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Are there any abandon insane asylums within 40 miles of St.Louis, Missouri?

I live in South County and me and my friends are looking for some thrill. We always used to scare the shit out of each other at this old abandon house, but now it has been torn down. So we were wondering where there are some awesome insane asylums...I know there is one near Pevely and off of Arsenal, but Arsenal is still up and running. So Anywhere else would be awesome!

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1. The link is haunted places in Missouri. Pretty much every town around here has some kind of haunted place. On that list Arnold, Festus and Hazelwood (among others) are listed. However I know of no abandoned asylums in this area other than what you've listed. There is an abandoned asylum in Independence MO but that is about 3-4 hours away. My friends and I love scary the c-rap out of each other. We've found as long as we're there and we know the story we can totally freak out!
2. Koch Hospital off of Koch road?? I don't know if it's still there or not. Koch road is the last Missouri exit on 255/270 east before hitting the JB bridge into Illinois. 'Alpha-Portland Cement Company' off of Green Park road near Union rd. used to be awesome but it's been developed into an industrial park now. They used most of the sand bag's from the flood of 1993 to start to fill in the quary's!!! I watched dump truck after dump truck pulling in and out of there during that period. That place was so awesome scary in it's natural left for dead state. We made it into the offices were they had all kind's of soil samples and paperwork dating 50 year's back. That's long gone now. There's many urban legends in south county, but you'd probably just get arrested now days for trespassing. There's the Lemp estates off of Mentz hill rd. which is off of Kennerly rd. which turns into old/30 where 'China man's Castle' is which was one of the Lemp family mansion's. It's basically the anchor house of an upper middle class neighbor hood now. "Lemp" family, as in the Lemp family of the infamous Lemp Brewery and haunted Lemp mansion in the city which is a restaurant now. They had 100's of acres in south county. It's a subdivision now. But the Lemp family's helpers houses, which are simply family owned homes now and blend into the subdivision, are all still there. There's also the original smoke stacks in the subdivision where legend has it that they burned, killed, China men that were helpers on the property and brewery, hence the name 'China Man's Castle'. That's the urban legend part but who know's!? Anyway, there's a back road up to the main house, China man's castle, that's closed now. It's a skinny rock road that cut's through the woods up a hill.....This is a true story because I saw it as recently as 2 year's ago and saw it first in 1986 traveling there on my Schwinn 10 speed bike after reading historic newspaper articles......In the late '70's a group of teenagers drove up the road and hit a tree. There car rolled down the hill through the woods and everyone in the car died. The newspaper stated they found one of them in a tree! The car is still sitting there to this day! It's a green 1970 Oldsmobile 2 door Cutlass. The tree still stand's that they hit and no bark has grown back where they made impact. The path down the hill through the woods where the car rolled has never grown over. It's not bare, just no tree's or brush. It's trippy to say the least. You can see the path while imagineing it rolling 15 times stopping on it's wheels at the bottom. The car's been picked over well. IE stripped since the late '70's. But the scary part is, as stated....The car STILL SITS THERE at the bottom of this hill in the woods TO THIS DAY!
3. Theres one in Chesterfield. Idk where exactly but it was "the-thing-to-do" last year in high school. From what I've heard though, all the empty beer cans and fire pits inside from high schoolers take away from it. And 3 people got trespassing tickets one night. I'd say its worth looking into if you're really bored. But don't get your hopes up too much.