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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its true about the teacher!!

I am very sorry that all of these people are using this as a chat room. I am sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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$…

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 ?

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.