Glensheen Mansion
In this house, an elderly woman and her nurse were brutally murdered by the woman’s crazed lover. Now, it is said that the two haunt the house. It is said that eerie black, shadowy figures walking about the basement. Lights turning on and off have also been reported. There has even been one report of a piece of candy rolling back and forth across the dresser.
Actually, it was the woman’s adopted daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend/fiance who killed her. Some people have reported feeling eerie spots of cold on the servants’ staircase and in another location, which differs from the reports of where the two were killed. The Glensheen staff is prohibited from talking about the murders.
Comment by Stephanie | 09.27.2005 | 10:33 am
I just visited the Glensheen mansion on 10/1/05 with my girlfriend Lori and we had a crazy experience. As we were walking around the mansion on the tour we felt a very cold spot as we walked into the basement by the staircase. There was no vents or fans in the area and we could not expain this erie sensation. I heard a lound scream coming from the second floor and figured a girl might have fallen or been playing with a sibling. To my amazement I must have been the only on to hear it as no one said a word or reacted to it. Our guid did not mention a word about the scream no did she bring up the murders on our tour. To my amzement I later read that day about the murders and that the house might be haunted. I had never heard about the murders until after the tour while reading the book about it later that day. SCARY!!!! This house is definetly visited by spirits.
Comment by shaun androff | 10.3.2005 | 3:16 pm
when i was there last week (oct.8th 2005) with my boyfriend we had some freaky unexsplainable experiences. there were lots of chilly areas and freaky sounds from upstairs. when we were at the bottom of the stairs we heard what sounded like footsteps coming from the stairs. but no one was there. i believe that it is haunted.
Comment by Emma | 10.13.2005 | 9:22 pm
i was ounce at the glensheen house on a tour and in the middle of the tour i had to use the bathroom. so i wlked in to the bathroom. and all the sudden this lady in a white and black dress appeeared and said help me. i said i dont know what you meen. she repeated, help me! and then at that time i realized that the house was haunted, and i screamed and then she was gone.
Comment by lily | 10.14.2005 | 5:15 pm
Miss Elisabeth Congdon, who was in her 80’s, and her night nurse, Velma Pietila were murdered on June 27, 1977 at Glensheen. Roger Cadwell, Elisabeth’s adopted-daughter Marjorie’s husband, was later convicted of two counts of murder. Marjorie was acquitted.
If you are really interested in the true story about the murders, read this book: “Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings?
Comment by Michele | 10.15.2005 | 7:56 am
My husband, 4 year old daughter, and I were at the Glensheen on 11/05/05 for a tour. My husband and I, of course, had heard about the murders, but nothing was mentioned to our 4 yr. old daughter by us or the tour guide. When we were in Elizabeth’s bedroom, our daughter suddenly said she was scared and started to cry. She couldn’t tell me why she was frightened but it definitely gave me goose bumps!
Comment by Mary Morro | 11.7.2005 | 6:18 pm
i dont know much about the mansion. but i do know i was there a few years ago while on a school trip. as we were on the tour the tour guide refussed to let us go to the top floor but would not explain why, all he said was that it wasn’t safe. i remember being just terrified walking through the mansion.
Comment by Katie | 11.10.2005 | 12:42 am
You must be feeble minded to think its haunted. Indeed murders took place, but that isn’t why the staff do not talk about the murders. They do not talk about it because they wish not to disgrace the former owners and fuel curiosity. It was given to the people of Minnesota as a gift, for tours. It isn’t a museum founded on the infrastructure of being haunted or because grizzly murders occured, but because it is a very old mansion. I walked through it and felt no “coldness” like some people have described. I sense that none of you are sincere and you only wish you’d run into a ghaslty apparition.
Comment by Jay Johnson | 11.23.2005 | 1:33 pm
I agree with Jay Johnson. There could be many explanations for these things happening. I have also been throught the mansion and nothing unusual happened to me.
Comment by Liz Johnson | 11.23.2005 | 5:26 pm
I agree with Jay and Liz. I have been to Glensheen for 2 different tours and have been on all the floors. I knew about the murders, and felt no “cold chills” or “drafts” . My husband has also been there at night after hours, (the alarm went off he had to check it out) and he didnt feel, see, or sense any thing odd. But he did get walk the whole house and see things that those on the tour dont get to see.
Comment by Kristina | 11.25.2005 | 7:36 pm
Back in around 1994, my husband and I toured the mansion. On the 3rd floor, there’s a bedroom just to the right of the stairway, which later I found out was Elizabeth’s bedroom. When I went in that room, it just felt “creepy”, and as I listened to the tour guide talk, I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up. There is also a bathroom directly across the hall from this bedroom; I got the same “creepy” feeling in that bathroom. The mansion was willed to the University of MN Duluth and the tour guides are not allowed to mention anything about the murders, but when we got home, I ordered the book “Secrets of the Glensheen Mansion” and that book says Elizabeth was murdered in her bed, in her bedroom, and the maid was “wounded” in the bathroom but actually died on the landing between the 2nd and 3rd floors. By the way, it was the infamous Ron Meshbesher who represented Marjorie Congdon. Roger later died apparently from alcoholism.
Comment by Nina | 12.14.2005 | 5:18 pm
I was just recently at Glensheen on 12/17/05. The tour guides are now allowed to speak of the murders and the bedroom that Elizabeth was in when she was murdered is returned to the state of a bedroom (vs an all purpose meeting room that it used to be). While we were there (we ourselves had a group of 12 to celebrate my mothers graduation from college with a Masters) my sister-in-law Angie was mentioning that she was being drawn to these specific pictures. They were all of girls various ages, and on chatting we assumed that they were of all three women, Elizabeth, Marjorie and Jennifer I think is the other daughter at various stages in life. Upon glancing through The Will to Murder, which my brother purchased at the house, Angie realized that each and every picture she was looking at was indeed ONLY of Elizabeth. The only room that REALLY caught Angie’s eye was Elizabeth’s bedroom with the beautiful pink and green quilt on the bed and the georgus work on the fireplace, also in pink and green. Angie also told me that for 10 minutes, while she, my father and my brother were waiting for the rest of the group, they stood in the exact spot where the nurses’ body was found. The whole 10 minutes, Angie said she was bouncing back and forth ready to get a mood on. Perhaps the house isn’t COMPLETELY haunted, perhaps Elizabeth and her nurse did pass to the otherside, but there DEFINATELY is spiritual residue within the house. I knew which bathroom the murderer cleaned up in before I even read the book. I could just feel it. And so can you.
Comment by MnKaitlynn | 12.22.2005 | 10:25 am
P.S. the Very Top floor is closed to the public because there is only one staircase that goes up and down and isn’t safe incase of a fire. Elizabeth and her nurse were murdered on the 2nd floor with the majority of the rooms, where the tour will always be allowed to go.
Comment by MnKaitlynn | 12.22.2005 | 10:26 am
It scared me pretty bad at some points. Like when my friend
and I and some other people were led into the room Elizabeth
Congdon was murdered. They also took us to the staircase
where elizabeth’s nurse was also murdered. It was all so
creepy when we into the different floors it went to different
temperatures. All in all it was awsome! It was still creepy even
though it is cool. I would recemend it to anyone who is
looking for a scare.
Comment by sarah | 01.1.2006 | 1:47 am
i heard from someone that heard from someone that heard from her cousin that elizabeth was smothered with a pillow and that her nurse was blodgened to death with a candle stick. they said that roger caldwell had done both murders, but he was accompanied by his own wife marjorey caldwell. i was just wondering if this was true. after i did some research i found out that everything was true. except that they found just marjorey guilty at first and then after a while they convicted roger caldwell of helping to murder them. they only wanted to murder elizabeth because of her enormus fortune.
Comment by sarah | 01.1.2006 | 2:03 am
I volunteered at the mansion for many summers now and all the staff will tell you that we have encountered strange experinces. The old mansions are hard to heat and cool and that is why you feel cool drafts and warm drafts in select areas of the home becuase not all rooms have vents or radiators. Most of the time what has happened is lights will switch on and off, and doors will close by themselves. I can honestly say the activity is quite fun when your with other staff and those things happen, but errie when your alone. Glensheen is very much haunted, but you get used to it and be nice to them and they will be nice to you.
Comment by Ricky Porter | 01.7.2006 | 12:23 am
There is a program (Dommick Dunne’s Justice) about the Congdon murder on Court TV that details the murder. The program is based on the book by Joe Kimball. Very interesting.
Comment by Jennifer | 01.9.2006 | 11:37 pm
I volunteer at Glensheen and some of what you all have said is completely false. Elizabeths bedroom as a child is not the bedroom she died in. The reason that you used to not be able to go up to third floor was becuase there was only one staircase and it is a fire code. They have now let tours up there but only 10 at a time. No murders actually happened on the third floor. I have never experienced flickering lights (I do not know anyone else who has) like Ricky Porter, however the former volunteer coordinator, other volunteers, and I did have a discussion of paranormal things that have happened there. The only reason that we did not discuss the murders for so long was out of respect for the Congdon family, however, they have recently given permission. Whether it is haunted, there have been stories of some paranormal stuff, but paranormal situations are not a normal occurence.
Comment by Lianna | 01.19.2006 | 11:13 pm
Oh, and as far as this Bob character goes…there is no way that you could have had sex with your girlfriend in the master bedroom as there are tours every 10 minutes and I doubt that you would be able to escape your tour guide as they would have been able to see you in the master bedroom when they were standing at the entrance of the red guest room just 10 seconds after leaving the master bedroom.
Comment by Lianna | 01.19.2006 | 11:17 pm
looks like something ill check out after i graduate, thanx
Comment by sdr also known as sr | 01.20.2006 | 11:55 am
Just watched (for the second time) about this story on Court TV and find it fascinating. Young Chester Congdon was an Attorney nearly all of his life, and purchased several acres of land from the State of Minnesota in the mid 1880’s. The house is gorgeous and its too bad that Marjorie Congdon Hagen is allowed to walk free, after leavng behind so many dead bodies. Her mother, her illegal husbands (Wally Hagen) wife and whoever/ whatever died as a result of her arson. This is very cold, calculating, greedy vicious woman, sadly a nutjob, free. The only consolation is that her own mother was freed of Marjories abuse on that fatal night in 1977. I sure hope the Nurse and Elizabeth Congdon are not hanging around that Mansion.
Comment by David Allen | 01.21.2006 | 3:07 am
Dont tell me this i live in minnesota!
Comment by meme | 01.25.2006 | 9:59 pm
Omg, thats scary .I mean the story duh! I cant believe that really happened, If that ever happened 2 me I dont no wat I will do! I never had a scary event happen 2 me, I mean supernatural. I also believe in supernatual stuff that happen 2 u…..
XOXO always Adi(short 4 Adena)LOL
Comment by adena | 01.26.2006 | 10:48 pm
My horseback riding instructer was best friends with the nurse who was murdered. It was Anne’s (my instructer) birthday party and she wasnt sure why her friend (the nurse) hadnt shown up yet. Later she got a phone call saying Anne’s friend had been murdered that night.
Comment by Marin | 01.31.2006 | 2:54 pm
i was at the Glensheen mansion and as we were taking the tour and going downstairs the hairs on my neck rose and i froze at the spot. ooh i hated that. later we passed by a closed off room and i asked one of the guides and she said ‘I’m not supposed to tell you this but some people were murdered in here.’ anyways….scared the hell outta me
Comment by tom | 02.2.2006 | 6:18 pm
I have been to the Glensheen Mansion before. I read the book after I went to the house and it gave me the creeps. I never had anything weird happen to me while I was at the house but I still think it is haunted.
Comment by Lacey | 02.9.2006 | 4:26 pm
I have been fascinated by the mansion since I was a young child, driving past it as my family headed into Duluth for our yearly shopping trip. I was fortunate enough to visit Glensheen in the spring of 2004, and was quite disappointed over having experienced none of the paranormal experiences that I had heard about over the years. No spectres, no cold spots, no hair raisings, no unearthly noises.
But what I did experience that day, was an overwhelming sense of sadness and emptiness in that beautiful home. I had been on vitual pins and needles of excitement all morning, during the drive to Duluth, which only heightened as we pulled into the driveway and purchased our tour package. I was as giddy as a child at christmas.
However, as soon as we entered the front entrance, I was overcome by a sense of loss and grief. Some might say it was autosuggestion, having read stories and heard rumours about the murders of Elizabeth. But I honestly believe it was the sadness of the house itself, loneliness seeping from the very walls. Though the rooms were awe inspiring and beautiful, they felt so cold emotionally, abandoned. The house was full of people, groups on every floor, and in most every room, but it felt as if there was absolutely no-one there at all.
I do believe in the paranormal, and am curious about the house itself. Someday I will visit Glensheen again, during a different season, and a time of the day, to see if I once again, get that same sense of sorrow that has stayed with me since that first visit.
Comment by Stacey | 02.16.2006 | 6:12 am
this is really scary
Comment by becca | 02.16.2006 | 11:16 am
this story sounds very interesting sad and scary
Comment by sara camille mitchell | 02.21.2006 | 7:10 pm
I was in the car ride to Spirit Mountain. A year before my mother and her husband went to the Glensheen mansion and she told me about the murder. I couldn’t believe what had happened there I was in pure shock I didn’t know what to say. She only had a little tour of the huge beautiful house and she told me about the masterpieces of the furniture. I want to go there and have the whole tour.
Comment by Adrienne Wellman | 02.24.2006 | 4:11 pm
My brother got married to a Duluth girl in 1987 and we had the rehearsal dinner at the mansion. The food was excellent, and nothing eerie happened, which was disappointing since we were the only ones in the house at the time (there were perhaps 20 of us, plus wait staff and chefs). I think it happens if you expect something, and doesn’t if you don’t.
Comment by Melissa | 02.25.2006 | 11:11 pm
Hello everyone! I am so suprised that my death has caused such a large amout of excitment and suspense. However, I want you all to know that I have never returned to haunt my old place and neither has Velma. We are currently enjoying ourselves very much here in the afterlife and would find returning to the material world very boring and dull. I hope you all enjoy the house and grounds very much and continue to make use of it as much as possible. But please don’t expect Velma or I to attend. We have other engagements now that are simple more interesting than anything that the ‘fleshy’ world could possibly provide. Have a good time and we’ll see you all on the other side!
Comment by Elizabeth Congdon | 03.3.2006 | 12:42 am
omg so scary rolling candy..i bet she ate it too.
Comment by hah | 03.4.2006 | 1:19 am
excuse u..who in the hell is Velma..is she ur pet?
Comment by hah | 03.4.2006 | 1:20 am
lol duluth..is pretty boring ive been there like 4 times in a lifetime and it has alot of factories..hmm
Comment by hah | 03.4.2006 | 1:23 am
I have several stories that I can tell
Comment by james r gillespie | 03.8.2006 | 12:03 pm
I have lived in a house that i must say was haunted by something. our dog would stare barking at the wall for no reason. we’ve heard toy telephones ring. friends of mine and myself have witnessed bottles and pictures just falling off shelves or walls. the strange thing about it was that you could always sence it before it happend. like looking right at the picture seconds before it would literaly fly off the wall. no one wanted to be in the basement alone. even the guy who fixed our waterheater said he’s never been afraid of a basement but there was “something about ours that creeped him.”
anyway i guess i’m trying to say that those who do not believe just haven’t had it happen yet to you. It is real. these stories are facinating, i hope to visit this place sometime.
Comment by shannon hoon | 03.11.2006 | 1:04 pm
well i learned about it in sixth grade it was so creepy and i don’t know why we had to learn about it but oh well and then on our way up to elc we stopped for a tour and we thought it was really scary but nothin happened so we didn’t freak out!
Comment by justine | 03.12.2006 | 9:26 pm
I visited Glensheen when I was 7. I’m researching it for an English paper now that I’m in the eigth grade. I’ve realized al these weird coincidences between the dates in the story and important dates in my life..for example:
My b-day is June 30
Murders took place june 27th, funeral on june 30.
Marjorie and her husband were married on June 30
Marjorie started her jail time on my parents wedding day too…different year but whatever….Married someone that day too….weird I know
Comment by Jaspy | 03.16.2006 | 1:50 pm
i think it would be nice to know what really happened at the mansion!!
Comment by alex | 03.17.2006 | 12:05 pm
that is really creepy, if i went into that house i would probably pee my pants. lol
Comment by brenna | 03.17.2006 | 12:06 pm
just this week my daughters and i went to duluth and we wanted to see the mansion but it wasnt open on the week days. i think you guys should open it on the week days too.
Comment by dawn | 03.17.2006 | 12:09 pm
one time at the mansion i saw this ‘thing’ it was like a cloud but had a figure to it. it kept moving closer and i thought i was the only one that could see it but the tour guide said something like ‘ok everyone lets hurry up and go to the next room’ she had this weird look on her face. that was really weird and creepy i never went back and that was in 1987.
Comment by hahahahahah | 03.17.2006 | 12:13 pm
Ok, I would like to say that I have visited the Glensheen Mansion and through out the whole tour I experinced no “coldness” or saw any “dark shadowy figures”. And for the people who claim to of seen things in the basement, there is no basement the lowest level is considered the ground floor. For the people who call the house creepy why? Yes I am aware of the 2 murders that took place but ask your self why would they want to stick around a haunt the house that was there home? Elisabeth Congdon was a 83 year old women that was sufficated with a pink satin pillow in her bed while she slept to me that story is more sad then creepy. Yes I can say well I visited the Glensheen Mansion over the summer of 2005 as I walked up the stair case I had the feeling of sadness not the feeling that made my hair stand up or made me scared it made me sad. I believe that this house is not haunted and people who claim to have seen “Things” are lying.
Comment by Kellie | 03.22.2006 | 9:29 pm
Hi–I just started volunteering at Glensheen and have fallen in love with the place. I understand all the comments (especially about the feeling of sadness in the old mansion). I hope I will bring my enthusiasm to the tours I conduct.
Last week while I was learning how to do a tour (by being in the background) we were in the kitchen. Someone asked where a door went to. The guide said, “Oh, it’s not used much–it’s the servant’s stairway to the basement.” As if on cue, the door opened (with no one there).
We all had a good laugh over that. The guide was just a bit surprised.
Comment by VickiS | 03.23.2006 | 11:11 pm
There are a few things that a lot of you are not telling or are missing…one, you can’t enter the rooms as they are closed off with big velvet “ropes” hanging from gold posts and that a movie was filmed there (early to mid 1970’s). The name of the movie was “You’ll like my mother” which starred Patty Duke Astin & Richard Thomas, of The Waltons fame. When the movie was being made neighbors thought there were burglars, etc there so the police were called. It seems the family forgot to inform the neighbors and the police what was going on while they were on vacation.
Oh and as far as the murders go Elizabeth Congdon was murdered for her money as Marjorie & Roger were trying to start up a horse ranch in another state. It seems like Marjorie could never handle money according to the people who knew her in Duluth. You really should read the books and watch the shows about the murders to get all of the accurate information.
Comment by CG | 03.28.2006 | 3:31 pm
Another thing that I just remembered…Elizabeth never married, but had adopted children. Also all or most of the Congdon heirs no longer live in Minnesota but I believe in Arizona.
Comment by CG | 03.28.2006 | 3:37 pm
I’m not sure when you were last there, but the tours go through most of the rooms. When a guest steps into the room, some of it is roped off because if we have 60,000 people annually stepping on the original rugs, they will wear out (the rugs, not the people!).
The upstairs (third floor and attic) are also open to guests. In fact, I am surprised at how much of the house is open.
Comment by VickiS | 03.31.2006 | 12:56 am
i want to go to the congdon estae. my g-ma’s best friend got married and when her husband died she remarried again. so at night in there house they would hear her late husband walking the halls and throwing dishes into the walls. they would go out to see if anything was there and they would find dishes on the floor broken and statues and things like that.
Comment by sarah | 04.4.2006 | 9:07 pm
FYI:
All of you are wrong…
There was no ex-lover gone crazy, and there is certainly no candy rolling in drawers. The story is simple. Elizabeth Congdon never got married, yet felt a maternal need she had to fulfil. Because of this, she adopted two daughters- the eldest of which always had issues and difficulties. As the eldest adopted daughter grew older, she continued to be irresponsible and careless with many things, including money. In 1977, her second husband and herself, had aquired a large debt- and it is speculated, that at this point, together they conspired to kill Elizabeth in order to recieve her inheritance money early. Upon acting out this plan, Elizabeth, along with her night nurse, Velma were brutally murdered.
With that said, I would like to inform you that there have never been any reports of either of these two women roaming about the house. And to be honest, the closest you’ll get to seeing a ghost at Glensheen, is walking down the street a block to an old Scandinavian Cemetary with was established back in the 1800’s.
Out of respect to both families, all of you who have developed these false stories in your minds, should let them go and embrace the true story. For those of you who still feel the need to explore this scandle, maybe it’s a good idea to become informed on it before you discuss it- there are three books written about these murders, all of which are more factual and pleasent than your peoples imaginations.
Comment by Expert | 04.8.2006 | 2:49 pm
I have been to this beautiful house only once, and I was aware of the murders, but I did not know the facts. However, I did not experience any of the paranormal activities as stated above. Perhaps you people have been influenced by the power of suggestion. As I sit here and read these comments, I get chills on my back, but does that mean the area where I sit is haunted? I believe it’s just the ability to imagine what took place that gives one chills. It is a magnificent house, though! I look forward to returning there next month.
Comment by sharkbait | 04.20.2006 | 5:37 pm
To Alex and anyone else who would really like to know what happened at the Glensheen Mansion…go there, they do talk about the murders now, I went there last June. The murders are very interesting and the house is absolutly amazing. It’s definitly worth the drive. But when you go to Glensheen pick up the book “A Will to Murder” It was written by 2 attorney’s that were involved in the case. It goes through every detail all the way up to Marjorie going to jail for arson. Its a very good book but I would definily recommend going to the mansion, not only because the murders are so fasinating but because the house is.
Comment by Kristina | 04.20.2006 | 5:41 pm
um… I don’t really know anything about this but I’m doing a social studies project on it.
Comment by Smelly | 05.1.2006 | 1:30 pm
the other day i could have sworn i saw velma pietila,elizabeths nurse!she asked me if the coffee was ready yet.i was puttin a sign in the attic.i just sceamed and crouched down and kept sayin stuff like she is not goin to hurt me and she isnt there.wen ilooked up no one was there.i swear that place is haunted like hell!!!!!!!
Comment by mandy | 05.1.2006 | 6:28 pm
I don’t really know about this mansion either.My best friend is doing this as a social studies project though.I had sex 15 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But I got raped 3 times.Do you want to “do it”?My husband is an ***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I want to cheat on him.
Comment by vannessa | 05.1.2006 | 6:28 pm
Glensheen Mansion eh’? Well, cool place..
Comment by I don't care to give out my personal information...thank you very much | 05.3.2006 | 1:02 pm
i have only been to the glensheen mansion once but wen i went i didnt see or hear anything unusual exept that the tour guides never speak of the murders.
Comment by mandy | 05.11.2006 | 3:58 pm
This is all in your head for those who thought they encountered supernatural experiences! Your mind will make you think that you saw, heard, or felt something but it’s just that you are applying your fantasies to your conscious mind without realizing it. People tend to copy one another too as of how they imagined events. So once again,” IT’S ALL IN YOUR FREAKIN HEADS”!
Comment by Xayla Ganv | 05.24.2006 | 3:35 pm
Damn!
Iknow it that that place is haunted!
I went there with my Girlfriend, she was taking a shower and the curtains kept on opening!
It was wierd!
She thought it was me but i was downstairs watching the three stooges!
Comment by Billbo | 05.28.2006 | 10:02 am
hehehehehe im really bored and my friend bobby is sitting next to me watching me type jk im a girl so is my friend bobby
Comment by phillip | 05.30.2006 | 2:29 pm
“Please use correct grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. Let’s try to keep this place looking classy.”
Um, if you take a close look at all of these stories a lot of them seem to be written by the same person who doesn’t know how to spell, use capital letters at the beginning of sentences, periods and the end of sentences.
Comment by scarlett ohara | 06.2.2006 | 9:42 pm
Scarlett Ohara, your a ***** with a capital B. You don’t do so good your selfe. “periods and the end of sentences.” Ypur pathetic. This was a great story, and if you can’t see that then you don’t have the right to make fun of other people. If you want to tell me what you think of me I’m in Royalton MN.
Good story from Joshua Wozniak
Comment by Joshua Wozniak | 06.6.2006 | 9:53 pm
What is with some of you people? Take Vannessa (5-1-06) for instance. What does your comment regarding your personal life have to do with Glensheen? Perhaps your time would be better spent with some professional help, rather than writing this remark, you’re in serious need of it. The guy having sex in the master bedroom? Get real. And the girl in the shower with the curtains blowing? You people are all messed up. Stick to the forum.
Are any of you aware of the fact that there was also another murder at Glensheen? Back in the 70’s a would be burglar was shot and killed on the balcony.
Comment by SAM | 06.10.2006 | 2:21 pm
I visited Glensheen recently and the tour guide asked us if we had any questions about the murders. We asked and she told us what she knew. So I dont understand why other people say that the guides arent allowed to tell us about the murders.
Comment by Jenna | 06.10.2006 | 11:10 pm
I currently am a tourguide at Glensheen and I have been there over a year during the day and till 4am. Nothing strange has happened except fellow guides playing games with eachother by talking up or down the laundry shoot.The only reason people will feel cold drafts coming down into the basement is because of the tempature difference in floors and the draft from the door at the end of the hallway.Also if the Winter Garden is open a draft will be felt also. And Marjorie Caldwell was never convicted of the murders. He husband Roger Caldwell was. He went to jail. The reason we don’t speak of the murders a lot is because some of us don’t like to talk about it. Also is we have children or others on tour that don’t want to hear of the murders we prefer to talk about it after. We can answer any questions that you have about the murders, but not all of us know the full story.The most I can say is read “A Will To Murder” it explains the murders,the trials, and family history. Glensheen’s daughter is about Margjorie and the trials she went throught. That would be another to read if you want to get inside her mind.
Comment by Ashley | 06.11.2006 | 8:56 pm
This past school year we had a college graduation BBQ held there at Glensheen. A free tour was given to us. It was mine and my boyfriend’s first time being there. The house was amazing. I love the yard and the creek that runs through the yard under the bridge.
About the mansion, we knew of the murder. We tour almost every room but we didn’t know which was the room that Elizbeth was murdered in. Not knowing that, we weren’t scared or had any creepy feeling about the place.I loved all of the rooms. of course we did experienced some coldness but that was because it was cold that day. And since the house was huge it would be cold in certain areas.
The only thing I have to say about our tour was that since it was an open tour to us college student that day there was no guide walking us through the rooms, but there were people in each room in case if we want to know anything. Every room that we’ve been to there was a guide in there except one room. I don’t remeber which floor it was but that I thought was the brightest room in all that my boyfriend and I’ve been in. Well, the funny thing was that when we came upon that room we suddenly stopped at the door. We just stood there and paused for a little bit. I felt something strange inside of me. Anyways, we finally went into the room. The room was beautiful because the wall was covered in bamboo wallpaper.There was a rocking chair facing the the door way with a beautiful doll sitting on it. I guess that was what scared my boyfriend. We later learned from some friends who use to work there that that was the room the Elizabeth was murdered in and that the doll’s hair and eyelashes was made of real human hair.
That, I found was interesting.
Comment by Michelle | 06.14.2006 | 5:01 pm
Ashley–great post!
I, too, am a tour guide there (I’m the docent who likes to dress up–I wear a capelet with a black blouse and grey skirt). It’s fun because I used to work at Disneyland where I always wore a costume.
Anyway, I generally don’t bring up the murders if there are children in the tours. I’ve had many parents thank me for not talking about the crimes (gives the kids nightmares). However, after the tours I tell the group that if they are interested, they can read “Will to Murder” (and then I answer questions).
Michelle–were you there for UMD’s grad party? I was in the reception room if you did come through there. It was a great time–I learned so much! A grad from Pakistan was telling me that the home looked just like his grandfather’s in Pakistan. He then proceeded to tell ME all sorts of stuff about that style of house. It was really neat.
I hope you all can come and visit the mansion at some point.
Comment by Vicki | 06.18.2006 | 1:08 am
I think I will try to go sometime.
Comment by steven | 06.22.2006 | 11:05 pm
“”"Scarlett Ohara, your a ***** with a capital B. You don’t do so good your selfe. “periods and the end of sentences.? Ypur pathetic. This was a great story, and if you can’t see that then you don’t have the right to make fun of other people. If you want to tell me what you think of me I’m in Royalton MN.
Good story from Joshua Wozniak”"”
Wow, Josh….Tell us how you really feel!
Btw, I wasn’t talking about the original story. I was talking about a lot of the posts that followed.
Comment by scarlett ohara | 06.30.2006 | 7:27 pm
I have been to the mansion a couple years ago, but I didn’t experience anything strange. I don’t remember much about the tour since it was a while back. I did not know any details about the murders when I went on the tour, I only knew that someone was murdered. I’ve done a lot of research about the murders, and the story itself is amazing. All of you should read up on it instead of throwing out things like “My girlfriend was in the shower!” Okay, how? You are not allowed to touch ANYTHING in the mansion.
I just got back from Duluth yesterday, and my stepmother, grandma, and sister went on the tour of the mansion. They didn’t report anything unusual going on. I guess you’ll have to decide for yourself if it is really haunted.
Comment by Snailie | 07.1.2006 | 11:08 am
I just returned today from a visit to the mansion…no weird things happened! I did see the blood stain on the wallpaper though.,,,the tour guide Tom pointed it out to us….that gave me the creeps. Terrible thing that happened there! Marjorie and her (now deceased husband) Roger Caldwell will and should rot in hell! Ms. Elisabeth and Nurse Velma did not deserve to die like that! Marjorie is an arsonist as well as a killer…she shouldn’t be walking around!
Comment by Tami | 07.3.2006 | 12:41 am
As an amateur ghost investigator, I have been doing a lot of research for the last few years on this area of study. People often get an aura of coldness or a creepy crawly feeling. I am convinced that ghosts and spirits are real and they are all around us. If you look real hard and are more open minded they will show themselves to you if they believe it might give them peace. Sometimes you have to give a leap of faith and believing is sometimes more than just seeing. Anyone have any stories, haunting places or anyother Minnesota lore please send them to me at KMtuner@aol.com
Comment by KRM | 07.3.2006 | 6:01 am
I did whitness the lights we’re on that scared the heck out of me.
Comment by aamira | 07.4.2006 | 1:03 pm
I respect any one’s feelings on any hauntings first… I am Clairvoyant medium.. walking through Glensheen, I just could not feel any thing. I just got a sense of a quite old home. Fairlawn Mansion though, across the bridge in Superior, a friend confirmed what I saw, was a young boy about 11 or so, running through the rooms. Others have seen two girls in the basement, and also a housekeeper. My friend and myself only saw the boy (in our 3rd eye)for those that understand.
Comment by Murray Munro | 07.11.2006 | 7:56 pm
My husband and i went to Glensheen a couple of yrs ago and we had no haunting experiences. That whole place is just awesome! The tour guides couldn’t talk about the murders yet at that time so we didn’t learn the whole story until after we had been there. I would really like to go on a tour again and hear from the tour guides about the murders. I would also be interested in seeing the areas the murders took place.
Comment by Tina | 07.11.2006 | 9:16 pm
I am a professor at a college in Utah. I came up to visit my niece and she wanted to take me on the tour. I felt the urge to go with her and experience the thrill of being scared. I wasnt at all frightened, but i was quite anxious. I ventured into the basement dark deep basement all alone….BOY DID I HAVE A GREAT TIME.. I exploded in my pants as i let a HUGE one rip!!!!i had a fantisimic experience at the glensheen because when i farted the ghost was scared and disappereared.
Comment by Dex | 07.13.2006 | 12:03 am
i went on a tour. i pooped. fun. times. as i saw a ghost. it was there beside me taking a ****. night night diary…..
Comment by Charlene | 07.13.2006 | 12:06 am
Actually the accused murdered was the husband of Marjorie, Elisabeth Congdon’s adopted daughter. Elisabeth and her nurse were slain by Roger Caldwell.
Comment by Chris | 07.13.2006 | 7:36 pm
hello i live in duluth and i was just there i use to volenteer there and it was kinda wired and yet i felt great to know that a very hard working family lived there. there is alot of history to the glensheen mansion. like if you have toured it i there are pinapples that ment you were welcome in there home if they were covered for any reason it ment that you need to leave. as soon as possible, or in other trems that you were no longer welcome in there home. and there are lions in the home. they mean wealth power, royalty, and prossperious. they also have a romeo and juliet tearess. also they have now just started to talk about the murders. they all ask you if you are all if you are all comfertable with talking about it. there were to 2 murders that i am awear of the nurse and elisbeth witch if yo all did not know was marjorie’s addopited mother if there are any other questions email me at zacerig@yahoo.cm thanks have a great day. p.s. the nurse was murdered on the steps going to the second floor. also elisbeth was sufficated in her bed.
Comment by zachary gegn | 07.13.2006 | 10:51 pm
I was recently in Duluth for the airshow. While entering the main building the prosecuting attorney was selling his book, “THE WILL TO KILL.” My sister bought it and of course he autographed it but it was then I was interested in reading about the Glensheen murders, especially knowing that Marjorie is now free and probably crazy as ever. Therefore I purchased another book about Glensheen while walking around Canal Park. Its been very difficult to put the book down, how one person can be so coniving is inconceivable. Elisabeth sure adopted a bad seed. As far as the mansion, its a historical site for other reasons rather than the murders. The murders may have increased the interest of potential vistors. Although I am not sure about the spirits they say roam the mansion, I was told an interesting story the other day by a couple who visited the mansion. They walked in with their baby and soon after the child started crying terribly. The father had to exit the building only to be followed by employees asking if the child was okay. The child never before cried so hysterically and hasnt since the incident. All in all the murders at Glensheen was all about greed. Marjorie had everything given to her but only wanted more. Whereas Jennifer, Marjories sister was the opposite. Unfortunately Jennifer and Marjories inheritance was challenged by other family members because of their adoption into the family. Eventually a court ruled that the girls wold receive their inheritance as their mother wished. Jennifer should have received it all because I dont think Marjorie deserved a damn thing. She was wicked as a child only to become an adult and continue to destroy other peoples lives. That woman does not deserve the freedom she has today.
Comment by Chris | 07.14.2006 | 9:34 am
I was at Glensheen this week. I didn’t know about the murders at the time. I did, however, notice that it felt cooler in the servants quarters - probably just a coincidence - it was a warm day. I didn’t really notice any paranormal activity. I believe we were in Elizabeth’s bedroom, the one with the pink/green tiled fireplace (for Vassar College where she attended). The guides made no mention of the murders, except for the killing of a burglar by Elizabeth. There was a picture on the mantle of the fireplace of a young Elizabeth holding and aiming a rifle. They said she liked and was proficient with firearms. All in all, an awesome building, I’d like to go again someday.
Comment by KarlMohr | 07.19.2006 | 10:19 pm
Hi, cool site! I’ve been to Glensheen 3 times-once on a grade school tour & twice in my teens. Twice in the spring for tours and once in the winter w/ a singing group. I did not see anything strange on any of the visits but did feel a tremendous amount of sadness & the house felt empty and devoid of life despite the other people taking tours. There were also noticeable changes in tempreture from room to room but I would imagine it’s just drafts. It’s such a huge place & sits right next to Lake Superior so it must cost a fortune to heat in the winter. Back when I lived in Duluth I had heard stories from people who vollunteered there of doors opening & closing (drafts-?) and lights switching on & off (faulty wiring-?) etc. All in all pretty spooky stuff if you care to believe it. The book “Will to Murder” is a very good read & worth checking out. That Marjorie was CRAAAZZZY! I’m interested to see “You’ll LIke My Mother” the movie that was filmed there. Does anyone know if it’s available on dvd or vhs?
Comment by David G. | 07.20.2006 | 3:59 pm
Speaking of peoples murders like they are circus sideshows and making up BS stories, like boning in the master bed is just wrong. There is still friends and family, not to mention the the ones that were supposed to be at work that day… just imagine calling in sick, and that night and find out the next day, your friend and replacement were murdered… have some respect people for the living and non. Going back to the true subject at hand. Many school kids in the area, Superior, Duluth, and many others have visited the place numerous times over the years, I never experienced a supernatural preminition, nor heard sounds, but doesnt mean they are not there, it is in fact an old building with alot of character and well many spooky areas of the house… like the garden room, with the big ol fountain in it… that did give me some goosebumps… who knows maybe it was supernatural, or maybe it wasnt.
Comment by DJ | 07.22.2006 | 3:08 pm
You’ll like my mother is vhs and you probably will have to go to the library to get it or order it online.
Comment by Ashley | 07.22.2006 | 5:57 pm
i just went to Glensheen just resently and i really enjoyed it all though i wasnt aloud inside due to the service work we had to do there, (pulling weeds in the old tennis court) but we did tour the grounds. it was really cool… and though some people have written that they had to use the bathroom, or take a shower..that is not true they dont even let people got to the bathroom in the house only in port o potties and you cant take a shower in the house even if you did it would be merky creek water….and i have done plenty of reasearch and i dont think everyone really has the right facts….and anyways why do people write about cheating on there husbands or swearing so much even if it is with *’s? just answer me
Comment by y? | 07.22.2006 | 11:02 pm
They just wanna make themselves look dangerous, lotsa people like that whole public thing… just go to the rose garden if you want that, otherwise keep the mansion outta those fantasies, its a piece of history, beautiful workmanship, accually has anyone seen the movie Rose Red, striking resemblence in architecture
Comment by DJ | 07.23.2006 | 9:48 pm
I was at the Glensheen last weekend. They do have a public bathroom in the downstairs (”basement”). I think the bedroom she died in was built for her sister Helen. The fireplace in done in her school colors. They tried to restore the original wall paper. But they had to redo the ceiling because of water damage. So I think that is why it took so long to be able to see the room. I cost alot to fix it.
Comment by Jen | 07.26.2006 | 11:47 pm
Actually, nothing has been restored. We had water damage in 1998 and put a new roof on, but we’ve left all the damage “as is.” For one thing, it allows us to see what was under some of the wallpaper and paint. For another, we don’t want to do a thing to the mansion except what is absolutely, positively necessary (such as the new roof).
The “new” wallpaper in Elizabeth’s room (the pink/gray room–really Helen’s old bedroom) was probably put on by the family sometime during the 1950’s to 70’s. The house was occupied by the family from 1908 to 1977, so of course they did some repainting and rewallpapering.
Comment by Vicki | 07.31.2006 | 10:12 am
All these comments are saying that the staff is not allowed to talk about the murders. I just wanted to say that my parents, brother and I toured the mansion in July of 2006. OUr tour uide told up about the muders and trials. I don’t recall if she brought it up or if someone asked but she gave us all the information we wanted. She did not, however, mention anything of a haunting. MAybe that’s what they aren’t supposed to talk about. It was a great tour tohough!
P.S. I seriously doubt that anyone was “*******” their girlfriend in the master bedroom. How inappropriate to put that on this web site. And if it is true by some long shot, how completely irresponsible and disrespectful!
Comment by Kelsey | 08.3.2006 | 4:30 pm
The wallpaper in Elizabeth’s room was updated by the university after the water damage. So it is not the original or from the 50’s or 70’s.
Comment by Ashley | 08.3.2006 | 5:39 pm
I wonder if they would let my team in to do a debunking… e.g., an after-hours investigation.
Comment by US Tracker | 08.6.2006 | 3:23 pm
I am not a skeptic, but some of these comments really bug me. For instance, to the “gentleman” who claims to have been ******* his girlfriend in the master bedroom…give me a break! I grew up in Duluth and my great-grandmother was a seamstress for the Congon’s. Yes, Nurse Velma and Ms. Elizabeth were brutally murdered in the home. There was no “crazed lover.” Yes, Ms. Elizabeth’s son-in-law was charged with the crime. Although this was a horrible and sad event, I believe the two murdered women rest in peace. I do not believe they haunt the mansion. There certainly are eerie places in the building and on the grounds, but I do not believe they are ghosts in this instance.
Comment by Christine | 08.14.2006 | 9:32 pm
I apologize for my misspellings in the above post.
Comment by Christine | 08.14.2006 | 10:04 pm
I was just at Glensheen 8/15/06 and just recently read the book. It was the youngest daughter and and a fill in nurse that were murdered in the mansion. The daughter was found suffocated in Helen’s room and the fill in nurse was beat with a candlestick holder on the main staircase. It was the fill in nurses husband that commited the murders. He hid in the cemetary and entered through the basement. I also could feel all the energy in the house with cold spots especially on the main staircase and in Helen’s room. I also had the feeling of someone following me throughout my tour. I also caught a glimpse of a few shadows in the hallways and a few of the pictures, their eyes almost seemed to follow you when you walked by them.
Comment by jessica | 08.19.2006 | 12:10 pm
I just visited the house today. I read through most of a bunch of the above comments and had to laugh and roll my eyes at some of the entries. Anyway I do believe in ghosts or spirits but didn’t feel a whole lot of anything expect chills in some spots but it could have been me just knowing that something bad happened in the house. I am glad to know that they can talk about the murders now because they did talk about them on our tour because of curious guests. Anyway, just wanted to say that I do believe it is haunted and for those that say that all of it is nonesense we may never know if it haunted but at we shouldn’t be narrow minded at the same time either because something may happen when you least expect it.
Comment by Alicia | 08.20.2006 | 7:30 pm
Ok two people were killed, Elizabeth Congon and her night nurse Velma. They were not killed by an “ex-lover” nor were they killed by Velmas’ husband. The women were killed by one Elizabeths’ adopted daughters, Marjorie and Marjories’ segnifigent other. (Which was convicted of the two murders, but Marjorie was aquitted of the two murders after surving some jail time.) And as for the tour guides not being able to talk about it, that was because the University, that the mansion was givin to from the Congon family, had an agreement that the gides were not to speek of the murders. But now with the families’ concent the tour guides are allowed to talk and answer questions of the murders. Also no one can “****” their girlfriend/boyfriend anywhere in the house, at least where the public can get to, because there are tour guied everywhere and ropes closing off the rooms. You also can not take showers there… this is NOT a “Bed and Breakfest” people! Have any of you saying this sort of stuff even been there?! Probably not! And lets keep your personal stuff out of here no one cares about your sex life, and no one cares if your cheeting on your husband, ect. But anyways I have personally been to the Mansion twice and I have never experienced anything unusual but I did get chills because of knowing the story and what happened there and being where the murders happened. But I dont doubt that somthing paranormal could happen. The house is truly fasinating even without the murders happening. I would recommend anyone to go and visit the beautiful mansion!!!!!
Comment by Bree | 08.21.2006 | 4:48 pm
P.S. Murders aside the house has a great history and beautiful architechure/design. The story of the Congons’ and how hard they worked to get what they had is awsome!!!!! The house has alot more to it than just potetial ghost stories.
Comment by Bree | 08.21.2006 | 4:53 pm
For all of you morons who claim to see the supernatural, you missed out! Do you actually remember the tour or were you too pre-occupied with trying so hard to see a ghost?
Comment by Lucy | 08.27.2006 | 8:03 am
Wow… lots of different stories on this site, hardly anyone seems to have the story of the murders correct. Read the books–they are sold online and at Glensheen.
I was just at Glensheen for the second time yesterday, and contrary to what some of the people have written on this site, if you pay for the extra tour, you do get to see the top floor, including the attic.
I have never felt anything eerie in Glensheen. However, if you point out the bloodstain on the wall of the stairwell (which is easy to find if you are looking for it!) and ask about it, the tour guide will more than likely tell you what it is and a little bit about what happened. Our tour guide did, anyway! He kept the conversation very limited, however, due to the presence of young children.
It’s worth a trip. But don’t go looking for ghosts. Take the time to enjoy the beauty of the house and the grounds. Don’t forget to wander around the grounds and the paths; if you follow the stone bridge across the stream you’ll find yourself in a cemetary!
Comment by Krissy | 08.28.2006 | 1:50 pm
i was at the glensheen 8/30 06 it semeend ok then when i was on the second staircase leding to the second floor it just got cold for a second but nothing for the rest of the tour but in the basebent i just had a chill it was creepy
Comment by trent | 09.1.2006 | 12:55 am
I was to the mansion just this summer and i was wondering if anyone else heard about the stained glass windows changing colors at night. Our tour guide said that the window on the landing by the big desert painting thing that the flowers and stuff change colors when it gets dark.
Comment by Curious | 09.8.2006 | 8:26 pm
I had gone to the Glendheen mansion when i was about five years old. I don’t remember much about the intrior itself- but I do remember Elizabeth’s room, with the doll. I also remember walking down a hallway, and suddenly feeling cold and a sense of forboding, llike something would happen, something bad… *sweat* I also remember having a feeling of someone constantly keeping an eye on me- as though I was being bad. (Note: I could never keep up with the group- and the feeling came from BEHIND me) AT the time-I had no idea of the haunting- but I knew that something NOT HUMAN was in that house. I would like to go there again someday. ^^
Comment by Sakura-chan | 09.15.2006 | 11:33 pm
I’ve been to Glensheen many times..maybe 10 (I really like it there). And I have never senced anything there. And some people are sick saying that they have had sex in the master bedroom…why are you here if you don’t respect the house and peoples belief in the spiritual importance of it. Shame on you.
Comment by Christoph | 09.16.2006 | 10:24 am
I went to Glensheen summer before last. The house is unbelievable! The wood work is museum quality. The artisan who did the work in the diningroom had some real talent. The only cold spots that I felt were in the servant’s quarters. They are underground, with tiled walls and floors, a natural occurance. I believe in the afterlife, but there is nothing there. Only a sadness and emtiness that comes from a house that was once full of family and friends. Those who want to believe in the ghost stories, enjoy the thrill of being scared. But I don’t personally think that anyone is haunting Glensheen Manor.
Comment by annie | 10.2.2006 | 11:39 pm
Spirits don’t haunt every day. They don’t haunt everyone. It is possible that they are there, but that they simply weren’t interested enough in you to reveal themselves.
Comment by Michael | 10.8.2006 | 8:08 pm
I was at Glensheen this summer with my girlfriend, we walked all over the grounds, and took the tour. There was nothing erie about the house. We were amazed at the detail of the house, and how well it has been preserved. Very interesting.
Comment by Jamey | 10.9.2006 | 5:46 pm
To all those non-believers: this spiritual stuff IS true weather you choose to believe it or not it’s up to you. I’m not trying to persuade you into believing it. Paranormal activities does not just “appear” to anyone.. there are certain people that can see and feel these things and then there are those who just can’t. (Haven’t you ever seen “The 6th Sense”!! ) Anyhow, one of my close friend’s recently graduated from the University MN Duluth. She’s not a person who typically lies or makes up stories. She was good friends with one of the managers. This manager was responsible for closing up and opening up this tourist site. There was a night when all the tourists and staff had left and she was closing up the house. She turned off all the lights and locked the door behind her. She was on her way to her car when she looked back at the house and ALL THE LIGHTS WERE NOW BACK ON. She didn’t necessarily see the lights flick on, but from what she remembered, all the lights were off when she left the house. Remember that just because you can’t see any ghosts or can’t sense them, it doesn’t mean that they’re not there.
Comment by Sophia | 10.10.2006 | 1:01 pm
My mom was supposed to be the nurse that night, but she couldn’t work so they found someone else and that is the nurse that got killed. How crazy is that!
Comment by Laura | 10.10.2006 | 6:39 pm
My husband and I went to the Glensheen Mansion 6 years ago. I didn’t feel anything in the house but I did outside. We were walking around outside (before our tour) and came to the side of the house were theres a bridge. We crossed over the bridge and went up the hill. I started to get the creaps then. My hair was standing up on the back of my neck. We walk through some trees and bushes. We found an old cemetery. Then we went on the tour and the tour guide said that Mr. Congdons wife wanted to be next to the cemetery so would have quiet neighbors. I don’t know about the house but I sure felt something by the cemetery.
Comment by Andrea | 10.13.2006 | 2:14 pm
I went to Glensheen a few years ago and I found the mansion to be very beautiful and almost cheerful looking. I do believe that spirits do exist and I especially believe that when someone is murdered their spirit may be trapped here on earth becaue they may have unfinished business so it may be very well possible that the mansion is haunted. I, however, did not feel like there was any unusual presenses in that house.
Comment by Jen | 10.15.2006 | 3:59 am
how do i find the show on court tv, and i am having trouble finding books. can anyone help? i am facinated by things like this, we have heard that there is blood that comes thru on the stairway, (even though it has been painted many times) where the maid was killed, is that correct?
Comment by pam | 10.17.2006 | 10:20 am
I worked there for three years and never saw a thing. We got to here a bunch of good spooky stories, but one could always “Consider the source!” No one reliable ever had a real spook story, most of the others sounded made up.
Yes, there are some things that will seem spooky, especially if you have your mind focused on that. The door to the servants stairs in the kitchen does swing open occationally, the door latch is old and doesn’t completely shut right (it’s not a haunted thing, it’s a hardware thing!) Window shades will spring open - those were on a REALLY tight spring and can be hard to pull down at times. I have heard stories of some of the lights coming on, from good sources too, but the house has REALLY old internal wires (bad connections). It’s an old house with lots of creeks and “sounds”. It’s rather dark, which was the style at during the time the house was built. And it has some fiscal problems (or it did when I worked there) so money was tight so heating a HUGE house like that is expensive. If there are an cold spots, I sure never found them on HOT summer days with hundreds of people in the house with no AC!
I worked in the 90’s, and was specially told NOT to talk about the murders out of respect for the family. It was a policy I followed and adopted myself, because I came to learn how wonderful the family (both past and present) is. Apparently the guides can now talk about it, which I feel is a shame. The story of the murders is just sad (a elderly woman of poor health and her retired nurse who was trying to defend her client. This nurse came out of retirement to help out her fellow nurses out of a bind and greatly respected Miss Elisabeth…it’s just sad!)
About the only thing worth mentioning for creeps is there is still a few blood stains (very small dots) on the wall, the finger print on the door handle of the main doors (which may or may not be the murderer’s) and I’ve had MANY people comment about the eyes moving in the portraits (again, you’ll see what you’re looking for). Oh, and the kitchen door. That can seem rather spooky. Many of my coworkers would get spooked on the third floor, but I loved it up there. The rooms weren’t as ornate and tours were smaller (less people looking only for the murder, mostly people who love history, architure or interior design). People are allowed up there, but fewer at a time due to fire codes.
BTW - Elisabeth did not shoot & kill the thief, it happened next door at her older sister Majorie’s house (the Manion, which is a B&B you can stay in) and her sister Majorie shot the would-be-thief.
Like someone else mentioned, if you want creepy, go next door to the old Swedish Cemetary (it’s where the murderer(s) hung out prior to the break-in). I’ve heard people finding old coffin handles and other artifacts down by the lakeshore.
There certainly lots of stories at Glensheen, most of them made up! It’s a beautiful place built by a great family.
Comment by Maria | 10.18.2006 | 5:18 pm
I have never been to the mansion but I have read the book. Very interesting and quite sad. My sister and a friend of hers went on the tour a couple of years ago. They never said anything about hearing noises or feeling cold. She did say that there is a red rope that goes around certain areas of Elizabeth’s room and you can not go into certain parts of the mansion. Whether it is haunted or not, I can’t wait to go see it!
Comment by Tammy | 10.20.2006 | 2:28 pm
I was just there this past weekend and I didn’t feel anything.but there could very well possibly be ghosts there.I bought a book on their murders, and i gotta say Marjorie Caldwell Hagen is MESSED UP!!!
Comment by Katie | 10.21.2006 | 8:14 pm
You know what i think is really funny when i visited the mansion i had asked one of the tour guides if the murders really happened and she said that they arent aloud to talk about it! My question is why if you are giving guests there tours then why wont you give them the hole story. Are they trying to say it never happened? My heart goes out to the souls left in that house because of the crazed fiance.
Comment by Amanda | 10.21.2006 | 9:26 pm
My wife and I recently toured Glensheen. First and foremost, I feel the need to comment on, as no one else has, that for $44, for two people to tour the whole house, it seemed a little bit like a rip off. Not even a brochure of facts was handed out. Regardless, the house is amazing and for history fans, is a great place to experience what life was like 100 years ago. I have to agree with past comments, that, no, I did not experience any “hauntings” but I did experience this overwhelming sense of sadness. All of that money and time put into this magnificent property and now, it sits, each day a piece of it’s splendor slipping away.
Comment by Clint | 10.22.2006 | 10:44 pm
I went to the mansion one time and there was this room and i guess a girl named Philis was murderd there. Also I took a dump in the toilet and i turned around to flush er bye bye and it was already gone. A ghost must have stole MY **** TO RING SOMEONES NECK!
Comment by Tay | 10.23.2006 | 10:38 am
I took a trip up that way about two or three years ago with some friends. on that day, we were not aloud on the top floor due to an accident with an employee. however when we were taking pictures of the outside we noticed after development that there was what looked like a person looking out the window down on the people walking around. i would have just passed it off as an employee, however it did not look like a human. It had a sort of blue tint and haze to it.
Comment by Kris | 10.24.2006 | 1:49 am
I live in Duluth and have been to Glensheen before. I did not experience anything, but I know a woman who works there and saw an elderly woman in a blue nightgown on the stairs. This was during clean up after a dinner at the mansion and there was no one there like that.
Comment by Joe | 10.25.2006 | 10:58 pm
I belong to the family, I assure you it is not haunted and the comments about Elizabeth’s room aren’t true. At the end she no longer was in that room.
Comment by Anan Cestor | 10.27.2006 | 2:30 pm
Hi everyone, Your comments are interesting and some are even true. I am very close to the story of what has transpired there, you see my step mother was on Marjorie’s jury. I had dinner with Marjorie in our home in Rosemount, MN after the trial was finished.
Marjorie mentioned stories of royalty staying at the house as part of the mansion’s history. The house is lovely I have been there twice shortly after the trial finished in Hastings MN. I was in the meeting room were Elezabeth was murdered and felt nothing. I think most people just say many strange things to bring attention to there feelings about the home and the way they felt during a tour of this very old house.
Comment by Doug Muich | 10.29.2006 | 2:20 am
It has been many years since I have been to the mansion. I find it interesting that Marie above mentioned the third floor, as when I was there, I was told the story, that there was a murder on the third floor. At that time when I toured it, the third floor was off limits and closed off and not even talked about except that it was the boys floor. That of cource was back in the early 80’s. Thats how long it has been for me. I agree its a beautiful place. I don’t ever recall anything unusal then.
Comment by melissa | 11.1.2006 | 11:13 pm
This whole page is absolutely ridiculous. Of all the posts on this page, there are about 2 or 3 that are actually worth reading. In fact, the original blurb about this mansion isn’t even remotely accurate. The woman was half paralyzed at the time of her murder, she was never married, I’m going to doubt that she even had a crazed lover. Elizabeth and her nurse (not her pet as someone suggested), Velma were murdered. Velma was struck by something and died in the stairway. Elizabeth was smothered by a pillow in her bed. Roger Caldwell, Elizabeth’s adopted daughter’s(Marjorie) husband, was a suspect, was convicted, but then it was appealed after years in prison. It has always been suspected that Marjorie was behind it and also that this wasn’t her first attempt. The story of Marjorie’s life is extremely fascinating and for a good read I suggest the book “Glensheen’s Daughter - The Marjorie Congdon Story” by Sharon Darby hendry (http://www.amazon.com/Glensheens-Daughter-Marjorie-Congdon-Story/dp/1893088340). The book will give you all a much better insight as to what happened in that house. It’s an extremely disturbing story. That poor nurse was retired and wasn’t even supposed to be working that night.
As for the house being haunted, I doubt it. Not every big old mansion with a murder story winds up haunted. The stories you have told are either ridiculous or more likely explained by your nerves overreacting to the hype about the place.
I’ve been there, and knowing what happened there definitely overwhelms you with a sadness when you enter. But there was absolutely nothing creepy about the house.
Go pick up that book I suggested, though. I think you’ll find it fascinating.
Comment by jUke boX hERo | 11.9.2006 | 12:20 pm
I have been to Glensheen on several accounts. I have never seen nor heard anything strange. But it is the most remarkable house. The woodwork, wallpapers and contents are a thing to see. If a person wants to see how the rich lived back then, walk through those doors, it is truly amazing. It is sad to see that people will kill for money. As Jukebox said get the books, they are fascinating! Happy Haunting
Comment by easylife | 11.11.2006 | 7:31 am
I recently went to Glensheen. I could see things out of the corners of my eyes and whe I looked, they were gone. it was a creepy place to be.
Comment by Todd | 11.15.2006 | 10:34 am
I live 50 miles from the mansion, the only thing creepy is the way the artist made the portraits eyes seem to follow you.There is no way somone had a shower in the mansion, or sex. It is a guided tour. Magnificent woodwork,antiques,flowers on the edge of lake superior.
Comment by rob | 11.18.2006 | 6:32 pm
To set the record straight–the third floor and attic were off limits for years strictly due to fire code/regulations. There is only one stairway to the third floor so that in an emergency, it might be difficult to exit. Therefore, we only allow ten people on a tour there. In the lower floors, there are three stairways so that more people can be on those floors.
People ask me all the time if the place is haunted. I say, “Not while *I* am there!” It is a delightful, gorgeous mansion with a fascinating history. People come from all over the world just to look at the art, tile, and the style of the mansion.
Comment by vicki | 11.22.2006 | 1:10 am
I moved to Duluth Minnesota in 1977, the summer of the murders, and toured the mansion 4 times in the 15 years I lived there.
The tour guides have you enter the house through the basement area where the laundry room is so the woman that was so taken by how empty the house felt the moment she stepped through the front door is full of baloney!
Makes a nice post though, I guess.
Comment by Marie | 11.22.2006 | 2:55 pm
I live in Duluth, MN and I have for years. I have never been to the Glensheen Mansion. Though I am a firm believer of ANYTHING supernatural, I am disappointed to say that I have never heard of anything creepy about the place. I have many friends and coworkers that have toured the estate, but never mentioned any scary or ghost-related experience. I still look forward to going sometime, but fear I will be let down if and when I do not experience anything life-changing. For those of you who truly have experienced some type of haunting, you are very lucky; but to those of you who have but have your nose too high in the air, ..take another look!
Comment by Sarah | 11.25.2006 | 4:53 pm
glensheen is not haunted. yer story is nowhere near correct. and the tour guide talks about the murders during every tour. he even makes jokes about it. i love supernatural stories, but yers is poorly retold and has no truth to it. also, most believe now that it wasn’t the girl’s husband that did it, it was the girl herself. her husband died not too long after she was released from prison. so…as for the haunting…no.
Comment by heehrherhr | 11.30.2006 | 3:45 pm
I don’t see how people think you make all this up. I mean my class is doing a research project on anything we want except sports so yeah. I picked this and I read so many FACTS about it so how could you make this all up…. EXACTLY you couldn’t and plus the website http://www.realhaunts.com and all the other websites I have been to with the total opposite researcher would not have the same thing or add on to EXACTLY the same thing so yeah!!!
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Tessa Fuhrer | 12.6.2006 | 8:15 pm
Its true about the teacher!!
Comment by ? | 12.7.2006 | 1:01 pm
I am very sorry that all of these people are using this as a chat room. I am sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by relly sorry | 12.9.2006 | 11:39 am
Someone said: “The tour guides have you enter the house through the basement area where the laundry room is so the woman that was so taken by how empty the house felt the moment she stepped through the front door is full of baloney!”
All tours enter through the front door. Perhaps they used to enter from the laundry room, but not now.
Comment by vicki | 12.10.2006 | 1:25 am
I have to say hauntings are very real sometimes you can experiance them and at times you cant spirits arent
there to prove you wrong things usually only happen to those who have belief even the smallest,and to those that dont and judge them you will be shown the truth when you least expect it,I did.
Comment by Bri | 12.12.2006 | 4:00 am
The first time I toured the mansion with my family we did enter through the basement/ground floor, this was in 1989 or around then. The second time, in 2003, we did enter through the front door. I did not know about the murder the first time we toured - I was only 11 years old. The second time I was aware of the murders, but did not feel anything weird either time. It was cold in spots, but I grew up in a home that was over 100 years old, so I kind of expected that! No shadows, ghosts or anything. I find it strange people remark that there are ropes around Elizabeth’s room. There are ropes in pretty much all the bedrooms to protect them. The tour guides did not bring up the murders, and my husband and I did not ask. I really did not care about them. I went to tour the mansion.
Comment by alicia | 12.31.2006 | 10:31 pm
I have been there plenty of times, and I have known the whole story since i was young. My mom grew up in Duluth and lived down the street from Glensheen and remembers the whole thing. The house is huge and beautiful, and there is definately a feeling of sadness over the house. Who knows if it is “haunted” or if there are spirits that still preside in the house…although nothing has happened to me…Its not my place to tell these other visitors that what they remember is false. I think we are ignorant not to believe that spirits are around us… Anyway I think that everyone who keeps saying that the people on here that have had experience with “hauntings” are liars should shut their mouths and let the people talk. Your stories are interesting and i have had experiences with ghosts/spirits in other places….So keep telling your stories.. THANK YOU!!!
Comment by Heather | 01.4.2007 | 3:19 pm
One more thing…the movie “Youll Like My Mother” is extremely hard to find. Its only on VHS and I just bought one from EBAY actually and I paid 42$…thats actually good..you can find it for between 40$ and 100$…
Comment by Heather | 01.4.2007 | 3:32 pm
I toured Glensheen last summer with my two daughters, who were born and raised in the Netherlands and germant, I wanted to show them the picture of the girl with the cat, it hangs across from the blue room, down thw hall where Ms.Congdon had been murderd.Does anyone know who the girl in that picture is?The girl could seriously be my identical twin, it’s rather strange.I saw the portait when I first toured the manner in sixth grade, I thought it was a mirror, and tried to fix my hair, it took me a while to figure out it wasn’t me.I would like to thank the Congdons for their generosity in allowing us all this wonderful experience.I would also ask you all to dignify their generosity by being curtious of the mansion, the last time we had gone someone had stolen an emblem off of a chair in Edwards’ room, we saw the emblem in a photo that had been taken of the room previously.Please people, if you steal, they won’t entrust any of us with their gifts.I was also wodering if any one knows if the congdons have ever publshed any books on their castle in washington? It is the same family is’nt it ?
Comment by Lisa | 01.13.2007 | 12:56 pm
I have been a volunteer at Glensheen for close to 5 years. I have also slept over there twice and nothing has ever happened to me.
Comment by Michelle | 01.15.2007 | 3:40 pm
I have volunteered at Glensheen for 5 years, slept over there twice and nothing scary has ever happened.
Comment by michelle | 01.15.2007 | 3:43 pm
Good info.
were doing a report got any more?
Comment by Lauren | 01.18.2007 | 11:52 am
Joshua Wozniak, do not call Scarlet Ohara a ***** with a captital B. You’re a dumb *** whos just incredibly jealous that shes has way better spelling skills than your fat head self has. I mean did you see the comment you left calling her a *****? It had at least 7 miss spellings… How thick (dumb) can you get?
The only story I believe here is the one with the young 4 year old girl suddebly beinging to cry and saying she was scared, unknowing about the murders ever accuring.
Though heres my story…
We were up the in Attec when I walked passed a dresser that suddenly moved.
I screamed and backed away. I stared at it for a second then tried to walk pass it again to catch up with my group when it moved again. Sooner or later I realized there was a lose board in the floor that was making it move when I walked on it.
As for Vannesa, WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION. If you want to talk like that go to your own sex site and there, you can tell everyone you want to get fucked. God, you *****.
Comment by Miss United States | 01.20.2007 | 9:11 pm
wow this website almost made my day!
its incredibly funny!
hahahaha!
you all are fat heads!
accept for Miss US! :]
Comment by Sarah | 01.20.2007 | 9:16 pm
I actually work at Glensheen, and after being there multiple times a week, sometimes until 1 or so in the morning, for a half a year now, NEVER have I had a “ghostly” experience. I’ve heard a few stories from my co workers but I’ve never heard of any of the supposed ghostly stories that people are telling on here. some of the people I work with have worked at the museum for up to 15 years, and have never had anything weird happen to them. personally I think that visitors who come and except an experience only think they feel a cold spot or see something only because they are looking for one. just thought i’d tell you.
Comment by employee | 01.23.2007 | 12:52 am
and to answer lisa’s question, the daughter in the picture is the artist, emile renard’s, daughter. I don’t honestly see how she could have thought that was a mirror since it obviously is a painting, and she’s holding at cat…. yes, the home in washington was the congdon’s 2nd home. it is called west home, and was nicknamed “congdon castle” by people living in the town
Comment by employee | 01.23.2007 | 12:55 am
Could people please submit comments based on fact?! I have visited the mansion many times over the years and I too have never felt anything strange or out of the ordinary in the house. Just because two people were killed there does not make it haunted. Try really looking at the house and marvel at the detailed construction of it. The beauty of the artwork, the furniture, the woodwork, etc. Sensationalizing the deaths of two people is not only grotesque, it’s disrespectful. Let’s grow up people and try using the brains god gave you!
Comment by Holly | 01.26.2007 | 12:54 pm
i have never been to the glensheen mansion but i intend to go there very soon and i have been reading a lot about the glensheen mansion and a alot about the murders. i am very interested in this and recently got a book that had many different reasons and proof of the house being haunted!
Comment by darian | 01.28.2007 | 6:47 pm
wow u people need to chill out it is either haunted or not wateva it is dont fight
i feel bad wat happen to elizabeth and velma but people just chill
Comment by megan ann | 02.2.2007 | 5:57 pm
i think the person below me should stop commenting and she needs to chill. let people put there own opinions down wether they think the huse is haunted or not!!no offense
Comment by darian | 02.2.2007 | 9:33 pm
i think the person above me should stop commenting and she needs to chill. let people put there own opinions down wether they think the huse is haunted or not!!no offense
Comment by darian | 02.2.2007 | 9:34 pm
It is a very beautiful building and live very close to it.
Comment by Maya | 02.4.2007 | 2:26 pm
The Glensheen Mansion is a very beautiful place.
Comment by Maya | 02.4.2007 | 2:27 pm
I took at tour at the Glensheen Mansion about 10 years ago and did not experience anything paranormal that I recall. However, this is NOT to say that it is not haunted. I think it is disrespectful of those who have had NO experiences there to say that those have had are nutz and off their rockers. NOT SO! Who are we to discount their experiences, some may not believe, but allow others the same right to believe and to express their opinions!
Comment by Steph | 02.12.2007 | 8:28 pm
We took a tour of the mansion about 3 years ago. Our guite was an older woman,mid sixty. She took us to th attic and when we were away from the other groups, told us that she had indeed had some experiences herself in the house. In the attic and in the basement areas!
Comment by Lindy | 03.5.2007 | 6:23 pm
how much is that doggy in the window ruff ruff i wonder if that dog is for sale… ruff ruff
Comment by poo face | 03.10.2007 | 2:47 pm
So this one time we were visiting this fucked up mansion called Glensheen and i had to ****. so i ran quickly to the port a ******* and my body became engulfed with **** as it flew out my behind. all of a sudden this lady came up and she was like what the **** is that smell. and then i realized she was a ghost so she couldnt die from the smell. so we smoked a cigar and had a few shots of wild turkey. and we made love and i left. best experience of my life.
Comment by D. Fole | 03.13.2007 | 1:50 pm
I have been to Glensheen only once when I was around 6 or 7 I don’t really remember a whole lot about the mansion. I plan on going back in May, I have read both “Will To Murder” and “Glensheen’s Daughter-The Marjorie Congdon Story”. Both of the books are for sure worth reading, they give a lot of information on the family and also all the facts about the murders. I don’t exactly appreciate what a lot of people have said in their posts, why wouldn’t you make sure you knew the real facts. It’s very disrespectful to the family that are still living and also the one’s who have past. Anyway, I am very excited to visit Glensheen again and I suggest anyone with interest in the mansion to get the books, they are an excellent read.
Comment by Katelynn | 03.14.2007 | 3:12 pm
this place isnt haunted. i have been there 4 times and live only a couple of miled from it. i have been on all of there tours & plan to go there again this year. no offence, but there are surely explanaions to these expeirences. i have went there with my friends & they never got “haunted”. and i know alot of people who go there & work there and for them there was no expiences. so, yah. im 13 so critisize me if you want.
Comment by tim | 03.18.2007 | 10:46 pm
1 more thing, did you people relize this is run by the dumb network. i think. thats wat my screen says. mabe im wrong. so ya, critize me if you please to
Comment by tim | 03.18.2007 | 10:47 pm
and this info people are giving is false.
Comment by tim | 03.18.2007 | 10:52 pm
I have never been to this house,but have met Maggie as she goes by now.She was just arrested in Arizona where she now lives.
Comment by kelly alvarez | 03.24.2007 | 12:11 pm
I visited Glensheen just yesterday (March 25, 2007) during a weekend stay in Duluth. The weather was cold and damp with a thick, heavy fog - which added to the mysteriousness of the visit. I’ve toured the grounds before, but had never been inside the mansion. The house is beautiful, but the atmosphere is sad and empty.
I took the standard tour (which includes everything but the 3rd floor). The tour guide never mentioned the murders, but I was well aware of the tragedy. It’s a facinating story that seems to never end (you’ll see why below).
Here are the details: Elisabeth Congdon was murdered during the early morning of June 27, 1977; she was 83 and partly paralyzed. Also killed was nurse Velma Pietila, who had tried to defend her helpless charge. Officials charged that Marjorie Hagen (the adopted daughter of Elisabeth Congdon) and her then-husband, Roger Caldwell, planned the murders to speed up their inheritance. Elisabeth Congdon was the last surviving child of Duluth mining magnate Chester Congdon. Elisabeth never married, but she raised two adopted daughters in the 39-room Glensheen mansion on the shores of Lake Superior.
Roger Caldwell was convicted of the crimes. Hagen was charged but acquitted. She then married Wally Hagen, apparently without divorcing Caldwell. Bigamy charges were filed in North Dakota, but she was never tried.
In 1984 she was convicted of arson for burning down a house in Mound. After her release from a Minnesota prison, she and Hagen moved to Arizona.
In 1991, suspicious fires broke out in her neighborhood in Ajo, Ariz., and she was convicted again of arson.
On the day she was to be sent to prison for the Arizona arson, Wally Hagen mysteriously died in their home. Marjorie Hagen was charged with murder, but the charges were dropped because there was evidence that the couple may have comtemplated an abortive double suicide.
Ironically (and unbenownst to me during my tour), Marjorie was arrested on Friday (3/23/07) in Tucson, Ariz., on suspicion of theft, forgery, fraud and computer tampering. She has been living in Tucson since her release from an Arizona prison in 2004 after serving an 11-year term for arson.
During my tour of Glensheen, we stood on the landing of the staircase where the night nurse (Velma) was bludgeoned to death by Roger Caldwell with a brass candlestick. We also saw Elisabeth’s bedroom (where she lived as an adult — it’s the first room to the right of the staircase), where Roger smothered her with a pink satin pillow. No trace of the murders exist, and it was hard to imagine that it actually happened.
We also went into the billard room, where Caldwell said he entered the home through a window. The room smelled musty, just as he had described to investigators.
I didn’t experience anything paranormal until we were in the kitchen, when a closed door that leads to the basement opened on its own. We had been standing in the kitchen for a few minutes before the door mysteriously opened. The tour guide quickly shut the door and blew off the incident saying something like, “That door must not have been completely shut.”
Regardless of whether or not you believe in hauntings, the incident I experienced yesterday was odd to say the least. And the fact that it was so foggy outside added to the creepiness of the tour. And how ironic that Marjorie is now in trouble with the law again.
Despite all of this, I try to imagine Glensheen back in its hey day before the tragedy struck, when the halls were full of life and laughter. If only those walls could talk.
Comment by Sara | 03.26.2007 | 5:18 pm
I think all these postings are really interesting. I was a tour guide at Glensheen about a year ago and worked there for a couple years. I have been in the house hundreds of times, in the dark, during thunderstorms, and with only one other person there. It is a creepy house, but just because it is dark and old not because it is haunted. Some people have stories to tell. But anytime someone hears about a murder, stories will start.
Comment by ex-employee | 03.27.2007 | 1:26 am
Check out the movie “you’ll like my mother” . This was filmed at Glennsheen a couple of years before the murders. It’s a creepy movie about a woman (Patty Duke) who shows up at the Mansion to meet her deceased
husbands mother and let her know she is pregnant with the sole heir to the mansions fortune. Every thing goes downhill for Ms. Duke from there. It is quit Eerie a film considering what happened just a couple years after it’s filming. It is also amazing how they make the mansion appear to be so far from civilization.
Comment by cheryl | 03.27.2007 | 3:19 pm
i loved this place it was very cool and when you go in when you are going up the stairs to the second level it feels like you are going to fall down the stairs but you will not and the glass that is right on the stair in the window and it will turn colors and it is very cool so i would like veryone to go to the place.
Comment by kaitlyn | 06.13.2007 | 11:00 pm
I thought the nurse and old lady were killed by the daughter, not a lover?
Comment by rachel | 06.14.2007 | 10:02 am
Okay this story isnt right trust me and you cant go on the 3rd floor b/c to many weird things happen up there….a butler or tour guide i think it was was thrown from the top of the stairs early one morning a couple years ago and like if you go up there weird happenings just get to you! so its gated off and no one that works there even goes up there….the place is cary always has fog around it….it seems always in winter you get chills going up your spine as you pass by in the car….atleast thats wut everyone on our class trip thought as we passed by the house theres more then meets the eye
Comment by Grand_forks | 06.23.2007 | 4:47 pm
‘you cant go on the 3rd floor b/c to many weird things happen up there….’
WRONG! I’m a docent there and take people on the “expanded” tour all the time. We go to the third floor and attic. Only ten people can be on those floors at one time due to lack of fire escapes. If and when we get more escapes, we’ll have even more tours on those floors.
I discuss the murders briefly, and will go into detail after my tour (on an informal basis). I don’t like to say much if there are children on my tour.
See you at the mansion–it’s fantastic!
Comment by vgs | 06.26.2007 | 1:28 am
“I thought the nurse and old lady were killed by the daughter, not a lover?”
They were killed by the daughter’s son-in-law. There is much more to this story. If anyone is interested, get to your library and check out “Will to Murder.” It is fantastic and unbelievable–except that it’s all true.
Comment by vgs | 06.30.2007 | 10:32 pm
I do believe that Glensheen is haunted.I took a tour in the summer of 2007 with my mom and step dad and tour guide said that we couldnt go up to the 3rd floor because it wasnt safe. and in the basement there were a lot of cold spots.also when we were going up and down the stairs in the house, i was the last one going up, and i did hear footsteps behind me but there was no one there.
Comment by steph | 07.1.2007 | 3:02 pm
once i went to this mansion called the glensheen mansion and i had to go to the bathroom and i walked in there was this woman in a white dress and she said my name i was so freaked out by it that i peed in my pants.the tour guide thought i was a freak.
Comment by casey | 07.1.2007 | 9:15 pm
Dude’s this sounds like a load of ********.
Being in a haunted house is nothing like you people describe it.
My best friend who is 30 years old has actually been in a real haunted house.
When he was about my age of 19, his friend knwe a man who owned this old house. He was a strongly religious person. Anyway my mate and his buddy Thought that this was a load of ******** and they went to check it out. My friend said he walked through the house, in a very skeptical manner experienced nothing weird until his friend phoned him on the moblie and told him to check on the bathroom. My friend insisted on how skeptical he is of these things. After he recieved the call he thought it was **** and charged in to the bathroom like he was going to knock some ******* out. He said he got about one step into their and he could not go futher, as if something really didnt want him there. He described it like walking into a heavy curtain and no matter how hard he tried he could not walk fully into the room. He phoned his buddy afterwards and said “lets get out of this ****** house, this place is fucked up!”. He got on his bike with his mate and rode like nutters.
Comment by Reece | 07.3.2007 | 3:16 am
I visited the Glensheen home on 07/09/07
and found it to be very interesting and beautiful
alot of history was learned on it’s construction
I personally brought up the murder to our guide
in the room were elizabeth was killed in her bed
(smuthered with a pillow) and my guide was very
open about it and explained the the story about
the double homocide with no problems.
I felt no cold feelings in the home at all, the
stairways weren’t cold, the all white tile masterbath was a little freaky,third floor is open for viewing
it had to be repaired due to water damage from roof
I highly recommend it!
Comment by WIL | 07.10.2007 | 1:58 pm
My boyfriend and I visited the mansion on 7/8/07 and loved it. Yes,I have been very interested about the murders since I can remember. I grew up going on family vacations to Two Harbors,MN since I was weeks old.We would pass the mansion on London Road even before the murders took place. Ive felt a sadness when I have visited the estate (only twice). However, it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen in my life. I would highly recommend to anyone.I think their souls have moved on. BUT I GUESS THATS UP TO YOU!
Comment by Monique | 07.13.2007 | 1:56 am
I was at the glensheen mansion last tuesday, and it was the scariest place i have ever been to in my entire life. there were dolls in the girls room that were following me with their eyes and i left that room kinda creeped out because i didn’t know that the place was haunted at the time. But when i turned the corner a lady that looked like a maid or a housekeeper looked at me and just stared, she had the look of being scared in her eyes, but i don’t know what reason she would have to be afraid of me, i was absolutely terrifed. i went downstairs to tell my parents and they didn’t beleive me because i pull a lot of practical jokes. I then went to my sister to see if she would beleive me and she actually did. she wanted to leave the place right away after i told her my story. We left soon after that, but it was still the most terrifying experience i have ever had.
Comment by Brad | 07.13.2007 | 7:19 pm
You should really stop saying a bunch of **** that place isnt hunted and there deffinitly isnt cold spots all over the place, maybe there is because its an old house. And Brad ur story was so made up dolls follow your eyes everywhere, or your just cyco. But i went there and all there was to see was just a regular mansion. I thought it was so cool!!!
And i have a thought why dont you guys actully read the book behind the murders insted of hearing rumors about that place. Because its all a load of