shut the **** up!!

I never quite understand why some people always feel the need to be vulgar. I suppose, Loralai, that your opinion couldn’t possible have been conveyed properly without implying the use of the F word five times…Ridiculous and excessively immature.
As previously stated, we were there on an official ivestigation and I can’t wait to get back in there and capture some more evidence… I highly recommend the Lemp Mansion for a number of reasons, but if you are in the St. Louis area and do not want to travel too far for a good paranormal experience, then Lemp is the way to go..

This is one of the top haunted houses in America. I have heard of this from Ken Hudnall. He has featured this mansion just recently on his blog: http://kenhudnallshow.com/2011/01/the-lemp-family-mansion/

I hope to visit this very soon

Got ya all beat. I was in the Lemp Mansion in August of 1972. Long before it was reopened and renovated and I tell you right here and now, in 2011, there is still no way in this world that you could get me to go back into that building.

I was with a girlfriend of mine and a couple of guys and we were ghost hunting around St. Louis and St. Louis county just before I left for college. Giggles and grins right?? Hell no!!! We got into the building through a door that had already been jimmied in the back. This place was in terrible condition. Like has been previously said, it’s not exactly in the best neighborhood of the city. Some of the windows were broken out, walls were damaged, stuff hanging down from the tall ceilings, ratty, broken up furniture, the works. You could tell that it had really come down in this world because here and there were little signs of what it had been at one time or another.

We were prowling around with only one flashlight between the four of us and believe me, that place was really spooky. All of us felt like someone was watching us and the hair on the back of our necks stood up. More than once we thought we heard people talking but couldn’t make out just where it was. Then I thought I heard water running like in a shower but no one else admitted to hearing it if they did.

We headed down a stair case from the second floor and all four of us saw a little boy who looked like he was standing in the air at the side of the stairs. His eyes were blood red and he didn’t have any apparent clothes on. Of course, we couldn’t see anything below his waist. Not natural at all. We fled down the stairs and when we looked back, nothing was there. I later learned that other people have seen that little boy and there’s actual photographic evidence of him. (http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-missouri/LempStaircase-600.jpg He is in the bottom right of the picture just between where the staircase meets the hall floor. Look between the rails.)

When we were downstairs in the kitchen, we discovered a wooden door that had been padlocked and chained shut, apparently for a very long time as the padlock was rusted shut. And this wasn’t a new padlock. This was a very old style of padlock. One of the guys we were with tried to open the padlock, rattling it a bit. Immediately, there were loud growls coming from behind the door. Loud, deep, scary growls. And scratching on the wood. That was about enough for us. We scrambled out of the mansion and piled into the car and got the heck out of there. I was in the back seat and was looking back at the building as we drove away when I suddenly saw a light come on in an attic window. I gasped and everyone turned around and I just pointed at the light. You could clearly see what looked like a person in the window and it was waving like it was saying good-bye. There was no electricity on in the entire building. The driver stomped on the gas and we got away from there. We were too spooked to keep ghost-hunting although there are lots of places around the St. Louis area that are allegedly haunted.

I later heard that the padlocked and chained wooden door in the basement kitchen area had been referred to as a gateway to hell but I can’t find any reference to it any more.

My team and I have investigated the Lemp Mansion 3 times and we can never get enough. We have never failed to get evidence of some kind or another. Not only do we enjoy the Ghost Hunting there but we enjoy their excellent restaurant and we stay overnight as well. It is fabulous Bed & Breakfast and I can’t wait to go back. My last visit there was March 10, 2011. You can also check out a lot of our evidence we captured there by going to our website ghostspiritinvestigators.com Enjoy and Happy Hunting, Joe