Interesting Missouri facts. (Kansas City, St. Louis, Florissant: houses, theatre, camp)

[ROHANJAIN]

Hello!
The interesting fact in Missouri is parachute jump.Tea with ice is amazing fact of Missouri.Top cities of Missouri's are-
1.Kansas city
2.St. Peters
3.Columbia
4.Lee's Sumit
5.St.Joseph
5.St.Charles

[Dawn10am]

Originally Posted by ROHANJAIN

Hello!
The interesting fact in Missouri is parachute jump.Tea with ice is amazing fact of Missouri.Top cities of Missouri's are-
1.Kansas city
2.St. Peters
3.Columbia
4.Lee's Sumit
5.St.Joseph
5.St.Charles

Aren't you missing a pretty significant one from this list?

[Caesarstl]

Originally Posted by ROHANJAIN

Hello!
The interesting fact in Missouri is parachute jump.Tea with ice is amazing fact of Missouri.Top cities of Missouri's are-
1.Kansas city
2.St. Peters
3.Columbia
4.Lee's Sumit
5.St.Joseph
5.St.Charles

Originally Posted by Dawn10am

Aren't you missing a pretty significant one from this list?

[FrankMiller]

Before Texas joined the union in 1848, Missouri was the largest state by land area.

[aliasfinn]

There have been 23 known meteorite strikes in Missouri, including these;

January 18 1916 Stone County
A 611 gram meteorite goes thru the roof of a house.


December 11 1950
1 kg meteorite strikes a car on Florissant Ave in St.Louis.
switchboards are flooded with calls from terrified people thinking they are under an atomic attack.

[duster1979]

Originally Posted by aliasfinn

The movie The Exorcist was based on a real event in St.Louis in 1949.

Maybe, but probably not.

The movie is actually based on a book, and the book was inspired by a story the author heard while a student at Georgetown of an excorcism in Maryland.

The legend is that an excorcism was performed on a 14-year-old boy in Maryland that didn't take. When "St. Louis" was found carved on the boy's body the family travelled to St. Louis where a second exorcism was performed.

None of the details of either exorcism have been confirmed, so it may or may not have happened. Adn whether or not it happened is largely irrelevant; the book was written by an author who was simply inspired by the story of something that may or may not have been true, it's not as if he researched the story and tried to present a historical narrative. And what research was done, if any, was likely limited to events in Maryland.

[aliasfinn]

Originally Posted by duster1979

Maybe, but probably not.

The movie is actually based on a book, and the book was inspired by a story the author heard while a student at Georgetown of an excorcism in Maryland.

The legend is that an excorcism was performed on a 14-year-old boy in Maryland that didn't take. When "St. Louis" was found carved on the boy's body the family travelled to St. Louis where a second exorcism was performed.

None of the details of either exorcism have been confirmed, so it may or may not have happened. Adn whether or not it happened is largely irrelevant; the book was written by an author who was simply inspired by the story of something that may or may not have been true, it's not as if he researched the story and tried to present a historical narrative. And what research was done, if any, was likely limited to events in Maryland.

I know, I was just quoting an article I read on the internet. I'm not real big on that kind of stuff, if I were I would post about other urban legends like, MoMo, Zombie Road, Albino Farm, Eli Cobb, The Lemp Ghosts, Devil's Promenade.....etc. The Missouri legends are endless.

[geofra]

Originally Posted by aliasfinn

There have been 23 known meteorite strikes in Missouri, including these;

January 18 1916 Stone County
A 611 gram meteorite goes thru the roof of a house.


December 11 1950
1 kg meteorite strikes a car on Florissant Ave in St.Louis.
switchboards are flooded with calls from terrified people thinking they are under an atomic attack.

There are a couple of impact craters of an ancient age near Decaturville in Camden County and along Crooked Creek in Crawford County. The theory is that a large meteor split apart to create these craters and one in Kansas, I believe, along a straight line (approximately the 38th parallel).

Crooked Creek

Decaturville

Haviland

[aliasfinn]

Did you ever wonder where famous people in the 1800s stayed when they came to St.Louis?
Here are some pictures of what the hotels looked like back then. The Barnum Hotel was owned by the cousin of P.T Barnum and President Lincoln was there when he came to town.

Early St. Louis Hotels

[Alphareign]

There is an extinct volcano in Missouri.