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.

Dont tell me this i live in minnesota!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

this is really scary

this story sounds very interesting sad and scary

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.

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.

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!

omg so scary rolling candy..i bet she ate it too.

excuse u..who in the hell is Velma..is she ur pet?

lol duluth..is pretty boring ive been there like 4 times in a lifetime and it has alot of factories..hmm

I have several stories that I can tell

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.

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!

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

i think it would be nice to know what really happened at the mansion!!