WeirdSTL

Every story with a place attached. Click a marker to read it. Pins marked approximate show the general area, not an exact spot.

All mapped stories

• A Bad Santa 5K Is Running Through Carondelet Park on December 20Carondelet Park, St. Louis
• Alton's Confederate Prison Lost 1,500 Men and Kept One WallSite of the Alton Military Prison, Alton, Illinois (one wall remains)
• Alton’s Ghost Tour Begins With a Class Called Ghosts 101Historic Grand Theatre, Alton, Illinois, 230 Market St., Alton, IL 62002
• Bellefontaine Cemetery, Still the City's Best Gothic Day Trip4947 W Florissant Ave, St. Louis, MO 63115
• Cahokia Mounds Holiday MarketCahokia Mounds State Historic Site, 30 Ramey Street, Collinsville, IL 62234
• City of the Sun 5K Trail Run at Cahokia MoundsCahokia Mounds State Historic Site, 30 Ramey Street, Collinsville, IL 62234
• Fright at the Museum at City MuseumCity Museum, 750 N. 16th St., St. Louis, MO 63103
• Halloween Nights at Grant’s FarmGrant’s Farm, 10501 Gravois Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
• Haunted Craft Beer Walks in AltonHistoric Grand Theater, Alton, Illinois, 230 Market St., Alton, IL 62002
• Mound 72: The Burial Mound Across the River With 270 People in ItMound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois
• Mullanphy Emigrant Home, or How St. Louis Once Tried to Welcome StrangersFormer site of the Mullanphy Emigrant Home, N. 14th Street at Howard Street, St. Louis (approximate)
• New Mount Sinai Cemetery Once Had a Lunch Spot for Funerals That Took All DayNew Mount Sinai Cemetery, 8430 Gravois Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
• St. Louis Cathedral Basilica TourCathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, 4431 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108
• The Ax Murders of SaxtownSaxtown Road area, south of Millstadt, Illinois (approximate)
• The Billionaire’s Backyard: The Unlikely History of Grant’s Farm10501 Gravois Rd, St. Louis, MO 63123
• The Field Off Rock Road Where St. Louis Gangsters Practiced Shooting7401 St. Charles Rock Road, St. Louis, MO 63133 (approximate)
• The Gold Room: A Ballroom Nobody Was Supposed to FindJefferson Arms Building, 415 N Tucker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63101
• The Gravois Wine Garden That Became a Convent, Then a Parking LotFormer Bamberger's Grove and House of the Good Shepherd, 3801 Gravois Avenue, St. Louis (approximate)
• The House on Roanoke Drive: Where The Exorcist Actually StartedSite of the former Alexian Brothers Hospital, 3933 S. Broadway, St. Louis
• The House That Sorrow Built: Lemp Mansion and the Family That Couldn't Stop DyingLemp Mansion, 3322 DeMenil Place, St. Louis
• The Jewel of New York Is a Hotel Lobby in Downtown St. LouisHilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, 1 S Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63102
• The Lake in Benton Park Is Leaking Into the UnderworldBenton Park, St. Louis
• The Lemp Mansion Ghosts, Ranked by How Much Anyone Can Prove3322 DeMenil Place, St. Louis, MO 63118
• The Lemp Mansion Is Hosting Halloween Trivia, and the Prize Is a Night in the HouseLemp Mansion, 3322 DeMenil Place, St. Louis, MO 63118
• The Missouri Historical Society Is Opening Its Storerooms for the Creepy Stuff225 S. Skinker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63105
• The Neighborhood the City ErasedFormer Mill Creek Valley neighborhood, St. Louis (approximate center) (approximate)
• The Old Courthouse and the Last Slave Auction on Its Steps11 N 4th St, St. Louis, MO 63102
• The Old Courthouse Reopens, Still Looking Better Than the Country It Helped Reveal11 N 4th St, St. Louis, MO 63102
• The St. Louis Psychic Rescued From a Dumpster2323 Lafayette Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104
• Zombie Road: The Most Haunted Two Miles in MissouriZombie Road (Lawler Ford Road), Wildwood, Missouri (approximate)