Lizzie Borden and other Dark Nursery Rhymes (with Special Guests Sabrina & Corinne from Two Girls One Ghost)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4 • 100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Sabrina & Corinne from Two Girls One Ghost join us on this week's episode to talk about the dark histories behind childhood nursery rhymes. Fresh off of our ghost hunting experience at the Lizzie Borden house, we talk about the childhood rhyme and where it went wrong, as well as talk about others that SEEMED so innocent! Don't forget to check the episode on the Two Girls One Ghost feed where we talk about our ghost hunting experiences! It was WILD! Thank you to the wonderful Dave White of Bring me the Axe Podcast for research! References Burton-Hill, Clemency. 2015. The dark side of nursery rhymes. June 10. Accessed February 6, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150610-the-dark-side-of-nursery-rhymes. Hazlett, Lisa A. 2009. "The use of British nursery rhymes and contemporary technology as venues for creating and expressing hidden literacies throughout time by children, adolescents, and adults." Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table. Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. 1952. The Oxofrd Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Roberts, Chris. 2005. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme. Sheridan, WY: Gotham Books.

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1:00.0	Or wait, more appropriate.
1:01.0	Boom, oo!
1:02.0	Ooh! more appropriate. Boooo! Ooooo!
1:04.0	Ooo!
1:05.0	Oh, we're really good ghosts.
1:09.0	Look at the heart. Did you guys think spirits were among us?
1:12.0	I know that they are after. Yeah. Yes. We now know that spirits are very I'm I'm becoming more and more a true true believer at this point. Oh yeah. Like my skepticism is pretty much out the window. After our night at the
1:24.9	Lizzie Barden house, no way. So much happened. So much happened. So we recently as a
1:31.0	foursome, stayed. A fearsome forsome. A fearsome forsome. as a fearsome foursome stay at the Lizzy board and bed and breakfast and we and we actually had it all to ourselves, which was so much scarier.
1:47.0	It was so much to ourselves that when we opened the door with the code,
1:50.0	there was no one there to greet us, we were like where are the people that work here
1:53.7	we almost didn't ever ask yeah five hours later we texted and we're like is someone
2:00.0	here and they were like oh shit we forgot you guys in the house tonight and honestly
2:05.1	we have the ghost to thank for that because we wouldn't have contacted them unless
2:08.0	we wanted to go to the basement yeah goes for like go to the fucking basement yeah because we brought like we had a bunch of our own the ghost
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