Mondo Lizzie Borden

If you have ever seen the Ghosthunters TV show on the Sci-Fi channel you know who TAPS are/is. TAPS stands for (I think) The Atlantic Paranormal Society. They have an office now in Fall River where they publish their print magazine TAPS Paramagazine.

The current issue, July 2007, has a Lizzie Borden article in it you might not want to miss.

LIZZIE BORDEN
On August 4, 1892 around 9:30 a.m., Mrs. Abby Borden received 18 blows to her head with an axe while changing the sheets in her guest bedroom. About an hour and a half later, her husband Andrew returned home and, unaware of his wife’s butchered body lying upstairs began to take a nap on his settee. Within minutes, he received 10 deadly strokes, also to the face and head. Rudy Simone takes us through the likely suspects, the trial, and the mystery still surrounding the Borden case today.

Very well done graphics!

Also, just learned from this issue that demonologist Ed Warren has passed away. They call him “the late Ed Warren” so I guess that is what it means. I am sad. I fondly remember reading the book about Ed and Lorraine Warren called The Demonologist and being scared to death. Really scared. Like I had never been scared before scared.

Just found the obit for Ed Warren:

Ghost hunter and self-styled “demonologist” Ed Warren, 79, died August 23, 2006, at his Monroe, Connecticut, home. Ed and his wife, alleged clairvoyant Lorraine, made a business of spirits–particularly sinister ones. The Warrens operated something they called the New England Society for Psychic Research with Ed as director. The pair were called many things, ranging from “passionate and religious people” to “scaremongerers” and “charlatans.” (See Jodi Duckett, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1991.)

Have you ever received an email from some Nigerian businessman or foreign government employee who requests your assistance in helping him to free up the millions he has tied up in red tape and when you do he will share the loot with you?

Of course you have. We all have.

Sometimes when people get these fraudulent solicitations they reply and turn the tables on the scammers. This is called scambaiting.

For one such exchange, the scambaiter used the identity of Lizzie Borden to ferret out the fraud. It is a remarkable read.

Take a peek here.