11/14/2018
Eureka
Six Flags – St. Louis
4838 Allenton-Six Flags Rd
Six Flags - St. Louis opened on June 5, 1971, the third and final original Six Flags park in the original twelve-park system it became the leading amusement park in the Midwest. This one hundred thirty-two acre park located in Eureka Missouri cost approximately fifty-five million dollars to build. Six Flags – St. Louis opened with six themed sections that include Missouri, Spain, England, Illinois, France and USA within these sections are five show venues that include The Palace, Miss Kitty's, Dolphin Arena, Krofft's Puppet Theater and Chevy Show.
There are three known ghosts that haunt this famous theme park. The first one is the ghost of a little girl that has been seen around various areas of the park running around and laughing. The second spirit is of a girl who haunts several of the parks theaters, giving off cold spots and speaking to people.
Two incidents have apparently had cause paranormal activity. The first occurred on July 5, 1978, at around 2 p.m, when a gondola ride carrying four passengers seventy feet above an amusement park slipped off its cable and plunged to the ground after a support arm on a tower broke. Two girls and a man perished in the accident while a third girl was critically injured.
The victims were, TW (10), of St. Louis, and KJ (15), of Barre, VT., and her uncle, CFJ (25), of Riversville, W.VA. Only sixteen cars were in the air at the time. Jennine W. (12), a sister of TW was critically injured and was the only survivor of the crash. The uncle and niece were visiting TW and Jennine’s family at their St. Louis County home. About sixty people were stranded in the fifteen remaining cable cars in operation at the time of the accident. The steel cable car, a mass of gnarled metal, was whisked away to a storage room nearby.
The Sky-Way ride ran across most of the width of the park from between the Illinois and USA stations of the park. The ride opened in 1971 and was removed at the end of the 1981 season.
The second accident occurred on July 7, 1984, two weeks after the opening a new ride named the Rail Blazer which was located where the River King Run Mine Train run today. The Rail Blazer was a suspended, stand-up roller coaster, where people were strapped in while standing.
Unfortunately, a female passenger named SH was riding the roller coaster when she died after being flung from the ride then falling twenty feet. After this incident, the Rail Blazer was closed and was converted back to a sit-down ride the following year. Several explanations have included people saying that the female was too heavy to ride the roller coaster and she fell out, the other explanation is that the woman fainted causing her to become loose in the restraints that cause her to slip out of them.
The last known ghost is not true, the entity known, as The Pigman is a Halloween story the park director thought up several years ago and is still used at the park today as a gimmick.