Dr. Mark Farley's Personal Blog

(Lillian Handlan "The Lavender Lady") (Julia Feickert Lemp) For years, I’ve been told that Lillian Handlan Lemp, better known as the...

Just about everyone in St. Louis has heard of the Lemp Mansion and the Lemp Brewery. The tragic demise of the Lemp Family has become part...

Just about everyone in St. Louis has heard about the haunting of the Lemp Mansion and the tragedies that befell the family. What very...

Nearly forgotten about in Granite City, Illinois is the Haunted Odd Fellows Cemetery. For decades this cemetery laid abandoned and in...

I was reading an article in the Huffington Post about unsolved murders in Illinois. One of the murders mentioned was of a Jane Doe found...

"Do you think it's evil?" is typically one of the first questions asked at the onset of a paranormal investigation. I understand why...

Because of the lack of medical technology and the fear of being buried alive, Victorian funeral ceremonies would last for days. The...

On April 16, 1917, Germany played on communist sentiment by returning Vladimir Lenin to Russia with explicit instructions to start what...

In the 7th century, St.Cuthbert of Northumbria petitioned the Pope to allow burials on church grounds. Church grounds are considered...

Catherine “Kate” Brewing Bennett lived in the early 1800’s and was considered to be the most beautiful woman in St. Louis. In the...