True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.

Lenshine Mansion is reportedly the most visited historic home in the state of Minnesota. The

state-ly home originally sat on 22 acres of lakefront property in Deluce, was built

by the Congdon family. The brick façade and rising chimneys communicate a welcoming

spirit, but the truth is that this mansion was the setting of a heinous double murder,

leaving the Congdon stutter Elizabeth dead, as well as her nurse. The story is a narrative

of insanity, greed, and murder. And now that story continues with legends of hauntings

on the property. Spirits are at unrest here.

Chester 8 Congdon was born on June 12, 1853 in Rochester, New York. He attended Syracuse

University and achieved his Bachelor of Arts before studying law and being admitted to the

bar. While at Syracuse, he met Clara Bannister. He cannot find work in New York, so he left

Clara for Wisconsin where he had accepted a teaching position. He was there for a year

before moving to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1879, and he opened a successful law practice. He

asked Clara to marry him, and they were married back in Syracuse in 1881. The couple would

have six children and raise Clara's nephew. One of those children was Elizabeth. It was

also in 1881 when Congdon gained notoriety as a U.S. District Attorney. A fellow attorney

named William B. Billson contacted Congdon and asked him to move to Duluth to partner

their law firms. The region was becoming wildly popular because of Northland's iron range.

It was a mineral rich area that both John D. Rockefeller and his rival Andrew Carnegie

coveted. A man named Henry W. Oliver had started the Oliver Mining Company, and he recruited

Billson and Congdon's law firm to be his attorneys. At the time, Oliver was second to

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