Maplecroft is For Sale (Again)

Maplecroft, Lizzie Borden’s home following her acquittal for the double murder of her father and stepmother, is once again on the market. According to the current owner, Robert Dube, he is asking $680,000 for the 14 room, 4.5 bath home at 306 French Street. The phone number on the photo below is from the last […]

Lizzie Borden B&B Auction

The Lizzie Borden B&B is once again holding an eBay auction for a stay in the Morse room (the room where Abby Borden was murdered) for August 4, 2008. The Fall River Herald recently ran a piece on the internet sale. The piece is by Deborah Allard. Here is a link to the eBay sale. […]

Fall River in Photos

A lovely set of images from Fall River are on MBGRIGBY’s Flickr site. Watch them as a slide show and you will have a wonderful adventure! Link.

Oak Grove Cemetery Crime

And this in the same final resting place as Lizzie Borden. Woman robbed while visiting mother’s grave in Fall River FALL RIVER, Mass., – (WPRI) – A 53-year old woman is robbed at a Fall River cemetary, while visiting the gravesite of her mother, who had been buried the day before. The Oak Grove Cemetary […]

Lizzie Borden on Monster Quest

MonsterQuest recently visited the Lizzie Borden B&B and shot an episode on the supposed hauntings and happenings there. The show has been scheduled to air on the History Channel on the following dates: Wednesday, June 11 09:00 PM Thursday, June 12 01:00 AM Visit one of the most haunted houses in America, the Lizzie Borden […]

Print Copies of The Hatchet are Now Available

After much proofing, the May/June issue (#22) of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is available for sale through LuLu.com. Subscribers to The Hatchet can purchase the print copy at a discount by logging into the membership area of The Hatchet. All others interested, please visit the PearTree Press LuLu […]

The May 2008 Hatchet is ONLINE

The May 2008 issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History has been placed ONLINE for your reading pleasure! This issue is a full 86 pages in length and contains some more surprising discoveries. Subscribers to The Hatchet can download your copy immediately or view a slideshow of the magazine […]

Alice Brayton’s Life on the Stream, Volumes One and Two

This may be old news to you, but it is something I stumbled upon today. The complete text of Alice Brayton’s Life on the Stream is online for you to download to your computer! Life on the Stream is an overview of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century. Volume One contains information on Holder […]

A Clairvoyant’s Honeymoon

From Spooked!: A Gay Ghost Hunters’s Snippits of Life—And the Afterlife This is the same person who I wrote about here. Remember, Rebecca, I didn’t say you were a sideshow, just that they treated you that way. Some of my favorite TV shows are Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead, GhostHunters, Most Haunted, and Rescue […]

This morning at 92 Second Street

A visitor to Lizzie Borden’s house on 92 Second Street posted this short video of their room this morning. It is interesting to me that so many people get scared staying there. I did when I visited the house the first time in 1997! I didn’t sleep a wink. Read all about it here.

Lizzie Borden and Spooky Southcoast on April 6

From the Spooky Southcoast site: Join “Spooky Southcoast” for a special “Investigators’ Night” at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast at 92 Second Street in Fall River, MA. The event will be Sunday night, April 6, 2008, and is hopefully the first of many such events. While details are still coming together, SSC announced that […]

Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft in the Snow today

There was a snow storm last night that hit the northeast and Fall River got plenty of the white stuff. Around an inch they say, with more to fall. So here is a photograph of Maplecroft in the snow. It looks so serene, doesn’t it?

Lizzie Borden in the Orlando Sentinel

My hometown paper ran a story on me today. It is all about the Lizzie image that Len Rebello and I found in Swansea. I thought I would share. . . . . LINK.

Lizzie Borden Makes the News Continued

Today brought another slew of press, from being mentioned on CNN Headline news all day, to radio, to major newspapers across the region. The story will also appear in my hometown paper on Sunday. I have had interviews with the Boston Globe, the Fall River Daily Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, and WCVB-TV in Boston.