Comments on: Lemp Mansion

By: Joe Trust

Joe Trust — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:52:47 +0000

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

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:43:54 +0000

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.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:53:32 +0000

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

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:35:17 +0000

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..

By: Lorelai Saw

Lorelai Saw — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:07:21 +0000

shut the **** up!!

By: Luke Dee

Luke Dee — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:06:39 +0000

now thats not very nice lorelai.

By: Lorelai Saw

Lorelai Saw — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:04:27 +0000

this place is soo ******* stupid!!. i dont know why any ******* person would want to ******* go to that ******* place!!! it was most definitely a ******* waste of my goddamn money!!.

By: Lexie

Lexie — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:46:52 +0000

I’m going to the lemp brewery this halloween.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:07:33 +0000

About eighteen years ago, I, along with a team of three others, went into the Mansion for the sole purpose of a paranormal investigation. We were working for a St. Louis based Paranormal Publication, and were given free reign for the entire night. They had booked no other guests and none of the staff were present. We were locked in alone at about 9 PM.
We set up Camcorders, tape recorders and reel-to-reel recorders throughout the mansion.
We conducted a talking session in the Lavender Room (Which is where we set up base for the night.) Throughout the entire interview, the tape recorder kept shutting off (batteries were fresh) and candles repeatedly blew out on their own. We left the room periodically throughout the night to check equipment and upon our return something in the room would have been moved or disturbed, or the faucet in the adjourning bathroom would be turned on. All night there were odd noises, smells, things missing and then reappearing, etc.
When we got back the next day and analyzed the material, there were several female voices on the small recorders from the interviews as well as misc. recorders we set up around the Mansion.
As we were checking our camcorder the night before that we set up in the basement area, one of the guys suddenly got very, very cold and felt someone touching him. Well when we studied that on the camcorder, it shows the investigator walking into the frame of the recorder, doing a quick sound check on it, and then all of the sudden you can see where he started experiencing something, but in the video recording, you can visibly see his breath and we didn’t see that when we were all standing down there at the time. At that point the investigator actually just blinks out of the picture as if he had never been there. You could hear him, as well as us talking, but somehow, his image had been just removed from the recording and all you saw was the wall where he should have been standing.
When we reviewed the reel-to-reel recording, we could hear when we entered the attic. We would announce ourselves and give the time and you could CLEARLY hear our footsteps walking up to the recorder. At about 3 in the morning, the recorder captured some muffled sounds and then a small child says “What is it?” A female voice then answers “Don’t touch it,” and you can clearly hear the childs hand getting swatted. Again you can hear the child and then a very loud male voice yells “I said don’t touch it!” The female then says something, and an arguement ensued and then just faded away. No footsteps no nothing, just an ebbing of voices and then silence.
I have been here only one time since this investigation for a friends wedding reception and my husband and I declined the offer to go and party in the Lavender room, where the after party was. I know for a fact that there is something here, and there is most certainly something in the Lavender room, the basement and the attic. I’m not saying that I will never go back to ghost hunt here, but next time I do, I will be much more mentally prepared than I was the 1st time, as the things that we heard scared the hell out of us.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:30:06 +0000

While it is true that the Lemp Mansion leaves people wanting more, the post on the house is slightly incorrect. Three members of the family did commit suicide; the fourth was actually a young boy who suffered from mental and physical disabilities and passed away in the house at the age of 13. Regardless, he is still seen along with others from time to time. Just wanted to set the record straight though.