These spooky places are home to the scandal, suicide, and murder lurked by spirits who refused to leave them even in death. Travelers can still visit most of these haunted prisons, houses, and hospitals today only if they dare.
The Myrtles Plantation
The Myrtles Plantation was constructed in 1796 by Gen. David Bradford and was the site of 10 murders. As the story goes, Chloe, a plantation slave, had one of her ears cut off by her master for eavesdropping. Chloe then sought revenge by baking a poisonous cake proposed for her master but had it eaten by the slave master's daughters. Other servants then hanged Chloe for her crime. Chloe and the girls she killed still haunt the grounds of the plantation to this day. Chloe can be seen with the same turban she wore when she was alive to hide her missing ear, says Prairie Ghosts.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829 as the first every solitary-confinement prison. At all times, prisoners were alone, and when they were transported, they were concealed with hoods so they could not see any other inmates. The solitary confinement has driven prisoners crazy and overcrowding soon ended the facility. The penitentiary was desolated in 1971 and soon after stories of eerie noises, ominous orbs swirling and footsteps were told.
Lemp Mansion
In 1838, John Adam Lemp reached in St. Louis from Germany. Contrasting most immigrants, however, his family would soon see success, heart-rending suicides, and shadowy deaths. In 1870, the Lemp family was the figure of affluence in St. Louis, owning a brewery that covered five blocks. The first suicide happened in 1904 when William Lemp, John's son killed himself after the death of his favorite son three years past. Three of William's children also died of suicide. William's daughter, Elsa, killed herself in 1920, her brother William Jr. shot himself years later when the business went bankrupt, and her brother Charles shot himself in the basement in 1949.
The estate was sold and turned into a boardinghouse, although many boarders according to IBTimes were too scared by the voices they caught to stay there. The Lemp Brewery was also transformed into one of the America's Scariest Haunted Houses.
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