But at the time, we weren’t. When we walked around the property, we noticed from the corner of our eyes the figure of what seemed to be a young, brown-haired boy (?) wearing what seemed to be denim over-alls and a blue and white checked shirt. He just stayed in our peripheral and followed behind us. I turned and told her that the boy was making me nervous because he kept following us around and thought we should leave in case he was a local or something (as we were obviously trespassing). My friend agreed and we got back into her car. We sat in it for a while not talking, I asked her to explain what she saw to confirm that I wasn’t going crazy, she confirmed she saw the exact same things. We drove off, and then when we were at a stop light, she started shaking and we both had a delayed reaction to what we had seen, suddenly getting very scared. After this experience, I would say I think it’s haunted.