| Missouri's other big city,
St. Louis is known as the Gateway to the West and is most famous for
the Gateway Arch. It sits at the confluence of the Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers and is home to Cardinals baseball and Rams
football. There is a lot of history in St. Louis. It is
also prominent in the world of true ghost stories (something I've loved
since I read The Haunting of Hill House for the first time at the age
of seven). In 1980 the Lemp Mansion, once home to the
tragedy-prone Lemp brewing family, was listed by Life Magazine as one
of the ten most haunted places in America. Across the river in
Alton, Illinois, there is a bookstore called (I think) Riverboat
Annie's that is entirely stocked with books about ghosts. One
word of warning about the Arch -- though I have never been there
myself, I have it on good authority that the Arch sways in the wind and
that the motion is very noticable, especially when you are riding in
the elevator. This is not a good place to visit if you are prone
to motion sickness! |