Lizzie and Montel Update

SPOOKY SHOWCASE: Lizzie Borden’s Bed and Breakfast owner to be featured on talk show

Lee Ann Wilber appears on “The Montel Williams Show.”
By Jay Pateakos
GateHouse News Service
Tue Oct 30, 2007, 12:31 AM EDT

FALL RIVER — On Halloween this year, the legend of Lizzie Borden will be shared with a few million people.
Lizzie Borden’s Bed and Breakfast will shine under a national spotlight Wednesday morning on “The Montel Williams Show.”

Lizzie’s co-owner Lee Ann Wilber will talk about her own paranormal experiences at the home that was the scene of a brutal double murder more than 115 years ago. Williams’ Oct. 31 show is dedicated to haunted houses across the country.

The show, scheduled to air at 10 a.m. on Halloween, will feature such allegedly haunted places as the Hosier’s Restaurant and Carluccio’s Tivoli Gardens of Las Vegas and the Waverly Sanitorium of Louisville, Ky., along with Lizzie Borden’s.

Individuals who care for the haunted places will be interviewed about their experiences, and famed physic Sylvia Browne will also talk about the reported paranormal activity at each site.

Browne will discuss “the unexplainable noises, shadows and voices as well the rearrangement of furniture” that has been known to happen at Lizzie Borden’s, according to a press release from the show.

Wilber’s appearance on the show, taped a week ago, went by like a “blur,” she said.

“We talked about the rocking chair that moves on its own on the third floor or that moves from one side of the room to another,” said Wilber. “I also discussed the moving of shadows in the rooms and an incident when I was making the bed and I suddenly found myself on the floor sobbing.”

Wilber and Lizzie are no strangers to national attention, after filming spots for A&E, the History Channel and “Ghosthunters” in the past few years. But Wilber said “The Montel Williams Show” will strike at the heart of a whole new kind of audience.

“It was nice that I didn’t go looking for them, that they called us. It’s nice to be recognized,” said Wilber.

Tim Weisberg, co-founder of Spooky Southcoast, a weekly paranormal radio show in New Bedford, has spent numerous evenings at the Borden house, and has seen many things that he can’t explain. And each time he and his crew visit, the experiences get more intense.

“We’ve done about four to five investigations there, and the things that happened there started as simple as my legs getting lifted up off the bed but have progressed over time to wrestling with something,” said Weisberg.

Lizzie’s house psychic told Weisberg that he had caught the ire of Lizzie’s father Andrew, and now every time the group travels to the home where Andrew met his end with 10 hacks of an axe to his face, Weisberg begins to taunt him.

“It’s quite the adrenaline rush, and once it happens, you try to aggravate the situation to see if it happens again,” Weisberg said.

But its not only about the Borden murders when it comes to the home being haunted, Weisberg noted. Lizzie’s home is a haven of refuge for a number of spirits unrelated to the 1892 murder.

Michael, a former caretaker at the bed and breakfast who died accidentally a few years ago, is known to haunt the third floor. And two young children who alledgedly drowned in the Bordens’ back yard have also been known to come and go.

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