Next time you're at Bellefontaine Cemetery, you might want to check out the Lemp family tomb.The Lemps were beer barons and had an underground speakeasy during the prohibition under Lemp Mansion @3322 DeMenil Place, in St Louis. There are tunnels going from the 'basement' underground {along with an underground pool and theater, amongst other things...) to the LEMP  brewery a block or so over. There were several deaths/suicides in the Lemp family in the mansion, along with 'Zeke' a deformed little boy who was kept away in the attic. Now the family is interred in the Lemp family tomb, which is the largest tomb in Bellefontaine Cemetery.  Besides, they have Halloween bashes (Thanks to the Pointer family who purchased the mansion.)  on the Saturday before Halloween. I've flown from Dallas to St Louis for the Halloween Bashes for several years....even through the year just to be in the atmosphere over a weekend, the mansion is incredible! Time Life, amongst others,  has declared the Lemp Mansion one of the top ten haunted mansions in America.  Im a sensitive.... there are definitely "something" walking around the mansion.  But.... it's comforting, which is odd with all the deaths.  It's also now a BNB, and has a family-style chicken dinner on Sundays.  They also have Murder Mystery Dinners & tours amongst other things given by Betsy Ballenger, a psychic & paranormal investigator, (as I am) along with events all through the year. You can read more online, lempmansion.com, email: (owner)  patty@lempmansion.com, phone: 314-664-8024...  But it would've been neat if you got to do a story on the Lemp family's tomb. (I've personally gotten to know the family (Pointers) over the years....they are wonderful people!!!) Plus, the mansion is easy to find.and the crypt is massive...

I grew up in St.Louis and never knew the history here.  Beautifully done

I love your closing statement so much.  There are so many stories in this cemetery.  Someone shared the profound statement this past weekend that we die twice: the first time is our last breath and the second death is the last time our name is mentioned/remembered.

There is something special about this video. I've watched it about six or seven times over the past couple of weeks and it almost puts me in a trance while viewing.  This man knows what he's doing.

i found this very comforting and calming

SEEN ON A GRAVESTONE
My dear friend as you pass by,
as you are now so once was I,
As I am now so once you"ll be,
so be prepared to follow me.

Beautiful old cemetery. Makes me wonder how long does it take to become a lost and forgotten person after you die. Time marches on and does not stop to let one of us off the earth when we die. As a nurse, I learned nothing changes when someone dies. Time continues and people continue what they are doing. Always seemed like everyone should stop for a few seconds and take a moment of silence. You have a great channel.

Matt its been two years since I first  saw this and till this day the line where  you say "it makes one wonder when was the last time someone  stood  over their graves that knew them in life who last weep for them" brings a tear to my eye for that is the fate of all of us in time only things like these obscure  records of a long forgotten YouTube  will be the only proof we ever existed.. Your narrative  is just incredibly beautiful  your voice soothing  and calming . Greetings  from a fellow  Californian now in  Salt Lake City !!

My mother-in-law was buried here in July of 2015 - one of the first "green" burials offered at this cemetery. It was a beautiful ceremony. She was not embalmed. My husband and his brother bathed and wrapped her in the shroud themselves, and drove her to the cemetery. The cemetery, which is also an arboretum, provided flowers and bows from redbud trees for us to place on top of her shroud. Friends and family then shoveled the dirt over her ourselves, though this was of our choosing.

my son had the ho or of being a nighttime security guard at this beautiful cemetery.  He said he often imagined the whispers of long gone souls..echoing so softly among the hills and valleys of this lovely place.

Very well thought out. Almost a poetic trip through history. Great job.

Narrators voice and heartfelt emotions made me cry! I truly enjoyed everything that was given! God bless you sir!

My mother and I had nice quiet drive thru the cemetery many years ago. Beautiful.  

I had no idea of its beauty being so close to where my family and I have lived for years. What a treasure.

That was a work of art. A masterpiece.

The background music was the perfect accompaniment.

Beautifully done. We often forget to take the time to learn from the past. Funerals are for the living and not the dead, therefore we see the countless lives impacted by the simple stone. Less not forget what we have now and enjoy those we love.

A cemetery is attractive to me because I realize how short life really is and that we have no control over it. I always feel an urgency to make the most of my own life after seeing people who have already lived and died for many generations already, and experience this sense of ,"there before the grace of God go I. "🤓

This was a very well done video. if you like exploring cemeteries you should check out Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati Ohio and also Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta Georgia. Both of them are Victorian cemeteries and they're beautiful.

This made me cry. Your narrative is so beautiful. Very beautiful.

I am from St. Louis—-we appreciate you