Globe Writer Pays $337 for Night in Lizzie Borden Murder Room

Boston Globe writer Victoria Wasylak paid $337 to spend a night in the John V. Morse suite at the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, the room where Abby Borden was found killed in August 1892, and described the stay in a first-person account published on October 15, 2026.

The Victorian home operates as a museum during the day and a bed and breakfast overnight, run by US Ghost Adventures since 2021, according to the Globe. The company also sells evening ghost-hunting sessions at the property. Seances are barred under the business's posted policies.

The suite is furnished with reproductions of the Borden family's furniture and displays crime scene photographs of Abby Borden, including one framed beside the bed. A mannequin representing her lies on the floor where she died; Wasylak asked staff to remove it, and employees offered either to take it out or to prop it in a chair. A dish on the dresser collects coins described as rent for Andrew Borden, who was killed in a downstairs sitting room the same day.

Wasylak wrote that she slept little, checked out before the 10 a.m. deadline after a $20 breakfast, and concluded that a murder house cannot be separated from its history. Lizzie Borden was acquitted in the killings, and the case is the subject of a television series produced by Ryan Murphy.

This story was first reported by The Boston Globe.