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The answer is simple: nothing. Lizzie Borden lived in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her story has no meaningful connection to Asbury Park, New Jersey. Using her name—and the brutal double murder associated with it—as a marketing gimmick for an unrelated ghost tour is not clever. It is exploitative, tasteless and frankly gross. Yet a national

Asbury Park’s best-known haunted places include the Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall, the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, the Stephen Crane House, the Casino building and the boardwalk itself. Their legends include unexplained footsteps, voices, apparitions and encounters reported by generations of employees, residents and visitors. What makes these locations compelling, however, is not

One of the most common questions we hear is a very simple one: "Are ghost tours actually scary?" The answer depends on what kind of experience you're expecting. If you're expecting people to jump out of the shadows or actors chasing you through dark streets, that's not what most ghost tours are about. A well-crafted

So, You Say This Things is Haunted….. People often ask what makes an object haunted, as if there is one clear answer. The truth is, haunted objects are rarely that simple. Sometimes there is activity around them. Sometimes there is a long history attached to them. Sometimes there is a personal story that

Asbury Park is haunted, but not because someone decided it would make a good story. It is haunted because the town has lived a lot of lives. It has been glamorous, forgotten, celebrated, dismissed, rebuilt, argued over, loved hard, and misunderstood. Its history is not tucked away in one old building or one

Some objects become important because of what they are. Others become important because of where they have been and the stories they carry with them. This sign is one of those objects. The artifact came to The Paranormal Museum through a former United States Marine who was briefly stationed in Japan. During that

One of the things I love most about The Paranormal Museum is watching families explore it together. Not because they all believe the same things, but because they're willing to be curious together. Almost every day I see a parent and child standing in front of an exhibit having a conversation that starts

Asbury Park has a reputation for its beaches, boardwalk, and live music scene. But once the sun goes down, the city takes on a completely different energy. Whether you're visiting for the weekend or you're local to the Jersey Shore, there’s no shortage of things to do in Asbury Park at night. From