ST. LOUIS — What may soon become the “Scariest House in America” sits high atop a bluff overlooking Interstate 70 in the College Hill neighborhood.

It’s in somewhat ramshackle shape, but its bones are good.

Thirteen people are known to have died in the house. Some may have been buried in what is now the front yard. A private cemetery was once on the land, possibly where there is now a series of depressions in the front yard.

In June, the owner discovered part of what appears to be a human skeleton under the old front porch.

And then there are the fictional people who were killed there every weekend for 40 years.

The Bissell Mansion is best remembered locally as the site of a popular murder mystery dinner theater, where corpses were served up comically along with a meal. Built in 1823,

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