They'll ax you if you wish the spend the night

With weddings getting back to "normal" again, here's a swell idea for an interesting honeymoon spot. Located in scenic, bucolic Fall River, Massachusetts, this 19th century home of a very famous family was recently purchased and upgraded, so anyone looking to combine a first sail down the river of matrimony with a chance to solve an unsolved murder can now check into The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast/Museum.

A fella named Lance Zaal, of U.S. Ghost Adventures, plunked down around 2 million simoleons for the house where Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were chopped to bits with a hatchet in 1892. 

I wouldn't sleep too soundly if I were you...

U.S. Ghost Adventures is in the business of hosting "experiences" throughout the country. I have to be honest. The only thing I want to "experience" on vacation is a breakfast buffet, with tubs of bacon, sausage, and ham, and great tureens filled with grits.

Back in 1892, on the fourth of August,  Andrew Borden, 69, and his 64-year-old wife Abby, were murdered. Abby was upstairs, Andrew had been napping on a couch, and there they were, “their heads smashed with a hatchet,” as the Boston Globe said at the time. 

Their daughter Lizzie, 32, was charged with the two homicides, but she beat the rap. People continued to suspect her, which would have made for awkward conversations at the local Starbucks had there been one in 1892. 

Irony is not lost on Mr Zaal. He wants to set up an axe-throwing venue, plus an outdoor seating area for visitors who wish to socialize.  

Let's hope there is a good wall between those two spots.

Oh, and period-appropriate dinners, and music, and paint nights, but “We’ll be painting happy little axes instead of happy little clouds,” says Zaal. 

I can recommend other places, ghost free, if you wish.