Construction on this building started in 1873 and ended in 1891. Bringing it back to life called for a lot of attention to details. The building was originally built as St. Vincent’s Hospital after the Civil War. It’s official title was St. Vincent’s Hospital for the Insane. It held hundreds of patients or inmates for almost 100 years.
But this building’s past lead a pair of filmmakers to come here to make a movie about how this building is supposedly haunted. The movie tells the story of a boy who had an exorcism that used to live in the complex.
The movie, The Haunted Boy, told what it says is the real-life St. Louis story behind the movie The Exorcist. The filmmakers claim there are unhappy ghosts inside.
Civil War Insane Asylum Turned Into Affordable Housing