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.

i wish they had more about it

I have lived in this city for 29years, not far at all from the Sauer Castle. We even took a field trip of it in high school, and researched it for a project at school. During all the research we learned that NO ONE was killed and buried in the backyard….NO ONE hung themselves inside after finding their wife dead (which also did not happen), and NO ONE jumped off of ANY part of the house and killed themselves! The only person who died there was Mr Anton Sauer in 1872, less than 7 years after this completion of his dream house. He died in the master bedroom on a very hot August day in the late 1870′s. Mrs. Sauer lived there until 1919. I have been there MANY times and I have seen some unusual things like lights flickering, the 3-legged dog, and unidentified sounds, but for the most part, its mainly “haunted” because of how haunting it looks.

http://www.ghost-investigators.com/Stories/view_story.php?story_num=20

Only use the link if you want the truth and not more bs stories

The place is called Sauer Castle, and it’s not even really a castle. The story I have heard all my life is actually quite different, and involves a maid hanging herself in “the tower”. I used to date a guy who lived about a block away, and one night we decided to sit outside and see if anything would happen. I saw a ghostly figure of a woman drag a chair over to a rope, which was tied like a noose. She promptly hung herself. I also heard screams and moans coming from inside the house.

Let me offer some facts. It is Sauer Castle I grew up just down the street. Mr. Sauer (from Austria?) came to america lived in new york, then moved to Kansas in the 1800″s. He built the house for his wife and 5-6 children he thought the weather here would be better for his TB. The ?bell tower” served as a classroom for the children being homeschooled. The only recorded deaths on the property were Mr. Sauer from tb, his infant daughter..who was said to be buried in the back yard until other arrangements were made, and an alledged shooting of a dr. that was self inflected. I got to visit the property in 1986 during an aution of the castle’s contents when the recluse man who lived there died. It was then purchased by a couple who wanted to make it a B & B…or museum..The registeried the castle with the historical society then Mr. Sauer’s great grand son purchased the property in hopes of restoring it to it original glory. Last heard he resides in New York but visits the castle when required to attend hist. society meetings. He has had many, many problems trying to do the restoration because no insurance co. will insure the castle because of vandals and thiefs. So he can’t live in his family’s home . He finally got the 8 ft fence put up after much struggle with the hist. soc. The large brick house was built for Mr. Sauer’s daughter and my dad told me he went to school with her grandchildren. I don’t believe it’s haunted..just a beautiful old home that is decaying because of stupid kansas politics! Thank you Sincerely, Janet

the address is 935 shawnee rd.

The Sauer Castle was the residence of Anton Sauer. Sauer had married his wife Francesca in Vienna, Austria at age 18 and a half. There, they had their five children: Gustave O.L., Anthony Philip Jr., Julius J., Emil, and Johanna.

In 1858 they decided to move to New York City to be with Anton’s mother and sisters that had already been there for some time. Due to his worsening case of tuberculosis and Francesca’s death in 1868, he decided to move his family to Kansas City.

After his business became successful, he began courting a young 28 year old widow, Mary (Maria) Einhellig Messerschmidt, who had two daughters of her own: Anna and Maria. After marrying in 1869 they had five daughters (four survived to maturity): Eva Marie, Antoinette, Josephine (sometimes listed as Fosefa), and Clara. Daughter Helen (sometimes listed as Frances) died in infancy age 14 months.

By 1872 the mansion was finally fully furnished, sitting on the Shawnee Indian trail that was part of the old Santa Fe Trail that many wagons passed.

After Anton’s death on August 16, 1879 in the second floor master bedroom, Mary and the children continued living in the house, as did the children continue living there after Mary’s death in 1919.

Daughter Eve Maria Sauer married William C. Van Fossen in the house, having one child named Helen before the marriage failed 18 months into it. She then married a widower with six children of his own, local Wyandotte County businessman and landowner, Mr. John S. Perkins. Together they had three children and stayed married until he committed suicide with a handgun at age 73, the reason being his declining health. Eve and John S. Perkins’ son John Harrison Perkins had an infant daughter drown in the swimming pool on the west side of the house. Eve continued to live in the family home with her son and two daughters, Eva Marie Perkins, and Marguerite A. Perkins, until her death in 1955.

Five generations of the Sauer family continued living in the mansion until the owner of a home heating oil company, Paul Berry, bought the house after Eve’s death. He lived in the mansion until his own death in December 1986. Because of ghost stories originating in 1930, the house was constantly trespassed and vandalized, which Barry and his dog fought off themselves.

In January 1987, Bud Wyman, his son and daughter in law, Cliff and Cindy Jones, bought the home hoping to turn it into a ‘haunted mansion’ and give tours. At this time, no one lived in the house. In 1988, Carl Lopp, great, great grandson of Anthony Sauer, bought the house with the intention of fixing it up and residing there to keep it in the family. However, this has proved to be a difficult task for Lopp, and has only managed minor repairs such as fixing balconies and putting a large fence around the property.

Carl Lopp’s hired caretaker of the house was charged with felony theft on On August 15, 1996 for stealing 30 thousand dollars worth of artifacts from the house, including a tractor, dress, chandelier, copper from the furnace, and wall scones.

There have been a number of ghost stories that can be disproved (such as the previous family all being murdered there by the father, who then continued to commit suicide) that keep people vandalizing the house, which keeps Lopp from receiving insurance money.

It is located at 935 Shawnee Road in Kansas City, Kansas. The architect is unknown but may have been Asa Beebe Cross. It was placed in the Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmarks on January 29, 1987. It was placed in the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 1, 1977. It was placed in the National Register of Historic Places: August 2, 1977

this is the true story people do ur research noone was murdered but there was a few deaths and a suicide in the house