S07-E03 - Ghosts of Glensheen Mansion
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the shores of Lake Superior stands a mansion of rare beauty, wealth, and silence.
Glensheen was built as a family home — a lakeside estate of gardens, grand rooms, polished wood, and carefully preserved history. But behind its elegance lies one of Minnesota’s most haunting true crime stories, and a legacy that some believe still moves through its halls.
This episode of Haunted UK Podcast travels to Duluth, Minnesota, to explore the story of Glensheen Mansion: the Congdon family fortune, the life of Elisabeth Congdon, and the shocking events of June 27th, 1977, when Elisabeth and her nurse, Velma Pietila, were murdered inside the house.
What follows is a layered journey through history, betrayal, tragedy, and the unexplained. From the mansion’s preserved rooms and lakeside grounds to reports of apparitions, cold spots, moving objects, shadowy figures, and figures seen in windows and gardens, Glensheen becomes more than the scene of a crime. It becomes a place where memory seems to linger.
Blending historical storytelling, true crime, ghost stories, and witness accounts, this is a haunting portrait of a remarkable American mansion — one where beauty and violence sit side by side, and where the past may not have fully left the house behind.
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| 1:29.7 | Thanks for listening and for the night. It is nurse, Velma Pertella, to come out of retirement for the night. |
| 1:34.7 | It is said that Velma's husband had a strange feeling about her going to Glenshine and implored her to stay home, but Velma, likely feeling a sense of duty to Elizabeth, |
| 1:41.4 | ignored his pleas, a decision that would cost her her life. |
| 1:46.3 | Music The |
| 2:03.6 | I'm going to This is episode 63 of the Haunted UK podcast, |
| 2:41.5 | and in this episode we flock to America |
| 2:43.7 | and the innermost point of Lake Superior to a very specific location, |
| 2:48.8 | Glen Sheen Mansion in Duluth, Minnesota. |
| 2:53.6 | It's hard to grasp the sheer size, scope and strength of Lake Superior, if you've never seen it. |
| 3:16.3 | Spanning a large portion of Ontario, Canada to the north, and the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to the south, the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface can seem like an ocean whilst watching its waves crash onto the often rocky shore. |
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