Listen to Sèphera on the Radio on August 4

Sèphera Girón and Andrew Borden

On Tuesday August 4, 2015, Sèphera will be on the Horror Happens Radio Show hosted by Jay Kay.

She will be on at 7:35 pm est.

August 4 is the day that Lizzie Borden took an ax...

Tune in and check out the show!

Live from the Lizzie Borden House July 2014

In July 2013, The Supernatural Radio Show on Blogtalk Radio and hosted by Corrine De Winter, came to the Lizzie Borden House.

The show was broadcast live as Sèphera Girón and Lisa Mannetti read tarot cards for the spirits and callers who came through.

Other guests on the show included Heather Graham, Gardner Goldsmith, Dennis Cummins, Lee-Ann Wilber, and more.

On July 20, 2014, The Supernatural Radio will return to the Lizzie Borden House. Sèphera and Lisa will once again attempt to communicate with the spirits of Lizzie, Andrew, Michael, Abby, and whoever else wants to come through the portal.

Listen to last year's show. Stay tuned for this year's show information!


If you want to visit the Lizzie Borden house on July 20 with a group of horror writers and psychics and watch the live broadcast of the radio show, please check out this link: Lizzie Borden Ghost Hunt July 20 2014


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Lizzie Borden House Overnight July 20 2014

Is staying overnight at the Lizzie Borden House with mediums and horror writers on your bucket list?

Have you always wanted to wander around a house where gruesome unsolved murders took place over a century ago on August 4, 1892? You know, the very same one you've seen on all the ghost hunting shows?

Have you always wanted to recreate the final morning of the murders by eating nearly the same breakfast as consumed by the Borden household and then take a trip to the nearby Oak Grove graveyard where the family is buried together?

Now's your chance!

On Sunday July 20, 2014, there are a limited amount of spots available to join several horror authors, tarot readers, and paranormal investigators on an overnight at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast.

Members from Camp Necon are cordially invited to join us if you haven't previously signed up with Sephera Giron or Lisa Mannetti.

Anyone else curious about the house and who want to have a group experience with like-minded people and seasoned Lizzie experts are welcome.

We ask that participants are over 21 as this is an all night experience for most of the guests which is why we rent the whole house.

NEWS FLASH: For the second year in a row, Mediums Lisa Mannetti and Sèphera Girón will be broadcasting live from the Lizzie Borden House on the Supernatural Radio Show on Blogtalk Radio with host Corrine De Winter. 





WHERE: Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast
                Fall River, Massachusetts


COST: The more people who attend, the less it will cost. Budget for $150 including paying the tour guide and maids. Some years it's been as cheap as $85.

WHEN: Sunday July 20, 2014

Plan to arrive to the house by five if you wish to join the gang from Necon and elsewhere for a group dinner at one of the local restaurants.

Plan to be settled in by six thirty in order to be ready for the tour at seven which will last one and half to two hours.

WHAT HAPPENS:

5:00 p.m. There is a group dinner for people coming from the convention and anyone else who wants to join them. You are responsible for your own bill and a 20% minimum tip.

7:00 p.m. The tour guide will tell the story of the murders, the trials, and family history as you move through the house room by room.

9:00 Supernatural Radio Show on Blogtalk Radio with host Corrine De Winter will be broadcast live from one of the rooms of the house. It is asked that you are very quiet if you are in the house during the broadcast as Lisa and Sèphera will be channelling and reading for a live audience. Other horror authors will also be speaking about their experiences at the Lizzie Borden house on the show.

11:00 Free time

You have the run of the house with the exception of the basement and barn.

You may take pictures, take evps, conduct experiments with cameras, flashlights, lasers, whatever equipment you desire.

Sephera and Lisa will lead a group seance and read tarot with the spirits.

Sephera and Lisa will read tarot for people. Donations accepted.

It is not mandatory to participate in any activities however since people come from as far away as Canada to participate in this experience, please don't make any unnecessary noise in the house.

Some people (like Sephera) have never actually slept more than two hours because it's too scary to go to bed. Ironically people congregate in the room where Andrew was murdered if they aren't outside having heart attacks and googling nearby hotels. Some people hit the hay by eleven and sleep just fine until breakfast. It's up to you.

RULES

If you want to mock the tarot readers and ghost hunters, please do not come.

If you are a drunken mess, please don't come.

Please be respectful of people in a seance as it will be recorded even if you don't want to participate.

There is no alcohol allowed inside of the Lizzie Borden House.

There is no food allowed inside of the Lizzie Borden House.

There is no smoking inside of the Lizzie Borden House.

Coffee and tea are provided and must be consumed in the kitchen or outside.

The weather is usually fantastic and people smoke and snack by their cars.

Please don't use tape, tacks, nails, or any other adhesives.

Do not touch or alter the house in any manner.

Do not use the kitchen.

Bring in your own cups for water and coffee in the kitchen.

No real candles or incense.

Lisa and selected guests have Lizzie's room.

Sèphera and selected guests have Andrew Borden's room.

Rooms are given first come first serve. Several will share a room, two in a bed and cots depending on the number of people.

You must pre-register in advance through Lisa or Sèphera.

All questions welcome.

Do not book through the house as this is a special conference event.

For more information on how to attend please email asap so we can give a head count to the staff:

Sèphera Girón sephgiron @ rogers.com


Lisa Mannetti lisa.mannetti @ verizon.net



Here are links to last year's adventures at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast


Live From Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast

Notes from the Lizzie Borden House Part One

Notes from the Lizzie Borden House: Part Two

Notes from the Lizzie Borden House: Part Three

The Chancery House 

Lizzie Borden on Lifetime

This photograph was taken of a portrait in the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast.

On Saturday, January 25, 2014, the Lifetime Channel aired their brand-spanking-new version of the Lizzie Borden story.

I didn't have great expectations for it before I even saw it because I thought the role of Lizzie was miscast. I love Christina Ricci, don't get me wrong. But Christina Ricci does NOT look like Lizzie Borden on her worst day. She STILL looks like a beautiful waif. However, she does have the creepy-eyed stare and pathological lying down pat.

Christina Ricci as Lizzie Borden in the Lifetime Movie

Christina Ricci as Lizzie Borden in the Lifetime Movie. She might be hiding a cookie in her pocket but I don't believe she's hiding her psychopathic actions.

Do you believe for one minute that she's swinging an ax in fury at her mean old step-mom and dear old lecherous dad? Maybe this is when she finds dad's body. I think she's singing an opera myself...

Okay. Let's take one last look at the lady of the hour and move on then, shall we?

We understand that Hollywood always casts gorgeous thin people for monstrous villains. How many times have they remade Carrie now and they still can't quite figure out that she's a chunky, pimply, dark-haired dork?

Kathy Bates, a few years ago, would have made the perfect Lizzie Borden. Too bad no one jumped on that one, or if they did, too bad it didn't happen.

Okay, enough about casting choices.

I do want to give props to Lifetime for at least alluding to the incestuous relationship Lizzie had with her father, Andrew and for the suggested liaison nod with real-life girlfriend, Nanc.

When I heard they didn't film at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, I was suprised, as every other show on earth has filmed there. I also knew then that they had plans for what their imagination wanted the Borden home to look like.

As I expected, they used a large mansion where it would be easy to imagine people sneaking around and chopping up their victims undetected.

However, what makes the real-life story so very chilling is the actual size of the real Borden home where the murders took place.

Once you've been to the house and have seen the layout, you can understand on one hand how the murderer could have "hid" for two hours (if you believe it wasn't Lizzie) and yet on the other, wonder how no one in the house could have heard chopping, screams, and thumping, puffing, blood spatter, and so on.

You can see under the bed where Abby was murdered as you walk up the stairs in the real home. The theory being, anyone could have seen her dead body if they had walked up the stairs and looked over.

The home is small and various doors lock different sections off.

There are theories that Lizzie committed the murders in the nude which is how there were no bloody clothes. They tried to suggest this in the movie but the continuity was so awful. Yes, I understand they want you to think that she murdered the step-mom while wearing a white nightie and then murdered dad while naked, hammering home the incest thing. However, where did the blood-soaked nightgown go? One throwaway flashback showed her stuffing it behind a couch or table or something but it's never mentioned again. They also show her in the movie removing clothes but keeping her long curly waist-lengthed hair swinging and not getting full of blood or in the way of the ax.

The movie shows her burning the blue dress in the backyard. I was told on the tours that she burned it in the stove in the kitchen.

The movie doesn't show all the other suspects and other people who lived in the house during the time of the murders.

No one sweats in the movie. My GOD, I've been there in July five times now, overnight, and murders happened on August 4th. The last four  times I stayed there was air-conditioning but in old small houses like that, it doesn't matter. That house is HOT. Summer in New England is one long damp hot steamy bug ridden dreary experience. No one sweated. No one had pit stains or patted their heads or swatted at bugs. I went to the church once before it became a cooking school. It was HOT. VERY HOT. Like the pits of hell.

No one in the movie was fanning themselves, or wiping their foreheads, or ripping off their clothes.
At the beginning of the movie, there's a scene of Lizzie in her bedroom looking in the mirror. She lowers her dress to show her naked back. I thought maybe we'd see whip marks from dad beating her or something. All we saw were Christina's scary skeletor ribs. Yet, in the hack-em-up naked ax-swinging scenes, the body double didn't have a bony back. Real-life Lizzie herself looked mighty well-fed. Lizzie's back likely looked like mine; a bit of fleshy rolls, a bit of spine, and a bit of muscle tone. And she would have kept her hair up in a bun from the oppressive heat and to avoid the blood and bits of goo.

Dad was a very stingy man. We sort of got the sense of it in the movie but not really. In real life, the Bordens could have afforded indoor bathrooms, good food, a house as big as the one in the movie, and more, but Andrew was frugal and nasty. They could have shown him making his rounds, collecting his money and all the side jobs he and his daughters performed such as funerals, and lady laundry.

Since they didn't film in the real murder house, they could have covered all of his stinginess without fear of retribution. If you're in the bed and breakfast, you don't want to speak ill of Andrew. Just trust me on that one.

The father had all kinds of rules and weirdness that could have been really explored. His bathroom weirdness, the pear obsessions, hatred of the birds, the cats, the lack of modern conveniences that other wealthy people were getting, the key, the late night visits, and more.


In the movie, there were a couple of quick flashes of a soldier-type dude lurking in the wind-blown laundry. In one quickie glimpse, Lizzie kisses him. Who is he? We never learn. And since even Lifetime alluded to Lizzie's affair with Nanc, why is Lizzie kissing a man? For what gain?


As for the trial, I've not studied it. I've gone to the house five times and done the tour and gone to the graveyard, Maplecroft, the church but I've not read the trial transcripts. So I have no idea what is true or not in the movie. I don't know if the high school ring idea is true. I only know that Lizzie was found innocent, mostly because she was a woman. At least it was one time sexism worked in a woman's favour.

The movie could have done without such a long long trial. We all know the outcome so we didn't need all that ridiculous back and forth courtroom stuff and the flashbacks that made less sense every time they happened.

It would have been far more interesting to see more of her life before the murders, and how her life changed after the murders for longer than seven minutes. Again, they also missed another interesting opportunity about how Lizzie died from pnuemonia after a gall bladder operation and her sister died nine days later of chronic nephritis in a nursing home. It's always weird when related people die close together, don't you think?

They also didn't discuss the insanity in the family, how the cousin who lived next door had drowned her children in the well when she had post-partum depression.

Oh, well. Can't have everything.

So, my thoughts on the Lifetime movie are that they missed a lot of great opportunites and wasted a lot of time with silly flashbacks.


I've written several blogs about my experiences at the Lizzie Borden house.


http://tarotpaths.blogspot.ca/2013/07/notes-from-lizzie-borden-house-part-one.html


Live from the Lizzie Borden House Part Two


Live from Lizzie Borden House Part Three


http://tarotpaths.blogspot.ca/2012/06/lizzie-borden-bed-and-breakfast-fall.html