St. Louis Ghost Tour

15. Edgewood Children’s Center

St. Louis, MO

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The staff at the Edgewood Children’s Center works with kids all day – some of them, who can’t quite be seen, but are definitely heard or felt. Built in the 1830s to serve as an orphanage during a cholera epidemic, the Edgewood Children’s Center remains home to some children who died without ever finding a new family. While present-day staff say they often hear feet scuffling down the hallways and moving objects at the center, a nearby building features more activity. On the center’s campus, a former building deemed the Rock House, was constructed in 1850. The house was used as a seminary and stopping place for the Underground Railroad. Sixty years after it’s construction, flames destroyed the Rock House, and at least one child, a young girl named Rachel, is believed to have died that evening. The stone exterior withstood the heat, and the Rock House continues to stand to this day. Occupants report hearing footsteps throughout the building, especially at the location of a staircase that no longer exists. Neighbors to the children’s center claim to see a little girl, likely Rachel, playing at dusk underneath the cumbersome limbs of an old cottonwood tree. Photo courtesy CAnderson.