Lizzie Borden and the Paranormal

From an article dated today, Oct. 16, 2008:

Marblehead Historical Society website.

XPLORING THE UNKNOWN: Nick Smith speaks on “Paranormal Investigations: Fact? Fiction? Or Somewhere in Between?” at the Marblehead Museum and Historical Society next Thursday. [October 23]

Smith, a summer resident of Marblehead, is founder of Crypto Paranormal Investigations, a nonprofit research group dedicated to what it describes as the scientific study of ghosts and hauntings. He and his assistants use electronic equipment such as night vision cameras, electromagnetic field detectors, and audio enhancers.

He has led studies of the battlefield at Gettysburg, the Lizzie Borden house, and an abandoned mental hospital in New York, and has done preliminary research at several sites in Marblehead.

Smith is also a bioengineering student at Green Mountain State College in Vermont.

His presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15; $10 for museum members. Space is limited so reservations are suggested. Call 781-631-1768.

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