Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Markorthart, with a brand new episode for you. I am here again with Dr. Elizabeth Yucco. And today we are going to be talking about the Victorian ghost stories that I was telling you all about and a little bit about Lizzie Borden. Because the way we ended our last episode, we were talking about haunted travels and all of those

things. And one of the places you went to do that article was the Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast.

Yes. I did not stay overnight. I'm not that brave. But I did do the daytime tour, which was fascinating. And my very first article for Rolling Stone actually

was on Lizzie Borden and why we're still fascinated with this murder so many years later. And,

you know, why we're still visiting her house this many years later and uh after

interviewing a bunch of different experts some who are familiar with her story one psychiatrist um it's a few

different reasons that uh explain why we're still interested one being she was a woman who was accused of carrying out a very grisly double murder.

And a Victorian, because the murder took place in 1892, so the tail end of the Victorian era.

And she was, she was a single woman.

So that was, she was already deviating from the norm because she wasn't married,

but she was a church-going woman.

She was a member of the Fruit and Flower Society, an upstanding citizen.

And to have this picture of Victorian womanhood and femininity even considered to be a suspect of

murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet was sensational then and still is today, especially because at the time,

if you were a woman and you were going to murder someone, you usually went with poison.

That was the easier.

I mean, there were a lot of problems with poisoning somebody, but as it became easier to

determine if someone was poisoned,

that became less of a popular murder technique. But, you know, that was one reason. It was also

one of the first major media trials in the country. So you had members of the press in the courtroom reporting on every move.

If she yawned one day, then they would report that, oh, she looked bored.

She must have done it because if you could be bored during this trial, you must have

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