Many tourists find October the ideal time to visit sites such as the Lizzie Borden House where a double murder happened in 1892 or a dark basement in Portland, Ore., where a resident ghost supposedly haunts
Visitors climb a spiral staircase on Oct. 16, while touring the Lizzie Borden House, site of an 1892 double axe murder, in Fall River, Mass.“Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.”
And there are plenty of savvy business owners who know how to capitalize on the fear, mystery and wonder that has surrounded death since the dawn of humankind. On the other side of the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, tourists walk down steep steps into a cavernous basement in Old Town Chinatown. Once the site of a hotel, these days it’s home to a pizzeria and brewery. The tourists are promised a lesson in Portland’s dark history and to hear tales about Nina, who supposedly is the resident underground ghost.
One local history buff, Joe Streckert, said nobody’s found any artifacts to support the theory. Rather more mundanely, he said, some of the interconnected basements were used for storing merchandise.
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