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Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

S2 Ep31: The Lemp Mansion Legacy

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.010.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

For all intents and purposes, German brewer Johann Adam Lemp achieved the so-called American Dream for generations of his descendants when he arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1838. His humble lager recipe ballooned into a huge brewery with a family mansion to match. However, as the business got passed down the line, dark history unfurled –haunting the business and house where it all happened.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

When one family experiences so much tragedy, how do we reconcile it?

0:10.3

Is it bad luck, genetics, a curse?

0:14.6

And can so much tragedy befall one family that their souls are doomed to roam the halls

0:20.2

of their once-grand home for an eternity?

0:24.2

What if that home becomes a tourist attraction?

0:27.3

That's scarier, a ghost, or a living person capitalizing on trauma.

0:33.5

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

0:36.8

I'm a writer and an actor who loves a nice craft beer as much as the next person, but I

0:41.9

would need a whole lot more beer than one family brewery could brew if my family degenerated

0:47.2

and unraveled like the family in this episode.

0:50.9

This week, we'll reconstruct a family tree whose once lush fruit began to rot.

0:56.6

Is it a bad seed or the poisonous side of success?

1:01.0

Let's visit the Lemp Mansion and meet the family that once called it home, and perhaps

1:05.8

a few of them, long dead, who still do.

1:23.2

As we turned around to leave, all four of us got instant chills when we heard a little

1:27.3

boy say, come play with me.

1:31.1

I told my brother to shut up and he responded, I didn't say anything.

1:36.7

We strongly believe we had a door to our room unlocked after we locked it when we came

1:41.2

back from the shared bathroom down the hall.

1:43.9

We also dropped two coins in a 10x10 open area and when we knelt down to pick them up,

1:49.7

they were gone.

1:50.8

We looked throughout the entire area in under furniture that was several feet away and

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