When you go through the gates and up the long driveway to Belvoir Winery and Inn, at first all you’ll see is an old brick building, an illuminated terrace, and a double door entryway.
Turn to the left, and you’ll have a different view: decaying structures, more than a century old. Just up the hill, a cemetery with nearly 600 time-worn headstones overlooks a block of grape vines. Ask almost anyone who’s visited and they’ll tell you the same thing. The whole place is full of ghosts.
“I was there at night, there was nobody else there, and I heard a loud slam in the hallway,” says Belvoir CEO Jesse Leimkuehler. “I went out in the hall assuming someone was out there, but there was nobody. … The weird part is that there was another slam on the third floor just a minute later, but the cameras didn’t catch anything.”
Belvoir Winery and Inn, in Liberty, Mo., just outside of Kansas City, used to be a facility for the International Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization that guaranteed care to its members in good standing in the early 1900s. Over a century later, the winery and guest rooms are in what used to be the orphanage and school. The buildings that haven’t been renovated yet used to be a hospital, an old folks home, and a nursing home with a morgue in the basement. It’s widely believed — by both believers in the paranormal and many skeptics who have
