Haunted St. Louis : History and Hauntings along the Mississippi

by Taylor, Troy

• ISBN13: 9781892523204
• ISBN10: 1892523205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(3)
Welcome to Haunted St. Louis
Ghosts by Gaslight	11	(73)
The History & Hauntings of Old St. Louis
Welcome to the Mound City
The French in St. Louis
The Arrival of the ``Bostons''
Ghosts of the Old Rock House
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
General Clark & St. Louis
Bloody Island
The Haunted Mississippi River
The Mystery of Mark Twain
Fires, Plagues & Disasters
The Great Cyclone of 1896
Growth & Commerce
Haunted Hotels
Sawbones & Scalpels
Ghosts of the McDowell Medical College
Haunted Hospitals
A City in Chains
Spirit of Elijah Lovejoy
Ghosts of the Underground Railroad
Monuments to Eternity
The Eads Bridge, Union Station & The Ghost of Shaw's Gardens
Violence & Bloodshed
The World Came to St. Louis (1904 World's Fair)
The Mystery of Patience Worth
Military Spirits & Patriotic Ghosts	84	(40)
History & Hauntings of Military Life in St. Louis Haunted Jefferson Barracks
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Historic Ghosts & The Most Haunted Places at Jefferson Barracks
Post Headquarters
Atkinson Hall
Building 27
Spirits of the Civil War
War Comes to St. Louis
Sherman & The March to the Sea
Ghosts of the Gratiot Street Prison
Spirits of Injustice
Spirits of Another Kind	124	(28)
History & Hauntings of St. Louis Breweries Beer in St. Louis
Anheuser-Busch Brewery
Suicide & Spirits: The Haunted History of the Lemp Family
The Lemp Brewery & Cave
The Family Suicides
The Lemp Mansion
Rise & Ruin of the Lemp Empire
Decadence & Revival
The Haunted Lemp Mansion
Beneath St. Louis	152	(14)
The Mysterious History of the City's Lost Caves
The Caves of St. Louis
Cherokee Cave: History & Hauntings
Uhrig's Cave
The Brewery Caves
Caves of Mystery & Crime
Haunted English Cave
Ghostly Greetings from the Graveyard	166	(13)
History & Hauntings of St. Louis Cemeteries
The Graveyard in America
St. Louis' Garden Cemeteries
Bellefountaine & Calvary
Hitchhike Annie & Her Ghostly Comrades
Lost Graveyards & Their Ghosts
Beneath the Streets of St. Charles
School Spirits	179	(13)
History & Hauntings of St. Louis Halls of Learning
School Spirits of St. Louis
Taille de Noyer
University of Missouri: St. Louis
Ghosts of Washington University
Brookings Hall, Whittemore House & More
Lewis Center & People's University
Enigma of Edward Garner Lewis
Watchful Spirit of Lindenwood College
No Rest for the Wicked	192	(36)
History & Hauntings of St. Louis Murder & Mayhem
History of St. Louis Crime
Cops & Robbers in St. Louis
``So Perish All Traitors'' ...The Maxwell Murder
Jack the Ripper & St. Louis
St. Louis Gangsters: From the Green Ones to Egan's Rats & Beyond
The Saga of Nellie Muench
The St. Louis Crucifixion
Haunted by Crimes Past: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping & Haunted Newstead Avenue Police Station
Haunted Houses	228	(33)
History & Hauntings of Some of St. Louis' Spirited Dwellings
Haunted Houses of St. Louis
St. Louis Private Places
Vandeventer Place
Spirits of Soulard
Ghosts of the Central West End
Restless Spirits of Lafayette Square
Other Haunted Houses &
The House on Plant Avenue
The Devil Came to St. Louis	261
Exploring St. Louis' Greatest Unsolved Mystery
The St. Louis Exorcism Case from Maryland to Missouri
What Really Happened in St. Louis in 1949?