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listening now let's get to the ghosts.

The following contains explicit language, violent stories, and terrible jokes.

Listener discretion is advised. St. Louis is a city filled with ghosts. A few years ago one of the most talked

about hauntings in the city was a wonderfully restored old building on

Newstead Avenue in the city's Central West End.

The occupants at the time who owned a graphic design company decided it would be the perfect

place for their home and business with its spacious rooms, hardwood floors, and central studio

with high ceilings.

There had been rumors about the building for years, but they didn't let the story scare

them off.

Of course, they didn't realize that when people said the building was haunted, they actually

meant that it was infested with ghosts.

The building had once served the city at the 11th District Police Station in jail.

Built in 1904 to prepare for the influx of crime that was feared would come to St. Louis with the start of the world's fair,

it saw more than its share of violence and death over the years.

One incident in 1945 ended with the death of a waiter named Edward Melendez who was beaten to death in his cell overnight.

His cell mates and three police officers were indicted for his murder.

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