87: America's Most Cursed Family: The Dark History of The Lemp Mansion

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Lemp Mansion is considered one of the most haunted places in the country, all because of the Lemp Family that used to live there. The tragedy that befell them makes them one of the most "cursed" families in American History.

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0:00.0	One morning a woman named Rebecca woke up so early it was still dark outside.
0:07.0	She blinked the sleepiness out of her eyes and looked around,
0:11.0	but all she could make out were the shapes of the bedroom furniture.
0:15.8	That weekend, she was staying with her sister and nephew in the Lump Mansion, a Victorian
0:21.1	mansion in St. Louis, Missouri. Now, normally waking up in a hotel in the middle of the night is not that scary, but Rebecca had heard some unsettling stories about this place.
0:34.0	Before she left for the weekend, a friend of hers told her that the house was haunted
0:39.4	by the ghosts of the family who originally owned it, the Lemps. Supposedly, the family had been cursed, and
0:47.2	legend has it, that curse is now trapped in the walls of the mansion, as are their souls.
0:54.0	And the room was pretty creepy.
0:57.0	Rebecca had to agree.
0:59.0	The furniture was all antique, made of bulky dark wood, a massive mirror hung over a fireplace, and the curtains
1:08.6	covering the floor to ceiling windows gently swayed by themselves from a draft. It was as if the room was
1:15.9	sealed off in the late 1800s and just cracked open for Rebecca and her family to
1:21.6	stay there. Everything looked original to the home.
1:25.2	They were staying in the lavender suite, which used to be the bedroom of the
1:29.7	matriarch of the family, Lillian Lump, at the turn of the 20th century.
1:34.4	It was called the lavender suite because Lillian had ordered everything in the room to be
1:39.8	purple.
1:40.8	The place though felt eerie and cold and in the middle of the night while her sister and nephew slept Rebecca tossed and turned in Lillian Lemps 4 post bed.
1:53.2	She covered her head with a blanket to try and force herself back to sleep.
1:57.8	When all of a sudden, as she was half awake,
2:01.3	Rebecca felt something pressed down slowly on her feet, like something was sitting on the edge of the bed.
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