Lizzie Borden House

Two other obvious spirits were those of children. One was a boy, one was a girl. I saw both of them often throughout our stay, and at times noticed another little girl and boy. All kids ranged from the ages of approximately five to eight. During the tour we learned that when the Borden family was alive, their neighbors consisted of a family. The Kelly house still stands next to the Borden house making them the only two original houses on the street. Mrs. Kelly was mentally disturbed and drowned both of her children before the Andrew and Abby murders happened. We believe the Kelly children made friends with the spirits of other children and they play throughout the Borden home.

Abby Borden visually presented herself for a brief moment. When we were in the midst of investigating our room, I turned in time to see Abby as a full body, carrying what looked to be towels or folded sheets (white) across our room to the armoire located in the far corner. She looked at me, or at least in my direction, and as she walked by she disappeared.

Finally, Mr. Andrew J. Borden manifested more often than we expected of him. Though he was only seen in seconds-long glimpses, his image was clear and it was understood that he did not appreciate how people mock him in his own home. He is still very watchful over his abode and continues to portray himself as a proud, wealthy business man.

Regardless of the continuous arguments in reference to the public’s opinions of orbs, Hans and I captured the paranormal manifestations after I acknowledged feeling the presences of spirits in the room with us. We were able to follow Mr. Borden from the sitting room through the dining room before he vanished. In the first photo, note the orb in the middle of the two dust particles.

Seconds later, one spirit disappeared while the other became as interested in Hans and me as we were in him. We believed this orb to be Mr. Borden. His sense of pride, arrogance and stubbornness was not to be contested (below).

From the inside and outside of the house, this particular window located in the dining room caused intrigue (below left). The other photo (below right) shows the same window from the same angle taken only seconds after the first.

And it also causes intrigue from the outside. The photo below (left) was taken moments after the photos above. Notice the middle window, which is the same window as above located in the dining room.

Photo below is the same photo to the left, middle window cropped and enlarged.

Some say they see the bust and waist of a woman facing the right. The lacy bell-sleeve of her Victorian dress is very noticeable.

I feel this presence is Emma Borden as she was quite strong and took a liking to Hans. We felt her numerous times within the house. The energy emanated caused us to believe the spirit we discovered while following Mr. Borden into the dining room is that of a woman, and the photo has proven our intuition.

When Hans and I first arrived to the Borden house and Lee Ann departed after showing us the John Morse room, we were told that we were the only people in the house until later in the evening. With the door open to the bright hallway and a clear view of the stairs leading down to the front door, we distinctly heard what sounded like footsteps coming up the stairs. Hans and I both witnessed this and could see from our room that no one in a physical form was walking up to our room. Hans took a photo from inside of our room to view the landing on the top of the steps and captured the paranormal energy of whom we believed to be Mr. Borden. (Photos can be seen on the next page of our Lizzie Borden house investigation.)