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there are many spooky things said to happen there; a very sad legacy ...I spent the night in the Lavender Suite, which is just luxurious -- down comforters, each side of the bed has its own radiator, huge marble bathroom modeled from an Italian estate ... Gorgeous!! We didn't have much in the way of oddity happen, though at the time of check-out the door had become stuck and we couldn't get out for a few seconds, but nothing major. There is a great book the Lemp Mansion sells that explains the history and gives details of the seances held there. There is also the "13 link" which adds to the mystique. Most of the suicides took place on the 13th of the month, and the daughter (I believe) was living at 13 Hortense Place in the Central West End at the time of her death, you might want to see that, as well. It is a pretty place. I hope you enjoy it there! It really is a grand elegant place with interesting history. We have quite a few pictures from Lemp mansion, huge orbs and the face of, it appears to be Charles Lemp in a cloud of smoke that appeared by the fire escape. CK Back in 1998 right after I had my son, my mother's work went to Lemp Mansion for a Halloween Party. They informed us that we could go on a tour of the house and learn some history. My mother stayed behind with some of her coworkers and I went with a group of others. As we were taking the tour we got to the bedrooms where people can spend the night. A group of four people my age (consisting of two girls and two guys) decided that they were gonna stay there for the night and they said that they stayed there the night before. They told us that when they were sleeping the night before one of the boys got up and went to the bathroom. Out side their bedroom door was some stairs leading down and the girlfriend of the guy who went to the bathroom thought she heard her boyfriend calling her name. She got up and looked out the bedroom door and said that she saw him walking down the stairs. Right after that he walked out of the bathroom and there was no way that he could have done that.. Then we continued the tour and they joined in . After the tour had come to an end, we ended at some stairs and the tour guide told us that upstairs the doors were locked and they don't open them to keep it intact. Well, being the people that we were, we were nosy and we went upstairs and there were three doors. Also, there was a piano with a candle on it. Well, one of the boys went to the first door...locked. We all went to the second door...locked. We went to the third door and it was unlocked.. We all walked in, it was pitch black. We all smoked so we lit our lighters. They blew out all at the same time. The room was just big enough for one person to follow the other in single file. The floor felt like mush. We kept lighting our lighters and they kept blowing out. You could feel the blow on your hand like someone was blowing out the candles. After that we all heard "SHHHHHHHHH". We ran out of there and closed the door. We ran downstairs and got the tour guide and asked them about the rooms. She said that in the room that we were in there was a little boy that got locked up in there because he had a disease and they fed him under the door. She said that the doors remained locked because there was nothing to look for in there. We went upstairs to show her that the door was open and when we got up there the door was locked. We all just looked at eachother. Ever since that day when I tell that story I get the chills and the hair stands up on my arms. I don't ever want to go back there again. K |
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