Some structures remain in St.

Louis from the 1904 World's Fair, like the flight cage at the St.

Louis Zoo, the St.

Louis Art Museum, and the Grand Basin.

And according to many St.

Louisans, the Ferris wheel is still here too, buried somewhere.

Some people say that it's on Y-Down.

Some people say it's right under Skinker at Lagoon, right when you come into the park.

Some people say it is on Art Hill.

That's Amanda Clark, a public historian at the Missouri Historical Society.

She's also the content lead for the History Museum's exhibit, Yours Forever, Forest Park at 150.

- So one of the best parts about studying the Ferris wheel is the fact that if you bring it up with anyone that was raised in St.

Louis, they are very quickly probably gonna ask you, but isn't it buried?

Or they're gonna tell you they were told it was buried and they may list about five or six different places.

No one really agrees on where it was buried.

It's just this myth has persisted that it is buried somewhere under Forest Park or nearby.

And the one at the World's Fair wasn't just any Ferris wheel.

It was the Ferris wheel.

Capital F, George Ferris, you know, designed this.

This is his wheel.

This is his thing.

And it was designed for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.

And then it was moved from that fair site to more of an amusement park type site in Chicago.

And then it was moved to St.

Louis in 1904.

But after the World's Fair ended, St.

Louis leaders struggled with what to do with the gigantic structure.

It sat in Forest Park, unused after the fair closed.

They could not find a buyer for it.

They looked at Coney Island, they looked at Highlands Park nearby, and just the cost of moving it didn't make a deal for anybody, so they decided to scrap it.

But unfortunately for Ferris wheel truthers, the axle and the scraps were not buried under Art Hill, or on Wye Down, or anywhere else around Forest Park.

So we know that it's not true, because in 1906, the day that the Ferris wheel was demolitioned, we have a journalist that reported in the newspaper, very clearly, he said, "Yesterday, "the last of the Ferris wheel was taken."

He mentions the axle, he mentions how it fell when it was demoed, and how they put it back on a cart, and they took it to Chicago.

We also have eyewitness reports from people that worked for the demolition company that saw the axle in Chicago for many years after the fair.

Despite the facts, though, the rumor lives on.

So I think the myth persists because of our emotional connection to the World's Fair and our connection to this moment in St.

Louis history where we were the center of the world.

And there's something about the idea that maybe if that axle is buried and we can go get it, well, maybe we can reclaim some of that.

I think there's some kind of interesting emotional connection to there still being a piece of the World's Fair in place.