Welcome to American Haunting's podcast number 16.

Just a quick reminder to join us the Saturday, February 10th,

at the Dead of Winter Festival at Mineral Springs in Alton, Illinois.

Rochroy and I will be recording a live episode of the podcast and taking questions from the audience.

It's free to attend. We only ask that you bring a canned good or other donation item.

Find out more at American hauntings Inc.

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

Listener discretion is advised. is a city that has been plagued by the unexplained.

Two of the greatest supernatural mysteries in American history can be traced to the city of

St. Louis.

One of them, the alleged demonic possession of a young boy, has inspired both books and film, while the second remains an

enigma that is difficult to classify other than its evidence of communication with the

spirit world.

It began in 1913, a period at the end of the city's

Guilded age. The great war was on the horizon and the lingering glitter of the

St. Louis World's Fair was beginning to tarnish. St. Louis was muddied by vice and criminal activity. The newspapers were filled with

bad news and then along came a story that was filled with hope and mystery. It was a miraculous tale of a local housewife who achieved

the impossible with nothing more than a Ouija board and what she believed

was the spirit of a dead woman. What was the secret of the housewife, Pearl Curran, and her mysterious benefactor

Patience Worth? And how did she manage to create a mystery that has never been solved. Oh, Welcome to the latest episode of American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history,

hauntings, legends, and lore of America's past.

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