Jordan Lambert came from one of St. Louis's most influential families.

His father, a chemist and pharmacist, had created an ina septic called Listerine in the late 19th century.

It was soon found in medicine cabinets across the country. It was the start of the Lambert

Farmacle Company and it turned generations of the family into millionaires many times over.

Jordan's brother Albert became an aviation pioneer, financed Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris

and started the airfield that was later named Lambert International Airport in his honor.

Jordan, however, did not achieve quite what the other members of his family did. in his

contemporary bill, did not achieve quite what the other members of his family did. Born in 1872, he served like his contemporary Billy Limp did

as the vice president of his father's company

while doing little to advance its operations.

He was better known for owning horse racing tracks hanging around St. Louis men's clubs and

winning trophies as an expert billiards player. The thing that finally put Jordan and his first wife

Helen on the front pages of the St Louis newspapers though was their ardent

embrace of the spiritualist movement. Their belief in the possibility of

communication with the dead was so strong in the early 20th century that it made national news

largely thanks to the medium who served as a caretaker for their son and who may or may not have been responsible for their divorce.

Strange things were happening in the St. Louis social scene in the early 1900s and a lot of them

involved ghosts and the Lambert family. You're going to be. Oh, Welcome to the latest episode of American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history,

hauntings, legends, and lore of America's past. Hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor,

our second season explores the history,

mystery, and hauntings of St. Louis, Missouri,

the most haunted city along the Mississippi River.

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