Walk St. Louis's most haunted locations. 21 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Three members of the Lemp brewing dynasty killed themselves inside their own mansion — the first in 1904, the last in 1949. That alone makes St. Louis one of America's most haunted cities. In 1949, a 14-year-old boy known as Roland Doe underwent an exorcism in a Bel-Nor bungalow that inspired William Peter Blatty to write The Exorcist. At the Old Courthouse, Dred Scott sued for his freedom in 1847, launching a case that helped trigger the Civil War. Zombie Road — officially Al Foster Trail — earned its name in blood along two miles of Missouri woods. This self-guided tour covers 13 free stops from the Soulard neighborhood to McPike Mansion across the river in Alton, widely called the most haunted house in the Midwest.
You stand before the imposing red brick facade of Bissell Mansion, where Captain Lewis Bissell built his Gothic Revival dream in 1823. The air here fe...
Calvary Cemetery was born from death itself. When cholera swept St. Louis in 1849, killing over 4,000 residents in a single devastating summer, city o...
When the Chase Hotel opened on September 29, 1922, it was the crown jewel of St. Louis hospitality. Developer Chase Ullman built a palace that would h...
You stand at the entrance to Zombie Road, now sanitized as Al Foster Trail, but the darkness remembers its true name. This two-mile stretch through de...
You walk through the iron gates of Bellefontaine Cemetery, where St. Louiss elite rest among Gothic mausoleums and weeping angels. But rest is a relat...
They call it Zombie Road, though its proper name is Lawler Ford Road — a crumbling two-mile stretch cutting through dense Missouri forest near the Mer...
You stand in the shadow of the Old Courthouse, where Dred Scott sued for his freedom in 1847, igniting a legal battle that would help trigger the Civi...
Captain Lewis Bissell built his Federal-style mansion in 1823 on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi, a fitting home for the son of the commander of o...
You enter Union Stations Grand Hall, where 100,000 passengers once passed daily through this Romanesque fortress of commerce. But not everyone who arr...
In the spring of 1949, a thirteen-year-old boy known by the pseudonym Roland Doe was brought to a modest brick home on South Regal Avenue in the Bel-N...
Bellefontaine Cemetery opened in 1849, the same year cholera was killing St. Louisans by the thousands. The timing was no coincidence — the city despe...
You step into the Fox Theatres opulent lobby, a Siamese-Byzantine palace where vaudeville stars and silver screen legends once commanded the stage. Bu...
You stand outside an ordinary-looking brick bungalow in Bel-Nor, but what happened inside these walls in 1949 inspired the most terrifying film ever m...
The DeMenil Mansion rises from the same South St. Louis hill as the infamous Lemp Mansion, and its history is nearly as dark. Built in 1848 by Nicolas...
You cross the Mississippi into Alton, Illinois, and ascend the hill to McPike Mansion—the most haunted house in the Midwest, they say. Henry McPike bu...
The St. Louis ghost tour includes 21 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 21 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 4 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our St. Louis tour is Bissell Mansion Restaurant & Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre at 4426 Randall Pl, St. Louis, MO 63108.
3 stops free in St. Louis. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.