Ep. 82 - Lizzie Borden House
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Growing up, many of us sung a rhyme about the crime attributed to Lizzie Borden that began, "Lizzie Borden took an axe." But did this young woman actually commit the crime for which she was accused and aquitted? What was going on in this home with this family that people actually thought it was possible? What happened to the Borden family is not in dispute, nor are the facts unclear. It was August 4, 1892. Andrew Borden's body was found, shortly before noon, in his Fall River, Massachusetts parlor room. He had suffered many blows to the head, specifically to his face, with a blunt object. His wife, Abby, was found that same day in an upstairs boudoir with the back of her head bashed in. This violent crime remains unsolved and perhaps that is why the spirits are at unrest in this home. Come with us as we explore the home, the family, the crime and the hauntings connected to the Lizzie Borden House. Moment in Oddity features the Watseka Wonder and This Day in History features the publication of Moby Dick.
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| 0:00.0 | History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. |
| 0:25.0 | Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the History Goes Bump podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello you Spookacular people welcome to this 82nd episode of the |
| 0:48.4 | History Ghost Bump Podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I am your host, Diane, and this is Denise. |
| 0:55.0 | And this evening we're going to bring you an episode that would normally be one of our |
| 0:58.8 | haunted true crimes, but because it is so long we thought we would share it with all of you. |
| 1:04.0 | Absolutely. We're going to the Lizzy Borden House. |
| 1:08.0 | So not only are we going to be talking about the house itself, |
| 1:11.0 | but we're also going to be talking about the Borden family in |
| 1:14.9 | particular Lizzy Borden and the crime around that family and at the end we will |
| 1:21.5 | reveal what we think. |
| 1:23.8 | Did Lizzy Borden do it? |
| 1:25.6 | If not, who do we think might have done it? |
| 1:28.7 | So stick around for that. |
| 1:30.4 | That da da da. |
| 1:32.2 | But before we get into that, please check out our website at historygoz bump.com and if you |
| 1:36.7 | would like to send us any feedback where can they do that Denise they can do that at |
| 1:40.5 | history goes bump at gmail. |
| 1:42.8 | We do have another meet up coming up. |
| 1:44.5 | We're going to our favorite city again, St. Augustine. |
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