LEMP MANSION STORIES

Dude, you gotta check out Lemp then, if you've never been. If you can get like 3 or 4 friends together, you can all stay in 1 room. They let 5 of us stay in the Charles Lemp room (the green one) upstairs- they wheeled in a 'double bed' cot and a single cot- and we all piled together like kittens cus it was so freaky, heh... but it was really really fun. There was only another couple in the whole place that night. We had run of the whole house (except the kitchen and basement)- we spent a lot of time on the roof- even got some orbs following us back inside from the roof. The weirdest thing tho, was my best guy friend and I were walking from our room to the bathroom (which is quite a distance across the 2nd story)- and we both saw a ball of light appear out of the wall- travel around the room and back towards us and disappear. It was lightening fast. We both saw it and asked the other what they just saw. He's a total skeptic and science freak, so he tried to recreate it w/ his watch reflecting light and yatta yatta, but the more things he tried to explain it away with, the more he realized it really had to have been just a ball of light moving really fast by us. He couldn't explain it away. It wasn't scary, just bizzare.  Later in the orange room at the top of the stairs (I hate this room- one guy in our group stayed in there alone cus no one else would sleep in there)- anwyay, we were all hanging out in there w/ him later and I saw a similar ball of light "jump" off the floor and into the lap of the guy on the bed. It wasn't until I told them later that I remembered that there's supposed to be a ghost dog in the house too. When the last son killed himself he shot the dog too. When we finally went to sleep that night, I was the last one awake. (at the time, they hadn't finished the attic room- it was totally empty of furniture or anything)- I think there was a saw-horse and a chair up there- and some planks of wood- clearly getting ready to be remodled. Anyway, I laid there listening to what sounded like tons of furniture being dragged all over the floor in the attic above us. I tried to wake up the others, but I guess the wine got the better of them at 4am. I listened by myself til I finally dozed off. - Anyway, they do tours on Monday nights- its only like $10 I think, and they let you play w/ all the ghostbusting stuff- a psychic/medium person and her 'assistant' take you all over and tell you their stories and blah blah- it can be cheesey, but atleast you get to tour the house. Its fun. I totally recommend it.  Whew, sorry so long!!
S

If you make a trip to Lemp mansion, you may also enjoy a visit to the DeMinel mansion next door to it. I have worked security there on occassion during wedding receptions. Although I have not witnessed phenomena, I've spoke to a number of employees there who have. I have had some interesting experiences at Lemp. They host a 'haunted' house every holloween season, but below the old brewery, several blocks from the mansion, some spirits like to make their pressence known. During a tour off hours a friend and I went thru and encountered the real thing. Instant cold blast, extreme pressence of energy, and a  'being grasped' feeling. Circumstances prevented having time to try any serious communication with it.
K

I have a tidbit about lemp,
I used to work at Dr. Manheim's Asylum and Morgue which was located across from the brewery on Cherokee. There was a little girl trampled to death in there back when it was a carriage house for the brewery and a few co-workers and I have seen her about the place. I also worked in a "scene" called the boiler room and something tried to push me down a small flight of steps one night. My boss said my  screams were really good but I don't think he realized they were real. Come to find out later when I told him what really happened he confessed that the boiler room and that whole corner of the haunted house was never worked on after dark because all of the construction workers wouldn't go back there. Ha!!! and they stuck me back there by my little ole' lonesome??? Something is going on in that place, I'm not sure about all of it but I would LOVE to find out.
SM