In 2018 Six Flags St. Louis held a “Coffin Challenge”, where 6 contestants had to remain in a coffin for 30 hours in order to win $300, a season pass, and the coffin they were confined to. The winners included a local wrestler, Kahyman (formerly known as Rammstein), and Olivia Crabtree, a SLU undergrad student & sorority member at the time. Kahyman offered to buy Olivia’s coffin for $100, and since the coffin would have been a tough fit for her dorm room, she happily obliged. The two began a friendship after their shared coffin experience, and both have kept in contact ever since.
Soulard is a south St. Louis neighborhood bound by 7th/Broadway to the south east and I-55 to the west and north. The 2000 census data counted 3,187 residents (11% decrease from 1990) of whom 80% were white, 16% black, 2% Hispanic/Latino and 1% Asian. There were 2,216 housing units @ 82% occupancy rate, split 28%/72% […]