EVPs and the Villisca house
Villisca, Iowa. 1912. Eight people were viciously bludgeoned to death with an axe. Josiah Moore, age 43, Sarah Montgomery Moore, age 44, Herman Moore, age 11, Katherine Moore, age 9, Boyd Moore, age 7, Paul Moore, age 5, Lena Stillinger, age 12 and her sister Ina, age 8, houseguests of the Moore children. The house […]
Court TV, Carla Baron, and Lizzie Borden
There is an Online interview between Court TV and psychic Carla Baron, the star of Haunting Evidence. She is asked the proverbial question what other cases would you like to study. Here is her reply: Q: What is the murder case you’d most like to investigate? A: Jack the Ripper. I’d want to see what […]
New Old Lizzie report from TV on Youtube
Almost 8 minutes long, this is an investigation into the case by Entertainment reporter Tim Estiloz for CN8. He gets some facts incorrect, but it is GREAT to see the case explored in more than a 30 second sound bite. What is extra great is that the report is from 1996 when the house was […]
Lizzie’s First Vlog
Very clever! This goes in the wish I thought of that category!
More (Moor) Murders
I have always been interested in reading true crime. I don’t know if this comes from being the child of reading parents who passed such books onto me when they were finished, or if it was because I come from the city where Ted Bundy was finally convicted. The trial was held in my town. […]
World’s Scariest Ghosts
I don’t know why I am into this right now, but here are some more ghosts. I found this on google video. It is 41 minutes long and has video of stuff happening. Cool! You can see it below or see it big screen here.
This is scary
Found this on a Myspace site. The description says “my mom in my garage talking to something that messed with her car its pretty creepy no video just audio and captions.” I can hear it when I turn the volume way up. This isn’t a joke movie, one of the hundreds that are posted that […]
Lizzie and her axe
In an opinion piece in the Ledger Dispatch of Jackson, CA, letter writer Joe Dirickx penned a letter titled “More handgun laws are not the answer.” He cites various instances where major crimes were committed by people who would have stopped at nothing to do their dastardly deeds. Of course, here we have the standard […]
Stupid History
A new book is out titled Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconcetions Throughout the Ages by Leland Gregory. He has a short piece on Lizzie Borden inside. The book is a compendium of humorously composed accounts of history, and what we thought happened being set straight. Chapter Title: Taking a Whack at the […]
Personal Response Systems and Lizzie
Lizzie makes the news in such unexpected ways! Personal response systems are like televsion remote clickers, and are used by teachers and others to assess learning and opinions in real time. The technology has been around for more than ten years, but instructors are now using it in the classroom to determine whether their students […]
Obscure Lizzie Borden Reference
Just found on ABEBOOKS.COM, Raymond and I. ROBINS, Elizabeth. Bookseller: Ulysses ABA ILAB (London, GL, United Kingdom) Price: US$ 112.21 Quantity: 1 Shipping within United Kingdom: US$ 6.64 Book Description: The Hogarth Press.1956, 1956. First edition. The author’s ”account of her visit to Nome in 1900. The hellish voyage from Seattle on an overcrowded ship, […]
Tall Ships are Coming to Newport
The tall ships are coming to Newport, June 27 to July 1. Check out the list of 21 ships here. May. 22, 2007 Amica Insurance Tall Ships® Rhode Island 2007 Offers Teens the Trip of a Lifetime Students from Schools Throughout the State to Embark on 10-day Voyage Aboard Historic Tall Ships NEWPORT, R.I., May […]
Curse of Lizzie Borden, the Sequel
In an interview with the screenwriter for the indy horror film The Curse of Lizzie Borden, Jeremiah Campbell revealed that he has been working on a new Lizzie project. Can you tell us what you are currently working on? Sure…I just finished writing the sequel to the 2006 release of The Curse Of Lizzie Borden. […]
She’s Everywhere
In an interesting article on a completely non-Lizzie related matter, about the WWII collection of a former war correspondent for the New York Sun, whose surviving son Terry put together and donated to the Margaret Chase Smith Library Center in Skowhegan, the subject of Lizzie Borden arises. Robert C. McManus, who died in 2000 at […]
Neilson Caplain
Many of you are familiar with the outstanding work of Neilson Caplain, including his “Lizzie’s Fall River” series in The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies and his regular column LizBits in the now defunct Lizzie Borden Quarterly. As past President of the Fall River Historical Society and a Fall River historian, 94 year old […]
Mondo Lizzie’s New Frock
If you noticed my silence and wondered what was up, it was not because I was still fishing. Mondo Lizzie was experiencing some web problems. The code that was used to construct the site had some issues of compatibility with most Internet browsers and interfered with the viewing experience. In other words, the code broke! […]
Girl in the House of Hate review by Denise Noe
Regular contributor to The Hatchet, Denise Noe, also writes for MensNewsDaily.com. She recently published a piece about Girl in the House of Hate by Samuels. I love this title, and like Denise, find the book’s content wanting. Read her piece Lizzie Borden and the Feminist Frogwash here.
Gone Fishin’ :-)
I am off to adventures yet unknown. Gone fishin’ for a while without a telephone. No Internet or TV or radio or cable, just fishin’ for a while, be back when I am able. Thanks to Harry Widdows for the fake Lizzie photo!