The Abyss (Lemp brewery) Haunted House review

The Abyss Haunted House is located at 3500 Lemp Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118. Tickets for General admission cost $25. Fast Pass is $31 online, $35 at the door.

This site has line actors, so your fun starts before your descent into the abyss. You spend about 20 mins being entertained by people getting scared out of their wits before you hit the stairs. One of the first actors, we’ll just name them “Pumpkin”, caught my attention walking in the door. We entered the dining room and Pumpkin comes running in ranting about how something smells good. Pumpkin walks up to me, smiles and leaned right in my face and just…sniffed me. I laughed hysterically when they pulled back and said , “Ewwwww!!!! It’s not her!!! Definitely not her!!!” and wandered off muttering, “just NASTY…”. They legitimately sounded so offended, I was tempted to sniff myself. We get a few rooms away and the people that were in front of us are standing there with this guy with a jar. One of them turns to me and says, “watch it…he’s a little handy”. I go to walk past and the guy with the jar steps in front of me and asks if I want a pickle. I decline and he INSISTS I smell that what he is holding is REALLY pickles. I had to tell him 3 times that I could smell that they were pickles before he would let me leave. Nothing against the guy, i just don’t really like pickles. There a part of the haunt that was pitch black. I kept following the goblin in front of me, until I realized that the curtain in front of me was the same one I had entered from. I swear, this was the only time in a haunt I’ve ever had to ask a haunter for directions out of a room. I passed a guy who looked like his face had been melted off all alone in a room by himself, crying and wandering aimlessly. I offered him a hug as a joke and he actually walked up to me and put his head on my shoulder. Really good acting on that guys part. He didn’t scare me at all, but he pulled some unexpected emotions to the forefront all the same. I tried helping some people in the room full of stacked barrels, but they weren’t inclined to follow my lead and just keep a hand on the wall. It was around this point that I realized I had lost my only crew member somewhere in the haunt. I continued to the end and waited for my crew mate. As you go up the first flight of stairs to leave, you can actually see more of the brewery that was never used. Supposedly, the brewery is haunted. Don’t know if that’s the reason that part of the brewery was never used or not though. Overall, I enjoyed this haunt. It takes about 45 minutes from start to end, but it really doesn’t feel like you are here that long at all. I’d give it a 7/10, and I’ll probably stop by again next year to see what’s new, just because I liked the idea of a haunted house inside an abandoned brewery.