Glensheen

The Glensheen Mansion is an estate in Duluth, Minnesota is still haunted by a tragic history of murders and fraud. Fans of the paranormal say it is Minnesota’s most haunted house.

Glensheen Mansion was owned by a rich woman named Elizabeth Congdon, who inherited her fortune from her father. Although she never married, Elizabeth adopted a little girl and named her Marjorie.

Marjorie was always the black sheep of the family, as she constantly borrowed money from her mother and treated her very poorly. Marjorie spent time in mental institutions and married a number of men. No matter how much money Elizabeth gave her daughter, it was never enough.

One morning in 1977, Elisabeth Congdon was found murdered in bed. Her nurse, Velma Pietila, had also been killed on the staircase and a basket of jewelry was missing from the bedroom. Marjorie was found wearing her mother’s ring after the murder and she was arrested by the police.

Unfortunately, police were never able to solve the murder and had to let Marjorie go. Locals in Duluth, Minnesota believed that the greedy and ungrateful Marjorie had formed a plan to murder her own mother to get her inheritance.

Ever since, there have been sightings of Elizabeth Congdon’s ghost in Glensheen Mansion. It is said that an eerie black, shadowy figure has been seen walking about the basement. Lights turn on and off by themselves and pieces of jewelry have been seen rolling back and forth across the dresser in the room where Elizabeth Congdon died.

Tourists taking pictures of outside of the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, Minnesota, found something strange in one of the photos. Looking out of the window on the upper right of the photo, there appeared to be the figure of an elderly lady. This was the bedroom in which Elizabeth Congdon was murdered.

One employee who was on a ladder, felt a tugging at his ankles. The man turned around quickly only to find that no one was there. Many visitors climbing the grand staircase have reported feeling light headed. Remember this is the spot where the nurse, Velma was murdered.