The Chancery House: Haunted Lizzie Borden House 2004

Lizzie Borden's House--July 19, 2004

Each year several horror writers and artists who attend Necon--

the NorthEastern Writers Conference--make a little pilgrimage

to visit Lizzie on her birthday...last year several of us stayed

overnight at the Inn. We'll be staying again in July 2005.

Is there a better way for a bunch of horror writers to end a conference?

We didn't think so.

Some of us are intuitive or psychic....Were there episodes?

Hang on to your hats, kids: Lizzie and company scared the living hell out of us--from the cold spots, to the flickering lights, to the shapes and shadows seen to ghostly images and spirit energy captured on film in these authentic photos:

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Gordon Linzner (back to camera), Linda

Addison, Gerard Houarner. Robert Dunbar

laughs...all unaware that a ghostly mist

has filled half the painting above the

sofa where Andrew Borden was hacked

to death.

Isn't Lizzie funny? This is the 19th picture

on the camera....it was taken in the cellar,

where, from the other side of that window,

Officer Hyde saw her stoop down and

hide something (but not what) in the

privy.

Click here to view zoom,click photo for enlargement and note the figure hiding on the far right...Is that a baby? A child? or just one of the ordinary ghosts at Lizzie Borden's?

The lights flickered while all of us were down there....

Eleanor Thimbault (our expert guide) lights

the candles on Lizzie's birthday cake.

Click on the photo (right) for a larger view.

Click here to look at an inset of the crystal

door knob (original to the house) where

a face peers out and is looking directly

at the cake. Was Lizzie watching?

A blue orb and its reflection outside the windows of the John Vinnicum Morse guest room where Abby Borden was murdered on August 4th, 1892.

The front door at Lizzie Borden's

House does not stay closed unless it's locked. Here, an orb

lingers near the door jamb, while

three of us (including the very

gracious Jody who works at the

Inn) came outside to warm up.

The house was often appallingly

cold for long minutes at a time.

Things often go "missing" in the Borden House; while visiting the cellar Sephera Giron and I

collected 4 postage-stamp-sized

bits of rubble, thinking we might

hold a seance later that night.

Afraid to return to the cellar, I

left them all on a bookcase in the room where Andrew was murdered. Imagine my surprise when I discovered one piece inside my handbag--after I retured home.

It has disappeared in the last month.

Marie Zbytek makes a case for a view of Lizzie's face seen in

the cellar window at left.

At two minutes to twelve we were in the sitting room where Andrew was murdered. We'd all

been seeing shadows and experiencing

phenomena. Here, the camera records

the fireplace (you can compare it with the

earlier picture above) that displays several

white orbs. There are also two ellipitcal-shaped

red spots that seem to have faces, a red

smear on the right, and a long red line

on the door on the left.

Click on photo for enlarged view.

Click here to see close up of fireplace.

Ready for a Break?

This hatchet is believed to be the murder weapon.

Click here to view original photos of the crime scene or autopsy photos.

Neither section is for the faint of heart.

Or scroll down to see more pictures of the night

the Necon horror writers spent at Lizzie Borden's.

At one point during the evening's festivities, a white bloom of ectoplasm appeared on the sofa--which had been cleaned and

vacuumed that morning.

It was visible to the naked eye--unlike the face that appears in the photo on the left.

The third window of the guestroom

where Abby Borden was slain.

This is the window that was next to the place

her body was found.

The Borden house tends to

become more active in the

weeks preceding the anniversary

of the murder.

In the second photo on the left, even more orbs can be seen outside the house.

While Charles Neddo, who stayed in the guest room, slept peacefully, some of us were not quite so unaffected by the Borden ghosts.

Note the shape in the top right pane of the left window...what appears to be a woman in a long dress.

This skirt of Lizzie's is situated in the entry hall. While my flash is "caught" in the mirror, note that away from the reflection is a tiny prism of rainbow energy on the radiator fin.

On my first trip to the house in 2002, Marsha D and Robin Furth reported they heard a woman calling "hello" to me. On Monday after my return, I heard someone calling my name outside my office window. I thought surely a neigbor dropped by and was trying to get my attention because I wasn't answering the bell...no one was at the door.

So with those incidents and the rainbow energy, maybe Lizzie likes me...but then she's not the sort of person or spirit one could trust to remain constant in her moods....is she?

In the photo of the sofa, note the small orb on the left and the whitish mist on the wall.

Orbs on the former outer wall of the Borden House.

When the renovations are complete and the print shop next door is taken down, this wall will be exposed again.

July 19th, 2003--Photos taken at Lizzie Borden's House.

Here, Lisa Mannetti and Gahan Wilson pose before the infamous residence.

Behind Gahan's back two faces appear to loom from the shadows. Is one of them Lizzie? Emma? Perhaps it's Abby-- her stepmother-- who was murdered along with Lizzie's father, Andrew Borden.

Below are some photos of The Borden Family, which may help you determine

which (if any) of the Bordens put in an appearance on Lizzie's birthday in 2003.