The Grave Talks Best of 2025🦇| A Home for the Haunted: The Pythian Castle, Part One
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
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.
For more information visit their website at pythiancastle.com.
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| 1:01.2 | Today on the Grave Talks, a home for the haunted, the Pythian Castle. A conversation with Melissa Thoreau. |
| 1:16.2 | Music with Melissa Thoreau. Tucked away in the heart of Springfield, Missouri, stands a towering limestone fortress |
| 1:21.6 | with a past as layered and mysterious as its walls, the Pythian Castle. |
| 1:27.2 | Built in 1913 by the secretive Knights of Pithias, |
| 1:31.7 | it was never meant for rituals or brotherhood meetings. Instead, it was built as a home for aging |
| 1:37.1 | members nearing life's end, an orphaned children left behind by tragedy. But that was only the |
| 1:42.9 | beginning. During World War was only the beginning. |
| 1:49.5 | During World War II, the U.S. military took over, transforming the castle into a rehabilitation and holding center site for prisoners of war. |
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