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Ghostly Mysteries

© Janice Oberding

On television police detectives can usually wrap up a case in an hour's time. Not so in real life. Unsolved crimes leave all of us baffled and bewildered. Especially when the crime is a callous, cold-blooded murder. In an effort to tip the scales in their favor, authorities have been known to call in psychics for help in solving crimes. Many times a psychic is able to give them just the clue needed to apprehend a killer.

There is a well-known case in Chicago of a murder victim who could not rest until she pointed the icy finger of guilt at her killer. The case had police stumped. With few clues to go on, it looked as if the case might end up being unsolved. But because of her ghostly assistance police were able to catch the man who'd heartlessly killed her months earlier.

In the west there is the story of Lee Singleton. Singleton was a furnace feeder during the early days of mining. One morning in 1871 he decided that he'd had enough of a belligerent, loud-mouthed co-worker and killed the man by hitting him in the head with a shovel and pushing his body in the furnace. No one was the wiser. For a while it looked as if Singleton would get away with murder.

Unfortunately for Singleton, his victim's ghost had other ideas. One evening on his way home from work Singleton was accosted by the dead man who demanded to know why he'd been so cruelly murdered. Eventually Singleton's life was one nightmare after another with the grinning ghost of his victim appearing to him from sun up to sundown. When he could take no more, Singleton wrote out a lengthy confession and drank a vial of poison.

Murder victims sometimes haunt the area where their killing took place. While there can be any number of reasons for this, denial of the fact that death has occurred is often cited as the cause for a ghostly presence. Still revenge and a need to see that justice is served may be primary reasons for a haunting as well.

The home in which Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were viciously murdered is a now a bed and breakfast in the city of Fall River. Even to this day some say it is haunted by the restless spirits of Andrew Borden and his wife. If this is so, they could well be searching for justice and attempting to point out the identity of their murderer.

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