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S1.E101 - M is also for Missouri: Hauntings and Horror in the Heartland

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The Lemp Mansion’s basement is called “the gates of hell,” with voices, a self-playing piano, and moving toys.

1. The Pandemonium Witches: Murders, Mystery, and Mayhem uses Missouri as the number 10 entry in a haunted-states countdown. 2. Kat, Rachel, In, and Meg frame the segment for haunted October and tie the topic to listener Steve from Missouri. 3. The episode asks what makes Missouri land on a top-10 haunted-states list and answers it with specific locations, family histories, and reported activity. 4. The hosts start with Knob Noster, a small town near Whiteman Air Force Base whose name is explained as an old term for a hill. 5. A local story centers on a hermit, a missing slave who ran errands, and a rumor that the hermit murdered him. 6. After a storm and a lightning strike, witnesses reportedly saw a lantern moving up the hill before the hermit’s body was found. 7. The same area is linked to Knob Noster State Park, where campers report disembodied voices, phantom footsteps, and shadowy figures near trails and creeks. 8. The conversation then turns to the Jesse James family farm, where the hosts connect Civil War-era violence to reports of lights, hooves, and gunfire. 9. The farm story includes Jesse James, his mother Zerelda, his brother Archie, and the later burial and relocation of Jesse’s remains. 10. The hosts say visitors and staff still report whispers, crying, and stains in the wood that do not come out. 11. The Lemp Mansion segment covers the Lemp brewing family, the 33-room mansion in St. Louis, and the family’s public scandals after Prohibition. 12. William Lemp Senior died in the mansion in 1904, William Jr. later died there in 1922, and Elsa and Charles also died by suicide. 13. The mansion’s attic is described as haunted by William Jr.’s illegitimate son, and visitors report toys moving or disappearing. 14. The basement is called “the gates of hell,” a name attached to the old brewery caves and party rooms beneath the house. 15. Guests and staff describe voices, piano music, glasses lifting and shattering, and footsteps that lead to violent door kicks in William Senior’s room. 16. The Beattie Mansion in St. Joseph was built in 1854 by Armstrong and Eliza Beattie, later used for elderly residents, homeless people, mentally ill patients, and substance abusers. 17. Eliza Beattie is said to walk and sing on the second floor, while Mabel’s presence is tied to laughter, playful activity, and sounds in the kitchen and hallway. 18. The tone is loose, joking, and conversational, with frequent tangents, first-person reactions, and casual asides about food, pets, and family. 19. Listeners who like haunted houses, Missouri history, and roadside ghost lore. 20. Skip if you want a tightly structured, serious true-crime format.

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Chaotic banter and a haunted-house story that keeps escalating.

The episode starts in the show's usual in-room chaos and then settles into a haunted-house story that keeps climbing. Morning banter and personal updates give way to a dense stretch of ghost-story details: caves with strange noises and growls, a bathroom suite with a reported…

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