My grandfather passed away in 1968. Prior to his death and failing health, he had a bell he would ring for help when needed. He also use to call out my Fathers name Bob, in middle of nite if he needed something. I was awakened the early moring of his death. My older brother and I both would see my Grandfather in the dinning room looking out into the back yard. He would wear his favorite suit jacket (grey) which he worn when tending to his roses in front yard. he also had his grey hat on and held his cane. I spoke to him once by saying Hi Pop how are you, the reply was only a smile and a nod of the head. The Sea Capt is more than likely Capt Brooks who lived down the street, who as to my knowledge lost a ship in WW1 There is a haunted road listed in your haunted place in missouri/st. louis. The road is W. Cabanne Place. I grew up on that street and the house I grew up in was owned by my family from 1929 to 1978. The house has sold numerous times since 1978. It just sold again and I found out about the sale after the fact or I would have requested to see it again. I had lots of relatives die in that house, in fact, I used to joke about a person being hung from the attic, but I was only joking. I do believe that my house was/is haunted and probably by my relatives. The address was on W. Cabanne. I would love to go back in therebut don't know the "new" owner. I would like to comment on West Cabanne Place, in St. Louis. My family has owned a house on W. Cabanne Place since the 1960's, I myself have lived here since the 1980's, and I have never seen or heard of those three ghosts in black robes mentioned on your website. However, I have certainly heard some interesting stories about murders and ghost sightings from neighbors. Note that I will not give any specific house numbers. Around three or four o'clock in the morning, in August of 1937, some men were trying to murder a woman who lived in a long, narrow redbricked house, which is next door to a broad brown house, on the northside of the street. In an attept to escape, the woman fled from her house, and ran down the sidewalk in high-heeled shoes. I don't know specific details of the murder, and nobody knows who killed her, but it is known that her dead body was found on the outside steps of the house that is two houses to the east of hers. The interesting thing is that a person who has lived on Cabanne Place since the late 1950's or early 60's has reported that (in the 60's) she and her children would sometimes stay up late into the night in August, the same month the woman was murdered, and they would hear the sound of the woman's high heeled shoes hitting the sidewalk, which I guess is the sound of her fleeing from the people who killed her. I remember a road trip conversation with two family members. One who still lives here, and one who no longer lives here. We somehow got on the topic of people who used to live on this street, and the family member of mine who still lives here recollected a man who used to live in the same residence the murdered woman lived in. They said that the man saw ghosts walking down the street (it may have been three of them, i don't quite remember because i was young at the time). The person who mentioned this said that the man saw ghosts only because he was insane, and out of his mind. But the other person who was in the car acted as if they believed this story, I mean in a way that implied that they had seen the same things too. I have also heard a story of a man who died that was the captain of a riverboat on the Mississippi River. His home was known as the 'Captain's house'. He lived in a big yellowish house on the south side of the street between a blue house and a gray house. This man did not particualry apreciate women and believed that women should stay 'in their place'. After his death, he would come back to haunt his wife and young daughter, choking them in their sleep numerous times. The woman who lived there reported hearing foot steps on the wooden floors at night, but then going up stairs and seeing nobody. Her and her daughter eventually moved out. Addtionally, I live on property on which a person was murdered. A house that used to occupy my lot and the lot next to mine was burned down by the murderers so that no evidence of the murder would be found. This must have happened sometime before the mid-1920's. |
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