The Lizzie Borden House: Haunted Buildings

Tommy Fitzpatrick
Mrs. St. John ELA
3-27-14

Haunted Buildings
Have you ever had that one bone chilling moments when you feel like someone is there, but no one is? Or when you are home alone and you are positive you heard someone or something. When you turn around when you hear something and all it is a long dark hallway. In this paper you will read about some of the scariest places in America. Imagine walking alone in one of those buildings and hearing a noise or seeing someone or something, but you know you are all alone. Or are you? Norwich state hospital, the Lizzie Borden house, the Stanley hotel, the White House, and the oak alley plantation are some of the buildings where rapes, beatings, death, starving’s, ax murders, and slaves were.
The Lizzie Borden house is one of the most historic haunted houses in America. The Borden family owned the house. The Borden family was not always rich and famous. The father, Andrew Borden, worked for his money. They lived in a town filled with business and they did not live in a big fancy house like all of the other business owners. The lived in a small average house. The lived in the same neighborhood as the middle class workers. Lizzie did not like that. She wanted to live a rich and fancy life. Her father, Andrew, sent her to England with her aunt to live there and try living the rich life. She hated it.
As a small child, about two years old, Lizzie's mother died. Her father, Andrew, married again. Lizzie did not like her stepmother even though she did not really remember her real mother at all. She never really accepted her stepmother as the person who raised her. And then one afternoon they were robber sunk in the house a...

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...ng up the pebble road so they went outside to see who or what was coming to the plantation. When they went outside no one or thing was there one of the office workers there at the plantation said that they heard something so they went to see what it was and they saw a group of rocking chairs rocking all at the same time. Another one of the workers there said that she saw multiple things move across the desk tops. One of the couple tour guides there was giving a tour when suddenly a candle stick flew across the room. Another one of the staff workers there reported hearing someone crying inside of the mansion. A staff worker Mitchell borne was working alone one night inside of the mansion when he felt someone touching his arm. One of the tour guides was walking around when they did not have a tour and saw a figure sitting upright in one of the beds. ("Ghosts tales”).