A Home for the Haunted: The Pythian Castle, Part Two | Guest Melissa Thuro

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tucked away in the heart of Springfield, Missouri, stands a towering limestone fortress with a past as layered and mysterious as its walls, the Pythian Castle. Built in 1913 by the secretive Knights of Pythias, it was never meant for rituals or brotherhood meetings. Instead, it was a home for aging members nearing life’s end and orphaned children left behind by tragedy.

But that was only the beginning. During World War II, the U.S. military took over, transforming the castle into a rehabilitation center and a holding site for prisoners of war. Rumors of confinement, hidden tunnels, and unspoken wartime horrors still linger in the basement shadows. More than a century later, the castle still stands—and, it seems, so do its former residents. Disembodied voices ripple through the marble lobby. Doors slam where no one walks. Children’s laughter echoes in its halls, as does a woman's greeting, but who, and where, is she?

Today, we step inside the haunted Pythian Castle with Melissa Thuro —where history never rests, and it seems, neither do the spirits. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.
0:05.4	I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:07.9	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.
0:14.2	For materials, tool higher, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.
0:19.0	Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only £22 per square metre.
0:22.4	Love it.
0:23.1	All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:26.0	So now you can keep up with the Joneses.
0:28.0	And the Evanses.
0:29.2	And the Bertels.
0:30.2	Wake up! The Joneses are redo in their garden.
0:32.7	Love that porcelain paver and all that fencing.
0:35.5	I knew it.
0:36.1	They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:37.9	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba. Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that?
0:44.3	For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duneson's got the lot.
0:49.1	Like Turalis, porcelain paving from only £22 per square meter. Love it. All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:56.0	So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patel's. Today on the Grave Talks,
1:02.7	we continue our conversation about a home for the haunted, the Pythian Castle with Melissa Thoreau.
1:10.7	So you've been there for eight years, and you were kind of drawn to it yourself.
1:16.1	What's it been like for you to work there?
1:17.9	Do you feel like there's other presences there with you sometimes?
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