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Every WeirdSTL story, newest first.
2026
- The Gravois Wine Garden That Became a Convent, Then a Parking Lot HISTORICAL
- Alton's Confederate Prison Lost 1,500 Men and Kept One Wall HISTORICAL
- Elsa Lemp Died Twelve Days After Remarrying Her Husband. A Documentary Says the Paperwork Doesn't Add Up. HISTORICAL
- Mound 72: The Burial Mound Across the River With 270 People in It HISTORICAL
- The Lemp Mansion Ghosts, Ranked by How Much Anyone Can Prove HISTORICAL
- The St. Louis Doctor Who Kept His Daughter in a Cave HISTORICAL
- There Is a River Under Forest Park and Nobody Talks About It CURRENT
- Before Your Pocket, Mobile Calls Began in a St. Louis Car HISTORICAL
- The 1904 Olympic Marathon Was a 26-Mile Medical Emergency HISTORICAL
- The Machine That Pressed St. Louis Into Shape HISTORICAL
- The Billionaire’s Backyard: The Unlikely History of Grant’s Farm HISTORICAL
- The Ax Murders of Saxtown HISTORICAL
- The Field Off Rock Road Where St. Louis Gangsters Practiced Shooting HISTORICAL
- The Washington University Physicist Who Walked Into The Exorcist Story HISTORICAL
- Bellefontaine Cemetery, Still the City's Best Gothic Day Trip CURRENT
- Cherokee Cave and the Tourist Attraction Buried by the Highway HISTORICAL
- Chouteau's Pond, the Lake St. Louis Turned Into an Open Sewer HISTORICAL
- How Dogtown Got Its Name, and Why the Best Story Probably Isn't True HISTORICAL
- Mullanphy Emigrant Home, or How St. Louis Once Tried to Welcome Strangers HISTORICAL
- The 1904 World's Fair and the X-Ray Future HISTORICAL
- The Duel That Gave Bloody Island Its Name HISTORICAL
- The Lake in Benton Park Is Leaking Into the Underworld CURRENT
- The Neighborhood the City Erased HISTORICAL
- The Night the River Set St. Louis on Fire HISTORICAL
- The Old Courthouse and the Last Slave Auction on Its Steps HISTORICAL
- The Old Courthouse Reopens, Still Looking Better Than the Country It Helped Reveal CURRENT
- The Real St. Louis Exorcism and the House That Won't Stop Being a Landmark HISTORICAL
- The St. Louis Psychic Rescued From a Dumpster HISTORICAL
- The St. Louis Quack Who Ended Up on the Jack the Ripper Suspect List HISTORICAL
- Wind Phones and the Next Strange Thing St. Louis Cemeteries Could Do Right CURRENT
- Six Flags Is Gone. The Internet Has Opinions About What Comes Next. CURRENT
- The Race That Was Decided by One Vote CURRENT
- The Gold Room: A Ballroom Nobody Was Supposed to Find HISTORICAL
- The Man Who Painted America's Barns HISTORICAL
- The Gentle Giant of Alton HISTORICAL
- "New York" Was Here HISTORICAL
- The Jewel of New York Is a Hotel Lobby in Downtown St. Louis HISTORICAL
- The St. Louis Tornado of 2025 Came for the Vacancies CURRENT
- The Monkeys of North St. Louis — A Mystery the City Eventually Stopped Trying to Solve CURRENT
2025
- Bubblehead Road Is Real, It's in St. Charles County, and Nobody Fully Agrees on Why CURRENT
- The House on Roanoke Drive: Where The Exorcist Actually Started HISTORICAL