The Big Book of Missouri Ghost Stories

by Troy Taylor

Overview

The Show Me State's creepiest accounts of ghosts and hauntings, including. . .

St. Louis's most haunted house, the Lemp Mansion

The smiling ghost of Meramec Caverns

Mysterious spirits of the Young Brothers Massacre

Hannibal's haunted Rockcliffe Mansion

Hornet Spook Light near Joplin

Spirits at the family farm of Jesse James

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811711494
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Series:	Big Book of Ghost Stories
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Troy Taylor lives in Decatur, Illinois and is the founder of the American Ghost Society. He is the author of more than 80 books on hauntings and unexplained phenomena.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

St. Louis Spirits

Beer So Good Some Will Die for It 8

The Gratiot Street Prison 18

The Mystery of Patience Worth 26

Hauntings of Washington University 36

The Devil Came to St. Louis 47

West of the City

Ghosts of St. Charles 65

Ghost of Meramec Caverns 75

Daniel Boone's Ghost 83

The Clarks Fork Spook 95

The Ghost of Ravenswood 98

Haunts of "Kinney's Folly" 102

Along the Mississippi

The Mystery of Mark Twain 111

The Stillwell Murder 117

Lulabelle's 122

Mark Twain Cave 124

Rockcliffe Mansion 126

Momo, the Missouri Monster 130

The Hunter-Dawson House 135

Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant and Lounge 139

Old Lorimiel Cemetery & the Sherwood-Minton House 141

Down in the Ozarks

Ghosts of the Wilson's Creek Battlefield 147

The Headless Ghost of Murder Rocks 154

Branson, Baldknobbers, and the Ghost of Inspiration Point 159

Ghosts of the Young Brothers Massacre 169

Tales of Pythian Castle 182

Chasing the Hornet Spook Light 186

Ghosts across the Show Me State

The Ghost of Stephens College 199

Ghosts of the Battle of Pilot Knob 203

Hauntings of Potosi 206

Ghosts of Excelsior Springs 216

Spirits of the Belvoir Winery 228

Lingering Ghosts at the Ray County Poor Farm 231

Ghosts of the James Family Farm 237

Ghosts of the Old Fitzpatrick Building 258

Guests Who Have Never Checked Out 262

The Blue Lady of the Muehlebach Hotel 264

The Kansas City Massacre and the Ghost of Frank Nash 266

Bibliography 277